摘要:
Apparatus, methods and computer program products are disclosed that enable a compiler to generate efficient code to access stack registers on a register stack. The invention operates by transforming a three-operand instruction, within a compiler's intermediate representation, to one or more fewer-than-three-operand instructions. The invention also transforms the instruction's operand addressing from an access to a pseudo-named register to an access to a stack register through stack offset into a register stack. The invention also determines the register stack state at each instruction responsive to register stack permutations and maps the stack offset accordingly for each subsequent access to a stack register.