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Caroline Tice 3dea3f9e0a Pass code-model through Module IR to LTO which will use it.
Currently the code-model does not get saved in the module IR,
so if a code model is specified when compiling with LTO,
it gets lost and is not propagated properly to LTO. This patch,
along with one for the front end, fixes that.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52322

llvm-svn: 342760
2018-09-21 18:41:31 +00:00
Alexander Richardson 6bcf2ba2f0 Allow creating llvm::Function in non-zero address spaces
Most users won't have to worry about this as all of the
'getOrInsertFunction' functions on Module will default to the program
address space.

An overload has been added to Function::Create to abstract away the
details for most callers.

This is based on https://reviews.llvm.org/D37054 but without the changes to
make passing a Module to Function::Create() mandatory. I have also added
some more tests and fixed the LLParser to accept call instructions for
types in the program address space.

Reviewed By: bjope

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47541

llvm-svn: 340519
2018-08-23 09:25:17 +00:00
Jessica Paquette e49374d009 Add remarks describing when a pass changes the IR instruction count of a module
This patch adds a remark which tells the user when a pass changes the number of
IR instructions in a module.

It can be enabled by using -Rpass-analysis=size-info.

The point of this is to make it easier to collect statistics on how passes
modify programs in terms of code size. This is similar in concept to timing
reports, but using a remark-based interface makes it easy to diff changes over
multiple compilations of the same program.

By adding functionality like this, we can see
  * Which passes impact code size the most
  * How passes impact code size at different optimization levels
  * Which pass might have contributed the most to an overall code size
    regression

The patch lives in the legacy pass manager, but since it's simply emitting
remarks, it shouldn't be too difficult to adapt the functionality to the new
pass manager as well. This can also be adapted to handle MachineInstr counts in
code gen passes.

https://reviews.llvm.org/D38768

llvm-svn: 332739
2018-05-18 17:26:39 +00:00
Sriraman Tallam 609f8c013c Intrinsics calls should avoid the PLT when "RtLibUseGOT" metadata is present.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42216

llvm-svn: 325962
2018-02-23 21:32:06 +00:00
Serge Guelton ad9bbc20b3 Normalize constructor call syntax, NFCI.
llvm-svn: 308275
2017-07-18 08:36:22 +00:00
Serge Guelton e14625faa6 Have Module::createRNG return a unique_ptr
Instead of a raw pointer, this makes memory management safer.

llvm-svn: 307762
2017-07-12 08:03:44 +00:00
Chandler Carruth 6bda14b313 Sort the remaining #include lines in include/... and lib/....
I did this a long time ago with a janky python script, but now
clang-format has built-in support for this. I fed clang-format every
line with a #include and let it re-sort things according to the precise
LLVM rules for include ordering baked into clang-format these days.

I've reverted a number of files where the results of sorting includes
isn't healthy. Either places where we have legacy code relying on
particular include ordering (where possible, I'll fix these separately)
or where we have particular formatting around #include lines that
I didn't want to disturb in this patch.

This patch is *entirely* mechanical. If you get merge conflicts or
anything, just ignore the changes in this patch and run clang-format
over your #include lines in the files.

Sorry for any noise here, but it is important to keep these things
stable. I was seeing an increasing number of patches with irrelevant
re-ordering of #include lines because clang-format was used. This patch
at least isolates that churn, makes it easy to skip when resolving
conflicts, and gets us to a clean baseline (again).

llvm-svn: 304787
2017-06-06 11:49:48 +00:00
Teresa Johnson 2db1369c1f Support for taking the max of module flags when linking, use for PIE/PIC
Summary:
Add Max ModFlagBehavior, which can be used to take the max of two
module flag values when merging modules. Use it for the PIE and PIC
levels.

This avoids an error when we try to import from a module built -fpic
into a module built -fPIC, for example. For both PIE and PIC levels,
this will be legal, since the code generation gets more conservative
as the level is increased. Therefore we can take the max instead of
somehow trying to block importing between modules compiled with
different levels.

