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CppCon 2018: Gabor Horvath “Dealing with aliasing using contracts”

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Channel: CppCon · 2018 · Education

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Telling the compiler when aliasing can or cannot happen is an important problem to solve. Lots of the crucial compiler optimizations such as load and store elimination, and less crucial such as vectorization rely on alias analysis. I will showcase some examples where alias analysis is playing an important role to get decent performance. Unfortunately, there is no standard way in C++ to give hints to the compiler about aliasing. There is the C restrict keyword which is supported by some compilers but it has its own shortcomings. In this talk, I will show some of the past approaches to move restrict keyword to C++ and propose a new solution which is based on contracts. I will also show some basic tricks how to use type based alias analysis and value types to help the compiler reason about aliasing until the related new features being accepted into the language.
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Gabor Horvath, Eotvos Lorand University
PhD Student

Gabor started a Ph.D. in 2016. He is a contributor to research projects related to static analysis since 2012. He is a clang contributor, participated in Google Summer of Code twice as a student and twice as a mentor, interned for Apple and Microsoft. He teaches C++ and compiler construction to undergrads at Eotvos Lorand University.
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