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Manoj Gupta
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Summary: Support for this option is needed for building Linux kernel. This is a very frequently requested feature by kernel developers. More details : https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/4/601 GCC option description for -fdelete-null-pointer-checks: This Assume that programs cannot safely dereference null pointers, and that no code or data element resides at address zero. -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks is the inverse of this implying that null pointer dereferencing is not undefined. This feature is implemented in LLVM IR in this CL as the function attribute "null-pointer-is-valid"="true" in IR (Under review at D47894). The CL updates several passes that assumed null pointer dereferencing is undefined to not optimize when the "null-pointer-is-valid"="true" attribute is present. Reviewers: t.p.northover, efriedma, jyknight, chandlerc, rnk, srhines, void, george.burgess.iv Reviewed By: efriedma, george.burgess.iv Subscribers: eraman, haicheng, george.burgess.iv, drinkcat, theraven, reames, sanjoy, xbolva00, llvm-commits Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47895 git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@336613 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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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