Wanted: Register Assignemnt Algorithm for a DAG

"Don Mackay" <donald.mackay@compaq.com>
27 Jul 2000 21:32:37 -0400

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From: "Don Mackay" <donald.mackay@compaq.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 27 Jul 2000 21:32:37 -0400
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Keywords: analysis, theory

I have been using the ideas/algorithms from the 'Dragon Book' and have got
to the stage of creating a DAG representation of my code. I now want to
assign registers to the various nodes (ie this is the start of the 'back-end
specific stuff - I'm targeting the x86 processors at this stage).

The 'Dragon Book' shows an algorithm that works with a DAG that only has
single parent nodes (ie is a tree) [at least that's the way I understand
it!!!].

Can someone please describe/provide a pointer to an algorithm that will
allocate a (variable sized?) set of general purpose registers to the nodes
of a general DAG?

Thanks

Don Mackay

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