Bi-directional Dataflow Type Inference
After reading this paper I've starting implementing a brand new type analysis in Boomerang. The first step is calculating reverse dominance frontiers. A regular dominance frontier is the set of nodes that have a predecessor that is dominated by the given node, but is not itself dominated. These are the nodes where phi statements are to be placed when transforming a program into SSA form. The reverse dominance frontier is much the same, except it is the successors that must be post -dominated. Boomerang already calculates immediate post-dominators for use by the code generation phase, but we've never before had a use for reverse dominator frontiers. The paper describes an extension to SSA form called static single information form (SSI) which introduces a new kind of assignment: the sigma function statement which are placed on the reverse dominator frontiers. The purpose of this new statement is to split definitions before uses on different code paths. I will be using...