GCC Middle and Back End API Reference
tree-ssa-structalias.c File Reference
#include "config.h"
#include "system.h"
#include "coretypes.h"
#include "tm.h"
#include "ggc.h"
#include "obstack.h"
#include "bitmap.h"
#include "sbitmap.h"
#include "flags.h"
#include "basic-block.h"
#include "tree.h"
#include "gimple.h"
#include "gimple-ssa.h"
#include "cgraph.h"
#include "tree-ssanames.h"
#include "tree-into-ssa.h"
#include "tree-dfa.h"
#include "tree-inline.h"
#include "diagnostic-core.h"
#include "hash-table.h"
#include "function.h"
#include "tree-pass.h"
#include "alloc-pool.h"
#include "splay-tree.h"
#include "params.h"
#include "alias.h"
#include "pointer-set.h"
Include dependency graph for tree-ssa-structalias.c:

Data Structures

struct  constraint_stats
struct  variable_info
struct  constraint_expr
struct  constraint
struct  constraint_graph
struct  scc_info
struct  topo_info
struct  equiv_class_label
struct  equiv_class_hasher
struct  fieldoff
struct  shared_bitmap_info
struct  shared_bitmap_hasher

Macros

#define EXECUTE_IF_IN_NONNULL_BITMAP(a, b, c, d)
#define UNKNOWN_OFFSET   HOST_WIDE_INT_MIN
#define FIRST_REF_NODE   (varmap).length ()
#define LAST_REF_NODE   (FIRST_REF_NODE + (FIRST_REF_NODE - 1))

Typedefs

typedef struct constraint_graphconstraint_graph_t
typedef struct constraintconstraint_t
typedef struct variable_infovarinfo_t
typedef struct constraint_expr ce_s
typedef struct equiv_class_labelequiv_class_label_t
typedef struct equiv_class_labelconst_equiv_class_label_t
typedef struct fieldoff fieldoff_s
typedef struct shared_bitmap_infoshared_bitmap_info_t
typedef struct shared_bitmap_infoconst_shared_bitmap_info_t

Enumerations

enum  {
  nothing_id = 1, anything_id = 2, readonly_id = 3, escaped_id = 4,
  nonlocal_id = 5, storedanything_id = 6, integer_id = 7
}
enum  constraint_expr_type { SCALAR, DEREF, ADDRESSOF }
enum  {
  fi_clobbers = 1, fi_uses = 2, fi_static_chain = 3, fi_result = 4,
  fi_parm_base = 5
}

Functions

static unsigned int create_variable_info_for (tree, const char *)
static void unify_nodes (constraint_graph_t, unsigned int, unsigned int, bool)
static varinfo_t first_vi_for_offset (varinfo_t, unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT)
static varinfo_t first_or_preceding_vi_for_offset (varinfo_t, unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT)
static varinfo_t lookup_vi_for_tree (tree)
static bool type_can_have_subvars (const_tree)
static varinfo_t get_varinfo ()
static varinfo_t vi_next ()
static varinfo_t new_var_info ()
static varinfo_t get_call_vi ()
static varinfo_t lookup_call_use_vi ()
static varinfo_t lookup_call_clobber_vi ()
static varinfo_t get_call_use_vi ()
static varinfo_t get_call_clobber_vi ()
static void get_constraint_for_1 (tree, vec< ce_s > *, bool, bool)
static void get_constraint_for (tree, vec< ce_s > *)
static void get_constraint_for_rhs (tree, vec< ce_s > *)
static void do_deref (vec< ce_s > *)
static unsigned int find ()
static bool unite ()
static constraint_t new_constraint (const struct constraint_expr lhs, const struct constraint_expr rhs)
static void dump_constraint ()
void debug_constraint (constraint_t)
void debug_constraints (void)
void debug_constraint_graph (void)
void debug_solution_for_var (unsigned int)
void debug_sa_points_to_info (void)
DEBUG_FUNCTION void debug_constraint ()
static void dump_constraints ()
static void dump_constraint_graph ()
static bool constraint_expr_equal ()
static bool constraint_expr_less ()
static bool constraint_less ()
static bool constraint_equal ()
static constraint_t constraint_vec_find (vec< constraint_t > vec, struct constraint lookfor)
static void constraint_set_union (vec< constraint_t > *to, vec< constraint_t > *from)
static void solution_set_expand ()
static bool set_union_with_increment ()
static void insert_into_complex (constraint_graph_t graph, unsigned int var, constraint_t c)
static void merge_node_constraints (constraint_graph_t graph, unsigned int to, unsigned int from)
static void clear_edges_for_node ()
static void merge_graph_nodes (constraint_graph_t graph, unsigned int to, unsigned int from)
static void add_implicit_graph_edge (constraint_graph_t graph, unsigned int to, unsigned int from)
static void add_pred_graph_edge (constraint_graph_t graph, unsigned int to, unsigned int from)
static bool add_graph_edge (constraint_graph_t graph, unsigned int to, unsigned int from)
static void init_graph ()
static void build_pred_graph ()
static void build_succ_graph ()
static void scc_visit ()
static struct topo_infoinit_topo_info ()
static void free_topo_info ()
static void topo_visit (constraint_graph_t graph, struct topo_info *ti, unsigned int n)
static void do_sd_constraint (constraint_graph_t graph, constraint_t c, bitmap delta)
static void do_ds_constraint ()
static void do_complex_constraint ()
static struct scc_infoinit_scc_info ()
static void free_scc_info ()
static void find_indirect_cycles ()
static void compute_topo_order (constraint_graph_t graph, struct topo_info *ti)
static equiv_class_labelequiv_class_lookup_or_add ()
static void condense_visit ()
static void label_visit ()
static void dump_pred_graph ()
static struct scc_infoperform_var_substitution ()
static void free_var_substitution_info ()
static unsigned int find_equivalent_node (constraint_graph_t graph, unsigned int node, unsigned int label)
static void unite_pointer_equivalences ()
static void move_complex_constraints ()
static void rewrite_constraints (constraint_graph_t graph, struct scc_info *si)
static bool eliminate_indirect_cycles ()
static void solve_graph ()
static void insert_vi_for_tree ()
static varinfo_t lookup_vi_for_tree ()
static const char * alias_get_name ()
static varinfo_t get_vi_for_tree ()
static struct constraint_expr new_scalar_tmp_constraint_exp ()
static void get_constraint_for_ssa_var ()
static void process_constraint ()
static HOST_WIDE_INT bitpos_of_field ()
static void get_constraint_for_ptr_offset (tree ptr, tree offset, vec< ce_s > *results)
static void get_constraint_for_component_ref (tree t, vec< ce_s > *results, bool address_p, bool lhs_p)
static void do_deref ()
static void get_constraint_for_address_of ()
static void get_constraint_for ()
static void get_constraint_for_rhs ()
static void process_all_all_constraints (vec< ce_s > lhsc, vec< ce_s > rhsc)
static void do_structure_copy ()
static void make_constraints_to ()
static void make_constraint_to ()
static void make_constraint_from ()
static void make_copy_constraint ()
static void make_escape_constraint ()
static void make_transitive_closure_constraints ()
static tree build_fake_var_decl ()
static varinfo_t make_heapvar ()
static varinfo_t make_constraint_from_restrict ()
static varinfo_t make_constraint_from_global_restrict ()
static struct constraint_expr get_function_part_constraint ()
static void handle_rhs_call ()
static void handle_lhs_call (gimple stmt, tree lhs, int flags, vec< ce_s > rhsc, tree fndecl)
static void handle_const_call ()
static void handle_pure_call ()
static varinfo_t get_fi_for_callee ()
static bool find_func_aliases_for_builtin_call ()
static void find_func_aliases_for_call ()
static void find_func_aliases ()
static void process_ipa_clobber ()
static void find_func_clobbers ()
static varinfo_t first_vi_for_offset ()
static int fieldoff_compare ()
static void sort_fieldstack ()
static bool type_can_have_subvars ()
static bool var_can_have_subvars ()
static bool type_must_have_pointers ()
static bool field_must_have_pointers ()
static bool push_fields_onto_fieldstack (tree type, vec< fieldoff_s > *fieldstack, HOST_WIDE_INT offset)
static unsigned int count_num_arguments ()
static varinfo_t create_function_info_for ()
static bool check_for_overlaps ()
static varinfo_t create_variable_info_for_1 ()
static unsigned int create_variable_info_for ()
static void dump_solution_for_var ()
DEBUG_FUNCTION void debug_solution_for_var ()
static void intra_create_variable_infos ()
static bitmap shared_bitmap_lookup ()
static void shared_bitmap_add ()
static void set_uids_in_ptset ()
static struct pt_solution find_what_var_points_to ()
static void find_what_p_points_to ()
void dump_pta_stats ()
void pt_solution_reset ()
void pt_solution_set ()
void pt_solution_set_var ()
static void pt_solution_ior_into ()
bool pt_solution_empty_p ()
bool pt_solution_singleton_p ()
bool pt_solution_includes_global ()
static bool pt_solution_includes_1 ()
bool pt_solution_includes ()
static bool pt_solutions_intersect_1 ()
bool pt_solutions_intersect ()
static void dump_sa_points_to_info ()
static void init_base_vars ()
static void init_alias_vars ()
static void remove_preds_and_fake_succs ()
static void solve_constraints ()
static void compute_points_to_sets ()
static void delete_points_to_sets ()
unsigned int compute_may_aliases ()
static bool gate_tree_pta ()
gimple_opt_passmake_pass_build_alias ()
gimple_opt_passmake_pass_build_ealias ()
static bool gate_ipa_pta ()
static bool associate_varinfo_to_alias ()
static unsigned int ipa_pta_execute ()
simple_ipa_opt_passmake_pass_ipa_pta ()

Variables

static bool use_field_sensitive = true
static int in_ipa_mode = 0
static bitmap_obstack predbitmap_obstack
static bitmap_obstack pta_obstack
static bitmap_obstack oldpta_obstack
static bitmap_obstack iteration_obstack
static struct constraint_stats stats
static alloc_pool variable_info_pool
static pointer_map_tfinal_solutions
struct obstack final_solutions_obstack
static vec< varinfo_tvarmap
static struct pointer_map_tcall_stmt_vars
static vec< constraint_tconstraints
static alloc_pool constraint_pool
static constraint_graph_t graph
static bitmap changed
static hash_table
< equiv_class_hasher
pointer_equiv_class_table
static hash_table
< equiv_class_hasher
location_equiv_class_table
static int pointer_equiv_class
static int location_equiv_class
static struct pointer_map_tvi_for_tree
struct obstack fake_var_decl_obstack
static hash_table
< shared_bitmap_hasher
shared_bitmap_table
struct {
   unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT   pt_solution_includes_may_alias
   unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT   pt_solution_includes_no_alias
   unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT   pt_solutions_intersect_may_alias
   unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT   pt_solutions_intersect_no_alias
pta_stats
struct pt_solution ipa_escaped_pt = { true, false, false, false, false, false, NULL }

Macro Definition Documentation

#define EXECUTE_IF_IN_NONNULL_BITMAP (   a,
  b,
  c,
 
)
Value:
if (a) \
EXECUTE_IF_SET_IN_BITMAP (a, b, c, d)

Referenced by free_scc_info().

#define FIRST_REF_NODE   (varmap).length ()

During variable substitution and the offline version of indirect cycle finding, we create nodes to represent dereferences and address taken constraints. These represent where these start and end.

Referenced by build_succ_graph(), dump_constraints(), and merge_node_constraints().

#define LAST_REF_NODE   (FIRST_REF_NODE + (FIRST_REF_NODE - 1))
#define UNKNOWN_OFFSET   HOST_WIDE_INT_MIN

Use 0x8000... as special unknown offset.


Typedef Documentation

typedef struct constraint_expr ce_s
typedef struct constraint* constraint_t

Structure used to for hash value numbering of pointer equivalence classes.

typedef struct fieldoff fieldoff_s

Structure used to put solution bitmaps in a hashtable so they can be shared among variables with the same points-to set.

typedef struct variable_info* varinfo_t

Enumeration Type Documentation

anonymous enum

Static IDs for the special variables. Variable ID zero is unused and used as terminator for the sub-variable chain.

Enumerator:
nothing_id 
anything_id 
readonly_id 
escaped_id 
nonlocal_id 
storedanything_id 
integer_id 
anonymous enum

In IPA mode there are varinfos for different aspects of reach function designator. One for the points-to set of the return value, one for the variables that are clobbered by the function, one for its uses and one for each parameter (including a single glob for remaining variadic arguments).

Enumerator:
fi_clobbers 
fi_uses 
fi_static_chain 
fi_result 
fi_parm_base 
Enumerator:
SCALAR 
DEREF 
ADDRESSOF 

Function Documentation

static bool add_graph_edge ( constraint_graph_t  graph,
unsigned int  to,
unsigned int  from 
)
static

Add a graph edge to GRAPH, going from FROM to TO if it doesn't exist in the graph already. Return false if the edge already existed, true otherwise.

Referenced by do_sd_constraint(), and free_topo_info().

static void add_implicit_graph_edge ( constraint_graph_t  graph,
unsigned int  to,
unsigned int  from 
)
static

Add an indirect graph edge to GRAPH, going from TO to FROM if it doesn't exist in the graph already.

References add_pred_graph_edge(), DEREF, constraint::lhs, constraint_expr::offset, constraint::rhs, SCALAR, constraint_expr::type, and constraint_expr::var.

static void add_pred_graph_edge ( constraint_graph_t  graph,
unsigned int  to,
unsigned int  from 
)
static

Add a predecessor graph edge to GRAPH, going from TO to FROM if it doesn't exist in the graph already. Return false if the edge already existed, true otherwise.

References bitmap_clear_bit(), constraint_graph::direct_nodes, constraint_expr::offset, SCALAR, and constraint_expr::type.

Referenced by add_implicit_graph_edge().

static const char* alias_get_name ( )
static

Return a printable name for DECL

References get_constraint_for_rhs().

static bool associate_varinfo_to_alias ( )
static

Associate node with varinfo DATA. Worker for cgraph_for_node_and_aliases.

static HOST_WIDE_INT bitpos_of_field ( )
static

Return the position, in bits, of FIELD_DECL from the beginning of its structure.

References anything_id, constraint_expr::offset, SCALAR, constraint_expr::type, and constraint_expr::var.

static tree build_fake_var_decl ( )
static

Build a fake VAR_DECL acting as referrer to a DECL_UID.

Referenced by create_function_info_for().

static void build_pred_graph ( )
static

Build the constraint graph, adding only predecessor edges right now.

         *x = y.   
         x = *y  
         x = &y  
         Implicitly, *x = y  
         All related variables are no longer direct nodes.   
         x = y  
         Implicitly, *x = *y  
static void build_succ_graph ( )
static

Build the constraint graph, adding successor edges.

    x = &y  
 Add edges from STOREDANYTHING to all non-direct nodes that can
 receive pointers.   


 Everything stored to ANYTHING also potentially escapes.   

References BITMAP_ALLOC, bitmap_first_set_bit(), bitmap_set_bit, scc_info::dfs, EXECUTE_IF_SET_IN_BITMAP, FIRST_REF_NODE, gcc_assert, constraint_graph::indirect_cycles, NULL, scc_info::scc_stack, unify_nodes(), and unite().

static bool check_for_overlaps ( )
static

Return true if FIELDSTACK contains fields that overlap. FIELDSTACK is assumed to be sorted by offset.

static void clear_edges_for_node ( )
static

Remove edges involving NODE from GRAPH.

unsigned int compute_may_aliases ( void  )

Compute points-to information for every SSA_NAME pointer in the current function and compute the transitive closure of escaped variables to re-initialize the call-clobber states of local variables.

    But still dump what we have remaining it.   
 For each pointer P_i, determine the sets of variables that P_i may
 point-to.  Compute the reachability set of escaped and call-used
 variables.   


 Debugging dumps.   
 Deallocate memory used by aliasing data structures and the internal
 points-to solution.   
static void compute_points_to_sets ( )
static

Create points-to sets for the current function. See the comments at the start of the file for an algorithmic overview.

 Now walk all statements and build the constraint set.   
 From the constraints compute the points-to sets.   
 Compute the points-to set for ESCAPED used for call-clobber analysis.   
 Make sure the ESCAPED solution (which is used as placeholder in
 other solutions) does not reference itself.  This simplifies
 points-to solution queries.   
 Mark escaped HEAP variables as global.   
 Compute the points-to sets for pointer SSA_NAMEs.   
 Compute the call-used/clobbered sets.   
             Escaped (and thus nonlocal) variables are always
             implicitly used by calls.   
             ???  ESCAPED can be empty even though NONLOCAL
             always escaped.   
             If there is nothing special about this call then
             we have made everything that is used also escape.   
             Escaped (and thus nonlocal) variables are always
             implicitly clobbered by calls.   
             ???  ESCAPED can be empty even though NONLOCAL
             always escaped.   
             If there is nothing special about this call then
             we have made everything that is used also escape.   
static void compute_topo_order ( constraint_graph_t  graph,
struct topo_info ti 
)
static

Compute a topological ordering for GRAPH, and store the result in the topo_info structure TI.

static void condense_visit ( )
static

Recursive routine to find strongly connected components in GRAPH, and label it's nodes with DFS numbers.

 Visit all the successors.   
 Visit all the implicit predecessors.   
 See if any components have been identified.   
         Unify our nodes.   
static bool constraint_equal ( )
static

Return true if two constraints A and B are equal.

static bool constraint_expr_equal ( )
static

SOLVER FUNCTIONS

The solver is a simple worklist solver, that works on the following algorithm:

sbitmap changed_nodes = all zeroes; changed_count = 0; For each node that is not already collapsed: changed_count++; set bit in changed nodes

while (changed_count > 0) { compute topological ordering for constraint graph

find and collapse cycles in the constraint graph (updating changed if necessary)

for each node (n) in the graph in topological order: changed_count–;

Process each complex constraint associated with the node, updating changed if necessary.

For each outgoing edge from n, propagate the solution from n to the destination of the edge, updating changed as necessary.

} Return true if two constraint expressions A and B are equal.

static bool constraint_expr_less ( )
static

Return true if constraint expression A is less than constraint expression B. This is just arbitrary, but consistent, in order to give them an ordering.

References bitmap_set_bit, get_varinfo(), variable_info::head, variable_info::is_artificial_var, and variable_info::is_full_var.

static bool constraint_less ( )
static

Return true if constraint A is less than constraint B. This is just arbitrary, but consistent, in order to give them an ordering.

static void constraint_set_union ( vec< constraint_t > *  to,
vec< constraint_t > *  from 
)
static

Union two constraint vectors, TO and FROM. Put the result in TO.

static constraint_t constraint_vec_find ( vec< constraint_t vec,
struct constraint  lookfor 
)
static

Find a constraint LOOKFOR in the sorted constraint vector VEC

static unsigned int count_num_arguments ( )
static

Count the number of arguments DECL has, and set IS_VARARGS to true if it is a varargs function.

Capture named arguments for K&R functions. They do not have a prototype and thus no TYPE_ARG_TYPES.

 Check if the function has variadic arguments.   
static varinfo_t create_function_info_for ( )
static

Creation function node for DECL, using NAME, and return the index of the variable we've created for the function.

 Create the variable info.   
 Create a variable for things the function clobbers and one for
 things the function uses.   
 And one for the static chain.   
 Create a variable for the return var.   
 Set up variables for each argument.   
 Add one representative for all further args.   
     We need sth that can be pointed to for va_start.   

References ADDRESSOF, build_fake_var_decl(), cfun, create_variable_info_for_1(), DECL_ARGUMENTS, DECL_BY_REFERENCE, DECL_CHAIN, DECL_EXTERNAL, DECL_RESULT, get_vi_for_tree(), variable_info::id, insert_vi_for_tree(), make_constraint_from(), make_constraint_from_global_restrict(), make_copy_constraint(), variable_info::may_have_pointers, new_constraint(), constraint_expr::offset, variable_info::only_restrict_pointers, POINTER_TYPE_P, process_constraint(), SCALAR, TREE_CODE, TREE_TYPE, constraint_expr::type, type_contains_placeholder_p(), TYPE_RESTRICT, constraint_expr::var, and vi_next().

static unsigned int create_variable_info_for ( tree  ,
const char *   
)
static
static unsigned int create_variable_info_for ( )
static
 Create initial constraints for globals.   
     Mark global restrict qualified pointers.   
     In non-IPA mode the initializer from nonlocal is all we need.   
     In IPA mode parse the initializer and generate proper constraints
     for it.   
         For escaped variables initialize them from nonlocal.   
         If this is a global variable with an initializer and we are in
         IPA mode generate constraints for it.   
             If this is a variable that escapes from the unit
             the initializer escapes as well.   
static varinfo_t create_variable_info_for_1 ( )
static

Create a varinfo structure for NAME and DECL, and add it to VARMAP. This will also create any varinfo structures necessary for fields of DECL.

 Collect field information.   
     ???  Force us to not use subfields for global initializers
     in IPA mode.  Else we'd have to parse arbitrary initializers.   
     We can't sort them if we have a field with a variable sized type,
     which will make notokay = true.  In that case, we are going to return
     without creating varinfos for the fields anyway, so sorting them is a
     waste to boot.   
         Due to some C++ FE issues, like PR 22488, we might end up
         what appear to be overlapping fields even though they,
         in reality, do not overlap.  Until the C++ FE is fixed,
         we will simply disable field-sensitivity for these cases.   
 If we didn't end up collecting sub-variables create a full
 variable for the decl.   

Referenced by create_function_info_for().

void debug_constraint ( constraint_t  )
DEBUG_FUNCTION void debug_constraint ( )

Print out constraint C to stderr.

DEBUG_FUNCTION void debug_constraint_graph ( )

Print out the constraint graph to stderr.

DEBUG_FUNCTION void debug_constraints ( )

Print out all constraints to stderr.

DEBUG_FUNCTION void debug_sa_points_to_info ( )

Debug points-to information to stderr.

References dump_alias_info(), and dump_file.

void debug_solution_for_var ( unsigned  int)
DEBUG_FUNCTION void debug_solution_for_var ( )
static void delete_points_to_sets ( )
static

Delete created points-to sets.

References execute(), gate_ipa_pta(), and ipa_pta_execute().

static void do_complex_constraint ( )
static

Handle a non-simple (simple meaning requires no iteration), constraint (IE *x = &y, x = *y, *x = y, and x = y with offsets involved).

*x = y  

x = *y

References bitmap_hash(), hash_table< Descriptor, Allocator >::find_slot_with_hash(), equiv_class_label::hashcode, and equiv_class_label::labels.

static void do_deref ( vec< ce_s > *  )
static
static void do_deref ( )
static

Dereference the constraint expression CONS, and return the result. DEREF (ADDRESSOF) = SCALAR DEREF (SCALAR) = DEREF DEREF (DEREF) = (temp = DEREF1; result = DEREF(temp)) This is needed so that we can handle dereferencing DEREF constraints.

References ADDRESSOF, anything_id, DEREF, gcc_assert, get_constraint_for(), get_constraint_for_rhs(), constraint_expr::type, constraint_expr::var, and vNULL.

static void do_ds_constraint ( )
static

Process a constraint C that represents *(x + off) = y using DELTA as the starting solution for x.

 Our IL does not allow this.   
 If the solution of y contains ANYTHING simply use the ANYTHING
 solution.  This avoids needlessly increasing the points-to sets.   
 If the solution for x contains ANYTHING we have to merge the
 solution of y into all pointer variables which we do via
 STOREDANYTHING.   
 If we do not know at with offset the rhs is dereferenced compute
 the reachability set of DELTA, conservatively assuming it is
 dereferenced at all valid offsets.   
 For each member j of delta (Sol(x)), add an edge from y to j and
 union Sol(y) into Sol(j)  
     If the access is outside of the variable we can ignore it.   
             If v is a global variable then this is an escape point.   
                 Enough to let rhs escape once.   
         If the variable is not exactly at the requested offset
         we have to include the next one.   
static void do_sd_constraint ( constraint_graph_t  graph,
constraint_t  c,
bitmap  delta 
)
static

Process a constraint C that represents x = *(y + off), using DELTA as the starting solution for y.

 Our IL does not allow this.   
 If the solution of Y contains anything it is good enough to transfer
 this to the LHS.   
 If we do not know at with offset the rhs is dereferenced compute
 the reachability set of DELTA, conservatively assuming it is
 dereferenced at all valid offsets.   
     No further offset processing is necessary.   
 For each variable j in delta (Sol(y)), add
 an edge in the graph from j to x, and union Sol(j) into Sol(x).   
     If the access is outside of the variable we can ignore it.   
         Adding edges from the special vars is pointless.
         They don't have sets that can change.   
         Merging the solution from ESCAPED needlessly increases
         the set.  Use ESCAPED as representative instead.   
         If the variable is not exactly at the requested offset
         we have to include the next one.   
 If the LHS solution changed, mark the var as changed.   

References add_graph_edge(), bitmap_ior_into(), bitmap_set_bit, escaped_id, find(), get_varinfo(), HOST_WIDE_INT, variable_info::id, variable_info::is_global_var, variable_info::is_special_var, variable_info::may_have_pointers, variable_info::next, variable_info::offset, and vi_next().

static void do_structure_copy ( )
static

Handle aggregate copies by expanding into copies of the respective fields of the structures.

static void dump_constraint ( )
static

Print out constraint C to FILE.

Referenced by unite().

static void dump_constraint_graph ( )
static

Print the constraint graph in dot format.

 Only print the graph if it has already been initialized:   
 Prints the header of the dot file:   
 The next lines print the nodes in the graph together with the
 complex constraints attached to them.   
 Go over the edges.   
 Prints the tail of the dot file.   

Referenced by pt_solution_includes_global().

static void dump_constraints ( )
static

Print out all constraints to FILE

References find(), FIRST_REF_NODE, and get_varinfo().

Referenced by new_constraint().

static void dump_pred_graph ( )
static

Print the pred graph in dot format.

 Only print the graph if it has already been initialized:   
 Prints the header of the dot file:   
 The next lines print the nodes in the graph together with the
 complex constraints attached to them.   
 Go over the edges.   
 Prints the tail of the dot file.   
void dump_pta_stats ( )
static void dump_sa_points_to_info ( )
static

Dump points-to information to OUTFILE.

static void dump_solution_for_var ( )
static

Print out the points-to solution for VAR to FILE.

Dump the solution for unified vars anyway, this avoids difficulties in scanning dumps in the testsuite.

 But note when the variable was unified.   

Referenced by shared_bitmap_add().

static bool eliminate_indirect_cycles ( )
static

Eliminate indirect cycles involving NODE. Return true if NODE was part of an SCC, false otherwise.

We can't touch the solution set and call unify_nodes at the same time, because unify_nodes is going to do bitmap unions into it.

References NULL, and pointer_map_contains().

Referenced by unite_pointer_equivalences().

static equiv_class_label* equiv_class_lookup_or_add ( )
static

Lookup a equivalence class in TABLE by the bitmap of LABELS with hash HAS it contains. Sets *REF_LABELS to the bitmap LABELS is equivalent to.

References BITMAP_ALLOC, bitmap_ior(), bitmap_ior_into(), and constraint_graph::points_to.

static bool field_must_have_pointers ( )
static
static int fieldoff_compare ( )
static

qsort comparison function for two fieldoff's PA and PB

static unsigned int find ( )
static

Return the representative node for NODE, if NODE has been unioned with another NODE. This function performs path compression along the way to finding the representative.

Referenced by do_sd_constraint(), dump_constraints(), free_topo_info(), free_var_substitution_info(), perform_var_substitution(), and unite_pointer_equivalences().

static unsigned int find_equivalent_node ( constraint_graph_t  graph,
unsigned int  node,
unsigned int  label 
)
static

Return an existing node that is equivalent to NODE, which has equivalence class LABEL, if one exists. Return NODE otherwise.

If the address version of this variable is unused, we can substitute it for anything else with the same label. Otherwise, we know the pointers are equivalent, but not the locations, and we can unite them later.

         Unify the two variables since we know they are equivalent.   
static void find_func_aliases ( )
static

Walk statement T setting up aliasing constraints according to the references found in T. This function is the main part of the constraint builder. AI points to auxiliary alias information used when building alias sets and computing alias grouping heuristics.

 Now build constraints expressions.   
     For a phi node, assign all the arguments to
     the result.   
 In IPA mode, we need to generate constraints to pass call
 arguments through their calls.   There are two cases,
 either a GIMPLE_CALL returning a value, or just a plain
 GIMPLE_CALL when we are not.

