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George Burgess IV 640be69249 [Analysis] More LocationSize cleanup; NFC
Keeping these patches super small so they're easily post-commit
verifiable, as requested in D44748.

llvm-svn: 350008
2018-12-22 18:23:21 +00:00
George Burgess IV f96e618017 Make LocationSize a proper Optional type; NFC
This is the second in a series of changes intended to make
https://reviews.llvm.org/D44748 more easily reviewable. Please see that
patch for more context. The first change being r344012.

Since I was requested to do all of this with post-commit review, this is
about as small as I can make this patch.

This patch makes LocationSize into an actual type that wraps a uint64_t;
users are required to call getValue() in order to get the size now. If
the LocationSize has an Unknown size (e.g. if LocSize ==
MemoryLocation::UnknownSize), getValue() will assert.

This also adds DenseMap specializations for LocationInfo, which required
taking two more values from the set of values LocationInfo can
represent. Hence, heavy users of multi-exabyte arrays or structs may
observe slightly lower-quality code as a result of this change.

The intent is for getValue()s to be very close to a corresponding
hasValue() (which is often spelled `!= MemoryLocation::UnknownSize`).
Sadly, small diff context appears to crop that out sometimes, and the
last change in DSE does require a bit of nonlocal reasoning about
control-flow. :/

This also removes an assert, since it's now redundant with the assert in
getValue().

llvm-svn: 344013
2018-10-09 03:18:56 +00:00
Chandler Carruth dab4eae274 [PM] Change the static object whose address is used to uniquely identify
analyses to have a common type which is enforced rather than using
a char object and a `void *` type when used as an identifier.

This has a number of advantages. First, it at least helps some of the
confusion raised in Justin Lebar's code review of why `void *` was being
used everywhere by having a stronger type that connects to documentation
about this.

However, perhaps more importantly, it addresses a serious issue where
the alignment of these pointer-like identifiers was unknown. This made
it hard to use them in pointer-like data structures. We were already
dodging this in dangerous ways to create the "all analyses" entry. In
a subsequent patch I attempted to use these with TinyPtrVector and
things fell apart in a very bad way.

And it isn't just a compile time or type system issue. Worse than that,
the actual alignment of these pointer-like opaque identifiers wasn't
guaranteed to be a useful alignment as they were just characters.

This change introduces a type to use as the "key" object whose address
forms the opaque identifier. This both forces the objects to have proper
alignment, and provides type checking that we get it right everywhere.
It also makes the types somewhat less mysterious than `void *`.

We could go one step further and introduce a truly opaque pointer-like
type to return from the `ID()` static function rather than returning
`AnalysisKey *`, but that didn't seem to be a clear win so this is just
the initial change to get to a reliably typed and aligned object serving
is a key for all the analyses.

Thanks to Richard Smith and Justin Lebar for helping pick plausible
names and avoid making this refactoring many times. =] And thanks to
Sean for the super fast review!

While here, I've tried to move away from the "PassID" nomenclature
entirely as it wasn't really helping and is overloaded with old pass
manager constructs. Now we have IDs for analyses, and key objects whose
address can be used as IDs. Where possible and clear I've shortened this
to just "ID". In a few places I kept "AnalysisID" to make it clear what
was being identified.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27031

llvm-svn: 287783
2016-11-23 17:53:26 +00:00
Sean Silva 36e0d01e13 Consistently use FunctionAnalysisManager
Besides a general consistently benefit, the extra layer of indirection
allows the mechanical part of https://reviews.llvm.org/D23256 that
requires touching every transformation and analysis to be factored out
cleanly.

Thanks to David for the suggestion.

llvm-svn: 278077
2016-08-09 00:28:15 +00:00
Chandler Carruth b47f8010a9 [PM] Make the AnalysisManager parameter to run methods a reference.
This was originally a pointer to support pass managers which didn't use
AnalysisManagers. However, that doesn't realistically come up much and
the complexity of supporting it doesn't really make sense.

In fact, *many* parts of the pass manager were just assuming the pointer
was never null already. This at least makes it much more explicit and
clear.

llvm-svn: 263219
2016-03-11 11:05:24 +00:00
Chandler Carruth b4faf13c15 [PM] Implement the final conclusion as to how the analysis IDs should
work in the face of the limitations of DLLs and templated static
variables.

