33 lines
874 B
Text
33 lines
874 B
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Register Allocation
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Introduction
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.PP
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The efficient usage of the general purpose registers
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of the target machine plays a key role in any optimizing compiler.
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This subject, often referred to as \fIRegister Allocation\fR,
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has great impact on both the code generator and the
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optimizing part of such a compiler.
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The code generator needs registers for at least the evaluation of
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arithmetic expressions;
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the optimizer uses the registers to decrease the access costs
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of frequently used entities (such as variables).
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The design of an optimizing compiler must pay great
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attention to the cooperation of optimization, register allocation
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and code generation.
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.PP
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Register allocation has received much attention in literature (see
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.[
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leverett register allocation compilers
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.]
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.[
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chaitin register coloring
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.]
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.[
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freiburghouse usage counts
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.]
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and
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.[~[
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sites register
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.]]).
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