This fixes another bug found by llvm-stress!
If we happen to be doing an i64 load or store into a stack slot that has less
than a 4-byte alignment, then the frame-index elimination may need to use an
indexed load or store instruction (because the offset may not be a multiple of
4, a requirement of the STD/LD instructions). The extra register needed to hold
the offset comes from the register scavenger, and it is possible that the
scavenger will need to use an emergency spill slot. As a result, we need to
make sure that a spill slot is allocated when doing an i64 load/store into a
less-than-4-byte-aligned stack slot.
Because test cases for things like this tend to be fairly fragile, I've
concatenated a few small bugpoint-reduced test cases together to form the
regression test.
llvm-svn: 185907
A setting in MCAsmInfo defines the "assembler dialect" to use. This is used
by common code to choose between alternatives in a multi-alternative GNU
inline asm statement like the following:
__asm__ ("{sfe|subfe} %0,%1,%2" : "=r" (out) : "r" (in1), "r" (in2));
The meaning of these dialects is platform specific, and GCC defines those
for PowerPC to use dialect 0 for old-style (POWER) mnemonics and 1 for
new-style (PowerPC) mnemonics, like in the example above.
To be compatible with inline asm used with GCC, LLVM ought to do the same.
Specifically, this means we should always use assembler dialect 1 since
old-style mnemonics really aren't supported on any current platform.
However, the current LLVM back-end uses:
AssemblerDialect = 1; // New-Style mnemonics.
in PPCMCAsmInfoDarwin, and
AssemblerDialect = 0; // Old-Style mnemonics.
in PPCLinuxMCAsmInfo.
The Linux setting really isn't correct, we should be using new-style
mnemonics everywhere. This is changed by this commit.
Unfortunately, the setting of this variable is overloaded in the back-end
to decide whether or not we are on a Darwin target. This is done in
PPCInstPrinter (the "SyntaxVariant" is initialized from the MCAsmInfo
AssemblerDialect setting), and also in PPCMCExpr. Setting AssemblerDialect
to 1 for both Darwin and Linux no longer allows us to make this distinction.
Instead, this patch uses the MCSubtargetInfo passed to createPPCMCInstPrinter
to distinguish Darwin targets, and ignores the SyntaxVariant parameter.
As to PPCMCExpr, this patch adds an explicit isDarwin argument that needs
to be passed in by the caller when creating a target MCExpr. (To do so
this patch implicitly also reverts commit 184441.)
llvm-svn: 185858
Another bug found by llvm-stress! This fixes hitting
llvm_unreachable("Invalid integer vector compare condition");
at the end of getVCmpInst in PPCISelDAGToDAG.
llvm-svn: 185855
This adds support for the old-style time base instructions;
while new programs are supposed to use mfspr, the mftb instructions
are still supported and in use by existing assembler files.
llvm-svn: 185829
This adds support for the basic mnemoics (with the L operand) for the
fixed-point compare instructions. These are defined as aliases for the
already existing CMPW/CMPD patterns, depending on the value of L.
This requires use of InstAlias patterns with immediate literal operands.
To make this work, we need two further changes:
- define a RegisterPrefix, because otherwise literals 0 and 1 would
be parsed as literal register names
- provide a PPCAsmParser::validateTargetOperandClass routine to
recognize immediate literals (like ARM does)
llvm-svn: 185826
PPCTargetLowering::LowerFP_TO_INT() expects its source operand to be
either an f32 or f64, but this is not checked. A long double
(ppcf128) operand will normally be custom-lowered to a conversion to
f64 in this context. However, this isn't the case for an UNDEF node.
This patch recognizes a ppcf128 as a legal source operand for
FP_TO_INT only if it's an undef, in which case it creates an undef of
the target type.
At some point we might want to do a wholesale custom lowering of
ISD::UNDEF when the type is ppcf128, but it's not really clear that's
a great idea, and probably more work than it's worth for a situation
that only arises in the case of a programming error. At this point I
think simple is best.
The test case comes from PR16556, and is a crash-test only.
llvm-svn: 185821
When a target@got@tprel or target@got@tprel@l symbol variant is used in
a fixup_ppc_half16 (*not* fixup_ppc_half16ds) context, we currently fail,
since the corresponding R_PPC64_GOT_TPREL16 / R_PPC64_GOT_TPREL16_LO
relocation types do not exist.
