Currently, we have some confusion in the codebase regarding the
meaning of LocationSize::unknown(): Some parts (including most of
BasicAA) assume that LocationSize::unknown() only allows accesses
after the base pointer. Some parts (various callers of AA) assume
that LocationSize::unknown() allows accesses both before and after
the base pointer (but within the underlying object).
This patch splits up LocationSize::unknown() into
LocationSize::afterPointer() and LocationSize::beforeOrAfterPointer()
to make this completely unambiguous. I tried my best to determine
which one is appropriate for all the existing uses.
The test changes in cs-cs.ll in particular illustrate a previously
clearly incorrect AA result: We were effectively assuming that
argmemonly functions were only allowed to access their arguments
after the passed pointer, but not before it. I'm pretty sure that
this was not intentional, and it's certainly not specified by
LangRef that way.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91649
This is the third patch in a series intended to make
https://reviews.llvm.org/D44748 more easily reviewable. Please see that
patch for more context. The second being r344013.
The intent is to make the output of printing a LocationSize more
precise. The main motivation for this is that we plan to add a bit to
distinguish whether a given LocationSize is an upper-bound or is
precise; making that information available in pretty-printing is nice.
llvm-svn: 344108
Nikita Popov