From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:18:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: after going around in circles a few times, finally cave and emit structure
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ca4fc2c2620e184e8b96845a87b19d54f9e045c1;p=clang

after going around in circles a few times, finally cave and emit structure
copies with memcpy instead of memmove.  This matches what GCC does and if it
causes a problem with a particular libc we can always fix it with a target
hook.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@65699 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/lib/CodeGen/CGExprAgg.cpp b/lib/CodeGen/CGExprAgg.cpp
index e2f5c79d99..b0596e2fee 100644
--- a/lib/CodeGen/CGExprAgg.cpp
+++ b/lib/CodeGen/CGExprAgg.cpp
@@ -518,7 +518,16 @@ void CodeGenFunction::EmitAggregateCopy(llvm::Value *DestPtr,
                                         llvm::Value *SrcPtr, QualType Ty) {
   assert(!Ty->isAnyComplexType() && "Shouldn't happen for complex");
   
-  // Aggregate assignment turns into llvm.memmove.
+  // Aggregate assignment turns into llvm.memset.  This is almost valid per
+  // C99 6.5.16.1p3, which states "If the value being stored in an object is
+  // read from another object that overlaps in anyway the storage of the first
+  // object, then the overlap shall be exact and the two objects shall have
+  // qualified or unqualified versions of a compatible type."
+  //
+  // memset is not defined if the source and destination pointers are exactly
+  // equal, but other compilers do this optimization, and almost every memcpy
+  // implementation handles this case safely.  If there is a libc that does not
+  // safely handle this, we can add a target hook.
   const llvm::Type *BP = llvm::PointerType::getUnqual(llvm::Type::Int8Ty);
   if (DestPtr->getType() != BP)
     DestPtr = Builder.CreateBitCast(DestPtr, BP, "tmp");
@@ -531,7 +540,7 @@ void CodeGenFunction::EmitAggregateCopy(llvm::Value *DestPtr,
   // FIXME: Handle variable sized types.
   const llvm::Type *IntPtr = llvm::IntegerType::get(LLVMPointerWidth);
   
-  Builder.CreateCall4(CGM.getMemMoveFn(),
+  Builder.CreateCall4(CGM.getMemCpyFn(),
                       DestPtr, SrcPtr,
                       // TypeInfo.first describes size in bits.
                       llvm::ConstantInt::get(IntPtr, TypeInfo.first/8),
diff --git a/test/CodeGen/struct-copy.c b/test/CodeGen/struct-copy.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a45e37a30f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/CodeGen/struct-copy.c
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+// RUN: clang -emit-llvm %s -o - | grep 'call.*llvm.memcpy'
+struct x { int a[100]; };
+
+
+void foo(struct x *P, struct x *Q) {
+  *P = *Q;
+}