Silviu Baranga a68e72a0c8 [LAA] Allow more run-time alias checks by coercing pointer expressions to AddRecExprs
Summary:
LAA can only emit run-time alias checks for pointers with affine AddRec
SCEV expressions. However, non-AddRecExprs can be now be converted to
affine AddRecExprs using SCEV predicates.

This change tries to add the minimal set of SCEV predicates in order
to enable run-time alias checking.

Reviewers: anemet, mzolotukhin, mkuper, sanjoy, hfinkel

Reviewed By: hfinkel

Subscribers: mssimpso, Ayal, dorit, roman.shirokiy, mzolotukhin, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D17080

llvm-svn: 313012
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Analysis Opportunities:

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In test/Transforms/LoopStrengthReduce/quadradic-exit-value.ll, the
ScalarEvolution expression for %r is this:

  {1,+,3,+,2}<loop>

Outside the loop, this could be evaluated simply as (%n * %n), however
ScalarEvolution currently evaluates it as

  (-2 + (2 * (trunc i65 (((zext i64 (-2 + %n) to i65) * (zext i64 (-1 + %n) to i65)) /u 2) to i64)) + (3 * %n))

In addition to being much more complicated, it involves i65 arithmetic,
which is very inefficient when expanded into code.

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In formatValue in test/CodeGen/X86/lsr-delayed-fold.ll,

ScalarEvolution is forming this expression:

((trunc i64 (-1 * %arg5) to i32) + (trunc i64 %arg5 to i32) + (-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32)))

This could be folded to

(-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32))

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