Model classes are now described by a YAML document, which is used to
generate C++ headers containing classes and all the boilerplate
required for YAML serialization/deserialization, usage in
SortedVectors, etc. See the README in include/revng/Model for more
info.
These functions can be used in conjunction to dump the Model on a
file during a gdb session, for example:
```
(gdb) p writeToFile(Model->toString(), "/tmp/model.yaml")
```
Before this commit, SerializeModelPass and SerializeModelWrapperPass had
hard dependencies on the passes that load the model from LLVM-IR.
This commit makes this dependency optional. When the passes for model
serialization are executed, if they see that nobody requested to load
the model, they will not try to serialize it.
This prevents them from crashing when running in pipelines that only
contain passes that ignore the model.
This is particularly beneficial because `revng opt` automatically adds
`-serialize-model` at the end of each pipeline and, before this commit,
this meant that `revng opt` could not be used for unit-testing simple
llvm passes that do not use the model.
With this commit, `revng opt` can be used for unit-tests, even on LLVM IR
with missing model.
* Introduce some documentation for the model.
* Improve the way enums are serialized/deserialized.
* Mark certain fields of model data structures as optional.
* introduces some error messages during model validation.
This commit reserves the "unnamed_" prefix for revng.
The first use of this reserved prefix is in `model::Type`s
`CustomName`s and `model::Identifier`s.
This commit also makes the `verify()` method stricter for
`model::Identifier` so that an `Identifier` whose name starts with the
reserved prefix does fails verification.
This commit changes the `TupleTree::deserialize` method to return an
`llvm::ErrorOr<TupleTree>`, enabling users to choose their policies on
error reporting.
callOnPathSteps was using linear scan search in KeyedObjectContainer.
This commit fixes it for using binary search, dramatically improving
performance in workloads that do lots of lookups.
This commit introduces the type system of the model along with several
various other improvements to the model and its users.
* Introduce the type system.
* Introduce possibility to tag certain fields in the model as to be
optional during YAML serialization.
* All the `Name` fields have been replaced in favor of `CustomName` plus
a `name` method that will use `CustomName` if available, or an
automatically generated name otherwise.
* Make TupleTreeReferences behavior more robust: now you either need to
have a valid pointer to `Root` and a `Path` or be default constructed
(`nullptr` for `Root` and an empty `Path`). Any other configuration is
invalid.
* The type system introduces `RawFunctionType`: this superseds the
previous way in which we were specifying arguments and return
values. Users of such information have been updated accordingly.
The previous design returned a model::Binary &, which did not allow
users writing the model to properly initialize cross references between
different parts of the model.
Requires IsKeyedObjectContainer in TupleTree.h wherever possible,
instead of IsContainer. This enables using std::vectors.
In this way, they will not be diffed based on the key, but on the entire
vector. This is intended.
Filippo Cremonese