Sanjoy Das 5b5782c20e [RewriteStatepointsForGC] Fix a bug on creating gc_relocate for pointer to vector of pointers
Summary:
In RewriteStatepointsForGC pass, we create a gc_relocate intrinsic for
each relocated pointer, and the gc_relocate has the same type with the
pointer. During the creation of gc_relocate intrinsic, llvm requires to
mangle its type. However, llvm does not support mangling of all possible
types. RewriteStatepointsForGC will hit an assertion failure when it
tries to create a gc_relocate for pointer to vector of pointers because
mangling for vector of pointers is not supported.

This patch changes the way RewriteStatepointsForGC pass creates
gc_relocate. For each relocated pointer, we erase the type of pointers
and create an unified gc_relocate of type i8 addrspace(1)*. Then a
bitcast is inserted to convert the gc_relocate to the correct type. In
this way, gc_relocate does not need to deal with different types of
pointers and the unsupported type mangling is no longer a problem. This
change would also ease further merge when LLVM erases types of pointers
and introduces an unified pointer type.

Some minor changes are also introduced to gc_relocate related part in
InstCombineCalls, CodeGenPrepare, and Verifier accordingly.

Patch by Chen Li!

Reviewers: reames, AndyAyers, sanjoy

Reviewed By: sanjoy

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9592

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@237009 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2015-05-11 18:49:34 +00:00
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