Reapply r131781 (revert r131809), now that some BasicAA shortcomings

it exposed are fixed.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@132611 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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Dan Gohman
2011-06-04 00:46:31 +00:00
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@ -944,7 +944,17 @@ BasicAliasAnalysis::aliasGEP(const GEPOperator *GEP1, uint64_t V1Size,
return NoAlias;
}
return MayAlias;
// Statically, we can see that the base objects are the same, but the
// pointers have dynamic offsets which we can't resolve. And none of our
// little tricks above worked.
//
// TODO: Returning PartialAlias instead of MayAlias is a mild hack; the
// practical effect of this is protecting TBAA in the case of dynamic
// indices into arrays of unions. An alternative way to solve this would
// be to have clang emit extra metadata for unions and/or union accesses.
// A union-specific solution wouldn't handle the problem for malloc'd
// memory however.
return PartialAlias;
}
static AliasAnalysis::AliasResult