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Re: IR Representation

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>This linear representation is really just an array of IR instructions,
>something on these lines: vector<Instruction*>; As operands
>instructions have pointers to entries in the symbol table.

Sounds like quadruples.

>However, my initial understanding of linear was really an array of
>instructions... and from that to construct a tree it seemed a little
>complex, it seems like trying to reconstruct an AST from an assembly
>stream of instructions.

Creating a DAG from quadruples is easy: If you have an instruction

a = b+c

create a + tree node, with the tree nodes stored in b and c as
operands, and store a pointer to the resulting + node in a.

If you want trees instead of DAGs, a way to do it is to have a parent
count in each node, and if the parent count exceeds 1, create a store
node as parent of the multi-parent node, and use a reference to the
place where the result was stored as child of the node that would
otherwise be parents of the multi-parent node.

>I did not understand how can you represent the program using just a
>single tree, because sometimes the computations are just
>independent... What would be the a single tree for these programs:
>
>a = b[5];
>c = a + 1;
>d = a * c;
>e = a + a;

As our moderator writes, insert artificial nodes for connecting them.
E.g.,

s1 s2
 \ /
  ;  s3
   \ /
    ;

where s1, s2, s3 are the trees for the statements.

- anton
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M. Anton Ertl
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/

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IR Representation César <divcesar@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 14:39 -0300
  Re: IR Representation anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-09-05 16:51 +0000
    Re: IR Representation César <divcesar@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 23:05 -0300
      Re: IR Representation anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-09-08 07:49 +0000
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          Re: IR Representation Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2015-09-12 19:45 +0200
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