Yitzhak Mandelbaum 672fb27b26 [clang][dataflow] Add new join API and replace existing merge implementations. (#80361) ...

This patch adds a new interface for the join operation, now properly
called `join`. Originally, the framework offered a single `merge`
operation, which could serve either as a join or a widening. In
practice, though we found this conflation didn't work for non-trivial
anlyses, and split of the widening operation (`widen`). This change
completes the transition by introducing a proper `join` with strict join
semantics.

In the process, it drops an odd (and often misused) aspect of `merge`
wherein callees could implictly instruct the framework to drop the
current entry by returning `false`. This features was never used
correctly in analyses and doesn't belong in a join operation, so it is
omitted.

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Co-authored-by: Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: martinboehme <mboehme@google.com>

2024-02-06 15:38:56 -05:00

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