`ValueMaterializer` is a rewrite of what was called `AdvancedValueInfo`
which follows the same principles.
The main benefits over the old version is:
* We materialize the data-flow graph and the CFG of the relevant part of
root. This makes debugging significantly easier.
* We drop the old MonotoneFramework infrastructure in favor of
getMaximalFixedPoint.
* We significantly reduce the amount of queries we make to
AdvancedValueInfo.
This commit adopts `llvm::DenseSet`, `llvm::DenseMap` and
`std::unordered_set` where needed.
It also tweaks some `llvm::SmallVector` sizes.
It brings an additional ~3% improvement during lifting.
This commit introduces `BasicBlockID` as the unique identifier for a
`efa::BasicBlock` into the CFG. A `BasicBlockID` is defined by a
`MetaAddress` plus an incremental integer. This enables us to have
multiple instances of the same block in a single function, which is
particularly useful when inlining multiple times the same function.
Apart from this, the commit also does the following:
* It drops representing `MetaAddress`es a `structs` in the IR. This created
several issues related to ABI. We now represent them as strings.
* It defines more functions in `support.h`, instead of defining prototypes
by hand in `CodeGenerator.cpp` and the like. Specifically, `unknownPC`
and `raise_exception_helper`. We also introduce a C "constructor" for
`PlainMetaAddress`.
* It significantly reduces the API of `GeneratedCodeBasicInfo`, which
was supposed to be put on a diet since a long time. Specifically,
many jump target related methods have been moved to free functions in
`IRHelpers.h`. Also `GCBI::getSuccessors` has been pushed into its
only user, `PruneRetSuccessors`, to prevent further usage of a
deprecated API. In the future, it would be nice to drop it entirely.
* It introduces `efa::BasicBlock::InlinedFrom`.
* Introduce an enum to represent named argument indices for `newpc`.
This enables us to more effectively manipulate its argument list.
* It improves the verification and error reporting for
`efa::FunctionMetadata`.
* Update tests.
This commit is preliminary to another piece of work to improve the
generality of inlining beyond the simple "fake function" scenario, for
which the feature was originally conceived.
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.
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.
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.
Unlike the previous iteration of `MetaAddress`, which tried to stuff all
the parts of `MetaAddress` within the existing `PC` CSV, this
implementation adds a set of new CSVs (or marks some existing ones as) to
represent the four portions of the current PC's `MetaAddress`.
* Introduce `ProgramCounterHandler`: a class responsible to maintain the
PC-related CSVs. This class is also used to manipulate the new
dispatcher.
* `AdvancedValueInfo`: update for new MetaAddress.
* External jump handler: do not clobber registers.
When introducing support for dynamic binaries, we didn't realize that
in x86-64 we were clobbering `r11`. To avoid this, we have to jump to
an address stored in memory. However, due to the new `MetaAddress`,
obtaining a *jumpable* address from the PC-related CSVs might require
some computations (and it does in ARM). Therefore, we introduce a new
global variable, `jumpablepc`, whose only role is to contain the
jumpable version of the program counter and then be the target of the
memory-indirect jump instruction.
* Labels care only about absolute addresses.
* CSAA: mark call site, even if no accesses.
`MetaAddress` replaces all the `uint64_t` used to represent a virtual
address. Its main features are:
* It has a non-zero representation of invalid addresses.
* It supports tags to represent code that has different interpretations but
resides at the same address in memory (namely ARM vs Thumb).
* Arithmetic operations cannot overflow.
* It supports epochs, a way we intend to employ to handle self-modifying code
(i.e., different code at the same address at different times).
* It supports "address spaces", which enable handling architectures with
multiple address spaces.
* It fits in two 64-bit registers.
Ivan Krysak