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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 26, 1999
Rika Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Miura, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Electronics Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
In the translation of a source program to an object program, callee side functions that overlap in cache memory and are called by the same caller side function are detected, and all but one of the overlapping callee side functions called by a given caller side function are replaced with a replica of the original callee side function that will be stored in the cache in a non-overlapping position. The resulting set of callee side functions called by the caller side function are non-overlapping when stored in the cache, and thus the thrashing problem is avoided. This procedure may be repeated a predetermined number of times, or until all instances of overlap have been eliminated through the use of replicated callee side functions.