This requires passes that use the AnalysisBase mixin provide a static
variable themselves. So as to keep their APIs clean, I've made these
private and befriended the CRTP base class (which is the common
practice).

I've added documentation to AnalysisBase for why this is necessary and
at what point we can go back to the much simpler system.

This is clearly a better pattern than the extern template as it caught
*numerous* places where the template magic hadn't been applied and
things were "just working" but would eventually have broken
mysteriously.

llvm-svn: 263216
2016-03-11 10:22:49 +00:00
Chandler Carruth 12884f7f80 [AA] Hoist the logic to reformulate various AA queries in terms of other
parts of the AA interface out of the base class of every single AA
result object.

Because this logic reformulates the query in terms of some other aspect
of the API, it would easily cause O(n^2) query patterns in alias
analysis. These could in turn be magnified further based on the number
of call arguments, and then further based on the number of AA queries
made for a particular call. This ended up causing problems for Rust that
were actually noticable enough to get a bug (PR26564) and probably other
places as well.

When originally re-working the AA infrastructure, the desire was to
regularize the pattern of refinement without losing any generality.
While I think it was successful, that is clearly proving to be too
costly. And the cost is needless: we gain no actual improvement for this
generality of making a direct query to tbaa actually be able to
re-use some other alias analysis's refinement logic for one of the other
APIs, or some such. In short, this is entirely wasted work.

To the extent possible, delegation to other API surfaces should be done
at the aggregation layer so that we can avoid re-walking the
aggregation. In fact, this significantly simplifies the logic as we no
longer need to smuggle the aggregation layer into each alias analysis
(or the TargetLibraryInfo into each alias analysis just so we can form
argument memory locations!).

However, we also have some delegation logic inside of BasicAA and some
of it even makes sense. When the delegation logic is baking in specific
knowledge of aliasing properties of the LLVM IR, as opposed to simply
reformulating the query to utilize a different alias analysis interface
entry point, it makes a lot of sense to restrict that logic to
a different layer such as BasicAA. So one aspect of the delegation that
was in every AA base class is that when we don't have operand bundles,
we re-use function AA results as a fallback for callsite alias results.
This relies on the IR properties of calls and functions w.r.t. aliasing,
and so seems a better fit to BasicAA. I've lifted the logic up to that
point where it seems to be a natural fit. This still does a bit of
redundant work (we query function attributes twice, once via the
callsite and once via the function AA query) but it is *exactly* twice
here, no more.

The end result is that all of the delegation logic is hoisted out of the
base class and into either the aggregation layer when it is a pure
retargeting to a different API surface, or into BasicAA when it relies
on the IR's aliasing properties. This should fix the quadratic query
pattern reported in PR26564, although I don't have a stand-alone test
case to reproduce it.

It also seems general goodness. Now the numerous AAs that don't need
target library info don't carry it around and depend on it. I think
I can even rip out the general access to the aggregation layer and only
expose that in BasicAA as it is the only place where we re-query in that
manner.

However, this is a non-trivial change to the AA infrastructure so I want
to get some additional eyes on this before it lands. Sadly, it can't
wait long because we should really cherry pick this into 3.8 if we're
going to go this route.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17329

llvm-svn: 262490
2016-03-02 15:56:53 +00:00
Chandler Carruth 3a63435551 [PM] Introduce CRTP mixin base classes to help define passes and
analyses in the new pass manager.

These just handle really basic stuff: turning a type name into a string
statically that is nice to print in logs, and getting a static unique ID
for each analysis.

Sadly, the format of passes in anonymous namespaces makes using their
names in tests really annoying so I've customized the names of the no-op
passes to keep tests sane to read.

This is the first of a few simplifying refactorings for the new pass
manager that should reduce boilerplate and confusion.

llvm-svn: 262004
2016-02-26 11:44:45 +00:00
Chandler Carruth 7b560d40bd [PM/AA] Rebuild LLVM's alias analysis infrastructure in a way compatible
with the new pass manager, and no longer relying on analysis groups.

This builds essentially a ground-up new AA infrastructure stack for
LLVM. The core ideas are the same that are used throughout the new pass
manager: type erased polymorphism and direct composition. The design is
as follows:

- FunctionAAResults is a type-erasing alias analysis results aggregation
  interface to walk a single query across a range of results from
  different alias analyses. Currently this is function-specific as we
  always assume that aliasing queries are *within* a function.

