Use-define Chain - Method of Building A use-def (or ud) Chain

Method of Building A use-def (or ud) Chain

  1. Set definitions in statement s(0)
  2. For each i in, find live definitions that have use in statement s(i)
  3. Make a link among definitions and uses
  4. Set the statement s(i), as definition statement
  5. Kill previous definitions

With this algorithm, two things are accomplished:

  1. A directed acyclic graph (DAG) is created on the variable uses and definitions. The DAG specifies a data dependency among assignment statements, as well as a partial order (therefore parallelism among statements).
  2. When statement s(i) is reached, there is a list of live variable assignments. If only one assignment is live, for example, constant propagation might be used.

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