Reviewers: tmsriram, pcc

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33418

llvm-svn: 303590
2017-05-23 00:08:00 +00:00
Eugene Zelenko eba7e4ec55 [IR] Fix some Clang-tidy modernize-use-using warnings; other minor fixes (NFC).
llvm-svn: 302744
2017-05-10 23:41:30 +00:00
Serge Guelton e38003f839 Suppress all uses of LLVM_END_WITH_NULL. NFC.
Use variadic templates instead of relying on <cstdarg> + sentinel.
This enforces better type checking and makes code more readable.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32541

llvm-svn: 302571
2017-05-09 19:31:13 +00:00
Serge Guelton 59a2d7b909 Module::getOrInsertFunction is using C-style vararg instead of variadic templates.
From a user prospective, it forces the use of an annoying nullptr to mark the end of the vararg, and there's not type checking on the arguments.
The variadic template is an obvious solution to both issues.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31070

llvm-svn: 299949
2017-04-11 15:01:18 +00:00
Diana Picus b050c7fbe0 Revert "Turn some C-style vararg into variadic templates"
This reverts commit r299925 because it broke the buildbots. See e.g.
http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/clang-cmake-armv7-a15/builds/6008

llvm-svn: 299928
2017-04-11 10:07:12 +00:00
Serge Guelton 5fd75fb72e Turn some C-style vararg into variadic templates
Module::getOrInsertFunction is using C-style vararg instead of
variadic templates.

From a user prospective, it forces the use of an annoying nullptr
to mark the end of the vararg, and there's not type checking on the
arguments. The variadic template is an obvious solution to both
issues.

llvm-svn: 299925
2017-04-11 08:36:52 +00:00
Mehdi Amini db11fdfda5 Revert "Turn some C-style vararg into variadic templates"
This reverts commit r299699, the examples needs to be updated.

llvm-svn: 299702
2017-04-06 20:23:57 +00:00
Mehdi Amini 579540a8f7 Turn some C-style vararg into variadic templates
Module::getOrInsertFunction is using C-style vararg instead of
variadic templates.

From a user prospective, it forces the use of an annoying nullptr
to mark the end of the vararg, and there's not type checking on the
arguments. The variadic template is an obvious solution to both
issues.

Patch by: Serge Guelton <serge.guelton@telecom-bretagne.eu>

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31070

llvm-svn: 299699
2017-04-06 20:09:31 +00:00
Craig Topper 1dd20e6544 [IR] Implement pairs of non-const and const methods using the const version instead of the non-const version. NFCI
This removes a const_cast of the this pointer.

llvm-svn: 298831
2017-03-27 05:47:03 +00:00
Reid Kleckner b518054b87 Rename AttributeSet to AttributeList
Summary:
This class is a list of AttributeSetNodes corresponding the function
prototype of a call or function declaration. This class used to be
called ParamAttrListPtr, then AttrListPtr, then AttributeSet. It is
typically accessed by parameter and return value index, so
"AttributeList" seems like a more intuitive name.

Rename AttributeSetImpl to AttributeListImpl to follow suit.

It's useful to rename this class so that we can rename AttributeSetNode
to AttributeSet later. AttributeSet is the set of attributes that apply
to a single function, argument, or return value.

Reviewers: sanjoy, javed.absar, chandlerc, pete

Reviewed By: pete

Subscribers: pete, jholewinski, arsenm, dschuff, mehdi_amini, jfb, nhaehnle, sbc100, void, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31102

llvm-svn: 298393
2017-03-21 16:57:19 +00:00
Nirav Dave ac6081cb67 Make library calls sensitive to regparm module flag (Fixes PR3997).
Reviewers: mkuper, rnk

Subscribers: mehdi_amini, jyknight, aemerson, llvm-commits, rengolin

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27050

llvm-svn: 298179
2017-03-18 00:44:07 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne 7f00d0a125 Bitcode: Change the materializer interface to return llvm::Error.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26439

llvm-svn: 286382
2016-11-09 17:49:19 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne e2dcf7c3a1 IR, Bitcode: Change bitcode reader to no longer own its memory buffer.
Unique ownership is just one possible ownership pattern for the memory buffer
underlying the bitcode reader. In practice, as this patch shows, ownership can
often reside at a higher level. With the upcoming change to allow multiple
modules in a single bitcode file, it will no longer be appropriate for
modules to generally have unique ownership of their memory buffer.