However, since such symbol variants resolve to GOT offsets which are
always 4-aligned, we can simply instead use the _DS variants of the
relocation types, which *do* exist.
The same applies for the @got@dtprel variants.
llvm-svn: 185700
This adds support for the last missing construct to parse TLS-related
assembler code:
add 3, 4, symbol@tls
The ADD8TLS currently hard-codes the @tls into the assembler string.
This cannot be handled by the asm parser, since @tls is parsed as
a symbol variant. This patch changes ADD8TLS to have the @tls suffix
printed as symbol variant on output too, which allows us to remove
the isCodeGenOnly marker from ADD8TLS. This in turn means that we
can add a AsmOperand to accept @tls marked symbols on input.
As a side effect, this means that the fixup_ppc_tlsreg fixup type
is no longer necessary and can be merged into fixup_ppc_nofixup.
llvm-svn: 185692
This implements a proper PPCAsmBackend::writeNopData routine
that actually writes PowerPC nop instructions.
This fixes the last remaining difference in object file output
(text section) between the integrated assembler and GNU as
that I've seen anywhere.
llvm-svn: 185662
This adds support for specifying condition registers and
condition register fields via expressions using the symbols
defined by the PowerISA, like "4*cr2+eq".
llvm-svn: 185633
Just as with mfocrf, it is also preferable to use mtocrf instead of
mtcrf when only a single CR register is to be written.
Current code however always emits mtcrf. This probably does not matter
when using an external assembler, since the GNU assembler will in fact
automatically replace mtcrf with mtocrf when possible. It does create
inefficient code with the integrated assembler, however.
To fix this, this patch adds MTOCRF/MTOCRF8 instruction patterns and
uses those instead of MTCRF/MTCRF8 everything. Just as done in the
MFOCRF patch committed as 185556, these patterns will be converted
back to MTCRF if MTOCRF is not available on the machine.
As a side effect, this allows to modify the MTCRF pattern to accept
the full range of mask operands for the benefit of the asm parser.
llvm-svn: 185561
When accessing just a single CR register, it is always preferable to
use mfocrf instead of mfcr, if the former is available on the CPU.
Current code makes that distinction in many, but not all places
where a single CR register value is retrieved. One missing
location is PPCRegisterInfo::lowerCRSpilling.
To fix this and make this simpler in the future, this patch changes
the bulk of the back-end to always assume mfocrf is available and
simply generate it when needed.
On machines that actually do not support mfocrf, the instruction
is replaced by mfcr at the very end, in EmitInstruction.
This has the additional benefit that we no longer need the
MFCRpseud hack, since before EmitInstruction we always have
a MFOCRF instruction pattern, which already models data flow
as required.
The patch also adds the MFOCRF8 version of the instruction,
which was missing so far.
Except for the PPCRegisterInfo::lowerCRSpilling case, no change
in generated code intended.
llvm-svn: 185556
The subroutine getCRIdxForSetCC has a parameter "Other" and comment:
If this returns with Other != -1, then the returned comparison
is an or of two simpler comparisons.
However for at least the last five years this routine has never
returned a value of Other != -1; these cases are now handled
differently to begin with.
This patch removes the parameter and the code in SelectSETCC that
attempted to handle the Other != -1 case.
llvm-svn: 185541
A couple of AltiVec patterns are just specialized forms of the
generic instruction pattern, and should therefore be marked
isCodeGenOnly to avoid confusing the asm parser:
VCFSX_0, VCTUXS_0, VCFUX_0, VCTSXS_0, and V_SETALLONES.
Noticed by inspection of the generated PPCGenAsmMatcher.inc.
llvm-svn: 185533
This adds support for the generic forms of mtspr/mfspr
for the asm parser. The compiler will continue to use
the specialized patters for mtlr etc. since those are
needed to correctly describe data flow.
llvm-svn: 185532
This patch now adds support for recognizing TLS call sequences in
the asm parser. This needs a new pattern BL8_TLS, which is like
BL8_NOP_TLS except without nop. That pattern is used for the
asm parser only.
llvm-svn: 185478
As part of the global-dynamic and local-dynamic TLS sequences, we need
to use a special form of the call instruction:
bl __tls_get_addr(sym@tlsld)
bl __tls_get_addr(sym@tlsgd)
which generates two fixups. The current implementation of this causes
problems with recognizing this form in the asm parser. To fix this,
this patch reworks operand processing for this special form by using
a single operand to hold both __tls_get_addr and sym@tlsld and defining
a print method to output the above form, and an encoding method to
generate the two fixups.
