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Summary: Make isGuaranteedToExecute use the isGuaranteedToTransferExecutionToSuccessor helper, and make that helper a bit more accurate. There's a potential performance impact here from assuming that arbitrary calls might not return. This probably has little impact on loads and stores to a pointer because most things alias analysis can reason about are dereferenceable anyway. The other impacts, like less aggressive hoisting of sdiv by a variable and less aggressive hoisting around volatile memory operations, are unlikely to matter for real code. This also impacts SCEV, which uses the same helper. It's a minor improvement there because we can tell that, for example, memcpy always returns normally. Strictly speaking, it's also introducing a bug, but it's not any worse than everywhere else we assume readonly functions terminate. Fixes http://llvm.org/PR27857. Reviewers: hfinkel, reames, chandlerc, sanjoy Subscribers: broune, llvm-commits Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21167 llvm-svn: 272489
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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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