The design and implementation of RAP: A PDG-based register allocator

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 401-424

  Norris, Cindy ^a   Pollock, Lori L ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

Program dependence graph; Register allocation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; MULTIPROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

PROGRAM DEPENDENCE GRAPH (PDG); REGISTER ALLOCATION;

MULTIPROCESSING PROGRAMS;

EID: 0032045263     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(19980410)28:4<401::AID-SPE159>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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