will conflict with another live range. The place which creates this scenerio is
the code in X86 that lowers a select instruction by splitting the MBBs. This
eliminates the need to check from the bottom up in an MBB for live pregs.
llvm-svn: 106066
registers it defines then interfere with an existing preg live range.
For instance, if we had something like these machine instructions:
BB#0
... = imul ... EFLAGS<imp-def,dead>
test ..., EFLAGS<imp-def>
jcc BB#2 EFLAGS<imp-use>
BB#1
... ; fallthrough to BB#2
BB#2
... ; No code that defines EFLAGS
jcc ... EFLAGS<imp-use>
Machine sink will come along, see that imul implicitly defines EFLAGS, but
because it's "dead", it assumes that it can move imul into BB#2. But when it
does, imul's "dead" imp-def of EFLAGS is raised from the dead (a zombie) and
messes up the condition code for the jump (and pretty much anything else which
relies upon it being correct).
The solution is to know which pregs are live going into a basic block. However,
that information isn't calculated at this point. Nor does the LiveVariables pass
take into account non-allocatable physical registers. In lieu of this, we do a
*very* conservative pass through the basic block to determine if a preg is live
coming out of it.
llvm-svn: 105387
Bill Wendling