If a loop is not rotated (for example when optimizing for size), the latch is not the backedge. If we promote an expression to post-inc form, we not only increase register pressure and add a COPY for that IV expression but for all IVs!
Motivating testcase:
void f(float *a, float *b, float *c, int n) {
while (n-- > 0)
*c++ = *a++ + *b++;
}
It's imperative that the pointer increments be located in the latch block and not the header block; if not, we cannot use post-increment loads and stores and we have to keep both the post-inc and pre-inc values around until the end of the latch which bloats register usage.
llvm-svn: 278658
James Molloy