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Register Allocation
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These are the rules that HiPE x86 register allocators must abide by.

- Before RA, every Temp (precoloured or pseudo) is semantically
  equivalent to Reg. Any operand may be Temp.

- Before RA, only FIXED registers may occur in precoloured Temps.
  Exception 1 is move: src or dst may be an argument register.
  Exception 2 is call: the dst (if any) must be %eax.

- After RA, an operand (src or dst) may refer to at most one memory cell.
  Therefore, a pseudo-Temp MAY NOT occur as base or offset in an
  explicit memory operand after RA.

- After RA, a binary operation (alu, cmp, move) may refer to at most
  one memory cell. Therefore, AT MOST ONE of src and dst may be a
  pseudo-Temp after RA. If one of the operands (src or dst) is an
  explicit memory operand, then the other operand MUST NOT be a
  pseudo-Temp after RA.

- After RA, the index in a jmp_switch must be a register.

- After RA, the temp in a lea must be a register.

- After RA, the temp in an imul must be a register.

- After RA, a function's formal parameters must reside on the stack.
  Therefore, the RA MUST NOT map the formals to actual registers.
