Dan Gohman 615da1a9bc Teach BasicAA to return PartialAlias in cases where both pointers
are pointing to the same object, one pointer is accessing the entire
object, and the other is access has a non-zero size. This prevents
TBAA from kicking in and saying NoAlias in such cases.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@123775 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2011-01-18 21:16:06 +00:00
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2011-01-11 17:11:59 +00:00
2010-12-16 02:55:10 +00:00

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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