and extern_weak_odr. These are the same as the non-odr versions,
except that they indicate that the global will only be overridden
by an *equivalent* global. In C, a function with weak linkage can
be overridden by a function which behaves completely differently.
This means that IP passes have to skip weak functions, since any
deductions made from the function definition might be wrong, since
the definition could be replaced by something completely different
at link time. This is not allowed in C++, thanks to the ODR
(One-Definition-Rule): if a function is replaced by another at
link-time, then the new function must be the same as the original
function. If a language knows that a function or other global can
only be overridden by an equivalent global, it can give it the
weak_odr linkage type, and the optimizers will understand that it
is alright to make deductions based on the function body. The
code generators on the other hand map weak and weak_odr linkage
to the same thing.
llvm-svn: 66339
to find a tiny mouse hole to squeeze through, it struck
me that globals without a name can be considered internal
since they can't be referenced from outside the current
module. This patch makes GlobalOpt give them internal
linkage. Also done for aliases even though they always
have names, since in my opinion anonymous aliases should
be allowed for consistency with global variables and
functions. So if that happens one day, this code is ready!
llvm-svn: 66267
If non constant local GV named A is used by a constant local GV named B (e.g. llvm.dbg.variable) and B is not used by anyone else then eliminate A as well as B.
In other words, debug info should not interfere in removal of unused GV.
--This life, and those below, will be ignored--
M test/Transforms/GlobalOpt/2009-03-03-dbg.ll
M lib/Transforms/IPO/GlobalOpt.cpp
llvm-svn: 66167
here. Since we only do the transform if there is
one use, strip off any such users in the hope of
making the transform fire more often.
llvm-svn: 64926
There is now a direct way from value-use-iterator to incoming block in PHINode's API.
This way we avoid the iterator->index->iterator trip, and especially the costly
getOperandNo() invocation. Additionally there is now an assertion that the iterator
really refers to one of the PHI's Uses.
llvm-svn: 62869
doing very similar pointer capture analysis.
Factor out the common logic. The new version
is from FunctionAttrs since it does a better
job than the version in BasicAliasAnalysis
llvm-svn: 62461
vector and extraneous loop over it, 2) not delete globals used by
phis/selects etc which could actually be useful. This fixes PR3321.
Many thanks to Duncan for narrowing this down.
llvm-svn: 62201
compensation for turning off gcc's inliner. This gets
us closer to the amount of inlining we were getting before.
It is not a win on everything, of course, but seems to
gain overall.
llvm-svn: 62058
was it not very helpful, it was also wrong! The problem
is shown in the testcase: the alloca might be passed to
a nocapture callee which dereferences it and returns the
original pointer. But because it was a nocapture call we
think we don't need to track its uses, but we do.
llvm-svn: 61876
In fact this also deletes those with linkonce linkage,
however this is currently dead because for the moment
aliases aren't allowed to have this linkage type.
llvm-svn: 61742
not have pointer type. In particular, it may
be the condition argument for a select or a GEP
index. While I was unable to construct a testcase
for which some bits of the original pointer are
captured due to one of these, it's very very close
to being possible - so play safe and exclude these
possibilities.
llvm-svn: 61580
the argument to be stored to an alloca by tracking uses
of the alloca. This occurs 4 times (out of 7121, 0.05%)
in MultiSource/Applications, so may not be worth it. On
the other hand, it is easy to do and fairly cheap. The
functions it helps are: W_addcom and W_addlit in spiff;
process_args (argv) in d (make_dparser); ercPixConcealIMB
in JM/ldecod.
llvm-svn: 61570
