Clarified the SCEV getSmallConstantTripCount interface with in-your-face comments.

This interface is misleading and dangerous, but it is actually what we need for unrolling.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@147926 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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Andrew Trick
2012-01-11 06:52:55 +00:00
parent 29a17145ad
commit 3eada319fc
2 changed files with 28 additions and 14 deletions

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@@ -730,16 +730,21 @@ namespace llvm {
const SCEV *LHS, const SCEV *RHS);
/// getSmallConstantTripCount - Returns the maximum trip count of this loop
/// as a normal unsigned value, if possible. Returns 0 if the trip count is
/// unknown or not constant.
unsigned getSmallConstantTripCount(Loop *L, BasicBlock *ExitBlock);
/// as a normal unsigned value. Returns 0 if the trip count is unknown or
/// not constant. This "trip count" assumes that control exits via
/// ExitingBlock. More precisely, it is the number of times that control may
/// reach ExitingBlock before taking the branch. For loops with multiple
/// exits, it may not be the number times that the loop header executes if
/// the loop exits prematurely via another branch.
unsigned getSmallConstantTripCount(Loop *L, BasicBlock *ExitingBlock);
/// getSmallConstantTripMultiple - Returns the largest constant divisor of
/// the trip count of this loop as a normal unsigned value, if
/// possible. This means that the actual trip count is always a multiple of
/// the returned value (don't forget the trip count could very well be zero
/// as well!).
unsigned getSmallConstantTripMultiple(Loop *L, BasicBlock *ExitBlock);
/// as well!). As explained in the comments for getSmallConstantTripCount,
/// this assumes that control exits the loop via ExitingBlock.
unsigned getSmallConstantTripMultiple(Loop *L, BasicBlock *ExitingBlock);
// getExitCount - Get the expression for the number of loop iterations for
// which this loop is guaranteed not to exit via ExitingBlock. Otherwise