Hal Finkel 1e3fa768c0 Revert "Revert r236894 "[BasicAA] Fix zext & sext handling""
r236894 caused PR23626 (Clang miscompiles webkit's base64 decoder), and was
reverted in r237984. This reapplies the patch with an additional test case for
PR23626 and the associated fix (both scales and offsets in the
BasicAliasAnalysis::constantOffsetHeuristic should initially be zero).

Patch by Nick White, thanks!

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@241981 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2015-07-11 11:04:54 +00:00
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Analysis Opportunities:

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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.

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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))

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