US 11,734,013 B2
Exception summary for invalid values detected during instruction execution
Laith M. AlBarakat, Wappingers Falls, NY (US); Jonathan D. Bradbury, Poughkeepsie, NY (US); Timothy Slegel, Staatsburg, NY (US); Cedric Lichtenau, Stuttgart (DE); and Joachim von Buttlar, Schoenaich (DE)
Assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/350,467.
Prior Publication US 2022/0413867 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06N 3/04 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 9/3836 (2013.01) [G06N 3/04 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer program product for facilitating processing within a computing environment, the computer program product comprising:
one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media to perform a method comprising:
executing an instruction to perform a function of a plurality of functions defined for the instruction, the instruction having a summary indicator exclusively defined for and used by the instruction including the plurality of functions defined for the instruction, the summary indicator used to indicate invalidity of input data to be used by the function of the instruction;
obtaining, based on executing the instruction, an indication that a value determined to be invalid was included in the input data to a computation of one or more computations to be performed by the function, the value being determined to be invalid due to one exception of a plurality of exceptions; and
setting, based on obtaining the indication that the value is determined to be invalid, the summary indicator, wherein the summary indicator represents the plurality of exceptions collectively.