Record internal state based on register units. This is often more
efficient as there are typically fewer register units to update
compared to iterating over all the aliases of a register.
Original patch by Matthias Braun, but I've been rebasing and fixing it
for almost 2 years and fixed a few bugs causing intermediate failures
to make this patch independent of the changes in
https://reviews.llvm.org/D52010.
We allocated a suitably aligned frame index so we know that all the values
have ABI alignment.
For MIPS this avoids using pair of lwl + lwr instructions instead of a
single lw. I found this when compiling CHERI pure capability code where
we can't use the lwl/lwr unaligned loads/stores and and were to falling
back to a byte load + shift + or sequence.
This should save a few instructions for MIPS and possibly other backends
that don't have fast unaligned loads/stores.
It also improves code generation for CodeGen/X86/pr34653.ll and
CodeGen/WebAssembly/offset.ll since they can now use aligned loads.
Reviewed By: efriedma
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78999
SelectionDAGBuilder currently doesn't propagate the known alignment of
the sret parameter. This is inefficient for MIPS and highly inefficient for
our out-of-tree CHERI-extended MIPS since we don't have lwl/lwr so fall back
to byte loads for align == 1.
Matt Arsenault