Add support to ValueTracking for determining that a pointer is non-null

by virtue of inbounds GEPs that preclude a null pointer.

This is a very common pattern in the code generated by std::vector and
other standard library routines which use allocators that test for null
pervasively. This is one step closer to teaching Clang+LLVM to be able
to produce an empty function for:

  void f() {
    std::vector<int> v;
    v.push_back(1);
    v.push_back(2);
    v.push_back(3);
    v.push_back(4);
  }

Which is related to getting them to completely fold SmallVector
push_back sequences into constants when inlining and other optimizations
make that a possibility.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@169573 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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Chandler Carruth
2012-12-07 02:08:58 +00:00
parent b02ed5b8ea
commit 70d3bebc8b
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@@ -165,6 +165,46 @@ entry:
ret i1 %cmp
}
define i1 @gep13(i8* %ptr) {
; CHECK: @gep13
; We can prove this GEP is non-null because it is inbounds.
%x = getelementptr inbounds i8* %ptr, i32 1
%cmp = icmp eq i8* %x, null
ret i1 %cmp
; CHECK-NEXT: ret i1 false
}
define i1 @gep14({ {}, i8 }* %ptr) {
; CHECK: @gep14
; We can't simplify this because the offset of one in the GEP actually doesn't
; move the pointer.
%x = getelementptr inbounds { {}, i8 }* %ptr, i32 0, i32 1
%cmp = icmp eq i8* %x, null
ret i1 %cmp
; CHECK-NOT: ret i1 false
}
define i1 @gep15({ {}, [4 x {i8, i8}]}* %ptr, i32 %y) {
; CHECK: @gep15
; We can prove this GEP is non-null even though there is a user value, as we
; would necessarily violate inbounds on one side or the other.
%x = getelementptr inbounds { {}, [4 x {i8, i8}]}* %ptr, i32 0, i32 1, i32 %y, i32 1
%cmp = icmp eq i8* %x, null
ret i1 %cmp
; CHECK-NEXT: ret i1 false
}
define i1 @gep16(i8* %ptr, i32 %a) {
; CHECK: @gep16
; We can prove this GEP is non-null because it is inbounds and because we know
; %b is non-zero even though we don't know its value.
%b = or i32 %a, 1
%x = getelementptr inbounds i8* %ptr, i32 %b
%cmp = icmp eq i8* %x, null
ret i1 %cmp
; CHECK-NEXT: ret i1 false
}
define i1 @zext(i32 %x) {
; CHECK: @zext
%e1 = zext i32 %x to i64