The C API exposes the ownership relation via the LLVMGetBitcodeModuleInContext
and LLVMGetBitcodeModuleInContext2 functions, so we still need some way for
the module to own the memory buffer. This patch does so by adding an owned
memory buffer field to Module, and using it in a few other places where it
is convenient.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26384

llvm-svn: 286214
2016-11-08 06:03:43 +00:00
Easwaran Raman 8b65e86661 Remove interface to get/set MaxFunctionCount
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19185

llvm-svn: 273203
2016-06-20 21:36:38 +00:00
Davide Italiano 4cccc488b7 [Codegen] Change PICLevel.
We convert `Default` to `NotPIC` so that target independent code
can reason about this correctly.

Differential Revision:  http://reviews.llvm.org/D21394

llvm-svn: 273024
2016-06-17 18:07:14 +00:00
Sriraman Tallam 46d47b8ce2 Add "PIE Level" metadata to module flags.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D19671

llvm-svn: 267911
2016-04-28 18:15:44 +00:00
Teresa Johnson b35cc691ea [ThinLTO] Prevent importing of "llvm.used" values
Summary:
This patch prevents importing from (and therefore exporting from) any
module with a "llvm.used" local value. Local values need to be promoted
and renamed when importing, and their presense on the llvm.used variable
indicates that there are opaque uses that won't see the rename. One such
example is a use in inline assembly.

See also the discussion at:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-April/098047.html

As part of this, move collectUsedGlobalVariables out of Transforms/Utils
and into IR/Module so that it can be used more widely. There are several
other places in LLVM that used copies of this code that can be cleaned
up as a follow on NFC patch.

Reviewers: joker.eph

Subscribers: pcc, llvm-commits, joker.eph

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18986

llvm-svn: 266877
2016-04-20 14:39:45 +00:00
Mehdi Amini b550cb1750 [NFC] Header cleanup
Removed some unused headers, replaced some headers with forward class declarations.

Found using simple scripts like this one:
clear && ack --cpp -l '#include "llvm/ADT/IndexedMap.h"' | xargs grep -L 'IndexedMap[<]' | xargs grep -n --color=auto 'IndexedMap'

Patch by Eugene Kosov <claprix@yandex.ru>

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19219

From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 266595
2016-04-18 09:17:29 +00:00
Adrian Prantl 5992a72b4d Support the Nodebug emission kind for DICompileUnits.
Sample-based profiling and optimization remarks currently remove
DICompileUnits from llvm.dbg.cu to suppress the emission of debug info
from them. This is somewhat of a hack and only borderline legal IR.

This patch uses the recently introduced NoDebug emission kind in
DICompileUnit to achieve the same result without breaking the Verifier.
A nice side-effect of this change is that it is now possible to combine
NoDebug and regular compile units under LTO.

http://reviews.llvm.org/D18808
<rdar://problem/25427165>

llvm-svn: 265861
2016-04-08 22:43:03 +00:00
Dmitry Polukhin a1feff7024 [GCC] Attribute ifunc support in llvm
This patch add support for GCC attribute((ifunc("resolver"))) for
targets that use ELF as object file format. In general ifunc is a
special kind of function alias with type @gnu_indirect_function. Patch
for Clang http://reviews.llvm.org/D15524

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15525

llvm-svn: 265667
2016-04-07 12:32:19 +00:00
Easwaran Raman 26628d3015 Interface to get/set profile summary metadata to module
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17894

llvm-svn: 263835
2016-03-18 21:29:30 +00:00
Teresa Johnson e1164de5d0 Restore "[ThinLTO] Use MD5 hash in function index." with fix
This restores commit r260408, along with a fix for a bot failure.

The bot failure was caused by dereferencing a unique_ptr in the same
call instruction parameter list where it was passed via std::move.
Apparently due to luck this was not exposed when I built the compiler
with clang, only with gcc.

llvm-svn: 260442
2016-02-10 21:55:02 +00:00
Teresa Johnson 89f38fb5cc Revert "[ThinLTO] Use MD5 hash in function index." due to bot failure
This reverts commit r260408. Bot failure that I need to investigate.

llvm-svn: 260412
2016-02-10 19:11:15 +00:00
Teresa Johnson 0919a84071 [ThinLTO] Use MD5 hash in function index.
Summary:
This patch uses the lower 64-bits of the MD5 hash of a function name as
a GUID in the function index, instead of storing function names. Any
local functions are first given a global name by prepending the original
source file name. This is the same naming scheme and GUID used by PGO in
the indexed profile format.

