This commit heavily reworks how we handle returned values, making things
a bit more elegant.
Apart from this, it fixes how were handling types that on the model are
aggregates but were being returned via registers on the IR.
Now extractvalue instruction are replaced by dedicated
OpaqueExtractValue custom opcode, that prevents LLVM from doing strange
things with extractvalues during optimizations (such as e.g. sinking).
This is important since extractvalue instructions and struct-typed
values in general in our LLVM IR are not real first-class citizens, but
only a byproduct of the binary lifting process, and they actually
represent bundles of registers that are returned from isolated
functions.
This commit enables to emit accesses with the square bracket array
access operator on pointers.
This is accomplished by adding an additional mandatory argument to
ModelGEP (AND NOT to ModelGEPRef) to represent this case.
MakeModelGEPPass is updated to take this into account, together with all
the other passes that handle ModelGEPs.
This commit teaches getExpectedModelType about the fact that various
bitwise operations are only allowed to have integer operands.
It also updates VMA, which uses getExpectedModelType, to take this
into account.
This commit introduces modelType, which supersedes `llvmIntToModelType`
in order to better handle translation of LLVM types into model types
after introduction of opaque pointer types. The main differences is
that `modelType` accepts the `Value` (instead of just the `Type`), so it
can better handle `AllocaInst` and `GlobalVariable`, which provide
information about the pointee.
This commit does various things oriented at reducing the number of local
variables emitted in C:
- MarkAssignments now know that @Copy and @Assign involving
@LocalVariable only have side effects that affect the local variable
itself; this enables to reduce the number of times we're forced to
emit a local variable due to interfering side effects
- Drop the @AssignmentMarker FunctionTag; AddAssignmentMarkerPass now
doesn't emit @AssignmentMarker anymore; instead it emits groups of
@LocalVariable, @Copy, and @Assign, which benefit from the previous
point
- Drop 2 MarkAssignments::Reasons: HasManyUses and HasUsesOutsideOfBB;
both these have now been aggregated into the AlwaysAssign reason for
simplicity, representing all reasons non involving side effects
- Update BeautifyGHAST and how it reasons about side effects when
beautifying; before this commit it used @AssignmentMarker, now it
looks at @Assign
- Simplify ExitSSA; before this commit it was trying hard to be smart on
where it emitted the store instructions representing the incoming
values of the PHI that was being destroyed; this seemed smart when we
originally did it but it generated C code that was not really better
to read, so this useless complexity is finally gone
Before this commit, the code was assuming that we only passed stack
arguments to fuctions with RawFunction type. This is not true anymore.
This commit adds support to getStrongModelInfo for when we are passing
stack arguments to CABIFunctionType.
This commit removes the bugged addPointerQualifier helper function,
that was wrongly pushing the pointer qualifier at the end.
Instead, we now use the correct model::Binary::getPointerTo method.
1. Add a common helper to traverse ModelGEPs (`traverseModelGEP`)
2. Add a centralized way to deduce the model type of values that
have strong model information attached to them (e.g. isolated
functions and ModelGEPs)
3. Add a similar helper for deducing formal types of operands in known
cases
A pass that strips the casts off from some instructions, including
`ModelGEP`s, general function calls, return and store ones, and
embeds the cast into new dedicated `ModelCast` function calls.
Djordje Todorovic