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-rw-r--r--llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/AlignmentFromAssumptions.cpp6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/AlignmentFromAssumptions.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/AlignmentFromAssumptions.cpp
index 8b1b0ab0633..a662accf69f 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/AlignmentFromAssumptions.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/AlignmentFromAssumptions.cpp
@@ -96,8 +96,10 @@ FunctionPass *llvm::createAlignmentFromAssumptionsPass() {
// Given an expression for the (constant) alignment, AlignSCEV, and an
// expression for the displacement between a pointer and the aligned address,
-// DiffSCEV, compute the alignment of the displaced pointer if it can be
-// reduced to a constant.
+// DiffSCEV, compute the alignment of the displaced pointer if it can be reduced
+// to a constant. Using SCEV to compute alignment handles the case where
+// DiffSCEV is a recurrence with constant start such that the aligned offset
+// is constant. e.g. {16,+,32} % 32 -> 16.
static unsigned getNewAlignmentDiff(const SCEV *DiffSCEV,
const SCEV *AlignSCEV,
ScalarEvolution *SE) {
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