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Sanjoy Das 2d08e46e8b [IR] Introduce a dereferenceable_or_null(N) attribute.
Summary:
If a pointer is marked as dereferenceable_or_null(N), LLVM assumes it
is either `null` or `dereferenceable(N)` or both.  This change only
introduces the attribute and adds a token test case for the `llvm-as`
/ `llvm-dis`.  It does not hook up other parts of the optimizer to
actually exploit the attribute -- those changes will come later.

For pointers in address space 0, `dereferenceable(N)` is now exactly
equivalent to `dereferenceable_or_null(N)` && `nonnull`.  For other
address spaces, `dereferenceable(N)` is potentially weaker than
`dereferenceable_or_null(N)` && `nonnull` (since we could have a null
`dereferenceable(N)` pointer).

The motivating case for this change is Java (and other managed
languages), where pointers are either `null` or dereferenceable up to
some usually known-at-compile-time constant offset.

Reviewers: rafael, hfinkel

Reviewed By: hfinkel

Subscribers: nicholas, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8650

llvm-svn: 235132
2015-04-16 20:29:50 +00:00
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Transforms [BDCE] Add a bit-tracking DCE pass 2015-02-17 01:36:59 +00:00
Analysis.h Organize LLVM C API docs into doxygen modules; add docs 2012-03-21 03:54:29 +00:00
BitReader.h Canonicalize header guards into a common format. 2014-08-13 16:26:38 +00:00
BitWriter.h Introduce LLVMWriteBitcodeToMemoryBuffer C API function. 2014-10-14 00:30:59 +00:00
Core.h [IR] Introduce a dereferenceable_or_null(N) attribute. 2015-04-16 20:29:50 +00:00
Disassembler.h Extend C disassembler API to allow specifying target features 2014-09-30 16:31:40 +00:00
ExecutionEngine.h [C API] Expose LLVMGetGlobalValueAddress and LLVMGetFunctionAddress. 2014-12-22 18:53:11 +00:00
Initialization.h Canonicalize header guards into a common format. 2014-08-13 16:26:38 +00:00
IRReader.h Fix known typos 2014-01-24 17:20:08 +00:00
Linker.h Restore LLVMLinkModules C API until it is properly deprecated. 2015-03-02 18:59:38 +00:00
LinkTimeOptimizer.h include/llvm-c: Whitespace. 2013-10-23 17:56:29 +00:00
lto.h [LTO API] add lto_codegen_set_module to set the destination module. 2015-02-24 00:45:56 +00:00
module.modulemap [modules] The LLVM C API does not require C++! 2014-06-12 22:09:39 +00:00
Object.h Convert getFileOffset to getOffset and move it to its only user. 2014-04-21 13:45:32 +00:00
Support.h Introduce LLVMParseCommandLineOptions C API function. 2014-10-16 22:47:52 +00:00
Target.h [llvm-c] Remove dead typedef 2013-11-11 14:47:01 +00:00
TargetMachine.h Add target analysis passes to the codegen pipeline for MCJIT. 2014-01-23 19:23:28 +00:00