With opaque pointers, we cannot use the pointer element type to
determine the LocationSize for the AA query. Instead, -aa-eval
tests are now required to have an explicit load or store for any
pointer they want to compute alias results for, and the load/store
types are used to determine the location size.
This may affect ordering of results, and sorting within one result,
as the type is not considered part of the sorted string anymore.
To somewhat minimize the churn, printing still uses faux typed
pointer notation.
GEP indices larger than the GEP index size are implicitly truncated
to the index size. BasicAA currently doesn't model this, resulting
in incorrect alias analysis results.
Fix this by explicitly modelling truncation in CastedValue in the
same way we do zext and sext. Additionally we need to disable a
number of optimizations for truncated values, in particular
"non-zero" and "non-equal" may no longer hold after truncation.
I believe the constant offset heuristic is also not necessarily
correct for truncated values, but wasn't able to come up with a
test for that one.
A possible followup here would be to use the new mechanism to
model explicit trunc as well (which should be much more common,
as it is the canonical form). This is straightforward, but omitted
here to separate the correctness fix from the analysis improvement.
(Side note: While I say "index size" above, BasicAA currently uses
the pointer size instead. Something for another day...)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D110977
BasicAA GEP decomposition currently performs all calculation on the
maximum pointer size, but at least 64-bit, with an option to double
the size. The code comment claims that this improves analysis power
when working with uint64_t indices on 32-bit systems. However, I don't
see how this can be, at least while maintaining correctness:
When working on canonical code, the GEP indices will have GEP index
size. If the original code worked on uint64_t with a 32-bit size_t,
then there will be truncs inserted before use as a GEP index. Linear
expression decomposition does not look through truncs, so this will
be an opaque value as far as GEP decomposition is concerned. Working
on a wider pointer size does not help here (or have any effect at all).
When working on non-canonical code (before first InstCombine), the
GEP indices are implicitly truncated to GEP index size. The BasicAA
code currently just ignores this fact completely, and pretends that
this truncation doesn't happen. This is incorrect and will be
addressed by D110977.
I believe that for correctness reasons, it is important to work on
the actual GEP index size to properly model potential overflow.
BasicAA tries to patch over the fact that it uses the wrong size
(see adjustToPointerSize), but it only does that in limited cases
(only for constant values, and not all of them either). I'd like to
move this code towards always working on the correct size, and
dropping these artificial pointer size adjustments is the first step
towards that.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D110657
This patch additional tests with i64 GEP indices for 32 bit pointers.
@mustalias_overflow_in_32_bit_add_mul_gep highlights a case where
BasicAA currently incorrectly determines noalias.
Modeled in Alive2 for 32 bit pointers: https://alive2.llvm.org/ce/z/HHjQgb
Modeled in Alive2 for 64 bit pointers: https://alive2.llvm.org/ce/z/DoWK2c
Nikita Popov