Sometimes code performs an indirect jump without changing the value of
the PC. In most cases this is due to non-code or some other faulty
situation, but it is in principle possible that an instruction performs
an indirect branch to its own address.
This commit ensures that this situation does not end up in an hard
failure.
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.
This is a big step to split revng-lift in two parts: one that only
writes the model and one that actually lifts to LLVM IR.
* Introduce `revng import binary`
* Split off `BinaryFile.h`
* Drop `revng.h`
* `GeneratedCodeBasicInfo`: use model
* Reduce role of `GeneratedCodeBasicInfo` in favor of
`model::Architecture` and `model::Register` methods
* `CodeGenerator`: adopt `RawBinaryView` and model
* `JumpTargetManager`: adopt `RawBinaryView` and model
* `ExternalJumpsHandler`: adopt model
* `InstructionTranslator`: discard `Architecture` in favor of
`EndianessMismatch`
* Many other changes
Checking if a `SwitchInst` has a certain case triggers a linear search.
When we have *a lot* of jump targets this is an issue.
This commit assumes that when we add a case to a dispatcher, that case
is not already there.
This commit makes `PCH::getUniqueJumpTarget` more robust:
1. We bail out only if we find a non-constant write to a field of
`MetaAddress` for which we already have a value. Before, any
non-constant write would lead to bailing out.
2. In case we meet an helper, we now bail out only if we didn't saw any
write to a portion of the `MetaAddress`.
* 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 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.
Alessandro Di Federico