This change has a couple of benefits. The primary benefit is size
reduction in the combined index file, for example 483.xalancbmk's
combined index file was reduced by around 70%. It should also result in
memory savings for the index file in memory, as the in-memory map is
also indexed by the hash instead of the string.

Second, this enables integration with indirect call promotion, since the
indirect call profile targets are recorded using the same global naming
convention and hash. This will enable the function importer to easily
locate function summaries for indirect call profile targets to enable
their import and subsequent promotion.

The original source file name is recorded in the bitcode in a new
module-level record for use in the ThinLTO backend pipeline.

Reviewers: davidxl, joker.eph

Subscribers: llvm-commits, joker.eph

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17028

llvm-svn: 260408
2016-02-10 18:57:54 +00:00
Rafael Espindola 257a35368f Bring back "Assert that we have all use/users in the getters."
This reverts commit r257751, bringing back r256105.

The problem the assert found was fixed in r257915.

Original commit message:

Assert that we have all use/users in the getters.

An error that is pretty easy to make is to use the lazy bitcode reader
and then do something like

if (V.use_empty())

The problem is that uses in unmaterialized functions are not accounted
for.

This patch adds asserts that all uses are known.

llvm-svn: 257920
2016-01-15 19:00:20 +00:00
Michael Zolotukhin 65c0120193 Revert "Assert that we have all use/users in the getters."
This reverts commit fdb838f3f8a8b6896bbbd5285555874eb3b748eb.

llvm-svn: 257751
2016-01-14 09:02:45 +00:00
Rafael Espindola e01e363fd9 Assert that we have all use/users in the getters.
An error that is pretty easy to make is to use the lazy bitcode reader
and then do something like

if (V.use_empty())

The problem is that uses in unmaterialized functions are not accounted
for.

This patch adds asserts that all uses are known.

llvm-svn: 256105
2015-12-19 20:03:23 +00:00
Rafael Espindola 79753a07a6 Remove redundant argument. NFC.
llvm-svn: 256031
2015-12-18 21:18:57 +00:00
Rafael Espindola c4a03483f4 Drop materializeAllPermanently.
This inlines materializeAll into the only caller
(materializeAllPermanently) and renames materializeAllPermanently to
just materializeAll.

llvm-svn: 256024
2015-12-18 20:13:39 +00:00
Rafael Espindola 18c63b0f18 Drop support for dematerializing.
It was only used on lib/Linker and the use was "dead" since it was used on a
function the IRMover had just moved.

llvm-svn: 256019
2015-12-18 19:57:26 +00:00
Easwaran Raman ecb05e5124 Interface to attach maximum function count from PGO to module as module flags.
This provides interface to get and set maximum function counts to Module. This
would allow things like determination of function hotness. The actual setting
of this max function count will have to be done in the frontend.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15003

llvm-svn: 254647
2015-12-03 20:57:37 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 52888a6738 IR: Remove implicit iterator conversions from lib/IR, NFC
Stop converting implicitly between iterators and pointers/references in
lib/IR.  For convenience, I've added a `getIterator()` accessor to
`ilist_node` so that callers don't need to know how to spell the
iterator class (i.e., they can use `X.getIterator()` instead of
`Function::iterator(X)`).

I'll eventually disallow these implicit conversions entirely, but
there's a lot of code, so it doesn't make sense to do it all in one
patch.  One library or so at a time.

Why?  To root out cases of `getNextNode()` and `getPrevNode()` being
used in iterator logic.  The design of `ilist` makes that invalid when
the current node could be at the back of the list, but it happens to
"work" right now because of a bug where those functions never return
`nullptr` if you're using a half-node sentinel.  Before I can fix the
function, I have to remove uses of it that rely on it misbehaving.
(Maybe the function should just be deleted anyway?  But I don't want
deleting it -- potentially a huge project -- to block fixing
ilist/iplist.)

llvm-svn: 249782
2015-10-08 23:49:46 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 37bf678a0d IR: Create SymbolTableList wrapper around iplist, NFC
Create `SymbolTableList`, a wrapper around `iplist` for lists that
automatically manage a symbol table.  This commit reduces a ton of code
duplication between the six traits classes that were used previously.

