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Alvise de Faveri 4c8215fc47 DLA: Add pointers
* Changes to the `LayoutTypeSystem` graph

Pointers are identified in the TypeSystem graph as leaf nodes which
have a new type of edge (PointerEdge) that connects them to another
node of the graph. The destination of the edge represents the layout of
the pointed type.

* Changes to the Front-end

Pointer edges, and their destination nodes, are created by the DLA
front-end (`DLACreateIntraProceduralTypes`) whenever an access node has
a size that is compatible with the size of a pointer in the current
Architecture.
Successors might then be added to the newly generated node, if any,
by looking up the llvm::Value it is attached to.

* Changes to the Middle-end

Most of the DLA passes should ignore Pointer Edges, so they are modified
accordingly. Most notably, nodes that represent pointed layouts should
never be merged/pruned-off.

* Changes to the Back-end

The `TypeDeclCreationAction` of the decompiler and the `DLAMakeLayouts`
step of the DLA back-end are modified to take into account the new
information about pointers.

⚠️ There is a known issue with this version of the decompiler,
namely the fact that type loops are not detected and can cause the
emitter to enter an infinite loop.
2021-11-16 17:00:34 +01:00
Alvise de Faveri 43ae7a91cb DLA: Add DeduplicateUnionFields Step
Add a step that recognizes if two subtrees of a union node are
topologically equivalent and merges them. This corresponds to removing
duplicate fields in unions.

This deduplication was prevously done while emitting layouts.

A check is inserted into DLAMakeLayouts to assert that, after
constructing unions, no union has only one child, which could be the
case if we didn't deduplicate union fields in the graph.
2021-10-06 16:37:37 +02:00
Alvise de Faveri 47db3fdb11 Promote AccessSizes to full-fledged TS nodes
While doing thie, also drop `printAccessNode()` from DLA DebugPrinter.

The information about which LLVM instruction originated a given access
node is already available in the csv generated by the `dla-accesses-log`
logger.
2021-06-25 18:07:17 +02:00
Alvise de Faveri bfdef657f2 Move DLA files to separate folder 2021-06-18 18:24:04 +02:00