Re: Pitfalls in interference graph ?

Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Mon, 1 Oct 2007 19:21:54 +0000 (UTC)

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From: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 19:21:54 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Stack Usenet News Service
References: 07-09-104 07-10-007 07-10-010
Keywords: registers, optimize
Posted-Date: 02 Oct 2007 00:43:40 EDT

On 2007-10-01, John L <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> To preferentially assign a virtual register to a specific machine
> register, rewrite the instruction to use the real register, and
> prepend a copy virtual -> real / append a copy real -> virtual. If the
> virtual register can safely be assigned to that real register, the
> coalescing phase will do this and eliminate the copy. This works for
> call parameters, call results, and ops that only take a specific
> register.


How do you specify an affinity that is not 100% necessary? Like older i386
arch CPU's having a preference for EBX as index register ?


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