Interprocedural dependence analysis and parallelization

  • Authors:
  • Michael Burke;Ron Cytron

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center;IBM T. J. Watson Researc Center

  • Venue:
  • SIGPLAN '86 Proceedings of the 1986 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

We present a method that combines a deep analysis of program dependences with a broad analysis of the interaction among procedures. The method is more efficient than existing methods: we reduce many tests, performed separately by existing methods, to a single test. The method is more precise than existing methods with respect to references to multi-dimensional arrays and dependence information hidden by procedure calls. The method is more general than existing methods: we accommodate potentially aliased variables and structures of differing shapes that share storage. We accomplish the above through a unified approach that integrates subscript analysis with aliasing and interprocedural information.