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Giacomo Vercesi 798af62b87 Introduce helpers declarations
Re-organize the variants of `libtcg-helpers-*.bc` as such:
* `libtcg-helpers-full-$ARCH.bc`: unchanged, contains all helper
  function with their bodies and all CSVs.
* `libtcg-helpers-declarations-only-$ARCH.bc`: all helper
  functions have been turned to declarations. All CSVs (except a couple
  of special ones) have been dropped.
* `libtcg-helpers-to-inline-$ARCH.bc`: only functions with the
  `revng_inline` section retain their body. Only CSVs that are used by
  these functions are present.

Lift now loads only the `declarations-only` variant of helpers, as
their body is not required until `inline-helpers`. In `inline-helpers`
the `to-inline` variant is loaded and linked, which then allows the
helpers to be inlined.
2026-02-05 10:20:45 +01:00
Alessandro Di Federico 5820908675 Remove and ban \file 2025-12-16 17:41:55 +01:00
Alessandro Di Federico 1429b526ab Introduce libtcg
This commit drops libptc in favor of its new form libtcg.

It brings several improvements, among which:

* The QEMU version we work on has been upgraded.
* CPUStateAccessAnalysis has been reimplemented in a way that makes it
  easier to debug and solves some limitations (e.g., tracking leaking
  pointers).
* Identification of pieces of the CPU state that are read by each helper
  and fixing access to the CPU state is now performed at build-time.
* We no longer mmap the code we need to translate, dropping all the
  issues related to code that needed to be mapped where something is
  already present.
* We now have two distinct flavors of helper modules: the full one and
  the "slim" one. The latter contains the definition only of functions
  we intend to inline. It is used in most of the pipeline, a good thing
  since we spend less time optimizing code we don't really care about.
  The full module is only used on the re-compilation branch of the
  pipeline.
* We no longer split the `cpu_loop` function.
* We change MetaAddress to rely on architectures from `model::` as
  opposed to the LLVM ones.
* We no longer attach debug info to LLVM IR containing the original
  assembly.
* We now verify that the lifted code only contains code we expect.
2025-10-31 17:25:03 +01:00