patch brings numerous advantages to LLVM. One way to look at it
is through diffstat:
109 files changed, 3005 insertions(+), 5906 deletions(-)
Removing almost 3K lines of code is a good thing. Other advantages
include:
1. Value::getType() is a simple load that can be CSE'd, not a mutating
union-find operation.
2. Types a uniqued and never move once created, defining away PATypeHolder.
3. Structs can be "named" now, and their name is part of the identity that
uniques them. This means that the compiler doesn't merge them structurally
which makes the IR much less confusing.
4. Now that there is no way to get a cycle in a type graph without a named
struct type, "upreferences" go away.
5. Type refinement is completely gone, which should make LTO much MUCH faster
in some common cases with C++ code.
6. Types are now generally immutable, so we can use "Type *" instead
"const Type *" everywhere.
Downsides of this patch are that it removes some functions from the C API,
so people using those will have to upgrade to (not yet added) new API.
"LLVM 3.0" is the right time to do this.
There are still some cleanups pending after this, this patch is large enough
as-is.
llvm-svn: 134829
all over the place in different styles and variants. Standardize on two
preferred entrypoints: one that takes a StructType and ArrayRef, and one that
takes StructType and varargs.
In cases where there isn't a struct type convenient, we now add a
ConstantStruct::getAnon method (whose name will make more sense after a few
more patches land).
It would be "really really nice" if the ConstantStruct::get and
ConstantVector::get methods didn't make temporary std::vectors.
llvm-svn: 133412
It caused a crash in MultiSource/Benchmarks/Bullet.
Opt hit an assertion with "opt -std-compile-opts" because
Constant::getAllOnesValue doesn't know how to handle floats.
This patch added a test to reproduce the problem and a check that the
destination vector is of integer type.
Thank you Benjamin!
llvm-svn: 125459
While here, I'd like to complain about how vector is not an aggregate type
according to llvm::Type::isAggregateType(), but they're listed under aggregate
types in the LangRef and zero vectors are stored as ConstantAggregateZero.
llvm-svn: 123956
While there, I noticed that the transform "undef >>a X -> undef" was wrong.
For example if X is 2 then the top two bits must be equal, so the result can
not be anything. I fixed this in the constant folder as well. Also, I made
the transform for "X << undef" stronger: it now folds to undef always, even
though X might be zero. This is in accordance with the LangRef, but I must
admit that it is fairly aggressive. Also, I added "i32 X << 32 -> undef"
following the LangRef and the constant folder, likewise fairly aggressive.
llvm-svn: 123417
zextOrTrunc(), and APSInt methods extend(), extOrTrunc() and new method
trunc(), to be const and to return a new value instead of modifying the
object in place.
llvm-svn: 121120
transformation much more careful. Truncating binary '01' to '1' sounds like it's
safe until you realize that it switched from positive to negative under a signed
interpretation, and that depends on the icmp predicate.
Also a few miscellaneous cleanups.
llvm-svn: 97721
