Before this commit, the dla::Step depended on InterferingInfo, but this
was superfluous.
This commit drops the dependency and enables the Step to run before
ComputeNonInterferingComponents.
This also avoids the need to run ComputeNonInterferingComponents twice
(one before and one after DeduplicateUnionFields), so it can only run
once.
The step now collapse parents with their single child if they are
indistinguishable, i.e. if the parent has only that single child, at
offset zero, and their size is the same.
This pass was never implemented and we don't have plans to do it soon.
This commit just drops it to reduce the noise.
Whenever we decide to implement something similar we'll do it from
scratch.
Change company name to "rev.ng Labs Srl" in all license headers
to reflect changed company name and legal status
Add missing license headers to files that didn't have one
Before this commit, the dla::Step RemoveInvalidStrideEdges was not
taking into account that dropping edges could change the size of the
node where the edges originated from.
This commit fixes the problem, a) recomputing the size automatically
when needed, and b) adding proper dependencies in the dla middleend
pipeline, so that these changes are properly propagated updwards and
don't break any pre-conditions of following dla::Steps.
This step removes redundant instance-at-offset-0, collapsing the child
into the parent, whenever this operation does not induce instance-loops
on the graph.
This is intended to reduce the number of shallow wrapper structs and
unions.
Before this commit there was a single pass removing equality SCC and
inheritance SCC.
This commit splits the removal of each kind of SCC in a separate
DLAStep, and adds handling of instance-at-offset-0 SCCs that were not
considered before.
* Changes to the `LayoutTypeSystem` graph
Pointers are identified in the TypeSystem graph as leaf nodes which
have a new type of edge (PointerEdge) that connects them to another
node of the graph. The destination of the edge represents the layout of
the pointed type.
* Changes to the Front-end
Pointer edges, and their destination nodes, are created by the DLA
front-end (`DLACreateIntraProceduralTypes`) whenever an access node has
a size that is compatible with the size of a pointer in the current
Architecture.
Successors might then be added to the newly generated node, if any,
by looking up the llvm::Value it is attached to.
* Changes to the Middle-end
Most of the DLA passes should ignore Pointer Edges, so they are modified
accordingly. Most notably, nodes that represent pointed layouts should
never be merged/pruned-off.
* Changes to the Back-end
The `TypeDeclCreationAction` of the decompiler and the `DLAMakeLayouts`
step of the DLA back-end are modified to take into account the new
information about pointers.
⚠️ There is a known issue with this version of the decompiler,
namely the fact that type loops are not detected and can cause the
emitter to enter an infinite loop.
Add a step that recognizes if two subtrees of a union node are
topologically equivalent and merges them. This corresponds to removing
duplicate fields in unions.
This deduplication was prevously done while emitting layouts.
A check is inserted into DLAMakeLayouts to assert that, after
constructing unions, no union has only one child, which could be the
case if we didn't deduplicate union fields in the graph.
Since the reasoning behind single child collapsing can be reused in
other points of the DLA pipeline, move the logic that acts on a single
node in a static function out of the CollapseSingleChild step.
Alessandro Di Federico