US Patent 7337173 Compiler having global element optimization

Patent 7337173 was granted and assigned to Netscape on February, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Current Assignee

Netscape

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7337173

Date of Patent

February 26, 2008

Patent Application Number

08984904

Date Filed

December 4, 1997

Patent Primary Examiner

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Tariq R. Hafiz

Patent abstract

An optimization technique is provided which automatically reduces the number of globals in a program to the minimum required. The optimization technique identifies those elements which are placed in a program as global elements, but which do not need to be global elements. The optimization technique parses all files in a program, identifies all global elements, and removes any global elements that are not used outside of a particular file within the program by converting these global elements to local elements or by disregarding those elements.