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.
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(The Ada bindings probably need it too, but all the
obvious places to change say "do not edit this file".)
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and make PATypeHolder work with null pointers.
The implicitly generated one didn't work on numerous levels, but was still
accepted, allowing all sorts of bugs with default constructed pa type holders.
Previously, they "sort of" worked if they were default constructed and then
destructed. Now they really work, and you can even default construct one,
then assign to it, amazing.
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Type::getInt{1,8,...}[Ptr]Ty, so code can consistently use the methods on Type
without occasionally needed to call IntegerType::get.
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static inline member function doit(). This enables the use of partial
specialization to override the last stage of the "isa" check.
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and T->isPointerTy(). Convert most instances of the first form to the second form.
Requested by Chris.
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failures.
To support this, add some utility functions to Type to help support
vector/scalar-independent code. Change ConstantInt::get and
ConstantFP::get to support vector types, and add an overload to
ConstantInt::get that uses a static IntegerType type, for
convenience.
Introduce a new getConstant method for ScalarEvolution, to simplify
common use cases.
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Also create isValidElementType for ArrayType, PointerType, StructType and
VectorType.
Make LLParser use them. This closes up some holes like an assertion failure on:
%x = type {label}
but largely doesn't change any semantics. The only thing we accept now which
we didn't before is vectors of opaque type such as "<4 x opaque>". The opaque
can be resolved to an int or float when linking.
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