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+<a name="Data-Dependency-Analysis"></a>
+<h3 class="section">16.8 Data Dependency Analysis</h3>
+<a name="index-Data-Dependency-Analysis"></a>
+
+<p>The code for the data dependence analysis can be found in
+<samp>tree-data-ref.cc</samp> and its interface and data structures are
+described in <samp>tree-data-ref.h</samp>. The function that computes the
+data dependences for all the array and pointer references for a given
+loop is <code>compute_data_dependences_for_loop</code>. This function is
+currently used by the linear loop transform and the vectorization
+passes. Before calling this function, one has to allocate two vectors:
+a first vector will contain the set of data references that are
+contained in the analyzed loop body, and the second vector will contain
+the dependence relations between the data references. Thus if the
+vector of data references is of size <code>n</code>, the vector containing the
+dependence relations will contain <code>n*n</code> elements. However if the
+analyzed loop contains side effects, such as calls that potentially can
+interfere with the data references in the current analyzed loop, the
+analysis stops while scanning the loop body for data references, and
+inserts a single <code>chrec_dont_know</code> in the dependence relation
+array.
+</p>
+<p>The data references are discovered in a particular order during the
+scanning of the loop body: the loop body is analyzed in execution order,
+and the data references of each statement are pushed at the end of the
+data reference array. Two data references syntactically occur in the
+program in the same order as in the array of data references. This
+syntactic order is important in some classical data dependence tests,
+and mapping this order to the elements of this array avoids costly
+queries to the loop body representation.
+</p>
+<p>Three types of data references are currently handled: ARRAY_REF,
+INDIRECT_REF and COMPONENT_REF. The data structure for the data reference
+is <code>data_reference</code>, where <code>data_reference_p</code> is a name of a
+pointer to the data reference structure. The structure contains the
+following elements:
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li> <code>base_object_info</code>: Provides information about the base object
+of the data reference and its access functions. These access functions
+represent the evolution of the data reference in the loop relative to
+its base, in keeping with the classical meaning of the data reference
+access function for the support of arrays. For example, for a reference
+<code>a.b[i][j]</code>, the base object is <code>a.b</code> and the access functions,
+one for each array subscript, are:
+<code>{i_init, + i_step}_1, {j_init, +, j_step}_2</code>.
+
+</li><li> <code>first_location_in_loop</code>: Provides information about the first
+location accessed by the data reference in the loop and about the access
+function used to represent evolution relative to this location. This data
+is used to support pointers, and is not used for arrays (for which we
+have base objects). Pointer accesses are represented as a one-dimensional
+access that starts from the first location accessed in the loop. For
+example:
+
+<div class="smallexample">
+<pre class="smallexample"> for1 i
+ for2 j
+ *((int *)p + i + j) = a[i][j];
+</pre></div>
+
+<p>The access function of the pointer access is <code>{0, + 4B}_for2</code>
+relative to <code>p + i</code>. The access functions of the array are
+<code>{i_init, + i_step}_for1</code> and <code>{j_init, +, j_step}_for2</code>
+relative to <code>a</code>.
+</p>
+<p>Usually, the object the pointer refers to is either unknown, or we cannot
+prove that the access is confined to the boundaries of a certain object.
+</p>
+<p>Two data references can be compared only if at least one of these two
+representations has all its fields filled for both data references.
+</p>
+<p>The current strategy for data dependence tests is as follows:
+If both <code>a</code> and <code>b</code> are represented as arrays, compare
+<code>a.base_object</code> and <code>b.base_object</code>;
+if they are equal, apply dependence tests (use access functions based on
+base_objects).
+Else if both <code>a</code> and <code>b</code> are represented as pointers, compare
+<code>a.first_location</code> and <code>b.first_location</code>;
+if they are equal, apply dependence tests (use access functions based on
+first location).
+However, if <code>a</code> and <code>b</code> are represented differently, only try
+to prove that the bases are definitely different.
+</p>
+</li><li> Aliasing information.
+</li><li> Alignment information.
+</li></ul>
+
+<p>The structure describing the relation between two data references is
+<code>data_dependence_relation</code> and the shorter name for a pointer to
+such a structure is <code>ddr_p</code>. This structure contains:
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li> a pointer to each data reference,
+</li><li> a tree node <code>are_dependent</code> that is set to <code>chrec_known</code>
+if the analysis has proved that there is no dependence between these two
+data references, <code>chrec_dont_know</code> if the analysis was not able to
+determine any useful result and potentially there could exist a
+dependence between these data references, and <code>are_dependent</code> is
+set to <code>NULL_TREE</code> if there exist a dependence relation between the
+data references, and the description of this dependence relation is
+given in the <code>subscripts</code>, <code>dir_vects</code>, and <code>dist_vects</code>
+arrays,
+</li><li> a boolean that determines whether the dependence relation can be
+represented by a classical distance vector,
+</li><li> an array <code>subscripts</code> that contains a description of each
+subscript of the data references. Given two array accesses a
+subscript is the tuple composed of the access functions for a given
+dimension. For example, given <code>A[f1][f2][f3]</code> and
+<code>B[g1][g2][g3]</code>, there are three subscripts: <code>(f1, g1), (f2,
+g2), (f3, g3)</code>.
+</li><li> two arrays <code>dir_vects</code> and <code>dist_vects</code> that contain
+classical representations of the data dependences under the form of
+direction and distance dependence vectors,
+</li><li> an array of loops <code>loop_nest</code> that contains the loops to
+which the distance and direction vectors refer to.
+</li></ul>
+
+<p>Several functions for pretty printing the information extracted by the
+data dependence analysis are available: <code>dump_ddrs</code> prints with a
+maximum verbosity the details of a data dependence relations array,
+<code>dump_dist_dir_vectors</code> prints only the classical distance and
+direction vectors for a data dependence relations array, and
+<code>dump_data_references</code> prints the details of the data references
+contained in a data reference array.
+</p>
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