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--- dev:crosscompiler:backend:register_allocator [2018/02/28 14:43] – [Determine Used Parameters] ursgraf
+++ dev:crosscompiler:backend:register_allocator [2019/08/29 16:53] (current) – [Determine Used Parameters] ursgraf
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 ===== Determine Used Parameters =====
-Parameters are passed in volatile registers. Some of them have to be copied to nonvolatile registers. Some parameters might not be used at all in a method. This can be determined in the exit set of the last node. If a value is null in that set the parameter with this index was never loaded and hence no register must be reserved. The following example demonstrates parameter usage on a ppc platform.
+Parameters are passed in volatile registers. Some of them have to be copied to nonvolatile registers. Some parameters might not be used at all in a method. This can be determined in the exit set of the last node. If a value is null in that set the parameter with this index was never loaded and hence no register must be reserved. The following example demonstrates parameter usage on a PPC platform.
 <code java>
   float m2(long a, float b, double c, byte[] d, short e, int f, int g) {
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 Some instruction need 1 or 2 additional (auxiliary) registers. These will be reserved and stored in //regAux1// and //regAux2//. At the end of the instruction they can be released again. It's possible that the result of the SSA instruction occupies the same register as one of the auxiliary registers.
 ==== Releasing of Operand Registers ====
-Registers of operands, whose live range expires, must be released. If they are of type //Long//, this step must happen at the very end.
+Registers of operands, whose live range expires, must be released. If they are of type //long//, this step must happen at the very end.
 ==== Reservation of a Result Register ====
 The register pool will be searched for a free register for the result. The result type determines if 1 or 2 GPR's or a FPR must be reserved. The following two cases must be considered.
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 ==== Releasing of Result Registers ====
 The result register can be released immediately if the live range already expires.
+===== Locals on the Stack =====
+Local variables which cannot be assigned a register get assigned a stack slot. Stack slots are numbered from 0x100. The code generator will handle the transfer to and from these stack slots. Whenever the code generator tries to translate an SSA instruction and one of the operands is on the stack, the following has to be dones:
+  * load stack slot into free register
+  * execute instruction
+If the result of the SSA instruction is assigned a stack slot, the code generator will have to save to the stack:
+  * execute instruction, destination register is free register
+  * store destination register onto stack
+During register allocation of a method a variable //fullRegSet// signals, if at least one stack slot was used. If that was the case the register allocation is done again, but this time with a reduced register set, because some of the registers must be free in order to be used for fetching stack slots and using them in the following instructions.

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