Integration of SVF into DG

DG can use pointer anlysis from the SVF project. This analysis should scale much more better than ours, however, our analysis can be more precise in some cases.

Building DG with SVF

To use SVF with DG, you first needs a build of SVF. Build the project according its instructions. To configure DG with SVF, setup SVF_DIR variable to point to the build of SVF:

cmake . -DSVF_DIR=/path/to/svf/build

During configuration, cmake should inform you about the found SVF build:

-- SVF dir: /home/user/SVF/Debug-build
-- SVF libraries dir: /home/user/SVF/Debug-build/lib
-- SVF include dir: /home/user/SVF/Debug-build/../include
-- SVF libs: LLVMSvf;LLVMCudd

In cases of out-of-source build of SVF you may want to manually specify the varable for include directory:

cmake . -DSVF_DIR=/path/to/svf/build -DSVF_INCLUDE=/path/to/svf/include

SVF_DIR must point to a directory that contains the lib subdirectory with libraries. SVF_INCLUDE must point to directly to a directory that contains the header files.

Using DG with SVF

DG now integrates only pointer analysis from SVF. To use SVF from C++ API, just specify in the LLVMPointerAnalysisOptions object that the analysis is of type LLVMPointerAnalysisOptions::AnalysisType::svf.

For tools, the switch that turns on SVF pointer analysis is -pta svf, for example:

tools/llvm-slicer -c foo -pta svf test.ll