Yet Another Hoopl Question

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Tue Aug 13 15:25:51 CEST 2013


On 13/08/13 13:03, Jan Stolarek wrote:
> I have yet another Hoopl question. One of my rewrites allocates a new unique local register and this register is later added as a fact. So I have Cmm code that looks like this:
>
>    I32[(old + 4)] = complicated_expr
>
> which is rewritten to:
>
>    newReg1 = complicated_expr
>    I32[(old + 4)] = newReg1
>
> and then I add { I32[(old + 4)] = newReg1 } as a fact. When Hoopl reaches end of the iteration it realizes it has learned some new facts, so it keeps the facts (including fact about a new unique register) and discards rewritten graph (including said new register). In the next iteration it performs the rewrite again, allocating a different new register and adding fact about this different register. At the end of this iteration same thing happens again: facts are kept, rewrite is discarded. And so my code falls into an infinite loop, because every time I'm allocating a different register and every time hoopl thinks it learned sth new and discards the rewritten graph. How can I perform this rewrite and avoid falling into a loop?

Your transfer function is not monotonic, because each time you apply it 
it gives a different result.

The next question is "well how do I do this then?". I'm not quite sure, 
maybe you need to use a deterministic name supply monad.

Cheers,
	Simon





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