llvm-6502/lib/Transforms
Hal Finkel 5ecf528fc2 [InstCombine] Remove unnecessary variable indexing into single-element arrays
This change addresses a deficiency pointed out in PR22629. To copy from the bug
report:

[from the bug report]

Consider this code:

int f(int x) {
  int a[] = {12};
  return a[x];
}

GCC knows to optimize this to

movl     $12, %eax
ret

The code generated by recent Clang at -O3 is:

movslq   %edi, %rax
movl     .L_ZZ1fiE1a(,%rax,4), %eax
retq

.L_ZZ1fiE1a:
  .long    12                      # 0xc

[end from the bug report]

This definitely seems worth fixing. I've also seen this kind of code before (as
the base case of generic vector wrapper templates with one element).

The general idea is to look at the GEP feeding a load or a store, which has
some variable as its first non-zero index, and determine if that index must be
zero (or else an out-of-bounds access would occur). We can do this for allocas
and globals with constant initializers where we know the maximum size of the
underlying object. When we find such a GEP, we create a new one for the memory
access with that first variable index replaced with a constant zero.

Even if we can't eliminate the memory access (and sometimes we can't), it is
still useful because it removes unnecessary indexing calculations.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@229959 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2015-02-20 03:05:53 +00:00
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Hello [CMake] Add LLVM_LINK_COMPONENTS to loadable modules, LLVMHello and BugpointPasses, on Win32. 2014-07-13 13:36:48 +00:00
InstCombine [InstCombine] Remove unnecessary variable indexing into single-element arrays 2015-02-20 03:05:53 +00:00
Instrumentation [sanitizer] when dumping the basic block trace, also dump the module names. Patch by Laszlo Szekeres 2015-02-20 00:30:44 +00:00
IPO [BDCE] Add a bit-tracking DCE pass 2015-02-17 01:36:59 +00:00
ObjCARC [objc-arc-contract] We can not move retains over instructions which can not conservatively be proven to not decrement the retain's RCIdentity. 2015-02-20 00:02:49 +00:00
Scalar Adjust enablement of RewriteStatepointsForGC 2015-02-20 02:34:49 +00:00
Utils SSAUpdater: Use range-based for. NFC. 2015-02-19 20:04:02 +00:00
Vectorize [LoopAccesses] Change LAA:getInfo to return a constant reference 2015-02-19 19:15:21 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt Extracted ObjCARC.cpp into its own library libLLVMObjCARCOpts in preparation for refactoring the ARC Optimizer. 2013-01-28 01:35:51 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt Extracted ObjCARC.cpp into its own library libLLVMObjCARCOpts in preparation for refactoring the ARC Optimizer. 2013-01-28 01:35:51 +00:00
Makefile Extracted ObjCARC.cpp into its own library libLLVMObjCARCOpts in preparation for refactoring the ARC Optimizer. 2013-01-28 01:35:51 +00:00