[LLVMdev] Indirect function call
Nai Xia
nelson.xia at gmail.com
Mon May 22 23:49:13 PDT 2006
I think I will make a try. :)
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 14:03, Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2006, Nai Xia wrote:
>
> > So I am currently thinking that maybe it is not hard to make the
> > callgraph more accurate in a similar way DSA deals with indirect
> > callsites. I am just curious about why it is not already in LLVM. I
> > think identifying the range of an indirect call is a worthwhile job, for
> > example if we want to track the correctness of a program's control flow
> > with the possibility that it is being attacked through buffer overflow.
>
> Sure. More precise call graph analysis can benefit many clients. This is
> why the CallGraph interface is an abstract one that can be implemented
> with many different algorithms. If you'd like to work on a new
> implementation, that would be great.
>
> -Chris
>
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Regards,
Nai
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