The existing unreachable IR removal code only retargeted an infeasible edge to an `Unreached` instruction if the successor of the edge was an unreachable block. This is too conservative, because it doesn't remove an infeasible edge that targets a block that is still reachable via other paths. The trivial example of this is `do { } while (false);`, where the back edge is infeasible, but the body block is still reachable from the loop entry.
This change retargets all infeasible edges to `Unreached` instructions, regardless of the reachability of the successor block.
This change removes any IR instructions that can be statically proven unreachable. To detect unreachable IR, we first run a simple constant value analysis on the IR. Then, any `ConditionalBranch` with a constant condition has the appropriate edge marked as "infeasible". We define a class `ReachableBlock` as any `IRBlock` with a path from the entry block of the function. SSA construction has been modified to operate only on `ReachableBlock` and `ReachableInstruction`, which ensures that only reachable IR gets translated into SSA form. For any infeasible edge where its predecessor block is reachable, we replace the original target of the branch with an `Unreached` instruction, which lets us preserve the invariant that all `ConditionalBranch` instructions have both a true and a false edge, and allows guard inference to still work.
The changes to `SSAConstruction.qll` are not as scary as they look. They are almost entirely a mechanical replacement of `OldIR::IRBlock` with `OldBlock`, which is just an alias for `ReachableBlock`.
Note that the `constant_func.ql` test can determine that the two new test functions always return 0.
Removing unreachable code helps get rid of some common FPs in IR-based dataflow analysis, especially for constructs like `while(true)`.
This change moves the simple constant analysis that was used by the const_func test into a pyrameterized module for use on any stage of the IR. This will be used to detect unreachable code.
This commit adds Chi nodes to the successor relation and accounts for
them in the CFG, but does not add them to the SSA data graph. Chi nodes
are inserted for partial writes to any VirtualVariable, regardless of
whether the partial write reaches any uses.
This enables the addition of new instructions in later phases of IR
construction; in particular, aliasing write instructions and inference
instructions.
@rdmarsh2 has been working on various queries and libraries on top of the IR, and has pointed out that having to always refer to an operand of an instruction by the pair of (instruction, operandTag) makes using the IR a bit clunky. This PR adds a new `Operand` IPA type that represents an operand of an instruction. `OperandTag` still exists, but is now an internal type used only in the IR implementation.
Moved IR flavors into "implementation", with internal files under "implementation/internal". Made `IRBlockConstruction` just a nested module of `IRConstruction`/`SSAConstruction`, so it gets picked up from the `Construction` parameter of the `IR` module, rather than being picked up just from being in the same directory as `IRBlock`.
There are no real code changes here, other than to fix up `import`s. All tests still hae the same output, as expected.
A future commit will hide the IR flavors other than the one we want queries to use directly.
This file is used by the `sync-identical-files.py` pull-request check in
our internal repo, which can hopefully soon start running on this repo
as well. This initial commit moves over all the file group definitions
whose files are entirely within this repository.
This change is not synchronized with the internal repo, so the file
groups will appear in both repositories until they sync up. That should
not cause any problems.
Dave Bartolomeo
Robert Marsh
Jonas Jensen