This is almost purely NFC, it just fits more obviously in the flow of the code now that we've standardized on the index different approach. The non-NFC bit is that because of canceling the VariableOffsets in the subtract, we can now handle the case where both sides involve a common variable offset. This isn't an "interesting" improvement; it just happens to fall out of the natural code structure.
One subtle point - the placement of this above the BaseAlias check is important in the original code as this can return NoAlias even when we can't find a relation between the bases otherwise.
Also added some enhancement TODOs noticed while understanding the existing code.
Note: This is slightly different than the LGTMed version. I fixed the "inbounds" issue Nikita noticed with the original code in e6e5ef4 and rebased this to include the same fix.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97520
This was pointed out in review of D97520 by Nikita, but existed in the original code as well.
The basic issue is that a decomposed GEP expression describes (potentially) more than one getelementptr. The "inbounds" derived UB which justifies this aliasing rule requires that the entire offset be composed of "inbounds" geps. Otherwise, as can be seen in the recently added and changes in this patch test, we can end up with a large commulative offset with only a small sub-offset actually being "inbounds". If that small sub-offset lies within the object, the result was unsound.
We could potentially be fancier here, but for the moment, simply be conservative when any of the GEPs parsed aren't inbounds.
The size requirement on V2 was present because it was not clear
whether an unknown size would allow an access before the start of
V2, which could then overlap. This is clarified since D91649: In
this part of BasicAA, all accesses can occur only after the base
pointer, even if they have unknown size.
This makes the positive and negative offset cases symmetric.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91482
r270777 improved the precision of alloca vs. inbounbds GEP alias queries: if
we have (a) an inbounds GEP and (b) a pointer based on an alloca, and the
beginning of the object the GEP points to would have a negative offset with
respect to the alloca, then the GEP can not alias pointer (b).
This makes the same logic fire when (b) is based on a GlobalVariable instead
of an alloca.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20652
llvm-svn: 270893
If a we have (a) a GEP and (b) a pointer based on an alloca, and the
beginning of the object the GEP points would have a negative offset with
repsect to the alloca, then the GEP can not alias pointer (b).
For example, consider code like:
struct { int f0, int f1, ...} foo;
...
foo alloca;
foo *random = bar(alloca);
int *f0 = &alloca.f0
int *f1 = &random->f1;
Which is lowered, approximately, to:
%alloca = alloca %struct.foo
%random = call %struct.foo* @random(%struct.foo* %alloca)
%f0 = getelementptr inbounds %struct, %struct.foo* %alloca, i32 0, i32 0
%f1 = getelementptr inbounds %struct, %struct.foo* %random, i32 0, i32 1
Assume %f1 and %f0 alias. Then %f1 would point into the object allocated
by %alloca. Since the %f1 GEP is inbounds, that means %random must also
point into the same object. But since %f0 points to the beginning of %alloca,
the highest %f1 can be is (%alloca + 3). This means %random can not be higher
than (%alloca - 1), and so is not inbounds, a contradiction.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20495
llvm-svn: 270777
Philip Reames