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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2016

Symbolic Range Analysis of Pointers

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Alias analysis is one of the most fundamental techniques that compilers use to optimize languages with pointers. However, in spite of all the attention that this topic has received, the current state-of-the-art approaches inside compilers still face challenges regarding precision and speed. In particular, pointer arithmetic, a key feature in C and C++, is yet to be handled satisfactorily. This paper presents a new alias analysis algorithm to solve this problem. The key insight of our approach is to combine alias analysis with symbolic range analysis. This combination lets us disambiguate fields within arrays and structs, effectively achieving more precision than traditional algorithms. To validate our technique, we have implemented it on top of the LLVM compiler. Tests on a vast suite of benchmarks show that we can disambiguate several kinds of C idioms that current state-of-the-art analyses cannot deal with. In particular, we can disambiguate 1.35x more queries than the alias analysis currently available in LLVM. Furthermore, our analysis is very fast: we can go over one million assembly instructions in 10 seconds.
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hal-01228928 , version 1 (25-03-2016)

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Vitor Paisante, Maroua Maalej, Leonardo Barbosa, Laure Gonnord, Fernando Magno Quintão Pereira. Symbolic Range Analysis of Pointers. International Symposium of Code Generation and Optimization, Mar 2016, Barcelona, Spain. pp.791-809. ⟨hal-01228928⟩
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