Summary:
Previously the LLVM semantics did the phi instructions at the head of a
block as part of executing the branch into that block. This looked a bit
weird, but had the advantage that the semantics knew which block was
being jumped from, which is necessary to run the phi instructions.
However, it meant that the rules for doing phi instructions would need
to show up with each branching construct. It was also annoying for the
LLVM->llair proof, since the phis are removed and their effect happens as
a distinct step from the branch.
Here we add a distinct Phi_ip instruction pointer to indicate that the
phi instructions at the start of the block should execute next, and then
be incremented to the usual numeric instruction pointer that points to
the non-phi instructions. The Phi_ip contains the identity of the
previous block.
Reviewed By: jberdine
Differential Revision: D17452416
fbshipit-source-id: 78fef7cca
Summary:
Give the llair semantics observable side effects (writes to global
variables) and a semantic function mirroring the LLVM semantics. Start
sketching out the LLVM/llair translation equivalence proof in a top-down
way from the obvious statement of equality of the semantics.
Reviewed By: jberdine
Differential Revision: D17399654
fbshipit-source-id: 2170678a8
Summary:
The simple LLVM semantics steps one instruction at a time, but the
generated llair does whole blocks at a time, since many individual LLVM
instructions can become a single llair expression. We add a bigger-step
LLVM semantics that does whole blocks at a time (except that it also
stops at function calls, since those end blocks in llair). The steps in
this bigger-step semantics should be at the same granularity as the
llair steps, making it easier to verify the translation.
We add a notion of observation to the LLVM semantics (right now, just
global variable writes) and use that to define two top-level semantic
functions, which we prove to be equivalent.
Reviewed By: jberdine
Differential Revision: D17396016
fbshipit-source-id: ee632fb92
Scott Owens