 In non-ipa mode, we need to generate constraints for each
 pointer passed by address.   
 Otherwise, just a regular assignment statement.  Only care about
 operations with pointer result, others are dealt with as escape
 points if they have pointer operands.   
     Otherwise, just a regular assignment statement.   
       Ignore clobbers, they don't actually store anything into
       the LHS.   
           If the operation produces a floating point result then
           assume the value is not produced to transfer a pointer.   
             Aligning a pointer via a BIT_AND_EXPR is offsetting
             the pointer.  Handle it by offsetting it by UNKNOWN.   
             The result is a merge of both COND_EXPR arms.   
           Truth value results are not pointer (parts).  Or at least
           very very unreasonable obfuscation of a part.   
             All other operations are merges.   
     If there is a store to a global variable the rhs escapes.   
 Handle escapes through return.   
 Handle asms conservatively by adding escape constraints to everything.   
         A memory constraint makes the address of the operand escape.   
         The asm may read global memory, so outputs may point to
         any global memory.   
         A memory constraint makes the address of the operand escape.   
         Strictly we'd only need the constraint to ESCAPED if
         the asm clobbers memory, otherwise using something
         along the lines of per-call clobbers/uses would be enough.   

Referenced by pt_solution_includes_1().

static bool find_func_aliases_for_builtin_call ( )
static

Create constraints for the builtin call T. Return true if the call was handled, otherwise false.

   ???  All builtins that are handled here need to be handled
   in the alias-oracle query functions explicitly!   
     All the following functions return a pointer to the same object
     as their first argument points to.  The functions do not add
     to the ESCAPED solution.  The functions make the first argument
     pointed to memory point to what the second argument pointed to
     memory points to.   
     All the following functions do not return pointers, do not
     modify the points-to sets of memory reachable from their
     arguments and do not add to the ESCAPED solution.   
     String / character search functions return a pointer into the
     source string or NULL.   
     Trampolines are special - they set up passing the static
     frame.   
                 Make the frame point to the function for
                 the trampoline adjustment call.   
         Else fallthru to generic handling which will let
         the frame escape.   
     Variadic argument handling needs to be handled in IPA
     mode as well.   
         The va_list gets access to pointers in variadic
         arguments.  Which we know in the case of IPA analysis
         and otherwise are just all nonlocal variables.   
         va_list is clobbered.   
     va_end doesn't have any effect that matters.   
     Alternate return.  Simply give up for now.   
     printf-style functions may have hooks to set pointers to
     point to somewhere into the generated string.  Leave them
     for a later exercise...   
       Fallthru to general call handling.   
static void find_func_aliases_for_call ( )
static

Create constraints for the call T.

     Const functions can return their arguments and addresses
     of global memory but not of escaped memory.   
     Pure functions can return addresses in and of memory
     reachable from their arguments, but they are not an escape
     point for reachable memory of their arguments.   
     Assign all the passed arguments to the appropriate incoming
     parameters of the function.   
     If we are returning a value, assign it to the result.   
     If we pass the result decl by reference, honor that.   
     If we use a static chain, pass it along.   
static void find_func_clobbers ( )
static

Walk statement T setting up clobber and use constraints according to the references found in T. This function is a main part of the IPA constraint builder.

 Add constraints for clobbered/used in IPA mode.
 We are not interested in what automatic variables are clobbered
 or used as we only use the information in the caller to which
 they do not escape.   
 If the stmt refers to memory in any way it better had a VUSE.   
 We'd better have function information for the current function.   
 Account for stores in assignments and calls.   
 Account for uses in assigments and returns.   
     For builtins we do not have separate function info.  For those
     we do not generate escapes for we have to generate clobbers/uses.   
         The following functions use and clobber memory pointed to
         by their arguments.   
         The following function clobbers memory pointed to by
         its argument.   
         The following functions clobber their second and third
         arguments.   
         The following functions clobber their second argument.   
         The following functions clobber their third argument.   
         The following functions neither read nor clobber memory.   
         Trampolines are of no interest to us.   
         printf-style functions may have hooks to set pointers to
         point to somewhere into the generated string.  Leave them
         for a later exercise...   
           Fallthru to general call handling.   
     Parameters passed by value are used.   
     Build constraints for propagating clobbers/uses along the
     callgraph edges.   
     For callees without function info (that's external functions),
     ESCAPED is clobbered and used.   
         Also honor the call statement use/clobber info.   
     Otherwise the caller clobbers and uses what the callee does.
     ???  This should use a new complex constraint that filters
     local variables of the callee.   
     ???  Ick.  We can do better.   
static void find_indirect_cycles ( )
static

Find indirect cycles in GRAPH that occur, using strongly connected components, and note them in the indirect cycles map.

This technique comes from Ben Hardekopf and Calvin Lin, "It Pays to be Lazy: Fast and Accurate Pointer Analysis for Millions of Lines of Code", submitted to PLDI 2007.

static void find_what_p_points_to ( )
static

Given a pointer variable P, fill in its points-to set.

For parameters, get at the points-to set for the actual parm decl.

Referenced by pt_solutions_intersect_1().

static struct pt_solution find_what_var_points_to ( )
staticread

Compute the points-to solution *PT for the variable VI.

 This variable may have been collapsed, let's get the real
 variable.   
 See if we have already computed the solution and return it.   
 Translate artificial variables into SSA_NAME_PTR_INFO
 attributes.   
           We represent heapvars in the points-to set properly.   
           Nobody cares.   
 Instead of doing extra work, simply do not create
 elaborate points-to information for pt_anything pointers.   
 Share the final set of variables when possible.   
static varinfo_t first_or_preceding_vi_for_offset ( varinfo_t  start,
unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT  offset 
)
static

Find the first varinfo in the same variable as START that overlaps with OFFSET. If there is no such varinfo the varinfo directly preceding OFFSET is returned.

If we cannot reach offset from start, lookup the first field and start from there.

 We may not find a variable in the field list with the actual
 offset when when we have glommed a structure to a variable.
 In that case, however, offset should still be within the size
 of the variable.
 If we got beyond the offset we look for return the field
 directly preceding offset which may be the last field.   

References DECL_CHAIN, and insert_vi_for_tree().

Referenced by new_scalar_tmp_constraint_exp().

static varinfo_t first_vi_for_offset ( varinfo_t  ,
unsigned  HOST_WIDE_INT 
)
static
static varinfo_t first_vi_for_offset ( )
static

Find the first varinfo in the same variable as START that overlaps with OFFSET. Return NULL if we can't find one.

 If the offset is outside of the variable, bail out.   
 If we cannot reach offset from start, lookup the first field
 and start from there.   
     We may not find a variable in the field list with the actual
     offset when when we have glommed a structure to a variable.
     In that case, however, offset should still be within the size
     of the variable.  
static void free_scc_info ( )
static
static void free_topo_info ( )
static

Free the topological sort info pointed to by TI.

References add_graph_edge(), bitmap_ior_into(), bitmap_set_bit, find(), get_varinfo(), and storedanything_id.

static void free_var_substitution_info ( )
static

Free information that was only necessary for variable substitution.

References find(), and unite().

static bool gate_ipa_pta ( )
static

Return true if we should execute IPA PTA.

Don't bother doing anything if the program has errors.

Referenced by delete_points_to_sets().

static bool gate_tree_pta ( )
static
static varinfo_t get_call_clobber_vi ( )
static

Lookup or create the variable for the call statement CALL representing the clobbers.

static varinfo_t get_call_use_vi ( )
static

Lookup or create the variable for the call statement CALL representing the uses.

Referenced by make_heapvar().

static varinfo_t get_call_vi ( )
static

Lookup or create the variable for the call statement CALL.

Referenced by lookup_call_use_vi().

static void get_constraint_for ( tree  ,
vec< ce_s > *   
)
static
static void get_constraint_for ( )
static

Given a gimple tree T, return the constraint expression vector for it.

References fi_clobbers, fi_parm_base, fi_result, fi_static_chain, and fi_uses.

static void get_constraint_for_1 ( tree  t,
vec< ce_s > *  results,
bool  address_p,
bool  lhs_p 
)
static

Given a tree T, return the constraint expression for it.

 x = integer is all glommed to a single variable, which doesn't
 point to anything by itself.  That is, of course, unless it is an
 integer constant being treated as a pointer, in which case, we
 will return that this is really the addressof anything.  This
 happens below, since it will fall into the default case. The only
 case we know something about an integer treated like a pointer is
 when it is the NULL pointer, and then we just say it points to
 NULL.

 Do not do that if -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks though, because
 in that case *NULL does not fail, so it <em>should</em> alias *anything.
 It is not worth adding a new option or renaming the existing one,
 since this case is relatively obscure.   
     The only valid CONSTRUCTORs in gimple with pointer typed
     elements are zero-initializer.  But in IPA mode we also
     process global initializers, so verify at least.   
 String constants are read-only.   
             If we are not taking the address then make sure to process
             all subvariables we might access.   
                 For dereferences this means we have to defer it
                 to solving time.   
         We are missing handling for TARGET_MEM_REF here.   
             We do not know whether the constructor was complete,
             so technically we have to add &NOTHING or &ANYTHING
             like we do for an empty constructor as well.   
       We cannot refer to automatic variables through constants.   
 The default fallback is a constraint from anything.   
static void get_constraint_for_address_of ( )
static

Given a tree T, return the constraint expression for taking the address of it.

Referenced by make_constraints_to().

static void get_constraint_for_component_ref ( tree  t,
vec< ce_s > *  results,
bool  address_p,
bool  lhs_p 
)
static

Given a COMPONENT_REF T, return the constraint_expr vector for it. If address_p is true the result will be taken its address of. If lhs_p is true then the constraint expression is assumed to be used as the lhs.

