Developing code for Microchip's PIC32 poses a new set of opportunities for engineers who are accustomed to the company's 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers. PIC32 devices have as much as 512 kbytes of ...

In most compiler courses, we teach students that the problem of scalar register allocation has essentially been solved by the register coloring techniques pioneered by Chaitin and his colleagues at ...

Readers interested in the grungy details of compilers may enjoy this LLVM project blog entry on their new register allocation algorithm. "The new basic allocator does away with linear scan's ...

Parent article: Greedy register allocation in LLVM 3.0 I'd disagree. Look at the code some simplistic compiler like tcc generates; or what a compiler with not too much more than rather sophisticated ...