Appeal No. 2001,0712
Application 08/148,887
consider the effect that the operation associated with a given
variable has on a register allocation.
Finally, Appellants argue that the final rejection11
was applied generally without specifically showing that the
limitations of the dependant claims are disclosed by the cited
prior art.
In the answer , the Examiner asserts that there is12
incentive to combine the references and states "Considering
Hitchcock et al as the primary reference, one of ordinary
skill in the art would modify Hitchcock in order to obtain an
optimum allocation as taught by Chi. Considering Chi as the
primary reference, one of ordinary skill in the art would be
motivated to extract and try all possible variable-
register/memory combinations in order to automatically
determine all possible bindings and hence obtain a complete
cost profile".
As regards Appellants' argument that there is no
teaching concerning the need or desirability of extracting
11Brief, pages 20-22.
12Pages 3 and 4.
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