llvm-6502/lib/Analysis
Hal Finkel 8ef7b17dfc Add @llvm.assume, lowering, and some basic properties
This is the first commit in a series that add an @llvm.assume intrinsic which
can be used to provide the optimizer with a condition it may assume to be true
(when the control flow would hit the intrinsic call). Some basic properties are added here:

 - llvm.invariant(true) is dead.
 - llvm.invariant(false) is unreachable (this directly corresponds to the
   documented behavior of MSVC's __assume(0)), so is llvm.invariant(undef).

The intrinsic is tagged as writing arbitrarily, in order to maintain control
dependencies. BasicAA has been updated, however, to return NoModRef for any
particular location-based query so that we don't unnecessarily block code
motion.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@213973 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2014-07-25 21:13:35 +00:00
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IPA
AliasAnalysis.cpp AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
AliasAnalysisCounter.cpp
AliasAnalysisEvaluator.cpp AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
AliasDebugger.cpp
AliasSetTracker.cpp AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
Analysis.cpp Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp Add @llvm.assume, lowering, and some basic properties 2014-07-25 21:13:35 +00:00
BlockFrequencyInfo.cpp
BlockFrequencyInfoImpl.cpp
BranchProbabilityInfo.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
CaptureTracking.cpp Match semantics of PointerMayBeCapturedBefore to its name by default 2014-07-21 21:30:22 +00:00
CFG.cpp
CFGPrinter.cpp
CGSCCPassManager.cpp
CMakeLists.txt Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
CodeMetrics.cpp
ConstantFolding.cpp
CostModel.cpp
Delinearization.cpp
DependenceAnalysis.cpp
DominanceFrontier.cpp
DomPrinter.cpp
InstCount.cpp
InstructionSimplify.cpp
Interval.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
IntervalPartition.cpp
IVUsers.cpp
JumpInstrTableInfo.cpp
LazyCallGraph.cpp
LazyValueInfo.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
LibCallAliasAnalysis.cpp
LibCallSemantics.cpp
Lint.cpp
LLVMBuild.txt
Loads.cpp AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
LoopInfo.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
LoopPass.cpp
Makefile
MemDepPrinter.cpp
MemoryBuiltins.cpp
MemoryDependenceAnalysis.cpp AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
ModuleDebugInfoPrinter.cpp
NoAliasAnalysis.cpp
PHITransAddr.cpp
PostDominators.cpp
PtrUseVisitor.cpp
README.txt
RegionInfo.cpp
RegionPass.cpp
RegionPrinter.cpp
ScalarEvolution.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
ScalarEvolutionAliasAnalysis.cpp AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
ScalarEvolutionExpander.cpp
ScalarEvolutionNormalization.cpp
ScopedNoAliasAA.cpp Simplify and improve scoped-noalias metadata semantics 2014-07-25 15:50:02 +00:00
SparsePropagation.cpp
TargetTransformInfo.cpp Add @llvm.assume, lowering, and some basic properties 2014-07-25 21:13:35 +00:00
Trace.cpp
TypeBasedAliasAnalysis.cpp Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
ValueTracking.cpp Make use of the align parameter attribute for all pointer arguments 2014-07-22 16:58:55 +00:00

Analysis Opportunities:

//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//

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.

//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//

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))

//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//