Adam Nemet e11d1d2c31 [LAA] Try to prove non-wrapping of pointers if SCEV cannot
Summary:
Scalar evolution does not propagate the non-wrapping flags to values
that are derived from a non-wrapping induction variable because
the non-wrapping property could be flow-sensitive.

This change is a first attempt to establish the non-wrapping property in
some simple cases.  The main idea is to look through the operations
defining the pointer.  As long as we arrive to a non-wrapping AddRec via
a small chain of non-wrapping instruction, the pointer should not wrap
either.

I believe that this essentially is what Andy described in
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.cvs/220731 as the way
forward.

Reviewers: aschwaighofer, nadav, sanjoy, atrick

Reviewed By: atrick

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10472

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@240798 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2015-06-26 17:25:43 +00:00
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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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