Enhance MemDep: When alias analysis returns a partial alias result,

return it as a clobber.  This allows GVN to do smart things.

Enhance GVN to be smart about the case when a small load is clobbered
by a larger overlapping load.  In this case, forward the value.  This
allows us to compile stuff like this:

int test(void *P) {
  int tmp = *(unsigned int*)P;
  return tmp+*((unsigned char*)P+1);
}

into:

_test:                                  ## @test
	movl	(%rdi), %ecx
	movzbl	%ch, %eax
	addl	%ecx, %eax
	ret

which has one load.  We already handled the case where the smaller
load was from a must-aliased base pointer.

llvm-svn: 130180

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Analysis/MemoryDependenceAnalysis.cpp b/llvm/lib/Analysis/MemoryDependenceAnalysis.cpp
index 35043bddfaf..c8c4b4c6fcb 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Analysis/MemoryDependenceAnalysis.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Analysis/MemoryDependenceAnalysis.cpp
@@ -291,16 +291,26 @@ getPointerDependencyFrom(const AliasAnalysis::Location &MemLoc, bool isLoad,
       if (R == AliasAnalysis::NoAlias)
         continue;
       
-      // May-alias loads don't depend on each other without a dependence.
-      if (isLoad && R != AliasAnalysis::MustAlias)
+      if (isLoad) {
+        // Must aliased loads are defs of each other.
+        if (R == AliasAnalysis::MustAlias)
+          return MemDepResult::getDef(Inst);
+
+        // If we have a partial alias, then return this as a clobber for the
+        // client to handle.
+        if (R == AliasAnalysis::PartialAlias)
+          return MemDepResult::getClobber(Inst);
+        
+        // Random may-alias loads don't depend on each other without a
+        // dependence.
         continue;
+      }
 
       // Stores don't alias loads from read-only memory.
-      if (!isLoad && AA->pointsToConstantMemory(LoadLoc))
+      if (AA->pointsToConstantMemory(LoadLoc))
         continue;
 
-      // Stores depend on may and must aliased loads, loads depend on must-alias
-      // loads.
+      // Stores depend on may/must aliased loads.
       return MemDepResult::getDef(Inst);
     }