new coalescer causes too large stack frames
Stephen Weeks
sweeks@intertrust.com
Mon, 10 May 1999 13:49:21 -0700 (PDT)
I added some stuff to backend.fun so that it prints out the sizes of
stack frames. I then ran a few tests, compiling hello-world.sml and
lexgen.sml using different coalesce thresholds. The stack frame sizes
did not vary at all (as I would expect). I think this makes it more
likely that the bug is not in the register allocator. I am now more
interested than ever to play around with Henry's coalescer to see if
his coalescer causes the stack frame sizes to change.