 Some people like to do cute things like take the address of
 &0->a.b  
 Handle type-punning through unions.  If we are extracting a pointer
 from a union via a possibly type-punning access that pointer
 points to anything, similar to a conversion of an integer to
 a pointer.   
 Pretend to take the address of the base, we'll take care of
 adding the required subset of sub-fields below.   
   For single-field vars do not bother about the offset.   
     In languages like C, you can access one past the end of an
     array.  You aren't allowed to dereference it, so we can
     ignore this constraint. When we handle pointer subtraction,
     we may have to do something cute here.   
         It's also not true that the constraint will actually start at the
         right offset, it may start in some padding.  We only care about
         setting the constraint to the first actual field it touches, so
         walk to find it.   
         If we are going to take the address of this field then
         to be able to compute reachability correctly add at least
         the last field of the variable.   
           Assert that we found *some* field there. The user couldn't be
           accessing *only* padding.   
           Still the user could access one past the end of an array
           embedded in a struct resulting in accessing *only* padding.   
           Or accessing only padding via type-punning to a type
           that has a filed just in padding space.   
     If we do not know exactly where the access goes say so.  Note
     that only for non-structure accesses we know that we access
     at most one subfiled of any variable.   
     We can end up here for component references on a
     VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR <>(&foobar).   
static void get_constraint_for_ptr_offset ( tree  ptr,
tree  offset,
vec< ce_s > *  results 
)
static

Get constraint expressions for offsetting PTR by OFFSET. Stores the resulting constraint expressions in *RESULTS.

 If we do not do field-sensitive PTA adding offsets to pointers
 does not change the points-to solution.   
 If the offset is not a non-negative integer constant that fits
 in a HOST_WIDE_INT, we have to fall back to a conservative
 solution which includes all sub-fields of all pointed-to
 variables of ptr.   
     Sign-extend the offset.   
         Make sure the bit-offset also fits.   
 As we are eventually appending to the solution do not use
 vec::iterate here.   
         If this varinfo represents a full variable just use it.   
              If we do not know the offset add all subfields.   
         Search the sub-field which overlaps with the
         pointed-to offset.  If the result is outside of the variable
         we have to provide a conservative result, as the variable is
         still reachable from the resulting pointer (even though it
         technically cannot point to anything).  The last and first
         sub-fields are such conservative results.
         ???  If we always had a sub-field for &object + 1 then
         we could represent this in a more precise way.   
         If the found variable is not exactly at the pointed to
         result, we have to include the next variable in the
         solution as well.  Otherwise two increments by offset / 2
         do not result in the same or a conservative superset
         solution.   

Referenced by handle_lhs_call(), and handle_rhs_call().

static void get_constraint_for_rhs ( tree  ,
vec< ce_s > *   
)
static

Referenced by alias_get_name(), and do_deref().

static void get_constraint_for_rhs ( )
static

Given a gimple tree T, return the constraint expression vector for it to be used as the rhs of a constraint.

References anything_id, gcc_assert, in_ipa_mode, constraint_expr::offset, and constraint_expr::var.

static void get_constraint_for_ssa_var ( )
static

Get a constraint expression vector from an SSA_VAR_P node. If address_p is true, the result will be taken its address of.

 We allow FUNCTION_DECLs here even though it doesn't make much sense.   
 For parameters, get at the points-to set for the actual parm
 decl.   
 For global variables resort to the alias target.   
 If we determine the result is "anything", and we know this is readonly,
 say it points to readonly memory instead.   
 If we are not taking the address of the constraint expr, add all
 sub-fiels of the variable as well.   

References ADDRESSOF, variable_info::next, constraint_expr::offset, constraint_expr::type, and constraint_expr::var.

static varinfo_t get_fi_for_callee ( )
static

Return the varinfo for the callee of CALL.

If we can directly resolve the function being called, do so. Otherwise, it must be some sort of indirect expression that we should still be able to handle.

 If the function is anything other than a SSA name pointer we have no
 clue and should be getting ANYFN (well, ANYTHING for now).   

References ADDRESSOF, cfun, get_function_part_constraint(), lookup_vi_for_tree(), and constraint_expr::type.

static struct constraint_expr get_function_part_constraint ( )
staticread

Get a constraint for the requested part of a function designator FI when operating in IPA mode.

??? We probably should have a ANYFN special variable.

Referenced by get_fi_for_callee().

static varinfo_t get_varinfo ( )
inlinestatic
static varinfo_t get_vi_for_tree ( )
static

Find the variable id for tree T in the map. If T doesn't exist in the map, create an entry for it and return it.

References ADDRESSOF, variable_info::id, constraint_expr::offset, constraint_expr::type, constraint_expr::var, and vi_next().

Referenced by create_function_info_for().

static void handle_const_call ( )
static

For non-IPA mode, generate constraints necessary for a call of a const function that returns a pointer in the statement STMT.

 Treat nested const functions the same as pure functions as far
 as the static chain is concerned.   
 May return arguments.   
 May return addresses of globals.   
static void handle_lhs_call ( gimple  stmt,
tree  lhs,
int  flags,
vec< ce_s rhsc,
tree  fndecl 
)
static

For non-IPA mode, generate constraints necessary for a call that returns a pointer and assigns it to LHS. This simply makes the LHS point to global and escaped variables.

 If the store is to a global decl make sure to
 add proper escape constraints.   
 If the call returns an argument unmodified override the rhs
 constraints.   
     We delay marking allocated storage global until we know if
     it escapes.   
     If this is not a real malloc call assume the memory was
     initialized and thus may point to global memory.  All
     builtin functions with the malloc attribute behave in a sane way.   

References do_deref(), get_constraint_for_ptr_offset(), gimple_call_arg(), gimple_call_flags(), gimple_call_lhs(), NULL_TREE, process_all_all_constraints(), and vNULL.

static void handle_pure_call ( )
static

For non-IPA mode, generate constraints necessary for a call to a pure function in statement STMT.

 Memory reached from pointer arguments is call-used.   
 The static chain is used as well.   
 Pure functions may return call-used and nonlocal memory.   

References do_deref(), get_constraint_for(), gimple_call_arg(), and process_all_all_constraints().

static void handle_rhs_call ( )
static

For non-IPA mode, generate constraints necessary for a call on the RHS.

     If the argument is not used we can ignore it.   
     As we compute ESCAPED context-insensitive we do not gain
     any precision with just EAF_NOCLOBBER but not EAF_NOESCAPE
     set.  The argument would still get clobbered through the
     escape solution.   
         Add *tem = nonlocal, do not add *tem = callused as
         EAF_NOESCAPE parameters do not escape to other parameters
         and all other uses appear in NONLOCAL as well.   
 If we added to the calls uses solution make sure we account for
 pointers to it to be returned.   
 The static chain escapes as well.   
 And if we applied NRV the address of the return slot escapes as well.   
 Regular functions return nonlocal memory.   

References DECL_FUNCTION_CODE, do_deref(), get_constraint_for(), get_constraint_for_ptr_offset(), gimple_call_arg(), gimple_call_lhs(), NULL_TREE, and process_all_all_constraints().

static void init_base_vars ( )
static

Initialize the always-existing constraint variables for NULL ANYTHING, READONLY, and INTEGER

 Variable ID zero is reserved and should be NULL.   
 Create the NULL variable, used to represent that a variable points
 to NULL.   
 Create the ANYTHING variable, used to represent that a variable
 points to some unknown piece of memory.   
 Anything points to anything.  This makes deref constraints just
 work in the presence of linked list and other p = *p type loops,
 by saying that *ANYTHING = ANYTHING.  
 This specifically does not use process_constraint because
 process_constraint ignores all anything = anything constraints, since all
 but this one are redundant.   
 Create the READONLY variable, used to represent that a variable
 points to readonly memory.   
 readonly memory points to anything, in order to make deref
 easier.  In reality, it points to anything the particular
 readonly variable can point to, but we don't track this
 separately.  
 Create the ESCAPED variable, used to represent the set of escaped
 memory.   
 Create the NONLOCAL variable, used to represent the set of nonlocal
 memory.   
 ESCAPED = *ESCAPED, because escaped is may-deref'd at calls, etc.   
 ESCAPED = ESCAPED + UNKNOWN_OFFSET, because if a sub-field escapes the
 whole variable escapes.   
 *ESCAPED = NONLOCAL.  This is true because we have to assume
 everything pointed to by escaped points to what global memory can
 point to.   
 NONLOCAL = &NONLOCAL, NONLOCAL = &ESCAPED.  This is true because
 global memory may point to global memory and escaped memory.   
 Create the STOREDANYTHING variable, used to represent the set of
 variables stored to *ANYTHING.   
 Create the INTEGER variable, used to represent that a variable points
 to what an INTEGER "points to".   
 INTEGER = ANYTHING, because we don't know where a dereference of
 a random integer will point to.   
static void init_graph ( )
static

Initialize the constraint graph structure to contain SIZE nodes.

??? Macros do not support template types with multiple arguments, so we use a typedef to work around it.

static struct scc_info* init_scc_info ( )
staticread

Initialize and return a new SCC info structure.

static struct topo_info* init_topo_info ( )
staticread

Initialize and return a topological info structure.

static void insert_into_complex ( constraint_graph_t  graph,
unsigned int  var,
constraint_t  c 
)
static

Insert constraint C into the list of complex constraints for graph node VAR.

Only insert constraints that do not already exist.

static void insert_vi_for_tree ( )
static

Insert ID as the variable id for tree T in the vi_for_tree map.

