Fully flow and context sensitive points-to analysis in GCC 4.6.0

[Uday P. Khedker]

Richard Biener wrote, On Friday 12 October 2012 02:51 PM:
>
> we _always_ see
>
>    ssa_name_1 = a;
>    use (ssa_name_1);
>
> so you have a place to associate your flow-sensitive and context-sensitive
> points-to-info with (the SSA name).  My point is that for _using_ the
> points-to info flow-sensitivity provided by SSA form is enough.  For computing
> it you of course need to flow-sensitively process assignments to 'a'.

This is VERY interesting! I had not thought about the difference between computing
and using values. Now that you point it out, I think all we need to do is to map
flow-sensitively computed values to ssa names.

What about variables that do not have ssa names? Or are you saying that all such
variables would be copied into an artificial variables that have ssa names? I seem
to observe this in the dumps but I don't know if it holds in general.

Uday.