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-Based on the liveness analysis, we know where each variable is needed.
-However, during register allocation, we need to answer questions of
-the specific form: are variables $u$ and $v$ live at the same time?
-(And therefore cannot be assigned to the same register.)  To make this
-question easier to answer, we create an explicit data structure, an
-\emph{interference graph}\index{interference graph}.  An interference
-graph is an undirected graph that has an edge between two variables if
-they are live at the same time, that is, if they interfere with each
-other.
+Based on the liveness analysis, we know where each location is used
+(read from).  However, during register allocation, we need to answer
+questions of the specific form: are locations $u$ and $v$ live at the
+same time?  (And therefore cannot be assigned to the same register.)
+To make this question easier to answer, we create an explicit data
+structure, an \emph{interference graph}\index{interference graph}.  An
+interference graph is an undirected graph that has an edge between two
+locations if they are live at the same time, that is, if they
+interfere with each other.
 
 
 The most obvious way to compute the interference graph is to look at
 The most obvious way to compute the interference graph is to look at
 the set of live location between each statement in the program and add
 the set of live location between each statement in the program and add