References BITS_PER_UNIT, DECL_FIELD_BIT_OFFSET, DECL_FIELD_OFFSET, host_integerp(), and TREE_INT_CST_LOW.

Referenced by create_function_info_for(), and first_or_preceding_vi_for_offset().

static void intra_create_variable_infos ( )
static

Create varinfo structures for all of the variables in the function for intraprocedural mode.

 For each incoming pointer argument arg, create the constraint ARG
 = NONLOCAL or a dummy variable if it is a restrict qualified
 passed-by-reference argument.   
     For restrict qualified pointers to objects passed by
     reference build a real representative for the pointed-to object.
     Treat restrict qualified references the same.   
 Add a constraint for a result decl that is passed by reference.   
 Add a constraint for the incoming static chain parameter.   

Referenced by init_alias_vars().

static unsigned int ipa_pta_execute ( )
static

Execute the driver for IPA PTA.

 Build the constraints.   
     Nodes without a body are not interesting.  Especially do not
     visit clones at this point for now - we get duplicate decls
     there for inline clones at least.   
 Create constraints for global variables and their initializers.   
     Nodes without a body are not interesting.   
     For externally visible or attribute used annotated functions use
     local constraints for their arguments.
     For local functions we see all callers and thus do not need initial
     constraints for parameters.   
         We also need to make function return values escape.  Nothing
         escapes by returning from main though.   
     Build constriants for the function body.   
 From the constraints compute the points-to sets.   
 Compute the global points-to sets for ESCAPED.
 ???  Note that the computed escape set is not correct
 for the whole unit as we fail to consider graph edges to
 externally visible functions.   
 Make sure the ESCAPED solution (which is used as placeholder in
 other solutions) does not reference itself.  This simplifies
 points-to solution queries.   
 Assign the points-to sets to the SSA names in the unit.   
     Nodes without a body are not interesting.   
     Compute the points-to sets for pointer SSA_NAMEs.   
     Compute the call-use and call-clobber sets for all direct calls.   
     Compute the call-use and call-clobber sets for indirect calls
     and calls to external functions.   
             Handle direct calls to external functions.   
                     Escaped (and thus nonlocal) variables are always
                     implicitly used by calls.   
                     ???  ESCAPED can be empty even though NONLOCAL
                     always escaped.   
                     If there is nothing special about this call then
                     we have made everything that is used also escape.   
                     Escaped (and thus nonlocal) variables are always
                     implicitly clobbered by calls.   
                     ???  ESCAPED can be empty even though NONLOCAL
                     always escaped.   
                     If there is nothing special about this call then
                     we have made everything that is used also escape.   
             Handle indirect calls.   
                 We need to accumulate all clobbers/uses of all possible
                 callees.   
                 If we cannot constrain the set of functions we'll end up
                 calling we end up using/clobbering everything.   
                             ???  We could be more precise here?   

Referenced by delete_points_to_sets().

static void label_visit ( )
static

Label pointer equivalences.

 Label and union our incoming edges's points to sets.   
     Skip unused edges   
 Indirect nodes get fresh variables and a new pointer equiv class.   
 If there was only a single non-empty predecessor the pointer equiv
 class is the same.   
static varinfo_t lookup_call_clobber_vi ( )
static

Lookup the variable for the call statement CALL representing the clobbers. Returns NULL if there is nothing special about this call.

static varinfo_t lookup_call_use_vi ( )
static

Lookup the variable for the call statement CALL representing the uses. Returns NULL if there is nothing special about this call.

References get_call_vi(), and vi_next().

static varinfo_t lookup_vi_for_tree ( tree  )
static
static varinfo_t lookup_vi_for_tree ( )
static

Find the variable info for tree T in VI_FOR_TREE. If T does not exist in the map, return NULL, otherwise, return the varinfo we found.

References HOST_WIDE_INT, and use_field_sensitive.

static void make_constraint_from ( )
static
static varinfo_t make_constraint_from_global_restrict ( )
static

Create a new artificial heap variable with NAME and make a constraint from it to LHS. Set flags according to a tag used for tracking restrict pointers and make the artificial heap point to global memory.

References variable_info::id, constraint_expr::offset, SCALAR, constraint_expr::type, and constraint_expr::var.

Referenced by create_function_info_for().

static varinfo_t make_constraint_from_restrict ( )
static

Create a new artificial heap variable with NAME and make a constraint from it to LHS. Set flags according to a tag used for tracking restrict pointers.

static void make_constraint_to ( )
static

Create a constraint ID = OP.

static void make_copy_constraint ( )
static

Create a constraint ID = FROM.

Referenced by create_function_info_for().

static void make_escape_constraint ( )
static

Make constraints necessary to make OP escape.

static varinfo_t make_heapvar ( )
static

Create a new artificial heap variable with NAME. Return the created variable.

References get_call_use_vi(), gimple_call_arg(), gimple_call_num_args(), make_transitive_closure_constraints(), and NULL.

gimple_opt_pass* make_pass_build_alias ( )
gimple_opt_pass* make_pass_build_ealias ( )
simple_ipa_opt_pass* make_pass_ipa_pta ( )
static void make_transitive_closure_constraints ( )
static

Add constraints to that the solution of VI is transitively closed.

VAR = *VAR;

 VAR = VAR + UNKNOWN;   

Referenced by make_heapvar().

static void merge_graph_nodes ( constraint_graph_t  graph,
unsigned int  to,
unsigned int  from 
)
static

Merge GRAPH nodes FROM and TO into node TO.

If we have indirect cycles with the from node, and we have
none on the to node, the to node has indirect cycles from the
from node now that they are unified.
If indirect cycles exist on both, unify the nodes that they
are in a cycle with, since we know they are in a cycle with
each other.   

Merge all the successor edges.

References constraint_graph::indirect_cycles, constraint_graph::pe_rep, and constraint_graph::rep.

static void merge_node_constraints ( constraint_graph_t  graph,
unsigned int  to,
unsigned int  from 
)
static

Condense two variable nodes into a single variable node, by moving all associated info from SRC to TO.

Move all complex constraints from src node into to node

     In complex constraints for node src, we may have either
     a = *src, and *src = a, or an offseted constraint which are
     always added to the rhs node's constraints.   

References BITMAP_ALLOC, bitmap_set_bit, FIRST_REF_NODE, constraint_stats::num_edges, stats, and constraint_graph::succs.

static void move_complex_constraints ( )
static

Move complex constraints to the GRAPH nodes they belong to.

static constraint_t new_constraint ( const struct constraint_expr  lhs,
const struct constraint_expr  rhs 
)
static

Create a new constraint consisting of LHS and RHS expressions.

References dump_constraints().

Referenced by create_function_info_for(), make_constraints_to(), and remove_preds_and_fake_succs().

static struct constraint_expr new_scalar_tmp_constraint_exp ( )
staticread

Get a scalar constraint expression for a new temporary variable.

References first_or_preceding_vi_for_offset(), HOST_WIDE_INT, and variable_info::offset.

static varinfo_t new_var_info ( )
static

Return a new variable info structure consisting for a variable named NAME, and using constraint graph node NODE. Append it to the vector of variable info structures.

Vars without decl are artificial and do not have sub-variables.

                         We have to treat even local register variables
                         as escape points.   

Referenced by set_uids_in_ptset().

static struct scc_info* perform_var_substitution ( )
staticread

Perform offline variable substitution, discovering equivalence classes, and eliminating non-pointer variables.

 Condense the nodes, which means to find SCC's, count incoming
 predecessors, and unite nodes in SCC's.   
 Actually the label the nodes for pointer equivalences   
 Calculate location equivalence labels.   
     Translate the pointed-by mapping for pointer equivalence
     labels.   
     The original pointed_by is now dead.   
     Look up the location equivalence label if one exists, or make
     one otherwise.   
 Quickly eliminate our non-pointer variables.   

References find(), constraint_graph::pe, constraint_graph::pe_rep, unify_nodes(), and unite().

static void process_all_all_constraints ( vec< ce_s lhsc,
vec< ce_s rhsc 
)
static

Efficiently generates constraints from all entries in *RHSC to all entries in *LHSC.

Referenced by handle_lhs_call(), handle_pure_call(), and handle_rhs_call().

static void process_constraint ( )
static

Process constraint T, performing various simplifications and then adding it to our list of overall constraints.

 If we didn't get any useful constraint from the lhs we get
 &ANYTHING as fallback from get_constraint_for.  Deal with
 it here by turning it into *ANYTHING.   
 ADDRESSOF on the lhs is invalid.   
 We shouldn't add constraints from things that cannot have pointers.
 It's not completely trivial to avoid in the callers, so do it here.   
 Likewise adding to the solution of a non-pointer var isn't useful.   
 This can happen in our IR with things like n->a = *p  
     Split into tmp = *rhs, *lhs = tmp  
     Split into tmp = &rhs, *lhs = tmp  

Referenced by create_function_info_for(), make_constraints_to(), and remove_preds_and_fake_succs().

static void process_ipa_clobber ( )
static

Create a constraint adding to the clobber set of FI the memory pointed to by PTR.

bool pt_solution_empty_p ( )

Return true if the points-to solution *PT is empty.

If the solution includes ESCAPED, check if that is empty.

 If the solution includes ESCAPED, check if that is empty.   
bool pt_solution_includes ( )
static bool pt_solution_includes_1 ( )
static

Return true if the points-to solution *PT includes the variable declaration DECL.

If the solution includes ESCAPED, check it.

 If the solution includes ESCAPED, check it.   

References find_func_aliases(), gimple_phi_result(), gsi_end_p(), gsi_next(), gsi_start_bb(), gsi_start_phis(), gsi_stmt(), and virtual_operand_p().

bool pt_solution_includes_global ( )

Return true if the points-to solution *PT includes global memory.

