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| register allocation camille@bluegrass.net (David Lindauer) (2005-11-12) |
| register allocation dgb@cs.washington.edu (1989-11-22) |
| Re: register allocation larus@primost.wisc.EDU (1989-11-24) |
| Register Allocation napi@rangkom.MY (1990-02-17) |
| Re: Register Allocation cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (1990-02-15) |
| Re: Register Allocation wendyt@cs.washington.edu (1990-02-26) |
| Re: Register Allocation Moss@cs.umass.edu (1990-02-25) |
| Re: Register Allocation dds@cc.ic.ac.uk (1990-02-27) |
| Register Allocation nandu@jupiter.cs.clemson.edu (1993-03-31) |
| Register Allocation rajiv@polya.ece.wisc.edu (1993-08-31) |
| Re: Register Allocation preston@dawn.cs.rice.edu (1993-09-06) |
| Register Allocation ashish@usl.edu (Ashish Ashtekar) (1996-04-02) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | 25 Feb 90 19:51:25 GMT |
| References: | <1990Feb20.155619.3121@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> |
| From: | Moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) |
| Organization: | Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) |
| In-Reply-To: | napi@rangkom.MY's message of 20 Feb 90 15:56:19 GMT |
In article <1990Feb20.155619.3121@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> napi@rangkom.MY (Mohd Hanafiah b. Abdullah) writes:
How does one perform register allocation on scalar variables that may
be pointed to by others?
I am curious because, a pointer assumes that the variable it points to
resides in memory, but in actuality the variable resides in a register.
Well, you either do not allocate it to a register, or you propagate its value
to its memory home whenever (a) it may have changed since the last time you
did so, and (b) there is a possibility that the memory value may be picked up
through an aliasing pointer. If (a) and (b) occur together often enough, then
there is little benefit to putting the variable in a register, but if they
occur rarely compared with use of the variables, then there may be benefit. Of
course, you could use a machine such as the DEC PDP-10 where the registers
*are* addressable memory (the first 16 locations) ... :-) Eliot
--
J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer and Information Science
Lederle Graduate Research Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
(413) 545-4206; Moss@cs.umass.edu
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