Building Your Own Clang LibTool: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

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Technically, Clang receives an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST), build by Clang Parser (clang/Parse/*), not the input C/C++ code (although Parser is part of Clang code base). There is obviously a Lexer in between this process, but neither Lexer nor Parser is our focus in this tutorial. Clang is responsible to convert the AST to LLVM…

SVF: Interprocedural Static Value-Flow Analysis in LLVM

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SVF is a static analysis framework implemented in LLVM that allows value-flow construction and pointer analysis to be performed in an iterative manner (sparse analysis – analysis conducted into stages, from overapproximate analysis to precise, expensive analysis). It uses (default) points-to information from Andersen’s analysis and constructs an interprocedural memory SSA (Static-Single Assignment) form where…