Area Optimisation for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays in SystemC Hardware Compilation

Listing 3

SystemC program illustrating pointer aliasing

𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚍𝚏(𝚒𝚗𝚝∗𝚡,𝚒𝚗𝚝∗𝚢)

{

 (∗𝚡)++;

 (∗𝚢)−;

}

𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚍𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍()

{

 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚡=𝟷;//𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚡

 𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚝();//𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚝𝚌𝚢𝚌𝚕𝚎

 𝚏(&𝚡,&𝚡);//𝚡𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚞𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚍

 𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚝();

 𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚙𝚞𝚝=𝚡;//𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚙𝚞𝚝=𝟷

 𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚝();

}