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SSA is an IntermediateLanguage, translated from SXML by ClosureConvert, optimized by SSASimplify, and translated by ToSSA2 to SSA2.

Description

SSA is a FirstOrder, SimplyTyped IntermediateLanguage. It is the main IntermediateLanguage used for optimizations.

An SSA program consists of a collection of datatype declarations, a sequence of global statements, and a collection of functions, along with a distinguished "main" function. Each function consists of a collection of basic blocks, where each basic block is a sequence of statements ending with some control transfer.

Implementation

Type Checking

Type checking (type-check.sig, type-check.fun) of a SSA program verifies the following:

  • no duplicate definitions (tycons, cons, vars, labels, funcs)

  • no out of scope references (tycons, cons, vars, labels, funcs)

  • variable definitions dominate variable uses

  • case transfers are exhaustive and irredundant

  • Enter/Leave profile statements match

  • "traditional" well-typedness

Details and Notes

SSA is an abbreviation for Static Single Assignment.

For some initial design discussion, see the thread at:

For some retrospectives, see the threads at: