llvm/lib/Analysis
Preston Briggs 72a2c0622a Corrects a problem where we reply exclusively of GEPs to drive
analysis.  Better is to look for cases with useful GEPs and use them
when possible.  When a pair of useful GEPs is not available, use the
raw SCEVs directly. This approach supports better analysis of pointer
dereferencing.

In parallel, all the test cases are updated appropriately.
Cases where we have a store to *B++ can now be analyzed!


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@168474 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2012-11-21 23:50:04 +00:00
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2012-10-08 16:38:25 +00:00
2012-10-08 16:38:25 +00:00

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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