* 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.
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.
When translation of code overflows into an unmapped page, we can get a
SIGSEGV. To avoid this, for each set of contiguous pages, we add "guard
page" containing an architecture-specific pattern that ensure basic
block termination.
`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.
* Drop unused argument names from function prototypes
* Make `static` some methods
* Disable some copy constructors
* Fix casing of Doxygen `\file` directives
* Add some casts to make the compiler happy
* Initialize `hasRelocationAddend` for AArch64
* Use references in range-for where possible
* Drop default for `switch` statements covering all the entries of an `enum`
* Make some global variables `static`
* Drop dead functions
* Introduce `ShrinkInstructionOperandsPass`: a transformation shrinking
operands and the results of instructions if they are
zero/sign-extended immediately before and after the instruction.
* Introduce `ConstantRangeSet`: similar to `ConstantRange` but allows
disjoint ranges.
* Introduce `MaterializedValue`: a class that can represent a constant
value or a symbol plus offset pair.
* Introduce `DropHelperCallsPass`: a transformation removing calls to
helpers and replacing them with a function call reading the CSVs that
the helper reads and writing the CSVs that the helper writes
(according to CSAA).
* Introduce `DropRangeMetadataPass`: a transformation dropping the
`range` metadata, which, in certain situations, lowers the quality of
the results provided by `LazyValueInfo`.
* Introduce `AdvancedValueInfo`: an analysis exploiting results of
`LazyValueInfo` but collecting them as `ConstantRangeSet` with a
monotone framework. It produces `MaterializedValue`.
* Anticipate linking of helpers: `AVI` requires `CSAA`, which requires
helper functions to be linked in.
* Drop `--no-link`.
* Force x86-64 `DataLayout`.
* Reorganize harvesting to either collect simple literals or go with
(incremental) `AVI`.
* Drop `SET`, `OSRA`, the reaching definition analysis, the
`SimplifyComparisonsPass` and all the sumjump-related code: e now
clone `root`, optimize it and analyze it with `AVI`.
* Temporarily drop the `NoReturnAnalysis`.
* Link `libLLVMInstCombine`, `libLLVMCodeGen` and `libLLVMPasses`.
* Introduce tests for `AdvancedValueInfo`,
`ShrinkInstructionOperandsPass` and `ConstantRangeSet`.
* Fix test results.
* Add `llvm.bswap.i64` and `@pc` to the LLVM template module for unit
tests.
We used to save the type of a block in the `revng.block.type` metadata
as a number. This commit serializes it as a string.
In order to do this, the `BlockType` enum has been promoted to a
namespace with the usual `getName` and `fromName` functions.
This commit fixes a problem that led to use SET to discover very very
simple jump targets: the return addresses of functions call.
Since in this situation, for each call, we needed to run SET, this
commit leads to a *huge* improvements in terms of translation
performance.
This commit also enforces renaming of the translated basic blocks after
they get split and update the ground truth for several analysis tests.
`getType` didn't have a `BlockType` to represent the entry basic block
of the `root` function. Therefore, such basic block was erroneously
identified as a translated basic block.
This commit uses SET, information about canonical values and labels to
detect if an indirect function call is targeting an external symbol.
The strings used for the name of external symbols are uniqued global
variables. This commit also uses this approach for the disassembly of
original instructions, which used to be metadata.
So far we've been tracking only base-relative relocations in an ad-hoc
fashion. This commit introduces a data structure that can describe the
most common relocations, including those for `.got`, `.got.plt`,
base-relative and `R_*_COPY`.
A label describes a range of the binary. A label can be generated from a
symbol (basically assigning a name to range of the binary) or from a
relocation, describing the content of a certain range.
This commit generates labels from symbols and relocations, including
MIPS implicit relocations.
This commit also introduces canonical values.
A register can have a canonical value, i.e., a value that register will
assume when the analyzed module is being run. This is typically useful
for the value of the global pointer, which is different from one module
to another but, within a module, is stable.
This commit registers the canonical value of `gp` (in MIPS), if
available.
Updating to LLVM 7 mainly involved the following steps:
* Upgrade APIs for folding ConstantExpr.
* Upgrade APIs for GraphTraits.
* Upgrade APIs for DominatorTreeBase.
* Upgrade APIs for BinaryFormat to parse ELFs.
* Fix the LLVM Linker to properly link the QEMU helpers.
* Disable the new optnone attribute even with optimization -O0. This is
necessary to allow SROA to do its job properly.
* Upgrade APIs to delete Instructions.
* Properly cleaning up orphaned metadata still referring to Instructions
that have been destroyed. Recent versions of LLVM are more strict in
this respect, and will assert when compiled in debug.
* Avoid using LLVM `getGlobalContext` which has been removed from newer
versions of LLVM.
* Upgrade tests to use the new APIs.
* Upgrade APIs for instruction iterators and reverse iterators.
This commit dismisses the `argparse` library (the only non-runtime C
component of rev.ng) in favor of LLVM's CommandLine library, which
offers several benefits. Among others, now command line arguments can be
easily specified as a global variable, decentralizing their management
and avoiding the long list of arguments in the constructor of singleton
objects such as `CodeGenerator`.
This commit moves around most files. The new directory structure is as
follows:
* `lib/$LIBRARY/`: contains a library, i.e., a set of `.cpp` files used
by multiple libraries/tools.
* `include/revng/$LIBRARY/`: contains the public headers associated to
the library in `lib/$LIBRARY/`.
* `tools/$TOOL/`: directory where all the `.cpp` files (and private
headers) for a tool reside. Currently we have two tools: `revamb` and
`revamb-dump`.
On top of this, all file names are now in camel case.
Antonio Frighetto