- AAResultBase is a CRTP utility providing stub implementations of
  various parts of the alias analysis result concept, notably in several
  cases in terms of other more general parts of the interface. This can
  be used to implement only a narrow part of the interface rather than
  the entire interface. This isn't really ideal, this logic should be
  hoisted into FunctionAAResults as currently it will cause
  a significant amount of redundant work, but it faithfully models the
  behavior of the prior infrastructure.

- All the alias analysis passes are ported to be wrapper passes for the
  legacy PM and new-style analysis passes for the new PM with a shared
  result object. In some cases (most notably CFL), this is an extremely
  naive approach that we should revisit when we can specialize for the
  new pass manager.

- BasicAA has been restructured to reflect that it is much more
  fundamentally a function analysis because it uses dominator trees and
  loop info that need to be constructed for each function.

All of the references to getting alias analysis results have been
updated to use the new aggregation interface. All the preservation and
other pass management code has been updated accordingly.

The way the FunctionAAResultsWrapperPass works is to detect the
available alias analyses when run, and add them to the results object.
This means that we should be able to continue to respect when various
passes are added to the pipeline, for example adding CFL or adding TBAA
passes should just cause their results to be available and to get folded
into this. The exception to this rule is BasicAA which really needs to
be a function pass due to using dominator trees and loop info. As
a consequence, the FunctionAAResultsWrapperPass directly depends on
BasicAA and always includes it in the aggregation.

This has significant implications for preserving analyses. Generally,
most passes shouldn't bother preserving FunctionAAResultsWrapperPass
because rebuilding the results just updates the set of known AA passes.
The exception to this rule are LoopPass instances which need to preserve
all the function analyses that the loop pass manager will end up
needing. This means preserving both BasicAAWrapperPass and the
aggregating FunctionAAResultsWrapperPass.

Now, when preserving an alias analysis, you do so by directly preserving
that analysis. This is only necessary for non-immutable-pass-provided
alias analyses though, and there are only three of interest: BasicAA,
GlobalsAA (formerly GlobalsModRef), and SCEVAA. Usually BasicAA is
preserved when needed because it (like DominatorTree and LoopInfo) is
marked as a CFG-only pass. I've expanded GlobalsAA into the preserved
set everywhere we previously were preserving all of AliasAnalysis, and
I've added SCEVAA in the intersection of that with where we preserve
SCEV itself.

One significant challenge to all of this is that the CGSCC passes were
actually using the alias analysis implementations by taking advantage of
a pretty amazing set of loop holes in the old pass manager's analysis
management code which allowed analysis groups to slide through in many
cases. Moving away from analysis groups makes this problem much more
obvious. To fix it, I've leveraged the flexibility the design of the new
PM components provides to just directly construct the relevant alias
analyses for the relevant functions in the IPO passes that need them.
This is a bit hacky, but should go away with the new pass manager, and
is already in many ways cleaner than the prior state.

Another significant challenge is that various facilities of the old
alias analysis infrastructure just don't fit any more. The most
significant of these is the alias analysis 'counter' pass. That pass
relied on the ability to snoop on AA queries at different points in the
analysis group chain. Instead, I'm planning to build printing
functionality directly into the aggregation layer. I've not included
that in this patch merely to keep it smaller.

Note that all of this needs a nearly complete rewrite of the AA
documentation. I'm planning to do that, but I'd like to make sure the
new design settles, and to flesh out a bit more of what it looks like in
the new pass manager first.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12080

llvm-svn: 247167
2015-09-09 17:55:00 +00:00
Chandler Carruth 2f1fd1658f [PM] Port ScalarEvolution to the new pass manager.
This change makes ScalarEvolution a stand-alone object and just produces
one from a pass as needed. Making this work well requires making the
object movable, using references instead of overwritten pointers in
a number of places, and other refactorings.

I've also wired it up to the new pass manager and added a RUN line to
a test to exercise it under the new pass manager. This includes basic
printing support much like with other analyses.

But there is a big and somewhat scary change here. Prior to this patch
ScalarEvolution was never *actually* invalidated!!! Re-running the pass
just re-wired up the various other analyses and didn't remove any of the
existing entries in the SCEV caches or clear out anything at all. This
might seem OK as everything in SCEV that can uses ValueHandles to track
updates to the values that serve as SCEV keys. However, this still means
that as we ran SCEV over each function in the module, we kept
accumulating more and more SCEVs into the cache. At the end, we would
have a SCEV cache with every value that we ever needed a SCEV for in the
entire module!!! Yowzers. The releaseMemory routine would dump all of
this, but that isn't realy called during normal runs of the pipeline as
far as I can see.

