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How many addressing modes are enough?

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F. Chow,

S. Correll,

M. Himelstein,

E. Killian,

L. WeberAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 21, Issue 4

Pages 117 - 121

https://doi.org/10.1145/36204.36193

Published: 01 October 1987 Publication History

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Programs naturally require a variety of memory-addressing modes. It isn't necessary to provide them in hardware, however, if a compiler can synthesize them from a few primitive modes. This not only simplifies the hardware, but also permits the compiler to use its understanding of the program to economize on the modes which it uses. We present some compilation techniques that allow the compiler to deal effectively with a single addressing mode in a target RISC processor. We also give measurements to show the benefits of such techniques, and to support our assertion that a single addressing mode is adequate for a general purpose processor, provided that mode incorporates both a pointer and an offset.

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How many addressing modes are enough?
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Serial architectures
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Compilers

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cover image ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review

ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review Volume 21, Issue 4

Oct. 1987

189 pages

ISSN:0163-5980

DOI:10.1145/36204

Editor:
Randy Katz
Univ. of California, Berkeley

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ASPLOS II: Proceedings of the second international conference on Architectual support for programming languages and operating systems
October 1987
205 pages
ISBN:0818608056
DOI:10.1145/36206
Editor:
Randy Katz
Univ. of California, Berkeley
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General Chair:
Martin Freeman
Stanford University and Philips/Signetics

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Published: 01 October 1987

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