Demand-Driven Interprocedural Array Property Analysis

  • Authors:
  • Yuan Lin;David A. Padua

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • LCPC '99 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Many optimization techniques rely on the analysis of array subscripts. Current compilers often give up optimizations when arrays are subscripted by index arrays and treat the index arrays as unknown functions at compile-time. However, recent empirical studies of real programs have shown that index arrays often possess some properties that can be used to derive more precise information about the enclosing loops. In this paper, we present an index array analysis method, called array property analysis, which computes array properties by backpropagating queries along the control flow of the program. This method integrates the array data-flow analysis with interprocedural analysis and the demand-driven approach.