As a drive by, reduce the number of template parameters from 2 to 1 by
using a SymbolTableListParentType metafunction (I originally had this as
a separate commit, but it touched most of the same lines so I squashed
them).

I'm in the process of trying to remove the UB in `createSentinel()` (see
the FIXMEs I added for `ilist_embedded_sentinel_traits` and
`ilist_half_embedded_sentinel_traits`).  My eventual goal is to separate
the list logic into a base class layer that knows nothing about (and
isn't templated on) the downcasted nodes -- removing the need to invoke
UB -- but for now I'm just trying to get a handle on all the current use
cases (and cleaning things up as I see them).

Besides these six SymbolTable lists, there are two others that use the
addNode/removeNode/transferNodes() hooks: the `MachineInstruction` and
`MachineBasicBlock` lists.  Ideally there'll be a way to factor these
hooks out of the low-level API entirely, but I'm not quite there yet.

llvm-svn: 249602
2015-10-07 20:05:10 +00:00
Hans Wennborg 083ca9bb32 Fix Clang-tidy modernize-use-nullptr warnings in source directories and generated files; other minor cleanups.
Patch by Eugene Zelenko!

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13321

llvm-svn: 249482
2015-10-06 23:24:35 +00:00
Sanjoy Das 9303c24650 [IR] Add operand bundles to CallInst and InvokeInst.
Summary:
This change teaches `CallInst`s and `InvokeInst`s to maintain a set of
operand bundles as part of its operands.  `CallInst`s and `InvokeInst`s
with operand bundles co-allocate some space before their `Use` array to
hold meta information about which of its operands are part of an operand
bundle.

The strings corresponding to the bundle tags are interned into
`LLVMContextImpl::BundleTagCache`

This change does not include any parsing / bitcode support.  That's the
next change.

Depends on D12455.

Reviewers: reames, chandlerc, majnemer, dexonsmith, kmod, JosephTremoulet, rnk, bogner

Subscribers: MatzeB, sanjoy, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12456

llvm-svn: 248527
2015-09-24 19:14:18 +00:00
Reid Kleckner 12d2c12023 If the "CodeView" module flag is set, emit codeview instead of DWARF
Summary:
Emit both DWARF and CodeView if "CodeView" and "Dwarf Version" module
flags are set.

Reviewers: majnemer

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11756

llvm-svn: 244158
2015-08-05 22:26:20 +00:00
Eric Christopher 97cb56572a While in GlobalValue fix the function(s) that don't follow the
naming convention and update users.

llvm-svn: 237461
2015-05-15 18:20:14 +00:00
Rafael Espindola cba833a09d Be lazy about loading metadata in IRObjectFile.
This speeds up llvm-ar building lib64/libclangSema.a with debug IR files
from 8.658015807 seconds to just 0.351036519 seconds :-)

llvm-svn: 232221
2015-03-13 21:54:20 +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
David Majnemer d7677e7a8d Verifier: Check for null operands in !llvm.module.flags
llvm-svn: 228818
2015-02-11 09:13:06 +00:00
Rafael Espindola 366e5c1bf1 The leak detector is dead, long live asan and valgrind.
In resent times asan and valgrind have found way more memory management bugs
in llvm than the special purpose leak detector.

llvm-svn: 224703
2014-12-22 13:00:36 +00:00
JF Bastien e6acbdc487 Random Number Generator Refactoring (removing from Module)
This patch removes the RNG from Module. Passes should instead create a new RNG for their use as needed.

Patch by Stephen Crane @rinon.

Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4377

llvm-svn: 224444
2014-12-17 18:12:10 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 5bf8fef580 IR: Split Metadata from Value
Split `Metadata` away from the `Value` class hierarchy, as part of
PR21532.  Assembly and bitcode changes are in the wings, but this is the
bulk of the change for the IR C++ API.