??? This predicate is not correct for the IPA-PTA solution as we do not properly distinguish between unit escape points and global variables.

References dump_constraint_graph(), and dump_file.

static void pt_solution_ior_into ( )
static

Computes the union of the points-to solutions *DEST and *SRC and stores the result in *DEST. This changes the points-to bitmap of *DEST and thus may not be used if that might be shared. The points-to bitmap of *SRC and *DEST will not be shared after this function if they were not before.

void pt_solution_reset ( )

Reset the points-to solution *PT to a conservative default (point to anything).

void pt_solution_set ( )

Set the points-to solution *PT to point only to the variables in VARS. VARS_CONTAINS_GLOBAL specifies whether that contains global variables and VARS_CONTAINS_RESTRICT specifies whether it contains restrict tag variables.

void pt_solution_set_var ( )

Set the points-to solution *PT to point only to the variable VAR.

References bitmap_clear_range(), and constraint_graph::succs.

bool pt_solution_singleton_p ( )

Return true if the points-to solution *PT only point to a single var, and return the var uid in *UID.

bool pt_solutions_intersect ( )
static bool pt_solutions_intersect_1 ( )
static

Return true if both points-to solutions PT1 and PT2 have a non-empty intersection.

 If either points to unknown global memory and the other points to
 any global memory they alias.   
 Check the escaped solution if required.   
     If both point to escaped memory and that solution
     is not empty they alias.   
     If either points to escaped memory see if the escaped solution
     intersects with the other.   
 Check the escaped solution if required.
 ???  Do we need to check the local against the IPA escaped sets?   
     If both point to escaped memory and that solution
     is not empty they alias.   
     If either points to escaped memory see if the escaped solution
     intersects with the other.   
 Now both pointers alias if their points-to solution intersects.   

References find_what_p_points_to(), POINTER_TYPE_P, ssa_name, and TREE_TYPE.

Referenced by shared_bitmap_hasher::equal().

static bool push_fields_onto_fieldstack ( tree  type,
vec< fieldoff_s > *  fieldstack,
HOST_WIDE_INT  offset 
)
static

Given a TYPE, and a vector of field offsets FIELDSTACK, push all the fields of TYPE onto fieldstack, recording their offsets along the way.

OFFSET is used to keep track of the offset in this entire structure, rather than just the immediately containing structure. Returns false if the caller is supposed to handle the field we recursed for.

 If the vector of fields is growing too big, bail out early.
 Callers check for vec::length <= MAX_FIELDS_FOR_FIELD_SENSITIVE, make
 sure this fails.   
         Empty structures may have actual size, like in C++.  So
         see if we didn't push any subfields and the size is
         nonzero, push the field onto the stack.   
           If there isn't anything at offset zero, create sth.   
           If adjacent fields do not contain pointers merge them.   

Referenced by type_can_have_subvars().

static void remove_preds_and_fake_succs ( )
static

Remove the REF and ADDRESS edges from GRAPH, as well as all the predecessor edges.

 Clear the implicit ref and address nodes from the successor
 lists.   
 Free the successor list for the non-ref nodes.   
 Now reallocate the size of the successor list as, and blow away
 the predecessor bitmaps.   

References symtab_node_base::decl, escaped_id, fi_result, first_vi_for_offset(), variable_info::id, lookup_vi_for_tree(), new_constraint(), variable_info::offset, constraint_expr::offset, process_constraint(), SCALAR, constraint_expr::type, and constraint_expr::var.

static void rewrite_constraints ( constraint_graph_t  graph,
struct scc_info si 
)
static

Optimize and rewrite complex constraints while performing collapsing of equivalent nodes. SI is the SCC_INFO that is the result of perform_variable_substitution.

See if it is really a non-pointer variable, and if so, ignore the constraint.

static void scc_visit ( )
static

Recursive routine to find strongly connected components in GRAPH. SI is the SCC info to store the information in, and N is the id of current graph node we are processing.

This is Tarjan's strongly connected component finding algorithm, as modified by Nuutila to keep only non-root nodes on the stack. The algorithm can be found in "On finding the strongly connected connected components in a directed graph" by Esko Nuutila and Eljas Soisalon-Soininen, in Information Processing Letters volume 49, number 1, pages 9-14.

 Visit all the successors.   
 See if any components have been identified.   
         Collapse the SCC nodes into a single node, and mark the
         indirect cycles.   

References topo_info::topo_order, and topo_info::visited.

static void set_uids_in_ptset ( )
static

Set bits in INTO corresponding to the variable uids in solution set FROM.

     The only artificial variables that are allowed in a may-alias
     set are heap variables.   
         If we are in IPA mode we will not recompute points-to
         sets after inlining so make sure they stay valid.   
         Add the decl to the points-to set.  Note that the points-to
         set contains global variables.   

References variable_info::fullsize, gcc_assert, variable_info::id, variable_info::is_artificial_var, variable_info::is_global_var, variable_info::is_special_var, variable_info::may_have_pointers, new_var_info(), nothing_id, NULL, variable_info::offset, and variable_info::size.

static bool set_union_with_increment ( )
static

Union solution sets TO and FROM, and add INC to each member of FROM in the process.

 If the solution of FROM contains anything it is good enough to transfer
 this to TO.   
 For zero offset simply union the solution into the destination.   
 If the offset is unknown we have to expand the solution to
 all subfields.   
 For non-zero offset union the offsetted solution into the destination.   
     If this is a variable with just one field just set its bit
     in the result.   
         If the offset makes the pointer point to before the
         variable use offset zero for the field lookup.   
         If the result is not exactly at fieldoffset include the next
         field as well.  See get_constraint_for_ptr_offset for more
         rationale.   

References DEREF, constraint::lhs, constraint::rhs, constraint_expr::type, and constraint_expr::var.

static void shared_bitmap_add ( )
static

Add a bitmap to the shared bitmap hashtable.

References dump_solution_for_var(), get_varinfo(), and variable_info::may_have_pointers.

static bitmap shared_bitmap_lookup ( )
static

Lookup a bitmap in the shared bitmap hashtable, and return an already existing instance if there is one, NULL otherwise.

static void solution_set_expand ( )
static

Expands the solution in SET to all sub-fields of variables included.

In a first pass expand to the head of the variables we need to add all sub-fields off. This avoids quadratic behavior.

 In the second pass now expand all head variables with subfields.   

Referenced by unify_nodes().

static void solve_constraints ( )
static

Solve the constraint set.

Attach complex constraints to graph nodes.

 Implicit nodes and predecessors are no longer necessary at this
 point.  
static void solve_graph ( )
static

Solve the constraint graph GRAPH using our worklist solver. This is based on the PW* family of solvers from the "Efficient Field Sensitive Pointer Analysis for C" paper. It works by iterating over all the graph nodes, processing the complex constraints and propagating the copy constraints, until everything stops changed. This corresponds to steps 6-8 in the solving list given above.

 Mark all initial non-collapsed nodes as changed.   
 Allocate a bitmap to be used to store the changed bits.   
         If this variable is not a representative, skip it.   
         In certain indirect cycle cases, we may merge this
         variable to another.   
         If the node has changed, we need to process the
         complex constraints and outgoing edges again.   
             Compute the changed set of solution bits.  If anything
             is in the solution just propagate that.   
                 If anything is also in the old solution there is
                 nothing to do.
                 ???  But we shouldn't ended up with "changed" set ...   
             Process the complex constraints  
                 XXX: This is going to unsort the constraints in
                 some cases, which will occasionally add duplicate
                 constraints during unification.  This does not
                 affect correctness.   
                 The only complex constraint that can change our
                 solution to non-empty, given an empty solution,
                 is a constraint where the lhs side is receiving
                 some set from elsewhere.   
                 Propagate solution to all successors.   
                     Don't try to propagate to ourselves.   
                     If we propagate from ESCAPED use ESCAPED as
                     placeholder.   

References ggc_strdup.

static void sort_fieldstack ( )
static

Sort a fieldstack according to the field offset and sizes.

static void topo_visit ( constraint_graph_t  graph,
struct topo_info ti,
unsigned int  n 
)
static

Visit the graph in topological order, and store the order in the topo_info structure.

static bool type_can_have_subvars ( const_tree  )
inlinestatic
static bool type_can_have_subvars ( )
inlinestatic

Return true if T is a type that can have subvars.

Aggregates without overlapping fields can have subvars.

References NULL, and push_fields_onto_fieldstack().

static bool type_must_have_pointers ( )
static

Return true if T is a type that does contain pointers.

A function or method can have pointers as arguments, so track those separately.

static void unify_nodes ( constraint_graph_t  graph,
unsigned int  to,
unsigned int  from,
bool  update_changed 
)
static

Unify node FROM into node TO, updating the changed count if necessary when UPDATE_CHANGED is true.

Mark TO as changed if FROM was changed. If TO was already marked as changed, decrease the changed count.

     If the solution changes because of the merging, we need to mark
     the variable as changed.   

References solution_set_expand().

Referenced by build_succ_graph(), and perform_var_substitution().

static bool unite ( )
static

Union the TO and FROM nodes to the TO nodes. Note that at some point in the future, we may want to do union-by-rank, in which case we are going to have to return the node we unified to.

References dump_constraint().

Referenced by build_succ_graph(), free_var_substitution_info(), and perform_var_substitution().

static void unite_pointer_equivalences ( )
static

Unite pointer equivalent but not location equivalent nodes in GRAPH. This may only be performed once variable substitution is finished.

Go through the pointer equivalences and unite them to their representative, if they aren't already.

