12. The content-addressable memory of claim 11 , wherein said result matching logic is configured to identify a miss as said matching result for each entry of said entries having at least one of its said cells not in the ignore state which does not match a said corresponding bit of the lookup word.
11. The content-addressable memory of claim 1 , wherein said result matching logic is configured to identify a match as said matching result for each entry of said entries having all of its said cells not in said ignore state matching said corresponding bits of the lookup word and having at least one of its said cells in the ignore state.