Currently all the consecutive bitfields are wrapped as a large integer unless there is unamed zero sized bitfield in between. The patch provides an alternative manner which makes the bitfield to be accessed as separate memory location if it has legal integer width and is naturally aligned. Such separate bitfield may split the original consecutive bitfields into subgroups of consecutive bitfields, and each subgroup will be wrapped as an integer. Now This is all controlled by an option -ffine-grained-bitfield-accesses. The alternative of bitfield access manner can improve the access efficiency of those bitfields with legal width and being aligned, but may reduce the chance of load/store combining of other bitfields, so it depends on how the bitfields are defined and actually accessed to choose when to use the option. For now the option is off by default.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36562
llvm-svn: 315915
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