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Pointer analysis to-do list
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CONSTRAINT GENERATION:
- support reflection:
- a couple of operators are missing
- reflect.Values may contain lvalues (CanAddr)
- implement native intrinsics. These vary by platform.
- unsafe.Pointer conversions. Three options:
1) unsoundly (but type-safely) treat p=unsafe.Pointer(x) conversions as
allocations, losing aliases. This is what's currently implemented.
2) unsoundly (but type-safely) treat p=unsafe.Pointer(x) and T(p)
conversions as interface boxing and unboxing operations.
This may preserve some aliasing relations at little cost.
3) soundly track physical field offsets. (Summarise dannyb's email here.)
A downside is that we can't keep the identity field of struct
allocations that identifies the object.
- add to pts(a.panic) a label representing all runtime panics, e.g.
runtime.{TypeAssertionError,errorString,errorCString}.
OPTIMISATIONS
- pre-solver:
pointer equivalence: extend HVN to HRU
location equivalence
- solver: HCD, LCD.
- experiment with map+slice worklist in lieu of bitset.
It may have faster insert.
MISC:
- Test on all platforms.
Currently we assume these go/build tags: linux, amd64, !cgo.
MAINTAINABILITY
- Think about ways to make debugging this code easier. PTA logs
routinely exceed a million lines and require training to read.
BUGS:
- There's a crash bug in stdlib_test + reflection, rVCallConstraint.