The RegisterCoalescer understands overlapping live ranges where one
register is defined as a copy of the other. With this change, register
allocators using LiveRegMatrix can do the same, at least for copies
between physical and virtual registers.
When a physreg is defined by a copy from a virtreg, allow those live
ranges to overlap:
%CL<def> = COPY %vreg11:sub_8bit; GR32_ABCD:%vreg11
%vreg13<def,tied1> = SAR32rCL %vreg13<tied0>, %CL<imp-use,kill>
We can assign %vreg11 to %ECX, overlapping the live range of %CL.
llvm-svn: 163336
This option has been disabled for a while, and it is going away so I can
clean up the coalescer code.
The tests that required physreg joining to be enabled were almost all of
the form "tiny function with interference between arguments and return
value". Such functions are usually inlined in the real world.
The problem exposed by phys_subreg_coalesce-3.ll is real, but fairly
rare.
llvm-svn: 157027
cl = EXTRACT_SUBREG reg1024, 1, is overly conservative. It should check
for overlaps of vr's live interval with the super registers of the
physical register (ECX in this case) and let JoinIntervals() handle checking
the coalescing feasibility against the physical register (cl in this case).
llvm-svn: 98251
Michael Liao