patch brings numerous advantages to LLVM. One way to look at it
is through diffstat:
109 files changed, 3005 insertions(+), 5906 deletions(-)
Removing almost 3K lines of code is a good thing. Other advantages
include:
1. Value::getType() is a simple load that can be CSE'd, not a mutating
union-find operation.
2. Types a uniqued and never move once created, defining away PATypeHolder.
3. Structs can be "named" now, and their name is part of the identity that
uniques them. This means that the compiler doesn't merge them structurally
which makes the IR much less confusing.
4. Now that there is no way to get a cycle in a type graph without a named
struct type, "upreferences" go away.
5. Type refinement is completely gone, which should make LTO much MUCH faster
in some common cases with C++ code.
6. Types are now generally immutable, so we can use "Type *" instead
"const Type *" everywhere.
Downsides of this patch are that it removes some functions from the C API,
so people using those will have to upgrade to (not yet added) new API.
"LLVM 3.0" is the right time to do this.
There are still some cleanups pending after this, this patch is large enough
as-is.
llvm-svn: 134829
This is a minor extension of SROA to handle a special case that is
important for some ARM NEON operations. Some of the NEON intrinsics
return multiple values, which are handled as struct types containing
multiple elements of the same vector type. The corresponding return
types declared in the arm_neon.h header have equivalent arrays. We
need SROA to recognize that it can split up those arrays and structs
into separate vectors, even though they are not always accessed with
the same type. SROA already handles loads and stores of an entire
alloca by using insertvalue/extractvalue to access the individual
pieces, and that code works the same regardless of whether the type
is a struct or an array. So, all that needs to be done is to check
for compatible arrays and homogeneous structs.
llvm-svn: 123381
SROA only split up structs and arrays one level at a time, so padding can
only cause trouble if it is located in between the struct or array elements.
llvm-svn: 123380
input filename so that opt doesn't print the input filename in the
output so that grep lines in the tests don't unintentionally match
strings in the input filename.
llvm-svn: 81537
integer and floating-point opcodes, introducing
FAdd, FSub, and FMul.
For now, the AsmParser, BitcodeReader, and IRBuilder all preserve
backwards compatability, and the Core LLVM APIs preserve backwards
compatibility for IR producers. Most front-ends won't need to change
immediately.
This implements the first step of the plan outlined here:
http://nondot.org/sabre/LLVMNotes/IntegerOverflow.txt
llvm-svn: 72897
loads from allocas that cover the entire aggregate. This handles
some memcpy/byval cases that are produced by llvm-gcc. This triggers
a few times in kc++ (with std::pair<std::_Rb_tree_const_iterator
<kc::impl_abstract_phylum*>,bool>) and once in 176.gcc (with %struct..0anon).
llvm-svn: 61915
integer to a (transitive) bitcast the alloca and if that integer
has the full size of the alloca, then it clobbers the whole thing.
Handle this by extracting pieces out of the stored integer and
filing them away in the SROA'd elements.
This triggers fairly frequently because the CFE uses integers to
pass small structs by value and the inliner exposes these. For
example, in kimwitu++, I see a bunch of these with i64 stores to
"%struct.std::pair<std::_Rb_tree_const_iterator<kc::impl_abstract_phylum*>,bool>"
In 176.gcc I see a few i32 stores to "%struct..0anon".
In the testcase, this is a difference between compiling test1 to:
_test1:
subl $12, %esp
movl 20(%esp), %eax
movl %eax, 4(%esp)
movl 16(%esp), %eax
movl %eax, (%esp)
movl (%esp), %eax
addl 4(%esp), %eax
addl $12, %esp
ret
vs:
_test1:
movl 8(%esp), %eax
addl 4(%esp), %eax
ret
The second half of this will be to handle loads of the same form.
llvm-svn: 61853
Chris Lattner