If a call argument has the "returned" attribute, we can simplify
the call to the value of that argument. This was already partially
handled by InstSimplify/InstCombine for the case where the argument
is an integer constant, and the result is thus known via known bits.
The non-constant (or non-int) argument cases weren't handled though.
This previously landed as an InstSimplify transform, but was reverted
due to assertion failures when compiling the Linux kernel. The reason
is that simplifying a call to another call breaks assumptions in
call graph updating during inlining. As the code is not easy to fix,
and there is no particularly strong motivation for having this in
InstSimplify, the transform is only performed in InstCombine instead.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75815
If a call argument has the "returned" attribute, we can simplify
the call to the value of that argument. The "-inst-simplify" pass
already handled this for the constant integer argument case via
known bits, which is invoked in SimplifyInstruction. However,
non-constant (or non-int) arguments are not handled at all right now.
This addresses one of the regressions from D75801.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75815
As it's causing some bot failures (and per request from kbarton).
This reverts commit r358543/ab70da07286e618016e78247e4a24fcb84077fda.
llvm-svn: 358546
If a function is known to return one of its arguments, we can use that in order
to compute known bits of the return value.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9397
llvm-svn: 275036
Essentially the same as the GEP change in r230786.
A similar migration script can be used to update test cases, though a few more
test case improvements/changes were required this time around: (r229269-r229278)
import fileinput
import sys
import re
pat = re.compile(r"((?:=|:|^)\s*load (?:atomic )?(?:volatile )?(.*?))(| addrspace\(\d+\) *)\*($| *(?:%|@|null|undef|blockaddress|getelementptr|addrspacecast|bitcast|inttoptr|\[\[[a-zA-Z]|\{\{).*$)")
for line in sys.stdin:
sys.stdout.write(re.sub(pat, r"\1, \2\3*\4", line))
Reviewers: rafael, dexonsmith, grosser
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7649
llvm-svn: 230794
We previously supported the align attribute on all (pointer) parameters, but we
only used it for byval parameters. However, it is completely consistent at the
IR level to treat 'align n' on all pointer parameters as an alignment
assumption on the pointer, and now we wll. Specifically, this causes
computeKnownBits to use the align attribute on all pointer parameters, not just
byval parameters. I've also added an explicit parameter attribute test for this
to test/Bitcode/attributes.ll.
And I've updated the LangRef to document the align parameter attribute (as it
turns out, it was not documented at all previously, although the byval
documentation mentioned that it could be used).
There are (at least) two benefits to doing this:
- It allows enhancing alignment based on the pointer alignment after inlining callees.
- It allows simplification of pointer arithmetic.
llvm-svn: 213670
Nikita Popov