llvm/lib/Analysis
Peter Collingbourne ca668e1942 IR: Introduce inrange attribute on getelementptr indices.
If the inrange keyword is present before any index, loading from or
storing to any pointer derived from the getelementptr has undefined
behavior if the load or store would access memory outside of the bounds of
the element selected by the index marked as inrange.

This can be used, e.g. for alias analysis or to split globals at element
boundaries where beneficial.

As previously proposed on llvm-dev:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-July/102472.html

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22793

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@286514 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2016-11-10 22:34:55 +00:00
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2016-08-25 01:29:55 +00:00
2016-07-28 23:31:12 +00:00
2016-04-18 09:17:29 +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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