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content/blog/01_spa_agda_lattices.md

@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ element that's greater (less specific) than either `s1` or `s2`". Conventionally
 this function is written as \(a \sqcup b\) (or in our case, \(s_1 \sqcup s_2\)).
 The \((\sqcup)\) symbol is also called the _join_ of \(a\) and \(b\).
 We can define it for our signs so far using the following [Cayley table](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley_table).
+{#least-upper-bound}
 
 {{< latex >}}
 \begin{array}{c|cccc}

content/blog/03_spa_agda_fixed_height.md

@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ ordering relation `R`/`<` are expected to play together nicely (if `a < b`, and
 {{< codelines "agda" "agda-spa/Chain.agda" 3 7 >}}
 
 From there, the definition of the `Chain` data type is much like the definition
-of a vector, but indexed by the endpoints, and containing witnesses of `R`/`<`
+of [a vector from  `Data.Vec`](https://agda.github.io/agda-stdlib/v2.0/Data.Vec.Base.html#1111),
+but indexed by the endpoints, and containing witnesses of `R`/`<`
 between its elements. The indexing allows for representing
 the type of chains between particular lattice elements, and serves to ensure
 concatenation and other operations don't merge disparate chains.

content/blog/06_spa_agda_cfg/index.md

@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ draft: true
 In the previous section, I've given a formal definition of the programming
 language that I've been trying to analyze. This formal definition serves
 as the "ground truth" for how our little imperative programs are executed;
-however, program analyses (especially in practice) seldom use the formal semantics
+however, program analyses (especially in practice) seldom take the formal
-as their subject matter. Instead, they focus on more pragmatic program
+semantics as input. Instead, they focus on more pragmatic program
 representations from the world of compilers. One such representation are
-_Control Flow Graphs (CFGs)_.
+_Control Flow Graphs (CFGs)_. That's what I want to discuss in this post.
 
 Let's start by building some informal intuition. CFGs are pretty much what
-their name suggests. They are a type of [graph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(discrete_mathematics)).
+their name suggests: they are a type of [graph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(discrete_mathematics));
-Edges in CFGs represent how execution might jump from one piece of code to
+their edges show how execution might jump from one piece of code to
 another (how control might flow).
 
 For example, take the below program.
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ The CFG might look like this:
 Here, the initialization of `x` with `...`, as well as the `if` condition (just `x`),
 are guaranteed to execute one after another, so they occupy a single node. From there,
 depending on the condition, the control flow can jump to one of the
-branches of the `if` statement: the "then" branch if the condition is true,
+branches of the `if` statement: the "then" branch if the condition is truthy,
-and the "else" branch if the condition is false. As a result, there are two
+and the "else" branch if the condition is falsy. As a result, there are two
 arrows coming out of the initial node. Once either branch is executed, control
 always jumps to the code right after the `if` statement (the `y = x`). Thus,
 both the `x = 1` and `x = 0` nodes have a single arrow to the `y = x` node.
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ The CFG would look like this:
 
 {{< figure src="while-cfg.png" label="CFG for simple `while` code." class="small" >}}
 
-Here, condition of the loop (`x`) is not always guaranteed to execute together
+Here, the condition of the loop (`x`) is not always guaranteed to execute together
 with the code that initializes `x`. That's because the condition of the loop
 is checked after every iteration, whereas the code before the loop is executed
 only once. As a result, `x = ...` and `x` occupy distinct CFG nodes. From there,
@@ -81,9 +81,8 @@ Now, let's be a bit more precise. Control Flow Graphs are defined as follows:
   The one-entry-point rule means that it's not possible to jump into the middle
   of the basic block, executing only half of its instructions. The execution of
   a basic block always begins at the top. Symmetrically, the one-exit-point
-  rule means that you can't jump away to other code (even within the same block),
+  rule means that you can't jump away to other code, skipping some instructions.
-  skipping some instructions. The execution of a basic block always ends at
+  The execution of a basic block always ends at the bottom.
-  the bottom.
 
   As a result of these constraints, when running a basic block, you are
   guaranteed to execute every instruction in exactly the order they occur in,
@@ -91,7 +90,7 @@ Now, let's be a bit more precise. Control Flow Graphs are defined as follows:
 * __The edges__ are jumps between basic blocks. We've already seen how
   `if` and `while` statements introduce these jumps.
 
