Appeal No. 96-2587
Application No. 08/035,750
Hastings’ updating is performed as part of the code expansion
method and is not related to the loading operation required by
instant claim 16.
Van Dyke is of no help in providing for the deficiencies
of Hastings because Van Dyke also is not concerned with
loading. The examiner cites Van Dyke for the use of
“different instructions (programming languages)” being “merged
for relocating (i.e. reloading) his object files” [answer-page
4]. The examiner then concludes that it would have been
obvious to use Van Dyke’s different instructions (programming
languages) as different types of loading instructions in
Hastings” [answer-page 4]. It is difficult to understand how
or why the examiner would combine the code optimization
technique of Van Dyke, which occurs as part of the compiler
step, with the code expansion technique of Hastings to somehow
arrive at the method of loading a relocatable file, as
specified in instant claim 16, wherein first and second
pointers are updated in conjunction with the repetition of a
step of retrieving and in conjunction with the performance of
a loading operation of an information item, respectively.
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