As a side simplification, the patch replaces the two instruction
patterns BL8_NOP_TLSGD and BL8_NOP_TLSLD by a single BL8_NOP_TLS,
since the patterns already operate in an identical fashion (whether
we have a local-dynamic or global-dynamic symbol is already encoded
in the symbol modifier).
No change in code generation intended.
llvm-svn: 185477
The PowerPC-specific modifiers VK_PPC_TLSGD and VK_PPC_TLSLD
correspond exactly to the generic modifiers VK_TLSGD and VK_TLSLD.
This causes some confusion with the asm parser, since VK_PPC_TLSGD
is output as @tlsgd, which is then read back in as VK_TLSGD.
To avoid this confusion, this patch removes the PowerPC-specific
modifiers and uses the generic modifiers throughout. (The only
drawback is that the generic modifiers are printed in upper case
while the usual convention on PowerPC is to use lower-case modifiers.
But this is just a cosmetic issue.)
llvm-svn: 185476
This adds an implementation of getDebugThreadLocalSymbol for
(64-bit) PowerPC. This needs to return a generic MCExpr
since on ppc64, we need to add a bias of 0x8000 to the
value returned by the R_PPC64_DTPREL64 relocation.
llvm-svn: 185461
This is dead code since PIC16 was removed in 2010. The result was an odd mix,
where some parts would carefully pass it along and others would assert it was
zero (most of the object streamer for example).
llvm-svn: 185436
There are a couple of (small) related changes here:
1. The printed name of the VRSAVE register has been changed from VRsave to
vrsave in order to match the name accepted by GNU binutils.
2. Support for parsing vrsave has been added to the asm parser (it seems that
there was no test case specifically covering this code, so I've added one).
3. The list of Altivec registers, which was common to all calling conventions,
has been separated out. This allows us to define the base CSR lists, and then
lists for each ABI with Altivec included. This allows SjLj, for example, to
work correctly on non-Altivec targets without using unnatural definitions of
the NoRegs CSR list.
4. VRSAVE is now always reserved on non-Darwin targets and all Altivec
registers are reserved when Altivec is disabled.
With these changes, it is now possible to compile a function containing
__builtin_unwind_init() on Linux/PPC64 with debugging information. This did not
work previously because GNU binutils assumes that all .cfi_offset offsets will
be 8-byte aligned on PPC64 (and errors out if you provide a non-8-byte-aligned
offset). This is not true for the vrsave register, however, because this
register is used only on Darwin, GCC does not bother printing a .cfi_offset
entry for it (even though there is a slot in the stack frame for it as
specified by the ABI). This change allows us to do the same: we will also not
print .cfi_offset directives for vrsave.
llvm-svn: 185409
This adds support for TLS data relocations and modifiers:
.quad target@dtpmod
.quad target@tprel
.quad target@dtprel
Currently exploited by the asm parser only.
llvm-svn: 185394
Although you can't generate this from C on PPC64, if you have a loop using a
64-bit counter on PPC32 then you can't form a CTR-based loop for it. This had
been cauing the PPCCTRLoops pass to assert.
Thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger for providing a test case!
llvm-svn: 185361
A @got reference must always result in a relocation, so that
the linker has a chance to set up the GOT entry, even if the
symbol happens to be local.
Add a PPCELFObjectWriter::ExplicitRelSym routine that enforces
a relocation to be emitted for GOT references.
llvm-svn: 185353
This fixes PR16418, which reports that a function calling
__builtin_unwind_init() asserts. The cause is that this generates a
spill/restore for VRSAVE, and we support that only on Darwin (because VRSAVE is
only really used on Darwin).
The test case checks only that we don't crash. We can add correctness checks
once someone verifies what behavior the function is supposed to have.
llvm-svn: 185235
Under certain (evidently rare) circumstances, this code used to convert OR(a,
AND(x, y)) into OR(a, x). This was incorrect.
While there, I've added a comment to the code immediately above.
llvm-svn: 185201
The assembler currently strictly verifies that immediates for
s16imm operands are in range (-32768 ... 32767). This matches
the behaviour of the GNU assembler, with one exception: gas
allows, as a special case, operands in an extended range
(-65536 .. 65535) for the addis instruction only (and its
extended mnemonic lis).
