llvm-mirror/lib/Transforms
Chris Lattner a106725fc5 Land the long talked about "type system rewrite" patch. This
patch brings numerous advantages to LLVM.  One way to look at it
is through diffstat:
 109 files changed, 3005 insertions(+), 5906 deletions(-)

Removing almost 3K lines of code is a good thing.  Other advantages
include:

1. Value::getType() is a simple load that can be CSE'd, not a mutating
   union-find operation.
2. Types a uniqued and never move once created, defining away PATypeHolder.
3. Structs can be "named" now, and their name is part of the identity that
   uniques them.  This means that the compiler doesn't merge them structurally
   which makes the IR much less confusing.
4. Now that there is no way to get a cycle in a type graph without a named
   struct type, "upreferences" go away.
5. Type refinement is completely gone, which should make LTO much MUCH faster
   in some common cases with C++ code.
6. Types are now generally immutable, so we can use "Type *" instead 
   "const Type *" everywhere.

Downsides of this patch are that it removes some functions from the C API,
so people using those will have to upgrade to (not yet added) new API.  
"LLVM 3.0" is the right time to do this.

There are still some cleanups pending after this, this patch is large enough
as-is.

llvm-svn: 134829
2011-07-09 17:41:24 +00:00
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Hello Since the Hello pass is built as a loadable dynamic library, don't try to convert it to new-style registration yet. 2010-10-07 00:31:16 +00:00
InstCombine Reapply a fixed version of r133285. 2011-07-08 22:09:33 +00:00
Instrumentation Replace the existing forms of ConstantArray::get() with a single form 2011-06-22 09:24:39 +00:00
IPO Land the long talked about "type system rewrite" patch. This 2011-07-09 17:41:24 +00:00
Scalar Added recognition for signed add/sub/mul with overflow intrinsics to GVN as per Chris and Frits suggestion. 2011-07-09 00:25:11 +00:00
Utils Land the long talked about "type system rewrite" patch. This 2011-07-09 17:41:24 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt Move library stuff out of the toplevel CMakeLists.txt file. 2011-02-18 22:06:14 +00:00
Makefile Revert r100896 and around - this breaks the only mingw32 buildbot we have. 2010-04-15 19:51:42 +00:00