Graph coloring for register allocation?

[Richard Henderson]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:44:20PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> Also, it gets rid of reload unless it's comment at the top of the file is
> lying (we can force).

No, you'll never get rid of reload.  Not without replicating
it anyway, which seems a less than winning proposition.

It's job is to fix up the mistakes the register allocator makes.
As such, the best you can do is give it no work to do by finding
a perfect allocation.


r~