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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:
Jul. 13, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
W Wilson Ho, San Mateo, CA (US);
Sun C Chan, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395709 ; 395707 ; 395708 ;
Abstract
A system and method of eliminating some of the indirect addressing associated with Position Independent Code (PIC). The invention applies cross-module optimization to dynamic linking of shared libraries. A definition table is built that defines where each symbol within an application program and associated shared library is defined. Also stored in the definitions table is an associated attribute. The definition table is utilized to eliminate indirect addressing wherever possible. As a result, overall system performance is increased.