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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2001
Filed:
May. 08, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Erik L. Eidt, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for distinguishing reference values from non-reference values in a runtime environment is described. A set of volatile registers and a set of non-volatile registers are statically determined. The set of volatile registers is partitioned into reference and non-reference register partitions statically. The set of non-volatile registers is partitioned into reference and non-reference partitions dynamically.