register assignment

register assignment

(compiler, algorithm)
The phase of a compiler that determines which register to use for each program value selected during register allocation.
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A spilled live range is removed from the interference graph, since it is no longer a register assignment candidate; this removal lowers the number of edges in the interference graph and may therefore reduce the degree of this graph (the degree is the maximum number of edges for a node).
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