RemoveExceptionalCalls is a simple pass whose goal is to drop all the
calls to functions marked as `Exceptional` and replace them with an
`UnrechableInst`.
This is mainly useful in the decompilation pipeline.
This commit takes out of EnforceABI the part taking care of creating
wrappers for calls to helpers and promoting CSV to local variables.
This decoupling, enables to run -promote-csvs multiple times, for
instance after inlining.
FunctionTags goal is to solve the long-standing problem of identifying
what type of function are we dealing with. Is it a lifted function? An
helper?
Now we have a sane way to determine this using Metadata and a proper
API.
This commit greatly improves the performance by ensuring that, when
computing the set of nodes we want to consider for AVI, we do not
traverse the dispatcher.
Doing so, means including *a lot* of irrelevant nodes and wasting a lot
of computation, since the CFG usually is not influenced by stuff
happening before an indirect jump.
In at least a situation the speedup is in the order of 20x, however this
depends on the size of the binary, since traversing the dispatcher means
including all the binary in the computations (as opposed to just the set
of blocks involved in the dataflow to compute a certain expression).
This commit ensures that FunctionIsolation and EnforceABI do only
thing. This means that they no longer modify `root`.
Instead, we have a new pass, `invoke-isolated-functions` that needs to
be run after them and replaces the entry point of the functions with
invokes to the isolated functions, possibly with the appropriate
arguments.
This commit drops support for running StackAnalysis without ABI
analysis. This has been broken for quite some time and a source of slow
downs in (badly) crafted optimization pipelines.
This commit fixes a subtle bug due to `ABIDetectionPass` and
`FunctionBoundariesDetectionPass` using methods from
`GeneratedCodeBasicInfo` (through `StackAnalysis::serializeMetadata`)
without explicitly depending on it.
We used to mark call to noreturn functions as killers, but this is not
correct.
Note that this is a temporary solution, we need to explicitly handle
such situations.
This commit extracts a plain `struct` from the `MetaAddress` class. This
enables us to use `MetaAddress` from C and therefore, runtime.
The definition of such `struct`, `PlainMetaAddress`, is in
`PlainMetaAddress.h`, which is included by `early-linked.c`.
A function to print the content of a `PlainMetaAddress` has also been
introduced.
Also, anticipating the linkage of `early-linked.c` triggered a
superflous assertion in `CPUStateAccessAnalysis`. This commit removes
it.
* Introduce GCBI::buildDispatcher
* Introduce GCBI::getJumpTarget{,Block} and GCBI::getBlocksGeneratedByPC
to easily map `BasicBlock *` to jump targets and viceversa.
* PCH::buildDispatcher now returns a list of the newly created basic
blocks.
* Other minor changes
This commit fixes the following issues:
1. It introduces `getNameFromYAMLEnumScalar` which returns a
`llvm::StringRef` instead of a `std::string`.
2. Lets users decide what to do when `getValueFromYAMLScalar` does not
get any match (abort by defaul, or return an "Invalid" value).
Alessandro Di Federico