-Basic blocks can only be made of code that doen't jump (otherwise,
+Basic blocks can only be made of code that doesn't jump (otherwise,
 we violate the single-exit-point policy). In the previous post,
 we defined exactly this kind of code as [simple statements]({{< relref "05_spa_agda_semantics#introduce-simple-statements" >}}).
 So, in our control flow graph, nodes will be sequences of simple statements.
@@ -103,7 +102,7 @@ So, in our control flow graph, nodes will be sequences of simple statements.
 At an abstract level, it's easy to say "it's just a graph where X is Y" about
 anything. It's much harder to give a precise definition of such a graph,
 particularly if you want to rule out invalid graphs (e.g., ones with edges
-pointing nowhere). In Agda, I chose the represent a two lists: one of nodes,
+pointing nowhere). In Agda, I chose the represent a CFG with two lists: one of nodes,
 and one of edges. Each node is simply a list of `BasicStmt`s, as
 I described in a preceding paragraph. An edge is simply a pair of numbers,
 each number encoding the index of the node connected by the edge.
@@ -123,7 +122,7 @@ Specifically, `Fin n` is the type of natural numbers less than `n`. Following
 this definition, `Fin 3` represents the numbers `0`, `1` and `2`. These are
 represented using the same constructors as `Nat`: `zero` and `suc`. The type
 of `zero` is `Fin (suc n)` for any `n`; this makes sense because zero is less
-than any number plus one. For `suc,` the bound `n` of the input `i` is incremented
+than any number plus one. For `suc`, the bound `n` of the input `i` is incremented
 by one, leading to another `suc n` in the final type. This makes sense because if
 `i < n`, then `i + 1 < n + 1`. I've previously explained this data type
 [in another post on this site]({{< relref "01_aoc_coq#aside-vectors-and-finite-mathbbn" >}}).
@@ -133,8 +132,8 @@ Here's my definition of `Graph`s written using `Fin`:
 {{< codelines "Agda" "agda-spa/Language/Graphs.agda" 24 39 >}}
 
 I explicitly used a `size` field, which determines how many nodes are in the
-graph, and serves both as the upper bound the edge indices as well as the
+graph, and serves as the upper bound for the edge indices. From there, an
-size `nodes` field. From there, an index `Index` into the node list is
+index `Index` into the node list is
 {{< sidenote "right" "size-note" "just a natural number less than `size`," >}}
 Ther are <code>size</code> natural numbers less than <code>size</code>:<br>
 <code>0, 1, ..., size - 1</code>.
@@ -174,6 +173,133 @@ control would begin once we started executing `code2`). Those are the `outputs`
 and `inputs`, respectively. When stitching together sequenced control graphs,
 we will connect each of the outputs of one to each of the inputs of the other.
 
-This is defined by the operation `_↦_`:
+This is defined by the operation `g₁ ↦ g₂`, which sequences two graphs `g₁` and `g₂`:
 