References anything_id, bitmap_bit_p, bitmap_clear_bit(), constraint_graph::complex, eliminate_indirect_cycles(), find(), get_varinfo(), variable_info::solution, and topo_info::topo_order.

static bool var_can_have_subvars ( )
inlinestatic

Return true if V is a tree that we can have subvars for. Normally, this is any aggregate type. Also complex types which are not gimple registers can have subvars.

Volatile variables should never have subvars.

 Non decls or memory tags can never have subvars.   
static varinfo_t vi_next ( )
inlinestatic

Return the next variable in the list of sub-variables of VI or NULL if VI is the last sub-variable.

Referenced by create_function_info_for(), do_sd_constraint(), get_vi_for_tree(), and lookup_call_use_vi().


Variable Documentation

struct pointer_map_t* call_stmt_vars
static

A map mapping call statements to per-stmt variables for uses and clobbers specific to the call.

alloc_pool constraint_pool
static
vec<constraint_t> constraints
static

List of constraints that we use to build the constraint graph from.

struct obstack fake_var_decl_obstack

Temporary storage for fake var decls.

pointer_map_t* final_solutions
static

Map varinfo to final pt_solution.

struct obstack final_solutions_obstack
int in_ipa_mode = 0
static

Referenced by get_constraint_for_rhs().

struct pt_solution ipa_escaped_pt = { true, false, false, false, false, false, NULL }

IPA PTA solutions for ESCAPED.

bitmap_obstack iteration_obstack
static

Used for per-solver-iteration bitmaps.

int location_equiv_class
static

Current maximum location equivalence class id.

hash_table<equiv_class_hasher> location_equiv_class_table
static

A hashtable for mapping a bitmap of labels->location equivalence classes.

bitmap_obstack oldpta_obstack
static

Used for oldsolution members of variables.

int pointer_equiv_class
static

Perform offline variable substitution.

This is a worst case quadratic time way of identifying variables that must have equivalent points-to sets, including those caused by static cycles, and single entry subgraphs, in the constraint graph.

The technique is described in "Exploiting Pointer and Location Equivalence to Optimize Pointer Analysis. In the 14th International Static Analysis Symposium (SAS), August 2007." It is known as the "HU" algorithm, and is equivalent to value numbering the collapsed constraint graph including evaluating unions.

The general method of finding equivalence classes is as follows: Add fake nodes (REF nodes) and edges for *a = b and a = *b constraints. Initialize all non-REF nodes to be direct nodes. For each constraint a = a U {b}, we set pts(a) = pts(a) u {fresh variable} For each constraint containing the dereference, we also do the same thing.

We then compute SCC's in the graph and unify nodes in the same SCC, including pts sets.

For each non-collapsed node x: Visit all unvisited explicit incoming edges. Ignoring all non-pointers, set pts(x) = Union of pts(a) for y where y->x. Lookup the equivalence class for pts(x). If we found one, equivalence_class(x) = found class. Otherwise, equivalence_class(x) = new class, and new_class is added to the lookup table.

All direct nodes with the same equivalence class can be replaced with a single representative node. All unlabeled nodes (label == 0) are not pointers and all edges involving them can be eliminated. We perform these optimizations during rewrite_constraints

In addition to pointer equivalence class finding, we also perform location equivalence class finding. This is the set of variables that always appear together in points-to sets. We use this to compress the size of the points-to sets. Current maximum pointer equivalence class id.

hash_table<equiv_class_hasher> pointer_equiv_class_table
static

A hashtable for mapping a bitmap of labels->pointer equivalence classes.

bitmap_obstack predbitmap_obstack
static

Used for predecessor bitmaps.

unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT pt_solution_includes_may_alias
unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT pt_solution_includes_no_alias
unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT pt_solutions_intersect_may_alias
unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT pt_solutions_intersect_no_alias
bitmap_obstack pta_obstack
static

Used for points-to sets.

struct { ... } pta_stats

Query statistics for points-to solutions.

Referenced by shared_bitmap_hasher::equal().

hash_table<shared_bitmap_hasher> shared_bitmap_table
static

Shared_bitmap hashtable.

struct constraint_stats stats
static

Referenced by merge_node_constraints().

bool use_field_sensitive = true
static

Tree based points-to analysis Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by Daniel Berlin dberl.nosp@m.in@d.nosp@m.berli.nosp@m.n.or.nosp@m.g

This file is part of GCC.

GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

GCC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. If not see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. The idea behind this analyzer is to generate set constraints from the program, then solve the resulting constraints in order to generate the points-to sets.

Set constraints are a way of modeling program analysis problems that involve sets. They consist of an inclusion constraint language, describing the variables (each variable is a set) and operations that are involved on the variables, and a set of rules that derive facts from these operations. To solve a system of set constraints, you derive all possible facts under the rules, which gives you the correct sets as a consequence.

See "Efficient Field-sensitive pointer analysis for C" by "David J. Pearce and Paul H. J. Kelly and Chris Hankin, at http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/pearce04efficient.html

Also see "Ultra-fast Aliasing Analysis using CLA: A Million Lines of C Code in a Second" by ""Nevin Heintze and Olivier Tardieu" at http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/heintze01ultrafast.html

There are three types of real constraint expressions, DEREF, ADDRESSOF, and SCALAR. Each constraint expression consists of a constraint type, a variable, and an offset.

SCALAR is a constraint expression type used to represent x, whether it appears on the LHS or the RHS of a statement. DEREF is a constraint expression type used to represent *x, whether it appears on the LHS or the RHS of a statement. ADDRESSOF is a constraint expression used to represent &x, whether it appears on the LHS or the RHS of a statement.

Each pointer variable in the program is assigned an integer id, and each field of a structure variable is assigned an integer id as well.

Structure variables are linked to their list of fields through a "next field" in each variable that points to the next field in offset order. Each variable for a structure field has

  1. "size", that tells the size in bits of that field.
  2. "fullsize, that tells the size in bits of the entire structure. 3. "offset", that tells the offset in bits from the beginning of the structure to this field.

Thus, struct f { int a; int b; } foo; int *bar;

looks like

foo.a -> id 1, size 32, offset 0, fullsize 64, next foo.b foo.b -> id 2, size 32, offset 32, fullsize 64, next NULL bar -> id 3, size 32, offset 0, fullsize 32, next NULL

In order to solve the system of set constraints, the following is done:

  1. Each constraint variable x has a solution set associated with it, Sol(x).
  1. Constraints are separated into direct, copy, and complex. Direct constraints are ADDRESSOF constraints that require no extra processing, such as P = &Q Copy constraints are those of the form P = Q. Complex constraints are all the constraints involving dereferences and offsets (including offsetted copies).
  1. All direct constraints of the form P = &Q are processed, such that Q is added to Sol(P)
  1. All complex constraints for a given constraint variable are stored in a linked list attached to that variable's node.
  1. A directed graph is built out of the copy constraints. Each constraint variable is a node in the graph, and an edge from Q to P is added for each copy constraint of the form P = Q
  1. The graph is then walked, and solution sets are propagated along the copy edges, such that an edge from Q to P causes Sol(P) <- Sol(P) union Sol(Q).
  1. As we visit each node, all complex constraints associated with that node are processed by adding appropriate copy edges to the graph, or the appropriate variables to the solution set.
  1. The process of walking the graph is iterated until no solution sets change.

Prior to walking the graph in steps 6 and 7, We perform static cycle elimination on the constraint graph, as well as off-line variable substitution.

TODO: Adding offsets to pointer-to-structures can be handled (IE not punted on and turned into anything), but isn't. You can just see what offset inside the pointed-to struct it's going to access.

TODO: Constant bounded arrays can be handled as if they were structs of the same number of elements.

TODO: Modeling heap and incoming pointers becomes much better if we add fields to them as we discover them, which we could do.

TODO: We could handle unions, but to be honest, it's probably not worth the pain or slowdown. IPA-PTA optimizations possible.

When the indirect function called is ANYTHING we can add disambiguation based on the function signatures (or simply the parameter count which is the varinfo size). We also do not need to consider functions that do not have their address taken.

The is_global_var bit which marks escape points is overly conservative in IPA mode. Split it to is_escape_point and is_global_var - only externally visible globals are escape points in IPA mode. This is also needed to fix the pt_solution_includes_global predicate (and thus ptr_deref_may_alias_global_p).

The way we introduce DECL_PT_UID to avoid fixing up all points-to sets in the translation unit when we copy a DECL during inlining pessimizes precision. The advantage is that the DECL_PT_UID keeps compile-time and memory usage overhead low - the points-to sets do not grow or get unshared as they would during a fixup phase. An alternative solution is to delay IPA PTA until after all inlining transformations have been applied.

The way we propagate clobber/use information isn't optimized. It should use a new complex constraint that properly filters out local variables of the callee (though that would make the sets invalid after inlining). OTOH we might as well admit defeat to WHOPR and simply do all the clobber/use analysis and propagation after PTA finished but before we threw away points-to information for memory variables. WHOPR and PTA do not play along well anyway - the whole constraint solving would need to be done in WPA phase and it will be very interesting to apply the results to local SSA names during LTRANS phase.

We probably should compute a per-function unit-ESCAPE solution propagating it simply like the clobber / uses solutions. The solution can go alongside the non-IPA espaced solution and be used to query which vars escape the unit through a function.

We never put function decls in points-to sets so we do not keep the set of called functions for indirect calls.

And probably more.

Referenced by lookup_vi_for_tree().

alloc_pool variable_info_pool
static

Pool of variable info structures.

vec<varinfo_t> varmap
static

Table of variable info structures for constraint variables. Indexed directly by variable info id.

struct pointer_map_t* vi_for_tree
static

Map from trees to variable infos.