Chandler Carruth 84bcf93e0f Move the InstVisitor utility into VMCore where it belongs. It heavily
depends on the IR infrastructure, there is no sense in it being off in
Support land.

This is in preparation to start working to expand InstVisitor into more
special-purpose visitors that are still generic and can be re-used
across different passes. The expansion will go into the Analylis tree
though as nothing in VMCore needs it.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@168972 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2012-11-30 03:08:41 +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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