The main reason for this seems to be to allow using unsigned
16-bit operands for lis, e.g. like lis %r1, 0xfedc.
Since this has been supported by gas for a long time, and
assembler source code seen "in the wild" actually exploits
this feature, this patch adds equivalent support to LLVM
for compatibility reasons.
llvm-svn: 184946
Currently, all instructions taking s16imm operands support symbolic
operands. However, for u16imm operands, we only support actual
immediate integers. This causes the assembler to reject code like
ori %r5, %r5, symbol@l
This patch changes the u16imm operand definition to likewise
accept symbolic operands. In fact, s16imm and u16imm can
share the same encoding routine, now renamed to getImm16Encoding.
llvm-svn: 184944
This adds pattern for the rldcr and rldic instructions (the last instruction
from the rotate/shift family that were missing). They are currently used
only by the asm parser.
llvm-svn: 184833
This adds support for the predicted forms of branches (+/-).
There are three cases to consider:
- Branches using a PPC::Predicate code
For these, I've added new PPC::Predicate codes corresponding
to the BO values for predicted branch forms, and updated insn
printing to print them correctly. I've also added new aliases
for the asm parser matching the new forms.
- bt/bf
I've added new aliases matching to gBC etc.
- bd(n)z variants
I've added new instruction patterns for the predicted forms.
In all cases, the new patterns are used for the asm parser only.
(The new infrastructure ought to be sufficient to allow use by
the compiler too at some point.)
llvm-svn: 184754
This adds instruction patterns to cover the generic forms of
the conditional branch instructions. This allows the assembler
to support the generic mnemonics.
The compiler will still generate the various specific forms
of the instruction that were already supported.
llvm-svn: 184722
There is currently only limited support for the "absolute" variants
of branch instructions. This patch adds support for the absolute
variants of all branches that are currently otherwise supported.
This requires adding new fixup types so that the correct variant
of relocation type can be selected by the object writer.
While the compiler will continue to usually choose the relative
branch variants, this will allow the asm parser to fully support
the absolute branches, with either immediate (numerical) or
symbolic target addresses.
No change in code generation intended.
llvm-svn: 184721
The GNU assembler supports (as extension to the ABI) use of PC-relative
relocations in half16 fields, which allows writing code like:
li 1, base-.
This patch adds support for those relocation types in the assembler.
llvm-svn: 184552
The current code base only supports the minimum set of tls-related
relocations and @modifiers that are necessary to support compiler-
generated code. This patch extends this to the full set defined
in the ABI (and supported by the GNU assembler) for the benefit
of the assembler parser.
llvm-svn: 184551
This adds necessary infrastructure to support the @h modifier.
Note that all required relocation types were already present
(and unused).
This patch provides support for using @h in the assembler;
it would also be possible to now use this feature in code
generated by the compiler, but this is not done yet.
llvm-svn: 184548
This renames more VK_PPC_ enums, to make them more closely reflect
the @modifier string they represent. This also prepares for adding
a bunch of new VK_PPC_ enums in upcoming patches.
For consistency, some MO_ flags related to VK_PPC_ enums are
likewise renamed.
No change in behaviour.
llvm-svn: 184547
This is another minor cleanup; to bring enum names in line
with the corresponding @modifier names, this renames:
VK_PPC_TOC -> VK_PPC_TOCBASE
VK_PPC_TOC_ENTRY -> VK_PPC_TOC16
No code change intended.
llvm-svn: 184491
This just re-sorts the big switch statement in
PPCELFObjectWriter::getRelocTypeInner to follow
the (numerical) order of the reloc types, and
fixes a couple of whitespace issues.
llvm-svn: 184485
This patch adds support for having the assembler optimize fixups
to constructs like "symbol@ha" or "symbol@l" if "symbol" can be
resolved at assembler time.
This optimization is already present in the PPCMCExpr.cpp code
for handling PPC_HA16/PPC_LO16 target expressions. However,
those target expression were used only on Darwin targets.
This patch changes target expression code so that they are
usable also with the GNU assembler (using the @ha / @l syntax
instead of the ha16() / lo16() syntax), and changes the
MCInst lowering code to generate those target expressions
where appropriate.
