llvm/lib/Analysis
Gerolf Hoflehner e513820659 [BasicAA] Fix - missed alias in GEP expressions
In BasicAA GEP operand values get adjusted ("wrap-around") based on the
pointersize. Otherwise, in non-64b modes, AA could report false negatives.
However, a wrap-around is valid only for a fully evaluated expression.
It had been introduced to fix an alias problem in
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20160118/326163.html.
This commit restricts the wrap-around to constant gep operands only where the
value is known at compile-time.



git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@284908 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2016-10-22 02:41:39 +00:00
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2016-08-25 01:29:55 +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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