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)
commit930469107d34d66b015f6e48b3f05554819216d8
tree3d23c9a2e9b5241703cbcfcc6040619ea65894d1
parentc888757a2dcaf365a115cd250da045e12af013c1
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.

llvm-svn: 213973
12 files changed:
llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
llvm/include/llvm/IR/Intrinsics.td
llvm/lib/Analysis/BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp
llvm/lib/Analysis/TargetTransformInfo.cpp
llvm/lib/CodeGen/BasicTargetTransformInfo.cpp
llvm/lib/CodeGen/IntrinsicLowering.cpp
llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/SelectionDAGBuilder.cpp
llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/Local.cpp
llvm/test/Analysis/BasicAA/assume.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/test/CodeGen/Generic/assume.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/test/Transforms/InstSimplify/assume.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/test/Transforms/SimplifyCFG/assume.ll [new file with mode: 0644]