llvm-6502/test/Analysis
Adrian Prantl 02474a32eb Move the complex address expression out of DIVariable and into an extra
argument of the llvm.dbg.declare/llvm.dbg.value intrinsics.

Previously, DIVariable was a variable-length field that has an optional
reference to a Metadata array consisting of a variable number of
complex address expressions. In the case of OpPiece expressions this is
wasting a lot of storage in IR, because when an aggregate type is, e.g.,
SROA'd into all of its n individual members, the IR will contain n copies
of the DIVariable, all alike, only differing in the complex address
reference at the end.

By making the complex address into an extra argument of the
dbg.value/dbg.declare intrinsics, all of the pieces can reference the
same variable and the complex address expressions can be uniqued across
the CU, too.
Down the road, this will allow us to move other flags, such as
"indirection" out of the DIVariable, too.

The new intrinsics look like this:
declare void @llvm.dbg.declare(metadata %storage, metadata %var, metadata %expr)
declare void @llvm.dbg.value(metadata %storage, i64 %offset, metadata %var, metadata %expr)

This patch adds a new LLVM-local tag to DIExpressions, so we can detect
and pretty-print DIExpression metadata nodes.

What this patch doesn't do:

This patch does not touch the "Indirect" field in DIVariable; but moving
that into the expression would be a natural next step.

http://reviews.llvm.org/D4919
rdar://problem/17994491

Thanks to dblaikie and dexonsmith for reviewing this patch!

Note: I accidentally committed a bogus older version of this patch previously.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@218787 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2014-10-01 18:55:02 +00:00
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BasicAA [BasicAA] Make better use of zext and sign information 2014-09-30 22:43:40 +00:00
BlockFrequencyInfo
BranchProbabilityInfo
CallGraph
CFLAliasAnalysis Add a CFL Alias Analysis implementation 2014-09-02 21:43:13 +00:00
CostModel AVX-512: added cost for some AVX-512 instructions 2014-09-16 07:57:37 +00:00
Delinearization
DependenceAnalysis
Dominators
GlobalsModRef Move the complex address expression out of DIVariable and into an extra 2014-10-01 18:55:02 +00:00
LazyCallGraph
Lint
LoopInfo
MemoryDependenceAnalysis
PostDominators
RegionInfo
ScalarEvolution Make use @llvm.assume for loop guards in ScalarEvolution 2014-09-07 21:37:59 +00:00
ScopedNoAliasAA Convert noalias parameter attributes into noalias metadata during inlining 2014-07-25 15:50:08 +00:00
TypeBasedAliasAnalysis AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00