If we don't know anything about the alignment of a pointer, Align(1) is
still correct: all pointers are at least 1-byte aligned.
Included in this patch is a bugfix for an issue discovered during this
cleanup: pointers with "dereferenceable" attributes/metadata were
assumed to be aligned according to the type of the pointer. This
wasn't intentional, as far as I can tell, so Loads.cpp was fixed to
stop making this assumption. Frontends may need to be updated. I
updated clang's handling of C++ references, and added a release note for
this.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D80072
In case LLVM pointers are annotated with !dereferencable attributes/metadata
or LLVM can look at the allocation from which a pointer is derived, we can know
that dereferencing pointers is safe and can be done unconditionally. We use this
information to proof certain pointers as save to hoist and then hoist them
unconditionally.
llvm-svn: 297375
Eli Friedman