It also changes the asm parser to generate HA16/LO16 target
expressions when parsing assembler source that uses the
@ha / @l modifiers. The effect is that now the above-
mentioned optimization automatically becomes available
for those situations too.
llvm-svn: 184436
Frame index handling is now target-agnostic, so delete the target hooks
for creation & asm printing of target-specific addressing in DBG_VALUEs
and any related functions.
llvm-svn: 184067
I'm taking David Blaikie's suggestion to use an
Optional<PPC::Predicate> return value instead. That's the right
solution for this problem. Thanks for pointing out that possibility!
llvm-svn: 183858
This is a preparatory patch for fast-isel support. The instruction
selector will need to access some functions in PPCGenCallingConv.inc,
which in turn requires several helper functions to be defined. These
are currently defined near the only use of PCCGenCallingConv.inc,
inside PPCISelLowering.cpp. This patch moves the declaration of the
functions into the associated header file to provide the needed
visibility.
No functional change intended.
llvm-svn: 183844
Allows returning a PPC::Predicate from a function with a no-predicate
value possible. Preparatory patch for fast-isel on PPC64 ELF. No
behavioral change intended.
llvm-svn: 183841
I've been comparing the object file output of LLVM's integrated
assembler against the external assembler on PowerPC, and one
area where differences still remain are in DWARF sections.
In particular, the GNU assembler generates .debug_frame and
.debug_line sections using a code alignment factor of 4, since
all PowerPC instructions have size 4 and must be aligned to a
multiple of 4. However, current MC code hard-codes a code
alignment factor of 1.
This patch changes this by adding a "minimum instruction alignment"
data element to MCAsmInfo and using this as code alignment factor.
This requires passing a MCContext into MCDwarfLineAddr::Encode
and MCDwarfLineAddr::EncodeAdvanceLoc. Note that one caller,
MCDwarfLineAddr::Write, didn't actually have that information
available. However, it turns out that this routine is in fact
never used in the whole code base, so the patch simply removes
it. If it turns out to be needed again at a later time, it
could be re-added with an updated interface.
llvm-svn: 183834
A plain "sc" without argument is supposed to be treated like "sc 0"
by the assembler. This patch adds a corresponding alias.
Problem reported by Joerg Sonnenberger.
llvm-svn: 183687
The extended branch mnemonics are supposed to use an implied CR0
if there is no explicit condition register specified. This patch
adds extra variants of the mnemonics to this effect.
Problem reported by Joerg Sonnenberger.
llvm-svn: 183686
On PPC32, [su]div,rem on i64 types are transformed into runtime library
function calls. As a result, they are not allowed in counter-based loops (the
counter-loops verification pass caught this error; this change fixes PR16169).
llvm-svn: 183581
Fixes PR16146: gdb.base__call-ar-st.exp fails after
pre-RA-sched=source fixes.
Patch by Xiaoyi Guo!
This also fixes an unsupported dbg.value test case. Codegen was
previously incorrect but the test was passing by luck.
llvm-svn: 182885
isConsecutiveLS is a slightly more general form of
SelectionDAG::isConsecutiveLoad. Aside from also handling stores, it also does
not assume equality of the chain operands is necessary. In the case of the PPC
backend, this chain condition is checked in a more general way by the
surrounding code.
Mostly, this part of the refactoring in preparation for supporting optimized
unaligned stores.
llvm-svn: 182723
When expanding unaligned Altivec loads, we use the decremented offset trick to
prevent page faults. Unfortunately, if we have a sequence of consecutive
unaligned loads, this leads to suboptimal code generation because the 'extra'
load from the first unaligned load can be combined with the base load from the
second (but only if the decremented offset trick is not used for the first).
Search up and down the chain, through loads and token factors, looking for
consecutive loads, and if one is found, don't use the offset reduction trick.
These duplicate loads are later combined to yield the desired sequence (in the
future, we might want a more-powerful chain search, but that will require some
changes to allow the combiner routines to access the AA object).
