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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@ -3939,13 +3939,19 @@ const SCEV *ScalarEvolution::createSCEV(Value *V) {
//
/// 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. Will also return 0 if the maximum trip count is very large
/// (>= 2^32)
unsigned ScalarEvolution::getSmallConstantTripCount(Loop *L,
BasicBlock *ExitBlock) {
/// normal unsigned value. Returns 0 if the trip count is unknown or not
/// constant. Will also return 0 if the maximum trip count is very large (>=
/// 2^32).
///
/// 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 because the loop may exit
/// prematurely via another branch.
unsigned ScalarEvolution::
getSmallConstantTripCount(Loop *L, BasicBlock *ExitingBlock) {
const SCEVConstant *ExitCount =
dyn_cast<SCEVConstant>(getExitCount(L, ExitBlock));
dyn_cast<SCEVConstant>(getExitCount(L, ExitingBlock));
if (!ExitCount)
return 0;
@ -3968,9 +3974,12 @@ unsigned ScalarEvolution::getSmallConstantTripCount(Loop *L,
/// multiple of a constant (which is also the case if the trip count is simply
/// constant, use getSmallConstantTripCount for that case), Will also return 1
/// if the trip count is very large (>= 2^32).
unsigned ScalarEvolution::getSmallConstantTripMultiple(Loop *L,
BasicBlock *ExitBlock) {
const SCEV *ExitCount = getExitCount(L, ExitBlock);
///
/// As explained in the comments for getSmallConstantTripCount, this assumes
/// that control exits the loop via ExitingBlock.
unsigned ScalarEvolution::
getSmallConstantTripMultiple(Loop *L, BasicBlock *ExitingBlock) {
const SCEV *ExitCount = getExitCount(L, ExitingBlock);
if (ExitCount == getCouldNotCompute())
return 1;