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).
This commit:
* Drops `KeyTraits::toString`: if needed, use `getNameFromYAMLScalar`.
* Makes many methods in TupleTree.h return `nullptr` or `std::optional`
in order to gracefully handle failures.
* Provides `KeyTraits` specializations for integral types and tuple-like
composed by types providing `KeyTraits`.
* Introduces `CompositeScalar`, which enables tuple-like objects to be
YAML-serializable scalars by joining the YAML-serialization of its
members through a customziable character.
* Implements `PathMatcher`, a very simple "regular expression" mechanism
for paths on tuple trees.
* Introduce testing for the Model.
Before this commit, recursive coroutines did not work properly if they
had out arguments with reference type.
The reason is that `rc_run` was inferring the type of its arguments from
the arguments themselves, not from the prototype of the recursive
coroutine.
Hence, code snippets like the following did not work properly, because
`rc_run` was taking x by value, not by reference.
```
RecursiveCoroutine<void> accumulate_on_i(int &i) {
// ...
}
int f() {
int x = 0;
rc_run(accumulate_on_i, x);
return x;
}
```
This commit fixes the problem. Now the arguments of `rc_run` are
properly forwarded to the recursive coroutine.
Enable quotes around MetaAddress during serialization, since ':' is a
valid YAML separator, which causes wrong deserialization when a vector
of MetaAddress is serialized as a list
This commit extends the support for the FOR_EACH macro used in
INTROSPECTION_NS to allow serialization of structs with more than
5 entries. Now it supports up to 16 entries.
This commit fixes a couple of bugs preventing SortedVector and
MutableSet from being serialized.
Also, it introduces minimal testing for serialization.
Changes include:
- `getFunctionCall` has been moved in IRHelpers.h
- `getFallthrough` and `getFunctionCallCallee`
have been simplified and added in IRHelpers.h (their old versions
have been removed respectively from FCI.h and revng.h)
- `FCI::getCall` and `FCI::isCall` have been removed
due to redundancy with `getFunctionCall`.
This commit fixes a bug that lead to be unable to instantiate from a
`Module` `ProgramCounterHandler`. The reason for this was that
`ProgramCounterHandler` was using `Module::getGlobalVariable` which, by
default, ignores variables with internal linkage.
These data structures are substitutes for a `std::map<Key, Value>` where
`Key` is embedded in `Value`. Their main goal is to be serializable in a
YAML sequence while preserving the order enforced by the key.
`MutableSet` is implemented using a map.
`SortedVector` is implemented using a sorted vector.
Problem:
1. `ForwardNode::getConstNeighbor` returns a reference to a non-`const`
object, but the referenced pointer is `const`
2. `FowardNode::toNeighborRange` checks if the type of the argument is
const, but since `Successors` is not declared const the resulting
`toNeighborRange(Successors)` is never executed in the const version
Solution:
1. Make `getConstNeighbor()` return a reference to a `const` pointer
2. Explicitly declare a separate `toNeighborRange()` function which
returns a `const_child_iterator` and remove the template parameter
RecursiveCoroutines are a facility intended to be used as-drop in
replacement of recursive functions.
They provide the following features.
- They can be written almost as regular recursive functions,
with 4 caveats.
1. A recursive coroutine that returns a type `T`, needs to be declared
to return a `RecursiveCoroutine<T>`.
2. Inside the body of a recursive coroutine, when recursively calling
another recursive coroutine, the recursive call needs to be
prepended by the new keyword `rc_recur`.
3. Inside the body of a recursive coroutine, the `return` statement
needs to be substituted with `rc_return`.
4. When launching a recursive coroutine `A` from a function that is
not a recursive coroutine, `A` needs to be called with the provided
dedicated template wrapper `rc_run`.
The syntax is the following `rc_run(A, arg0, arg1, ...)`.
This is necessary to enable swapping off recursive coroutine and
fall back to regular recursion for debug.
See below for how to do it.
- Unlike regular recursive functions, they don't use the system stack
for recursion. They use a custom heap-allocated stack to manage
recursion. This makes them more robust for implementing recursive
functions that manipulate user-defined input, because they are much
less likely to trigger stack overflow.
- They can be turned off compiling with
`-DDISABLE_RECURSIVE_COROUTINES`, falling back to regular recursion,
for debug purposes.
- They support both direct and indirect recursion, i.e. a recursive
coroutine A can recursively call itself, or it can recursively call
another recursive coroutine B, which in turns recursively calls A.
Sorting the BasicBlocks on which DisjointRanges works is detrimental for
performance. Using a random order takes less time. This is due to the
fact that the number of BasicBlocks to analyze is significantly smaller
than the whole list of BasicBlocks.
This commit introduces the PruneRetSuccessors pass, whose role is to
identify all the indirect jumps whose devirtualized destinations
correspond to return addresses. In fact, they are most likely to be
return instructions and devirtualizing them is always detrimental.
Alessandro Di Federico