patch brings numerous advantages to LLVM. One way to look at it
is through diffstat:
109 files changed, 3005 insertions(+), 5906 deletions(-)
Removing almost 3K lines of code is a good thing. Other advantages
include:
1. Value::getType() is a simple load that can be CSE'd, not a mutating
union-find operation.
2. Types a uniqued and never move once created, defining away PATypeHolder.
3. Structs can be "named" now, and their name is part of the identity that
uniques them. This means that the compiler doesn't merge them structurally
which makes the IR much less confusing.
4. Now that there is no way to get a cycle in a type graph without a named
struct type, "upreferences" go away.
5. Type refinement is completely gone, which should make LTO much MUCH faster
in some common cases with C++ code.
6. Types are now generally immutable, so we can use "Type *" instead
"const Type *" everywhere.
Downsides of this patch are that it removes some functions from the C API,
so people using those will have to upgrade to (not yet added) new API.
"LLVM 3.0" is the right time to do this.
There are still some cleanups pending after this, this patch is large enough
as-is.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@134829 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
Update the test suite to accommodate the change from signed integer types
to signless integer types. The changes were of only a few kinds:
1. Make sure llvm-upgrade is run on the source which does the bulk of the
changes automatically.
2. Change things like "grep 'int'" to "grep 'i32'"
3. In several tests bitcasting caused the same name to be reused in the
same type plane. These had to be manually fixed. The fix was (generally)
to leave the bitcast and provide the instruction with a new name. This
should not affect the semantics of the test. In a few cases, the
bitcasts were known to be superfluous and irrelevant to the test case
so they were removed.
4. One test case uses a bytecode file which needed to be updated to the
latest bytecode format.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@32789 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
