System and method for optimizing a program

The present disclosure relates to whole program analysis and, more particularly, short data optimization obtained through whole program analysis. In one embodiment, short data optimization is achieved by analyzing the program to estimate the size of existing short data and the size of any linkage ta...

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Main Authors Mikulin, Dmitry, Liu, Shin-Ming, Vijayasundaram, Muralitharan, Li, David
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 08.04.2004
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Summary:The present disclosure relates to whole program analysis and, more particularly, short data optimization obtained through whole program analysis. In one embodiment, short data optimization is achieved by analyzing the program to estimate the size of existing short data and the size of any linkage tables, providing the size estimates to a compiler that is to compile the program, and compiling the program with the compiler in view of the size estimates such that a relatively large amount of data is allocated to a short data area.