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Add @llvm.assume, lowering, and some basic properties
authorHal Finkel <hfinkel@anl.gov>
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:13:35 +0000 (21:13 +0000)
committerHal Finkel <hfinkel@anl.gov>
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:13:35 +0000 (21:13 +0000)
commit8ef7b17dfc790ffcd28829312b6ad727298e11bb
tree30d1ef8cbe042232665a0d23ffbfc409d59fa51d
parent9c5f6b8c654d0ee6648474f353b4c2ba36b835e1
Add @llvm.assume, lowering, and some basic properties

This is the first commit in a series that add an @llvm.assume intrinsic which
can be used to provide the optimizer with a condition it may assume to be true
(when the control flow would hit the intrinsic call). Some basic properties are added here:

 - llvm.invariant(true) is dead.
 - llvm.invariant(false) is unreachable (this directly corresponds to the
   documented behavior of MSVC's __assume(0)), so is llvm.invariant(undef).

The intrinsic is tagged as writing arbitrarily, in order to maintain control
dependencies. BasicAA has been updated, however, to return NoModRef for any
particular location-based query so that we don't unnecessarily block code
motion.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@213973 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
12 files changed:
docs/LangRef.rst
include/llvm/IR/Intrinsics.td
lib/Analysis/BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp
lib/Analysis/TargetTransformInfo.cpp
lib/CodeGen/BasicTargetTransformInfo.cpp
lib/CodeGen/IntrinsicLowering.cpp
lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/SelectionDAGBuilder.cpp
lib/Transforms/Utils/Local.cpp
test/Analysis/BasicAA/assume.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
test/CodeGen/Generic/assume.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
test/Transforms/InstSimplify/assume.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
test/Transforms/SimplifyCFG/assume.ll [new file with mode: 0644]