Appeal No. 1998-3398
Application No. 08/634,515
review, we will reverse the obviousness rejections of claims 1
through 11 and affirm the obviousness rejections of claims 12
through 18.
Regarding representative claim 1, appellants contend
(Brief, pages 7-8) that "Hayashi neither teaches nor suggests
program augmentation via global dependency information and
redundant expression elimination as recited in claim 1, but
rather, is directed to optimizing isolated program structures
such as loops and conditional statements such as described in
Column 7,
lines 14-25 of Hayashi et al." Appellants continue, "Hayashi
et al. is not concerned with the augmentation of mathematical
functions during a compiler optimization process."
The examiner turns to Morgan or Rall to suggest
augmentation of mathematical functions, but admits that the
combination of Hayashi and Morgan (Answer, page 4) and the
combination of Hayashi and Rall (Answer, page 5) do "not
explicitly disclose utilizing global dependency information
and redundant expression elimination to optimize (i.e.,
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