Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Gregory A Eigsti

Gideon Andreas Yuval

Andrew James Edwards

Ronnie Chaiken

Hoi Huu Vo

David Mitford Gillies

Hon Keat W Chan

Amitabh Srivastava

Ken B Pierce

John A Lefor

Bruce M Kuramoto

Each component binary in a heterogeneous program is translated from a platform-specific instruction set into a set of intermediate representation (IR) instructions that are platform-neutral. The IR instructions are grouped into IR code blocks, the IR code blocks into IR procedures, and the IR procedures into IR components to create an intermediate representation hierarchy for the program. An application program interface is provided that permits user access to the IR hierarchy for instrumentation, optimization, navigation, and manipulation of the IR hierarchy. The transformed IR hierarchy is then translated into platform-specific instructions and output as a modified binary. The user can designate a different platform for the output translation of a code block than the platform for which the code block was originally written. Prologue and epilog code is added to contiguous blocks that are translated into different architectures. The modified binary can be iterated through the translation and transformation process to produce multiple versions of the heterogeneous program.

Translation and transformation of heterogeneous programs

Growing community of inventors

Redmond, WA, United States of America

Gregory A Eigsti