A computer-implemented method and apparatus for transferring the contents of a general register, in a register stack, to a location in a backing store in a main memory are described. When transferring the contents of a general register to a location in the backing store, the invention proposes collecting...http://www.google.com/patents/US6263401?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6263401 - Method and apparatus for transferring data between a register stack and a memory resource