llvm/test/Analysis
Hal Finkel b9ce60ff09 [BasicAA] Revert "Revert r218714 - Make better use of zext and sign information."
This reverts r218944, which reverted r218714, plus a bug fix.

Description of the bug in r218714 (by Nick)

The original patch forgot to check if the Scale in VariableGEPIndex flipped the
sign of the variable. The BasicAA pass iterates over the instructions in the
order they appear in the function, and so BasicAliasAnalysis::aliasGEP is
called with the variable it first comes across as parameter GEP1. Adding a
%reorder label puts the definition of %a after %b so aliasGEP is called with %b
as the first parameter and %a as the second. aliasGEP later calculates that %a
== %b + 1 - %idxprom where %idxprom >= 0 (if %a was passed as the first
parameter it would calculate %b == %a - 1 + %idxprom where %idxprom >= 0) -
ignoring that %idxprom is scaled by -1 here lead the patch to incorrectly
conclude that %a > %b.

Revised patch by Nick White, thanks! Thanks to Lang to isolating the bug.
Slightly modified by me to add an early exit from the loop and avoid
unnecessary, but expensive, function calls.

Original commit message:

Two related things:

 1. Fixes a bug when calculating the offset in GetLinearExpression. The code
    previously used zext to extend the offset, so negative offsets were converted
    to large positive ones.

 2. Enhance aliasGEP to deduce that, if the difference between two GEP
    allocations is positive and all the variables that govern the offset are also
    positive (i.e. the offset is strictly after the higher base pointer), then
    locations that fit in the gap between the two base pointers are NoAlias.

Patch by Nick White!

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@219135 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2014-10-06 18:37:59 +00:00
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BasicAA [BasicAA] Revert "Revert r218714 - Make better use of zext and sign information." 2014-10-06 18:37:59 +00:00
BlockFrequencyInfo
BranchProbabilityInfo
CallGraph
CFLAliasAnalysis [CFL-AA] Update for handling of globals and more tests 2014-10-06 14:42:56 +00:00
CostModel AVX-512: added cost for some AVX-512 instructions 2014-09-16 07:57:37 +00:00
Delinearization
DependenceAnalysis
Dominators
GlobalsModRef Move the complex address expression out of DIVariable and into an extra 2014-10-01 18:55:02 +00:00
LazyCallGraph
Lint
LoopInfo
MemoryDependenceAnalysis
PostDominators
RegionInfo
ScalarEvolution Make use @llvm.assume for loop guards in ScalarEvolution 2014-09-07 21:37:59 +00:00
ScopedNoAliasAA Convert noalias parameter attributes into noalias metadata during inlining 2014-07-25 15:50:08 +00:00
TypeBasedAliasAnalysis AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00