Re: Register allocation and Register assignment

preston@noel.cs.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
Tue, 22 Mar 1994 15:53:35 GMT

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From: preston@noel.cs.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
Keywords: registers
Organization: Rice University, Houston
References: 94-03-032
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 15:53:35 GMT

ccwei@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Ching-Wei Chen) writes:
>Can anyone tell me the differences between register allocation
>and register assignment?


People don't always distinguish between the two terms; but, when a
distinction is made, allocation means chosing which values will be
kept in registers whereas assignment means specifying a particular
register for each value.


Preston Briggs
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