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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 14, 1996
Daniel D Grove, San Jose, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
In its various embodiments, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for creating a target executable program from the source code of a target computer program for execution on a target processor. The target processor provided by the method and apparatus has a first set of registers and a second set of registers. Generally, the target processor is capable of executing a first set of instructions which only address the first set of registers. The method and apparatus provides a second set of instruction for the target processor which include a subset of frequently executed instructions within the first set of instructions. These second set of instructions are novel because they able to address both the first set of registers and the second set of registers. A compiler is provided and used for compiling the source code into a number of target executable instructions and allocating the registers on the target processor. The registers within the second set of registers are only allocated to those target executable instructions in the second set of instructions. According to principles of the present invention, the more frequently executed instructions are able to address a register in the second set of registers located on the target processor.
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