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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:
Nov. 16, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kurt J Goebel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395709 ; 395390 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for allocating registers when compiling code is provided. In response to determining there are insufficient registers associated with a first functional unit of a processor to allocate to a region of code, instructions associated with the region designated for execution on a first functional of processor that may be executed by second functional unit are detected. Those instructions generated for execution on the first functional unit are replaced with the instructions executed on the second functional unit.