Re: x86 global floating point register allocation

"Fermin Reig" <reig@tenerife.ics.uci.edu>
3 Sep 2002 00:12:48 -0400

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From: "Fermin Reig" <reig@tenerife.ics.uci.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 3 Sep 2002 00:12:48 -0400
Organization: University of California, Irvine
References: 02-08-087
Keywords: arithmetic, 386
Posted-Date: 03 Sep 2002 00:12:48 EDT

"Sverker Nilsson" <sverker.is@home.se> writes:

> I am a writing a compiler, targeting the (Intel IA-32 etc.) x86
> cpu(*). I would like to ask if someone can comment on how to handle
> floating point registers that are live across basic blocks, and
> possibly help me with references to existing work and standard
> terminology. (I am going to try to get it approved for my master's
> thesis and likely publish the code as open source.)
> [...]

Allen Leung and Lal George wrote a note on how the SML/NJ compiler
handles FP registers in the x86. You can find it here:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/what/smlnj/compiler-notes/

I hope that helps.
Fermin Reig

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