 {{< codelines "Agda" "agda-spa/Language/Graphs.agda" 72 83 >}}
+
+The definition starts out pretty innocuous, but gets a bit complicated by the
+end. The sum of the numbers of nodes in the two operands becomes the new graph
+size, and the nodes from the two graphs are all included in the result. Then,
+the definitions start making use of various operators like `↑ˡᵉ` and `↑ʳᵉ`;
+these deserve an explanation.
+
+The tricky thing is that when we're concatenating lists of nodes, we are changing
+some of the indices of the elements within. For instance, in the lists
+`[x]` and `[y]`, the indices of both `x` and `y` are `0`; however, in the
+concatenated list `[x, y]`, the index of `x` is still `0`, but the index of `y`
+is `1`. More generally, when we concatenate two lists `l1` and `l2`, the indices
+into `l1` remain unchanged, whereas the indices `l2` are shifted `length l2`.
+
+Actually, that's not all there is to it. The _values_ of the indices into
+the left list don't change, but their types do! They start as `Fin (length l1)`,
+but for the whole list, these same indices will have type `Fin (length l1 + length l2))`.
+
+To help deal with this, Agda provides the operators
+[`↑ˡ`](https://agda.github.io/agda-stdlib/v2.0/Data.Fin.Base.html#2355)
+and [`↑ʳ`](https://agda.github.io/agda-stdlib/v2.0/Data.Fin.Base.html#2522)
+that implement this re-indexing and re-typing. The former implements "re-indexing
+on the left" -- given an index into the left list `l1`, it changes its type
+by adding the other list's length to it, but keeps the index value itself
+unchanged. The latter implements "re-indexing on the right" -- given an index
+into the right list `l2`, it adds the length of the first list to it (shifting it),
+and does the same to its type.
+
+The definition leads to the following equations:
+
+```Agda
+l1 : Vec A n
+l2 : Vec A m
+
+idx1 : Fin n -- index into l1
+idx2 : Fin m -- index into l2
+
+l1 [ idx1 ] ≡ (l1 ++ l2) [ idx1 ↑ˡ m ]
+l2 [ idx2 ] ≡ (l1 ++ l2) [ n ↑ʳ idx2 ]
+```
+
+The operators used in the definition above are just versions of the same
+re-indexing operators. The `↑ˡᵉ` operator applies `↑ˡ` to all the (__e__)dges
+in a graph, and the `↑ˡi` applies it to all the (__i__)ndices in a list
+(like `inputs` and `outputs`).
+
+Given these definitions, hopefully the intent with the rest of the definition
+is not too hard to see. The edges in the new graph come from three places:
+the graph `g₁` and `g₂`, and from creating a new edge from each of the outputs
+of `g₁` to each of the inputs of  `g₂`. We keep the inputs of `g₁` as the
+inputs of the whole graph (since `g₁` comes first), and symmetrically we keep
+the outputs of `g₂`. Of course, we do have to re-index them to keep them
+pointing at the right nodes.
+
+Another operation we will need is "overlaying" two graphs: this will be like
+placing them in parallel, without adding jumps between the two. We use this
+operation when combining the sub-CFGs of the "if" and "else" branches of an
+`if`/`else`, which both follow the condition, and both proceed to the code after
+the conditional.
+
+{{< codelines "Agda" "agda-spa/Language/Graphs.agda" 59 70 >}}
+
+Everything here is just concatenation; we pool together the nodes, edges,
+inputs, and outputs, and the main source of complexity is the re-indexing.
+
+The one last operation, which we will use for `while` loops, is looping. This
+operation simply connects the outputs of a graph back to its inputs (allowing
+looping), and also allows the body to be skipped. This is slightly different
+from the graph for `while` loops I showed above; the reason for that is that
+I currently don't include the conditional expressions in my CFG. This is a
+limitation that I will address in future work.
+
+{{< codelines "Agda" "agda-spa/Language/Graphs.agda" 85 95 >}}
+
+Given these thee operations, I construct Control Flow Graphs as follows, where
+`singleton` creates a new CFG node with the given list of simple statements:
+
+{{< codelines "Agda" "agda-spa/Language/Graphs.agda" 122 126 >}}
+
+Throughout this, I've been liberal to include empty CFG nodes as was convenient.
+This is a departure from the formal definition I gave above, but it makes
+things much simpler.
+
+### Additional Functions
+
+To integrate Control Flow Graphs into our lattice-based program analyses, we'll
+need to do a couple of things. First, upon reading the
+[reference _Static Program Analysis_ text](https://cs.au.dk/~amoeller/spa/),
+one sees a lot of quantification over the predecessors or successors of a
+given CFG node. For example, the following equation is from Chapter 5:
+
+{{< latex >}}
+\textit{JOIN}(v) = \bigsqcup_{w \in \textit{pred}(v)} \llbracket w \rrbracket
+{{< /latex >}}
+
+To compute the \(\textit{JOIN}\) function (which we have not covered yet) for
+a given CFG node, we need to iterate over all of its predecessors, and
+combine their static information using \(\sqcup\), which I first
+[explained several posts ago]({{< relref "01_spa_agda_lattices#least-upper-bound" >}}).
+To be able to iterate over them, we need to be able to retrieve the predecessors
+of a node from a graph!
+
+Our encoding does not make computing the predecessors particularly easy; to
+check if two nodes are connected, we need to check if an `Index`-`Index` pair
+corresponding to the nodes is present in the `edges` list. To this end, we need
+to be able to compare edges for equality. Fortunately, it's relatively
+straightforward to show that our edges can be compared in such a way;
+after all, they are just pairs of `Fin`s, and `Fin`s and products support
+these comparisons.
+
+{{< codelines "Agda" "agda-spa/Language/Graphs.agda" 149 152 >}}
+
+Next, if we can compare edges for equality, we can check if an edge is in
+a list. Agda provides a built-in function for this:
+
+{{< codelines "Agda" "agda-spa/Language/Graphs.agda" 154 154 >}}
+
+To find the predecessors of a particular node, we go through all other nodes
+in the graph and see if there's an edge there between those nodes and the
+current one. This is preferable to simply iterating over the edges because
+we may have duplicates in that list (why not?).
+
+{{< codelines "Agda" "agda-spa/Language/Graphs.agda" 165 166 >}}
+
+{{< todo >}}
+the rest
+{{< /todo >}}