Abstract

In this paper we present a new approach to elimination based data flow analysis that uses a program representation called the DJ Graph. The skeleton of the DJ graph of a program is the dominator tree of its flowgraph (whose edges are called D edges in this paper), and the tree skeleton is augmented with join edges (called J edges in this paper). Unlike the previous elimination methods, which first reduce a flowgraph to a single node, our approach only eliminate J edges from the DJ graph in a bottom-up fashion during the reduction process, while maintainting the dominator tree structure (which may be compressed). We propose two methods for eliminating variables: (1) eager elimination method, and (2) delayed elimination method. With eager elimination, we first perform variable elimination on the DJ-graph in a bottom-up manner. Once we determine the solution for the root node, we propagate this information in a top-down fashion on the dominator tree and determine the corresponding solutio...

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