llvm/lib/Analysis
Andrea Di Biagio 56a5661c60 [ConstantFolding] Fix wrong folding of intrinsic 'convert.from.fp16'.
Function 'ConstantFoldScalarCall' (in ConstantFolding.cpp) works under the
wrong assumption that a call to 'convert.from.fp16' returns a value of
type 'float'.
However, intrinsic 'convert.from.fp16' can be overloaded; for example, we
can call 'convert.from.fp16.f64' to convert from half to double; etc.

Before this patch, the following example would have triggered an assertion
failure in opt (with -constprop):

```
define double @foo() {
entry:
  %0 = call double @llvm.convert.from.fp16.f64(i16 0)
  ret double %0
}
```

This patch fixes the problem in ConstantFolding.cpp. When folding a call to
convert.from.fp16, we perform a different kind of conversion based on the call
return type.

Added test 'Transform/ConstProp/convert-from-fp16.ll'.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9771


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@237377 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2015-05-14 18:01:48 +00:00
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2015-03-16 17:49:03 +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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