When determining NoAlias based on object size and dereferenceability
information, we can ignore frees for the same reason we can ignore
possible null pointers (if null is not a valid pointer): Actually
accessing the null pointer / freed pointer would be immediate UB,
and AA results are only valid under the assumption of an access.
This addresses a minor regression from D110745.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111028
This is conceptually part of e75a2dfe. This file contains both tests whose results don't change (with the right attributes added), and tests which fundementally regress with the current proposal. Doing the update took some care, thus the seperate change.
Here's the e75a2dfe context repeated:
There's a potential change in dereferenceability attribute semantics in the nearish future. See llvm-dev thread "RFC: Decomposing deref(N) into deref(N) + nofree" and D99100 for context.
This change simply adds appropriate attributes to tests to keep transform logic exercised under both old and new/proposed semantics. Note that for many of these cases, O3 would infer exactly these attributes on the test IR.
This change handles the idiomatic pattern of a dereferenceable object being passed to a call which can not free that memory. There's a couple other tests which need more one-off attention, they'll be handled in another change.
Summary:
We already use the fact that an object with known size X does not alias
another objection of size Y > X before. With this commit, we use
dereferenceability information to determine a lower bound for Y and not
only rely on the user provided query size.
The result for @global_and_deref_arg_2() and @local_and_deref_ret_2()
in test/Analysis/BasicAA/dereferenceable.ll improved with this patch.
Reviewers: asbirlea, chandlerc, hfinkel, sanjoy
Subscribers: hiraditya, bollu, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D66157
llvm-svn: 369786
Nikita Popov