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Handling escaped variables in region analysis

Open vesalvojdani opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

This is meant to address two issues we became aware of about escaped variables and the region analysis.

  • [x] Simply handling pthread arguments and treating escaped variables as globals, so we handle regtest 09-34 without resorting to the empty region map override.
  • [ ] Dealing with escaped owners when a region member escaped. Would be nice if one could trigger an escape event for this, although it would be extremely imprecise because of the non-directional heap abstraction. The alternative would be to re-implement a region-specific escape analysis.
  • [ ] (Optional) Understand what region owners actually mean: probably one should use AddrOf(i) as owner in 9-34 when its not a pointer.

vesalvojdani avatar Feb 14 '23 20:02 vesalvojdani

Please add a test case for the cases that are fixed with this PR. Then we can consider merging this PR. The following issues may be related to the behavior addressed here: #107 #1070 #1298 #1300. Please check whether any of these is affected.

jerhard avatar Jul 16 '24 11:07 jerhard