To make matters worse, there *is* actually a key that we don't update
with value handles -- there is a map keyed off of Loop*s. Because
LoopInfo *does* release its memory from run to run, it is entirely
possible to run SCEV over one function, then over another function, and
then lookup a Loop* from the second function but find an entry inserted
for the first function! Ouch.

To make matters still worse, there are plenty of updates that *don't*
trip a value handle. It seems incredibly unlikely that today GVN or
another pass that invalidates SCEV can update values in *just* such
a way that a subsequent run of SCEV will incorrectly find lookups in
a cache, but it is theoretically possible and would be a nightmare to
debug.

With this refactoring, I've fixed all this by actually destroying and
recreating the ScalarEvolution object from run to run. Technically, this
could increase the amount of malloc traffic we see, but then again it is
also technically correct. ;] I don't actually think we're suffering from
tons of malloc traffic from SCEV because if we were, the fact that we
never clear the memory would seem more likely to have come up as an
actual problem before now. So, I've made the simple fix here. If in fact
there are serious issues with too much allocation and deallocation,
I can work on a clever fix that preserves the allocations (while
clearing the data) between each run, but I'd prefer to do that kind of
optimization with a test case / benchmark that shows why we need such
cleverness (and that can test that we actually make it faster). It's
possible that this will make some things faster by making the SCEV
caches have higher locality (due to being significantly smaller) so
until there is a clear benchmark, I think the simple change is best.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12063

llvm-svn: 245193
2015-08-17 02:08:17 +00:00
Chandler Carruth 55eec8be9e [PM/AA] Clean up the SCEV-AA comment formatting and typos.
llvm-svn: 245015
2015-08-14 03:14:50 +00:00
Chandler Carruth 79687faee6 [PM/AA] Run clang-format over the SCEV-AA code to normalize the
formatting.

llvm-svn: 245014
2015-08-14 03:12:16 +00:00
Chandler Carruth ed23528fb2 [PM/AA] Hoist the SCEV-AA interface to its own header and pull the
creation function into that header.

llvm-svn: 245013
2015-08-14 03:11:16 +00:00
Chandler Carruth c3f49eb451 [PM/AA] Hoist the AliasResult enum out of the AliasAnalysis class.
This will allow classes to implement the AA interface without deriving
from the class or referencing an internal enum of some other class as
their return types.

Also, to a pretty fundamental extent, concepts such as 'NoAlias',
'MayAlias', and 'MustAlias' are first class concepts in LLVM and we
aren't saving anything by scoping them heavily.

My mild preference would have been to use a scoped enum, but that
feature is essentially completely broken AFAICT. I'm extremely
disappointed. For example, we cannot through any reasonable[1] means
construct an enum class (or analog) which has scoped names but converts
to a boolean in order to test for the possibility of aliasing.

[1]: Richard Smith came up with a "solution", but it requires class
templates, and lots of boilerplate setting up the enumeration multiple
times. Something like Boost.PP could potentially bundle this up, but
even that would be quite painful and it doesn't seem realistically worth
it. The enum class solution would probably work without the need for
a bool conversion.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10495

llvm-svn: 240255
2015-06-22 02:16:51 +00:00
Chandler Carruth ecbd16829a [PM/AA] Remove the UnknownSize static member from AliasAnalysis.
This is now living in MemoryLocation, which is what it pertains to. It
is also an enum there rather than a static data member which is left
never defined.

llvm-svn: 239886
2015-06-17 07:21:38 +00:00
Chandler Carruth ac80dc7532 [PM/AA] Remove the Location typedef from the AliasAnalysis class now
that it is its own entity in the form of MemoryLocation, and update all
the callers.

This is an entirely mechanical change. References to "Location" within
AA subclases become "MemoryLocation", and elsewhere
"AliasAnalysis::Location" becomes "MemoryLocation". Hope that helps
out-of-tree folks update.

llvm-svn: 239885
2015-06-17 07:18:54 +00:00
Mehdi Amini 46a43556db Make DataLayout Non-Optional in the Module
Summary:
DataLayout keeps the string used for its creation.

