Currently LLVM is relying on ValueTracking's `isKnownNonZero` to attach `nonnull`, which can return true when the value is poison.
To make the semantics of `nonnull` consistent with the behavior of `isKnownNonZero`, this makes the semantics of `nonnull` to accept poison, and return poison if the input pointer isn't null.
This makes many transformations like below legal:
```
%p = gep inbounds %x, 1 ; % p is non-null pointer or poison
call void @f(%p) ; instcombine converts this to call void @f(nonnull %p)
```
Instead, this semantics makes propagation of `nonnull` to caller illegal.
The reason is that, passing poison to `nonnull` does not immediately raise UB anymore, so such program is still well defined, if the callee does not use the argument.
Having `noundef` attribute there re-allows this.
```
define void @f(i8* %p) { ; functionattr cannot mark %p nonnull here anymore
call void @g(i8* nonnull %p) ; .. because @g never raises UB if it never uses %p.
ret void
}
```
Another attribute that needs to be updated is `align`. This patch updates the semantics of align to accept poison as well.
Reviewed By: jdoerfert
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90529
If a call argument has the "returned" attribute, we can simplify
the call to the value of that argument. The "-inst-simplify" pass
already handled this for the constant integer argument case via
known bits, which is invoked in SimplifyInstruction. However,
non-constant (or non-int) arguments are not handled at all right now.
This addresses one of the regressions from D75801.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75815
If the pointer was loaded/stored before the null check, the check
is redundant and can be removed. For now the optimizers do not
remove the nullptr check, see https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/H2r5GG.
The patch allows to use more nonnull constraints. Also, it found
one more optimization in some PowerPC test. This is my first llvm
review, I am free to any comments.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71177
Summary:
Patch for capture tracking broke
bootstrap of clang with -fstict-vtable-pointers
which resulted in debbugging nightmare. It was fixed
https://reviews.llvm.org/D46900 but as it turned
out, there were other parts like inliner (computing of
noalias metadata) that I found after bootstraping with enabled
assertions.
Reviewers: hfinkel, rsmith, chandlerc, amharc, kuhar
Subscribers: JDevlieghere, eraman, llvm-commits, hiraditya
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47088
llvm-svn: 333070
Juneyoung Lee