testing register allocation

eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Tue, 15 Jan 91 21:10:53 PST

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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Keywords: debug, optimize, registers
Organization: Compilers Central
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 91 21:10:53 PST

Hanan Samet implemented a register allocation tester that interfaced to two
Lisp-to-PDP-10 compilers as part of his PhD research way back in the mid
1970s. His tester was more general (and less efficient) than just a register
allocation tester: it tested every part of code generation and optimization,
including things like common subexpression elimination, changing calling
sequence conventions, replacement of recursion by iteration, and even many
hand-optimizations. Here's a reference:


Hanan Samet, Proving the Correctness of Heuristically Optimized Code,
CACM 21, 7 (July 1978), 570-582.
[From eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)]
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