Which of the following need not necessarily be saved on a Context swit

1.	Which of the following need not necessarily be saved on a Context switch between process?
A.	General purpose registers
B.	Translation lookside buffer
C.	program counter
D.	All of these
Answer» C. program counter

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Which of the following need not necessarily be saved on a Context switch between process?

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