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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: Why I've Dropped In
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:56:34 GMT
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>Anton Ertl [2025-06-18 07:31:55] wrote:
>> I remember reading a paper about register allocation for register
>> pairs, but don't find that paper right now.  Anyway, what I read was
>> based on graph-colouring IIRC and it looked pretty plausible and not
>> too complicated.  But the devil is in the details.
>
>Preston Briggs (who used to be a regular here) discusses such an
>allocator in his PhD thesis

Given that I found nothing else, that was probably it.

>(https://repository.rice.edu/items/2ea2032a-0872-43a1-90c0-564c1dd2275f).

Oh boy, not only did Rice produce the pdf from the scan of a paper
copy, one of the pages in the pairing chapter was also not properly
scanned.  Fortunately, I have a digital copy of Briggs' Thesis, and I
have now temporarily put it online.  I will send a copy to Rice, mayby
they will update their copy.

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/tmp/briggs-thesis.ps.gz

- anton
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