As a side effect it is no longer needed in the Module.
This is "almost" NFC, the string is no longer
canonicalized, you can't rely on two "equals" DataLayout
having the same string returned by getStringRepresentation().

Get rid of DataLayoutPass: the DataLayout is in the Module

The DataLayout is "per-module", let's enforce this by not
duplicating it more than necessary.
One more step toward non-optionality of the DataLayout in the
module.

Make DataLayout Non-Optional in the Module

Module->getDataLayout() will never returns nullptr anymore.

Reviewers: echristo

Subscribers: resistor, llvm-commits, jholewinski

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7992

From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 231270
2015-03-04 18:43:29 +00:00
Hal Finkel cc39b67530 AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes)
In order to enable the preservation of noalias function parameter information
after inlining, and the representation of block-level __restrict__ pointer
information (etc.), additional kinds of aliasing metadata will be introduced.
This metadata needs to be carried around in AliasAnalysis::Location objects
(and MMOs at the SDAG level), and so we need to generalize the current scheme
(which is hard-coded to just one TBAA MDNode*).

This commit introduces only the necessary refactoring to allow for the
introduction of other aliasing metadata types, but does not actually introduce
any (that will come in a follow-up commit). What it does introduce is a new
AAMDNodes structure to hold all of the aliasing metadata nodes associated with
a particular memory-accessing instruction, and uses that structure instead of
the raw MDNode* in AliasAnalysis::Location, etc.

No functionality change intended.

llvm-svn: 213859
2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
Craig Topper 9f008867c0 [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr.
llvm-svn: 206243
2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
Craig Topper e9ba759c81 [C++11] Add 'override' keyword to virtual methods that override their base class.
llvm-svn: 202945
2014-03-05 07:30:04 +00:00
Chandler Carruth ed0881b2a6 Use the new script to sort the includes of every file under lib.
Sooooo many of these had incorrect or strange main module includes.
I have manually inspected all of these, and fixed the main module
include to be the nearest plausible thing I could find. If you own or
care about any of these source files, I encourage you to take some time
and check that these edits were sensible. I can't have broken anything
(I strictly added headers, and reordered them, never removed), but they
may not be the headers you'd really like to identify as containing the
API being implemented.

Many forward declarations and missing includes were added to a header
files to allow them to parse cleanly when included first. The main
module rule does in fact have its merits. =]

llvm-svn: 169131
2012-12-03 16:50:05 +00:00
Owen Anderson 6c18d1aac0 Get rid of static constructors for pass registration. Instead, every pass exposes an initializeMyPassFunction(), which
must be called in the pass's constructor.  This function uses static dependency declarations to recursively initialize
the pass's dependencies.

Clients that only create passes through the createFooPass() APIs will require no changes.  Clients that want to use the
CommandLine options for passes will need to manually call the appropriate initialization functions in PassInitialization.h
before parsing commandline arguments.

I have tested this with all standard configurations of clang and llvm-gcc on Darwin.  It is possible that there are problems
with the static dependencies that will only be visible with non-standard options.  If you encounter any crash in pass
registration/creation, please send the testcase to me directly.

llvm-svn: 116820
2010-10-19 17:21:58 +00:00
Owen Anderson 8ac477ffb5 Begin adding static dependence information to passes, which will allow us to
perform initialization without static constructors AND without explicit initialization
by the client.  For the moment, passes are required to initialize both their
(potential) dependencies and any passes they preserve.  I hope to be able to relax
the latter requirement in the future.

llvm-svn: 116334
2010-10-12 19:48:12 +00:00
Owen Anderson df7a4f2515 Now with fewer extraneous semicolons!
llvm-svn: 115996
2010-10-07 22:25:06 +00:00
Dan Gohman 41f14cf3e9 Remove the experimental AliasAnalysis::getDependency interface, which
isn't a good level of abstraction for memdep. Instead, generalize
AliasAnalysis::alias and related interfaces with a new Location
class for describing a memory location. For now, this is the same
Pointer and Size as before, plus an additional field for a TBAA tag.

