90da61634a
This change only matters when MLIR function inlining kicks in,
and I am still just experimenting with this.
The added LIT test shows the particular example where the current
TBAA assignment is incorrect:
```
subroutine bar(this)
...
end subroutine bar
function foo() result(res)
type(t) :: res
call bar(res)
end function foo
subroutine test(arg)
! %0 = fir.alloca !fir.type<_QMmTt{x:f32}> {bindc_name = ".result"}
type(t) :: var
var = foo()
! fir.save_result foo's result to %0 (temp-alloca)
! fir.declare %0 {uniq_name = ".tmp.func_result"}
! load from %0 -> store into var
arg = var%x
end subroutine test
```
One way for FIR inlining to handle `foo()` call is to substitute
all uses of the `res` alloca (inside `foo`) with uses of the temp-alloca
(inside `test`). This means that the temp-alloca is then used
by the code inside bar (e.g. to store something into it).
After the inlining, the innermost dominating fir.dummy_scope
for `fir.declare %0` is the one from `bar`. If we use this scope
for assigning TBAA to the load from temp-alloca, then it will be
in the same TBAA tree as the stores into `this` inside `bar`.
The load and the stores will have different sub-trees, because
`this` is a dummy argument, and temp-alloca is a local allocation.
So they will appear as non-conflicting while they are accessing
the same memory.
This change makes sure that all local allocations always
use the outermost scope.
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