When printing do-while loops in C, we wrongly emitted redundant
statements before the `do`, representing computation necessary for
evaluating the exit condition from the loop.
These statements were duplicated at end of the loop body, and were
entirely redundant before the `do`.
This commit removes them.
This commits enable the emission of rich types associated with function
signatures. This types are forward-declared in the decompiled C code
before the definition of each decompiled function that uses them.
The types we emit for now are the types that the DLA is able to compute
(if any) for the return values and the arguments of the function.
Such types are not yet used in the body of the function, nor in the
function declaration. These are the next steps to come.
Before this commit, logical operators (&&, ||, !) were never emitted in
C. Bitwise operators were used instead (&, |, ~), relying on the
implicit equivalence of meaning.
This commit enables the emission of logical operators when the operands
are boolean types, making the emitted C more readable.
Before this commit, the logic to generate all the emitted C forward
declarations (types, global variables, and functions) that has to be
printed before each decompiled function was scattered across three
classes: FuncDeclCreationAction, TypeDeclCreationAction, and
GlobalDeclCreationAction.
These are all gone now, because the scattered logic was very confusing
to follow. Now we only have a single class that takes care of
declarations with global scope: DeclCreator.
Thanks to this, I was able to drop a bunch of useless layers of software
engineering used to shape the creation of the declaration as if it was
some kind of clang ASTConsumer, which is pointless.
This class handles the creation of type declarations in clang's AST, and
holds the relationships between llvm Types and Values with those clang's
type declarations.
This commit fixes an issue that caused to emit duplicated statements
for BasicBlocks that terminated with a conditional branch.
This was caused by a redundant call to `buildStmtsForBasicBlocks()`
inside `createCondExpr`, that has now been removed.
Before this commit, when GlobalDeclCreationAction needed to emit
literals for initialization of global variables, it did it using
custom code.
This was not working properly, an in some cases it emitted short
literals which are not allowed in C.
Hence the generated C code that was impossible to recompile without
syntax errors.
This commit fixes this problem, using the getLiteralFromConstant method
of StmtBuilder.
In order to do this, we need to make the StmtBuilder available inside
the GlobalDeclCreationAction, which is not a very clean design.
However, we are already planning to merge the GlobalDeclCreationAction
and the StmtBuilder class, so this issue will be taken care of in the
future.
Before this commit, the original llvm BasicBlock was not embedded
properly in the GHAST SwitchNodes. This caused problems and crashes in
decompilation.
This commit SwitchNode constructors so the that the BasicBlock properly
reaches the GHAST and it is printed correctly by the decompiler.
Before this commit, the C statements before an IfNode or a SwitchNode
were not guaranteed to be emitted if they were not involved in the
computation of the branch condition.
This commit fixes this problem.
We now emit `RegularSwitch` node type creating the vector containing the
case values by inspecting the actual values of the `ConstantInt` in the
IR.
Due to the introduction of weaving, we can have a cascade of switches,
and in this case the top switch should bring to a certain weaving switch
for multiple values of the case label.
For this reason, switch case are now represented by sets, which are
usually populated by a single value, but in presence of a weaving
switches they can represent the fact that for each value contained in
the set we must take a certain case label.
The backend of the decompiler has been updated to reflect this change,
in order to emit all the values for a certain `CaseSet` in `or` if the
size of the seat is greater than 1.
Replicate the changes made by this commit
f2a0df309f78e1b5d7c5f81ada5110523644559e perfomed by Pietro on the
branch containing the development fixes for `revng-c`.
Added a new attribute for the `ContinueNode`, which tells if a
`ContinueNode` should be considered implicit. An implicit continue node
means that it can be dropped without it altering the semantics of the
code (e.g., when the `continue` is the last statement inside the body of
a cycle).
This attribute enables us to avoid directly dropping the continue node,
which would also cause the computation attached to this node to be
dropped, also in the output of the decompiler pass.
We now check if the ASTNode of the `else` branch for which we try to
obtain a compound statement is non existing (`nullptr`), and in such
case we emit an ad-hoc if statement which does not have the else part.
Handle the emission of variadic functions (such as the
`indirect_handler` helper function) both in regards if declaration and
definition.
Handle also `undef` values in calls to the `indirect_handler` function.
Alessandro Di Federico