Remove dangling initializers in GlobalDCE

GlobalDCE deletes global vars and updates their initializers to nullptr
while leaving underlying constants to be cleaned up later by its uses.
The clean up may never happen, fix this by forcing it every time it's
safe to destroy constants.

Final patch by Rafael Espindola
http://reviews.llvm.org/D4931

<rdar://problem/17523868>

llvm-svn: 216390

3 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/IPO/GlobalDCE.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/IPO/GlobalDCE.cpp
index 7e7a4c0ae83..e50cdb7358c 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/IPO/GlobalDCE.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/IPO/GlobalDCE.cpp
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include "llvm/IR/Instructions.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/Module.h"
 #include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/CtorUtils.h"
+#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/GlobalStatus.h"
 #include "llvm/Pass.h"
 using namespace llvm;
 
@@ -141,7 +142,12 @@ bool GlobalDCE::runOnModule(Module &M) {
        I != E; ++I)
     if (!AliveGlobals.count(I)) {
       DeadGlobalVars.push_back(I);         // Keep track of dead globals
-      I->setInitializer(nullptr);
+      if (I->hasInitializer()) {
+        Constant *Init = I->getInitializer();
+        I->setInitializer(nullptr);
+        if (isSafeToDestroyConstant(Init))
+          Init->destroyConstant();
+      }
     }
 
   // The second pass drops the bodies of functions which are dead...
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/GlobalStatus.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/GlobalStatus.cpp
index 33e34a9941e..97a0b4ee5ac 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/GlobalStatus.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/GlobalStatus.cpp
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ bool llvm::isSafeToDestroyConstant(const Constant *C) {
   if (isa<GlobalValue>(C))
     return false;
 
+  if (isa<ConstantInt>(C) || isa<ConstantFP>(C))
+    return false;
+
   for (const User *U : C->users())
     if (const Constant *CU = dyn_cast<Constant>(U)) {
       if (!isSafeToDestroyConstant(CU))
diff --git a/llvm/test/Transforms/GlobalDCE/deadblockaddr.ll b/llvm/test/Transforms/GlobalDCE/deadblockaddr.ll
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1ec5994d004
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/Transforms/GlobalDCE/deadblockaddr.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+; RUN: opt -globaldce -simplifycfg -S < %s | FileCheck %s
+
+; Tests whether globaldce does the right cleanup while removing @bar
+; so that a dead BlockAddress reference to foo won't prevent other passes
+; to work properly, e.g. simplifycfg
+@bar = internal unnamed_addr constant i8* blockaddress(@foo, %L1)
+
+; CHECK-LABEL: foo
+; CHECK-NOT: br label %L1
+; CHECK: ret void
+define void @foo() {
+entry:
+  br label %L1
+L1:
+  ret void
+}