llvm/lib/Analysis
Philip Reames 1aeaf6cd63 [MDA] Don't be quite as conservative for noalias functions
If we encounter a noalias call that alias analysis can't analyse, we can fall down into the generic call handling rather than giving up entirely. I noticed this while reading through the code for another purpose.

I can't seem to write a test case which changes; that sorta makes sense given any test case would have to be an inconsistency in AA. Suggestions welcome.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15825



git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@256802 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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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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