llvm/lib/Analysis
Sanjoy Das 772fb1e0b6 [ValueTracking] Add a framework for encoding implication rules
Summary:
This change adds a framework for adding more smarts to
`isImpliedCondition` around inequalities.  Informally,
`isImpliedCondition` will now try to prove "A < B ==> C < D" by proving
"C <= A && B <= D", since then it follows "C <= A < B <= D".

While this change is in principle NFC, I could not think of a way to not
handle cases like "i +_nsw 1 < L ==> i < L +_nsw 1" (that ValueTracking
did not handle before) while keeping the change understandable.  I've
added tests for these cases.

Reviewers: reames, majnemer, hfinkel

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14368

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@252331 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2015-11-06 19:00:57 +00:00
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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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