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Instruction pointer

The instruction pointer is a register in a computer processor holding the address of the instruction being executed. In most processors, the instruction pointer is incremented before the instruction is executed; this means that the target address of a branch instruction is obtained by adding the operand to the address of the next byte after the branch instruction.

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