In accordance with one aspect of boot blocks for software, in a computer system that has a central processing unit and a software identity register, an atomic operation is executed to set an identity of a piece of software into the software identity register. If the atomic operation completes correctly, then the software identity register contains the identity of the piece of software; otherwise, the software identity register contains a value other than the identity of the piece of software.

 
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