Re: Register Files

preston@helena.cs.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:05:12 GMT

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From: preston@helena.cs.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
Organization: Rice University, Houston
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:05:12 GMT
References: 92-10-013
Keywords: registers

storm@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>[why did DEC compiler writers care if Alpha has combined or separate
>integer and FP registers?]


I don't think it's a matter of the compiler writer taking advantage of the
split; instead, I think it was a matter of ensuring that the split
wouldn't inhibit optimization (i.e., they didn't want to annoy the
compiler writers).


Preston Briggs
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