Split the `InlineHelpers` pass into the three phases:
- `link-helpers-to-inline` links the missing `revng_inline` helper
bodies from the `libtcg-helpers-to-inline-arch` module.
- `inline-helpers` inlines, in every function except those tagged
`Root` or `Helper`, the calls to `revng_inline` helpers whose
critical arguments on the call site are constant.
- `delete-helper-bodies` drops from the module the body of every
`revng_inline` function, leaving only the declaration.
The three passes live in a dedicated `revngInlineHelpers` library
(`lib/InlineHelpers/` + `include/revng/InlineHelpers/`), so that
libraries which do not depend on `revngFunctionIsolation` can use them
without creating cyclic dependencies.
This commit introduces `FixPointerSize`, a pipe changing the
`DataLayout` of module in order to have a pointer size identical to the
one of `targetABI()`.
The pipe also performs safety checks to ensure this does not corrupt
semantics.
Several components in both pipeline YAMLs are slated for removal.
Prepend a legacy prefix to their names, and to the matching c++ code, so
they are clearly distinguished from the new Clift-based pipeline until
they are dropped.
`base_function["Name"]` crashes with `KeyError` when the model has
a function without an explicit `Name` (e.g. the binary entry stub).
Skip those entries silently; only named functions can be matched
by name anyway.
Replace the hoist-struct-phis pass with a split-struct-phis pass that
breaks struct PHI nodes into per-field PHIs instead of moving them
out, and update both pipelines to use the new name.
Fix the `revng2 project init` command to work with all
`StorageProvider`s, not just the local one. It still specializes for the
local one to allow creating the model file.
Expand the `ProjectMetadata` dataclass to include additional timestamps
and the hash of the pipeline description. Change all the
`StorageProvider`s so that all the new data is saved and returned.
The `PypeGroup` click group did not provide any real benefit:
* It added extra help about pipebox arguments, but text that was not
correct from where the help was coming from (the group does not parse
the arguments). The subcommands still reports it though.
* It forbid using non-PypeGroup and non-PypeCommand commands in the
command tree, but in the long run this is desirable so it should be
dropped
For these reasons it has been dropped.
A library's exported functions live in model::Function. Walk the
Functions list and insert one Symbol row per ExportedName so the
database covers both shapes.
Also, batch all symbol inserts.
Introduce a new canonicalisation pass that forces a small set of
exponential-dataflow-prone instructions (SelectInst plus the FShl
and FShr intrinsic patterns) to be stored into a dedicated local
variable. Without this, expanding their value into C expressions
during decompilation can blow up into exponential path enumeration
on real binaries.
This is a temporary workaround. A more principled split of
pathological dataflows is planned and will replace this pass.
Run -strip-dead-prototypes as part of the LLVM-pass list invoked
just before the Clifter, so that all unused helpers are stripped
away. In particular, this prevents some LLVM intrinsics that
return structs containing i1 (e.g. the overflow intrinsics) from
ending up in the C output and tripping later passes.
Add a canonicalisation pass that rewrites extractvalue from a
pointer-returning struct as an i8 GEP plus a load. Together with
ArithmeticToGEP this lets later passes consume the result through
the same GEP-based interface they use for ordinary memory accesses.
Introduce the ArithmeticToGEP canonicalisation pass. It detects
pointers (LLVM-typed pointer values, model pointers flagged by the
"revng.pointers" metadata, and pointer-tagged extract values) and
rewrites integer arithmetic computed on top of them as i8 GEPs,
followed by a ptrtoint when the original use needs an integer.
For each obvious pointer the pass also walks backwards through Add
chains and disambiguates the pointer operand of each Add when the
other operand cannot be a pointer, so the rewrite extends to integer
arithmetic that only later flows into a pointer use.
This commit introduces an analysis to import prototypes from a SQLite
database of well-known prototypes, typically built from debug info of
operating systems.
This analysis supersedes import-well-known-models.
Remove a few `Artifact` classes from `revng.support.artifact`. These
were needed to handle the idiosyncrasies of the legacy pipeline. Some of
the logic has been reworked into the ptml code.
Overhaul the pipeline configuration logic by collapsing all dynamic
configuration options, both for analyses and pipes into a single
dictionary. Change all the interfaces so that there is no longer
distinction between the configuration of an analysis and of pipes.
Expose these options to the command line via `--{name}-configuration`
options for each pipe/analysis that is applicable to the command-line
invocation.
Change the `Container.serialize` interface so that it is possible to
supply a list of objects that will be serialized instead of all the ones
in the container.
Add two additional fields to `Artifact`: `defined_locations` and
`preferred_artifacts`. These are pieces of metadata that allow
navigation between multiple PTML-enabled documents.
Add categories in the pipeline, allow an artifact to have a category
specified which allows it to be shown or hidden by default. Adapt the
CLI tools to hide artifacts of the category that don't
`show_by_default=True`.
Andrea Gussoni