opcodeset
nounUK /ˈɒpkəʊdsɛt/
US /ˈɑːpkoʊdsɛt/
A group of special codes that tell a computer what to do.
The engineer checked the opcodeset to see which instructions the chip could run.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. The complete list of operation codes available to a particular processor.
Each processor family has its own opcodeset that programmers must learn.
3. A defined collection of binary patterns used to represent operations in a virtual machine.
The virtual machine's opcodeset was documented in the developer guide.
4. The set of commands a compiler can translate into for a target architecture.
The compiler was updated to support the new opcodeset.