This patch does the following things:
1. update SymbolicallyEvaluateGEP so that it bails out if it cannot preserve inrange arribute;
2. update llvm/test/Analysis/ConstantFolding/gep.ll to remove UB in it;
3. remove inaccurate comment above ConstantFoldInstOperandsImpl in llvm/lib/Analysis/ConstantFolding.cpp;
4. add a new regression test that makes sure that no optimizations change an inrange GEP in an unexpected way.
Patch by Zhaomo Yang!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51698
llvm-svn: 341888
If the inrange keyword is present before any index, loading from or
storing to any pointer derived from the getelementptr has undefined
behavior if the load or store would access memory outside of the bounds of
the element selected by the index marked as inrange.
This can be used, e.g. for alias analysis or to split globals at element
boundaries where beneficial.
As previously proposed on llvm-dev:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-July/102472.html
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22793
llvm-svn: 286514
Peter Collingbourne