llvm-6502/include/llvm/Analysis/Loads.h
Chris Lattner 5161de6ebb enhance jump threading to preserve TBAA information when PRE'ing loads,
fixing rdar://11039258, an issue that came up when inspecting clang's 
bootstrapped codegen.


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//===- Loads.h - Local load analysis --------------------------------------===//
//
// The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
//
// This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// This file declares simple local analyses for load instructions.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
#ifndef LLVM_ANALYSIS_LOADS_H
#define LLVM_ANALYSIS_LOADS_H
#include "llvm/BasicBlock.h"
namespace llvm {
class AliasAnalysis;
class TargetData;
class MDNode;
/// isSafeToLoadUnconditionally - Return true if we know that executing a load
/// from this value cannot trap. If it is not obviously safe to load from the
/// specified pointer, we do a quick local scan of the basic block containing
/// ScanFrom, to determine if the address is already accessed.
bool isSafeToLoadUnconditionally(Value *V, Instruction *ScanFrom,
unsigned Align, const TargetData *TD = 0);
/// FindAvailableLoadedValue - Scan the ScanBB block backwards (starting at
/// the instruction before ScanFrom) checking to see if we have the value at
/// the memory address *Ptr locally available within a small number of
/// instructions. If the value is available, return it.
///
/// If not, return the iterator for the last validated instruction that the
/// value would be live through. If we scanned the entire block and didn't
/// find something that invalidates *Ptr or provides it, ScanFrom would be
/// left at begin() and this returns null. ScanFrom could also be left
///
/// MaxInstsToScan specifies the maximum instructions to scan in the block.
/// If it is set to 0, it will scan the whole block. You can also optionally
/// specify an alias analysis implementation, which makes this more precise.
///
/// If TBAATag is non-null and a load or store is found, the TBAA tag from the
/// load or store is recorded there. If there is no TBAA tag or if no access
/// is found, it is left unmodified.
Value *FindAvailableLoadedValue(Value *Ptr, BasicBlock *ScanBB,
BasicBlock::iterator &ScanFrom,
unsigned MaxInstsToScan = 6,
AliasAnalysis *AA = 0,
MDNode **TBAATag = 0);
}
#endif