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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2008
Manish Ahuja, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Nathan D. Fontenot, Georgetown, TX (US);
Jacob L. Moilanen, Austin, TX (US);
Joel H. Schopp, Austin, TX (US);
Michael T. Strosaker, Austin, TX (US);
Manish Ahuja, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Nathan D. Fontenot, Georgetown, TX (US);
Jacob L. Moilanen, Austin, TX (US);
Joel H. Schopp, Austin, TX (US);
Michael T. Strosaker, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A mechanism and functionality are provided for generating and using compiler optimized function variants. These variants may be used, for example, in situations where return values of functions called by code are not thereafter used by the code calling the functions. In particular, for a function called by computer code, at least two variants for the function may be generated. A function call, for calling the function, within original computer code may be analyzed to determine which variant of the at least two variants to use for the function call. The function call may be modified in the original computer code, to generate modified computer code, based on results of the analysis identifying which variant of the at least two variants to use for the function call.