In computer architecture, an addressing mode specifies how the operand of a machine instruction is located in memory or in registers. Addressing modes are a key design choice in both RISC and CISC instruction sets, and complex variants appear in architectures such as PowerPC and x86. The set of modes supported by an ISA affects code size, performance, and the cost of generating memory accesses in tools such as test generators.

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