[pypy-dev] reconstructing structured flow graphs: pointers

[Samuele Pedroni]

Our flowgraphs can be rendered easely in languages that support gotos.

For some potential targets in would be nice* to be able to reconstruct
structured graphs that can be rendered in terms of ifs/whiles etc.

For (future) reference these are pointers to literature touching the
subject and containing also further pointers to more literature:

Assembly to High-Level Language Translation
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cifuentes98assembly.html

Structuring Assembly Programs
http://www.cs.uq.edu.au/~cristina/students/doug/doug.html

the algorithms described use concepts and data structures
common in the context of data-flow analysis.

* targeting an underlying bytecode is also a possibility, or
using some while/switch idiom possibly postprocessing the compilation
result or adding a tagbody-like construct support to a compiler for the
target.