llvm/lib/Analysis
George Burgess IV 274105b8b5 Add the allocsize attribute to LLVM.
`allocsize` is a function attribute that allows users to request that
LLVM treat arbitrary functions as allocation functions.

This patch makes LLVM accept the `allocsize` attribute, and makes
`@llvm.objectsize` recognize said attribute.

The review for this was split into two patches for ease of reviewing:
D18974 and D14933. As promised on the revisions, I'm landing both
patches as a single commit.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14933


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@266032 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2016-04-12 01:05:35 +00:00
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2016-03-08 20:53:48 +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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