Questions tagged [ssa]

Static single assignment is a property of a compiler's intermediate representation for optimization and static analysis.

Static single assignment is an intermediate representation where each "variable" is assigned only once. When translating from a form with mutable variables, each variable is replaced with a set of variables representing each possible assignment in order to make the definition and usage of every value explicit.

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how to tokenize SSA

with reference to How to tokenize String in Lex and Yacc but in this post i am looking for integer token when i am getting input a_2 = _6 + b_3; in the lex file i want to get a_2 as integer type token, how can i get this token below is my lex file …
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Side Effect Tracking in SSA

I am working on an optimizer for Java bytecode and decided to use SSA. However, most optimizations require all operations to be purely functional, so in order to handle side effects, I decided to add an extra opaque state parameter and return value…
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To what extent does SSA form allow types with non-trivial copying?

I've been looking into IR code which is specified using SSA- especially, generating LLVM IR in this form. However, I'm confused about whether or not this can be effective when presented with a type which has non-trivial copy semantics. For…
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