I'm trying to figure out how to persuade GHC to generate an
irreducible control-flow graph (so I can test an algorithm to convert
it to structured control flow).
The attached image shows (on the left) the classic simple irreducible
CFG: there is a loop between nodes A and B, but neither one dominates
the other, so there is no loop header. I tried to get GHC to generate
this CFG using the following source code:
length'' :: Bool -> List a -> Int
length'' trigger xs = if trigger then countA 0 xs else countB 0 xs
where countA n Nil = case n of m -> m
countA n (Cons _ as) = case n + 1 of m -> countB m as
countB n Nil = case n of m -> m
countB n (Cons _ as) = case n + 2 of m -> countA m as
Unfortunately (for my purposes), GHC generates a perfectly lovely
reducible flow graph with a single header node.
It is even possible for GHC to generate an irreducible control-flow
graph? If so, how can it be done?
Norman
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