Loop identification APIs

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
compilers, reverse-engineering

Research direction

Start with the linked LLVM LoopInfo getLoopFor reference to understand the requested loop-membership behavior. The issue names no Binary Ninja files, tests, or API entry points, so survey the public analysis API before defining how loop bounds and completion criteria should be represented.

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Description

Component: API Component: Core Effort: Low Impact: Low

LLVM has an analysis that you can query to determine if a BasicBlock is in a loop. It'd be nice if BinaryNinja's api had something similar.

It'd additionally be nice if the loop bounds could be described via this api.

LLVM LoopInfo getLoopFor reference: http://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/html/classllvm_1_1LoopInfoBase.html#aebfb8d0ea41335b1280d9fbec6199e18

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