Add a function computeRegisterLiveness() to MachineBasicBlock. This uses analyzePhysReg() from r163694 to heuristically try and determine the liveness state of a physical register upon arrival at a particular instruction in a block.

The search for liveness is clipped to a specific number of instructions around the target MachineInstr, in order to avoid degenerating into an O(N^2) algorithm. It tries to use various clues about how instructions around (both before and after) a given MachineInstr use that register, to determine its state at the MachineInstr.



git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@163695 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineBasicBlock.h

@@ -547,6 +547,28 @@ public:
     return findDebugLoc(MBBI.getInstrIterator());
   }
 
+  /// Possible outcome of a register liveness query to computeRegisterLiveness()
+  enum LivenessQueryResult {
+    LQR_Live,            ///< Register is known to be live.
+    LQR_OverlappingLive, ///< Register itself is not live, but some overlapping
+                         ///< register is.
+    LQR_Dead,            ///< Register is known to be dead.
+    LQR_Unknown          ///< Register liveness not decidable from local
+                         ///< neighborhood.
+  };
+
+  /// computeRegisterLiveness - Return whether (physical) register \c Reg
+  /// has been <def>ined and not <kill>ed as of just before \c MI.
+  /// 
+  /// Search is localised to a neighborhood of
+  /// \c Neighborhood instructions before (searching for defs or kills) and
+  /// Neighborhood instructions after (searching just for defs) MI.
+  ///
+  /// \c Reg must be a physical register.
+  LivenessQueryResult computeRegisterLiveness(const TargetRegisterInfo *TRI,
+                                              unsigned Reg, MachineInstr *MI,
+                                              unsigned Neighborhood=10);
+
   // Debugging methods.
   void dump() const;
   void print(raw_ostream &OS, SlotIndexes* = 0) const;