Emulation of a guest computer architecture on a host system of another
computer architecture. Legacy instructions are translated into translated
instructions. If the particular legacy instruction is an operand-setting
instruction for storing a value of a precedent operand, a corresponding
flag is set when the value of the precedent operand has not been
determined. If the particular legacy instruction is an operand-using
instruction for using the precedent operand, a check is made to determine
if the corresponding flag is set.