Also, introduce a fixed MD_tbaa metadata tag kind.

llvm-svn: 113858
2010-09-14 21:25:10 +00:00
Owen Anderson a7aed18624 Reapply r110396, with fixes to appease the Linux buildbot gods.
llvm-svn: 110460
2010-08-06 18:33:48 +00:00
Owen Anderson bda59bd247 Revert r110396 to fix buildbots.
llvm-svn: 110410
2010-08-06 00:23:35 +00:00
Owen Anderson 755aceb5d0 Don't use PassInfo* as a type identifier for passes. Instead, use the address of the static
ID member as the sole unique type identifier.  Clean up APIs related to this change.

llvm-svn: 110396
2010-08-05 23:42:04 +00:00
Dan Gohman 2a190081f6 Introduce a symbolic constant for ~0u for use with AliasAnalysis.
llvm-svn: 110091
2010-08-03 01:03:11 +00:00
Owen Anderson ac4a1ede17 Add INSTANTIATE_AG_PASS, which combines RegisterPass<> with RegisterAnalysisGroup<> for pass registration.
llvm-svn: 109058
2010-07-21 23:07:00 +00:00
Owen Anderson 81781220d2 Speculatively revert r108813, in an attempt to get the self-host buildbots working again. I don't see why this patch
would cause them to fail the way they are, but none of the other intervening patches seem likely either.

llvm-svn: 108818
2010-07-20 08:26:15 +00:00
Owen Anderson 8dc129325f Reapply r108794, a fix for the failing test from last time.
llvm-svn: 108813
2010-07-20 06:52:42 +00:00
Daniel Dunbar 4a35d6f8cd Revert r108794, "Separate PassInfo into two classes: a constructor-free
superclass (StaticPassInfo) and a constructor-ful subclass (PassInfo).", it is
breaking teh everything.

llvm-svn: 108805
2010-07-20 03:06:07 +00:00
Owen Anderson e7c5fe586a Separate PassInfo into two classes: a constructor-free superclass (StaticPassInfo) and a constructor-ful subclass (PassInfo).
llvm-svn: 108794
2010-07-20 01:19:58 +00:00
Dan Gohman 0865966440 Rework scev-aa's basic computation so that it doesn't depend
on ScalarEvolution successfully folding and preserving
range information for both A-B and B-A. Now, if it gets
either one, it's sufficient.

llvm-svn: 107249
2010-06-30 06:12:16 +00:00
Dan Gohman 8ba26b48bb Fix a typo in a comment.
llvm-svn: 106260
2010-06-18 00:53:08 +00:00
Dan Gohman 904d34c90f Add a comment.
llvm-svn: 97459
2010-03-01 17:56:04 +00:00
Duncan Sands 19d0b47b1f There are two ways of checking for a given type, for example isa<PointerType>(T)
and T->isPointerTy().  Convert most instances of the first form to the second form.
Requested by Chris.

llvm-svn: 96344
2010-02-16 11:11:14 +00:00
Chris Lattner da363d9af8 adopt getAdjustedAnalysisPointer in a few more passes.
llvm-svn: 94018
2010-01-20 20:09:02 +00:00
Dan Gohman ac45c9171d Make ScalarEvolutionAliasAnalysis slightly more aggressive, by making an
underlying alias call even for non-identified-object values.

llvm-svn: 85656
2009-10-31 14:32:25 +00:00
Nick Lewycky 974e12b2d3 Remove includes of Support/Compiler.h that are no longer needed after the
VISIBILITY_HIDDEN removal.

llvm-svn: 85043
2009-10-25 06:57:41 +00:00
Nick Lewycky 02d5f77d26 Remove VISIBILITY_HIDDEN from class/struct found inside anonymous namespaces.
Chris claims we should never have visibility_hidden inside any .cpp file but
that's still not true even after this commit.

llvm-svn: 85042
2009-10-25 06:33:48 +00:00
Dan Gohman 311d06902a Add some comments.
llvm-svn: 80452
2009-08-29 23:36:57 +00:00
Dan Gohman d926b985df Create a ScalarEvolution-based AliasAnalysis implementation.
This is a simple AliasAnalysis implementation which works by making
ScalarEvolution queries. ScalarEvolution has a more complete understanding
of arithmetic than BasicAA's collection of ad-hoc checks, so it handles
some cases that BasicAA misses, for example p[i] and p[i+1] within the
same iteration of a loop.

This is currently experimental. It may be that the main use for this pass
will be to help find cases where BasicAA can be profitably extended, or
to help in the development of the overall AliasAnalysis infrastructure,
however it's also possible that it could grow up to become a directly
useful pass.

llvm-svn: 80098
2009-08-26 14:53:06 +00:00