Global Register Coloring

Global register coloring works across a complete application. When enabled, the linker generates a register definition file that contains a table of registers used by each function. The compiler uses this table to optimize register usage. Your project is re-compiled iteratively until no further register optimization is possible.

When global register coloring is enabled, compiler knows the registers used by each function. Registers that are not altered in external functions can be used to hold register variables. The code generated by the compiler requires less data and code space and executes faster.

To enable global register coloring, the REGFILE compiler directive and the REGFILE linker directive must be specified.

The following listings compare the code generated with and without global register optimization.

Global Register Coloring
Enabled

main(){
  unsigned char i;
  unsigned char a;
  while(1){
  i=input();/*get number of values*/
?C0001:
    LCALL input
;- 'i' assigned to 'R6' -
    MOV   R6,AR7

  do {
    a=input();/*get input value*/
?C0005:
    LCALL input
;- 'a' assigned to 'R7' -
    MOV   R5,AR7

    output(a);/*output value*/
    LCALL _output
    } while(--i);/*decrement values*/
    DJNZ  R6,?C0005




  }
    SJMP  ?C0001
}
    RET

CODE SIZE: 18 Bytes

Global Register Coloring
Disabled

main(){
  unsigned char i;
  unsigned char a;
  while(1){
  i=input();/*get number of values*/
?C0001:
    LCALL input
    MOV   DPTR,#i
    MOV   A,R7
    MOV   @DPTR,A
  do {
    a=input();/*get input value*/
?C0005:
    LCALL input
    MOV   DPTR,#a
    MOV   A,R7
    MOVX  @DPTR,A
    output(a);/*output value*/
    LCALL _output
    } while(--i);/*decrement values*/
    MOV   DPTR,#i
    MOVX  A,@DPTR
    DEC   A
    MOVX  @DPTR,A
    JNZ   ?C0005
  }
    SJMP  ?C0001
}
    RET

CODE SIZE: 30 Bytes

Global Register Coloring

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