I have a follow-up patch prepared for `clang`.  If this breaks other
sub-projects, I apologize in advance :(.  Help me compile it on Darwin
I'll try to fix it.  FWIW, the errors should be easy to fix, so it may
be simpler to just fix it yourself.

This breaks the build for all metadata-related code that's out-of-tree.
Rest assured the transition is mechanical and the compiler should catch
almost all of the problems.

Here's a quick guide for updating your code:

  - `Metadata` is the root of a class hierarchy with three main classes:
    `MDNode`, `MDString`, and `ValueAsMetadata`.  It is distinct from
    the `Value` class hierarchy.  It is typeless -- i.e., instances do
    *not* have a `Type`.

  - `MDNode`'s operands are all `Metadata *` (instead of `Value *`).

  - `TrackingVH<MDNode>` and `WeakVH` referring to metadata can be
    replaced with `TrackingMDNodeRef` and `TrackingMDRef`, respectively.

    If you're referring solely to resolved `MDNode`s -- post graph
    construction -- just use `MDNode*`.

  - `MDNode` (and the rest of `Metadata`) have only limited support for
    `replaceAllUsesWith()`.

    As long as an `MDNode` is pointing at a forward declaration -- the
    result of `MDNode::getTemporary()` -- it maintains a side map of its
    uses and can RAUW itself.  Once the forward declarations are fully
    resolved RAUW support is dropped on the ground.  This means that
    uniquing collisions on changing operands cause nodes to become
    "distinct".  (This already happened fairly commonly, whenever an
    operand went to null.)

    If you're constructing complex (non self-reference) `MDNode` cycles,
    you need to call `MDNode::resolveCycles()` on each node (or on a
    top-level node that somehow references all of the nodes).  Also,
    don't do that.  Metadata cycles (and the RAUW machinery needed to
    construct them) are expensive.

  - An `MDNode` can only refer to a `Constant` through a bridge called
    `ConstantAsMetadata` (one of the subclasses of `ValueAsMetadata`).

    As a side effect, accessing an operand of an `MDNode` that is known
    to be, e.g., `ConstantInt`, takes three steps: first, cast from
    `Metadata` to `ConstantAsMetadata`; second, extract the `Constant`;
    third, cast down to `ConstantInt`.

    The eventual goal is to introduce `MDInt`/`MDFloat`/etc. and have
    metadata schema owners transition away from using `Constant`s when
    the type isn't important (and they don't care about referring to
    `GlobalValue`s).

    In the meantime, I've added transitional API to the `mdconst`
    namespace that matches semantics with the old code, in order to
    avoid adding the error-prone three-step equivalent to every call
    site.  If your old code was:

        MDNode *N = foo();
        bar(isa             <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(0)));
        baz(cast            <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(1)));
        bak(cast_or_null    <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(2)));
        bat(dyn_cast        <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(3)));
        bay(dyn_cast_or_null<ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(4)));

    you can trivially match its semantics with:

        MDNode *N = foo();
        bar(mdconst::hasa               <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(0)));
        baz(mdconst::extract            <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(1)));
        bak(mdconst::extract_or_null    <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(2)));
        bat(mdconst::dyn_extract        <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(3)));
        bay(mdconst::dyn_extract_or_null<ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(4)));

    and when you transition your metadata schema to `MDInt`:

        MDNode *N = foo();
        bar(isa             <MDInt>(N->getOperand(0)));
        baz(cast            <MDInt>(N->getOperand(1)));
        bak(cast_or_null    <MDInt>(N->getOperand(2)));
        bat(dyn_cast        <MDInt>(N->getOperand(3)));
        bay(dyn_cast_or_null<MDInt>(N->getOperand(4)));

  - A `CallInst` -- specifically, intrinsic instructions -- can refer to
    metadata through a bridge called `MetadataAsValue`.  This is a
    subclass of `Value` where `getType()->isMetadataTy()`.

    `MetadataAsValue` is the *only* class that can legally refer to a
    `LocalAsMetadata`, which is a bridged form of non-`Constant` values
    like `Argument` and `Instruction`.  It can also refer to any other
    `Metadata` subclass.

(I'll break all your testcases in a follow-up commit, when I propagate
this change to assembly.)

llvm-svn: 223802
2014-12-09 18:38:53 +00:00