This should complete the initial implementation of the optimized unaligned
Altivec load expansion. There is some refactoring that should be done, but
that will happen when the unaligned store expansion is added.
llvm-svn: 182719
The lvsl permutation control instruction is a function only of the alignment of
the pointer operand (relative to the 16-byte natural alignment of Altivec
vectors). As a result, multiple lvsl intrinsics where the operands differ by a
multiple of 16 can be combined.
llvm-svn: 182708
Altivec only directly supports aligned loads, but the loads have a strange
property: If given an unaligned address, they truncate the address to the next
lower aligned address, and load from there. This property, along with an extra
load and some special-purpose permutation-control instructions that generate
the appropriate permutations from the original unaligned address, allow
efficient lowering of aligned loads. This code uses the trick explained in the
Apple Velocity Engine optimization overview document to prevent the needed
extra load from possibly causing a page fault if the original address happens
to be aligned.
As noted in the FIXMEs, there are several additional optimizations that can be
performed to reduce the cost of these loads even more. These will be
implemented in future commits.
llvm-svn: 182691
Now that there is no longer any distinction between symbolLo
and symbolHi operands in either printing, encoding, or parsing,
the operand types can be removed in favor of simply using
s16imm.
This completes the patch series to decouple lo/hi operand part
processing from the particular instruction whose operand it is.
No change in code generation expected from this patch.
llvm-svn: 182618
When targeting the Darwin assembler, we need to generate markers ha16() and
lo16() to designate the high and low parts of a (symbolic) immediate. This
is necessary not just for plain symbols, but also for certain symbolic
expression, typically along the lines of ha16(A - B). The latter doesn't
work when simply using VariantKind flags on the symbol reference.
This is why the current back-end uses hacks (explicitly called out as such
via multiple FIXMEs) in the symbolLo/symbolHi print methods.
This patch uses target-defined MCExpr codes to represent the Darwin
ha16/lo16 constructs, following along the lines of the equivalent solution
used by the ARM back end to handle their :upper16: / :lower16: markers.
This allows us to get rid of special handling both in the symbolLo/symbolHi
print method and in the common code MCExpr::print routine. Instead, the
ha16 / lo16 markers are printed simply in a custom print routine for the
target MCExpr types. (As a result, the symbolLo/symbolHi print methods
can now replaced by a single printS16ImmOperand routine that also handles
symbolic operands.)
The patch also provides a EvaluateAsRelocatableImpl routine to handle
ha16/lo16 constructs. This is not actually used at the moment by any
in-tree code, but is provided as it makes merging into David Fang's
out-of-tree Mach-O object writer simpler.
Since there is no longer any need to treat VK_PPC_GAS_HA16 and
VK_PPC_DARWIN_HA16 differently, they are merged into a single
VK_PPC_ADDR16_HA (and likewise for the _LO16 types).
llvm-svn: 182616
Using PatLeaf rather than ImmLeaf when defining immediate predicates
prevents simple patterns using those predicates from being recognized
for fast instruction selection. This patch replaces the immSExt16
PatLeaf predicate with two ImmLeaf predicates, imm32SExt16 and
imm64SExt16, allowing a few more patterns to be recognized (ADDI,
ADDIC, MULLI, ADDI8, and ADDIC8). Using the new predicates does not
help for LI, LI8, SUBFIC, and SUBFIC8 because these are rejected for
other reasons, but I see no reason to retain the PatLeaf predicate.
No functional change intended, and thus no test cases yet. This is
preliminary work for enabling fast-isel support for PowerPC. When
that support is ready, we'll be able to test this function.
llvm-svn: 182510
Although I had added some support for the BDZ/BDNZ branches into the selector
(in r158204), I had not correctly adjusted the condition at the top of the
loop. As a result, these branches were still essentially unsupported.
This fixes PR16086. Unfortunately, any test case would be very large (because
it would need to force the loop backedge to exceed the range of the 16-bit
immediate).
llvm-svn: 182385
Now that the preheader insertion logic in LoopSimplify is externally exposed,
use it, and remove the copy-and-pasted version.
No functionality change intended.
llvm-svn: 182300
As the pairing of this instruction form with the bdnz/bdz branches is now
enforced by the verification pass, make it clear from the name that these
are used only for counter-based loops.
No functionality change intended.
llvm-svn: 182296
When asserts are enabled, this adds a verification pass for PPC counter-loop
formation. Unfortunately, without sacrificing code quality, there is no better
way of forming counter-based loops except at the (late) IR level. This means
that we need to recognize, at the IR level, anything which might turn into a
function call (or indirect branch). Because this is currently a finite set of
things, and because SelectionDAG lowering is basic-block local, this can be
done. Nevertheless, it is fragile, and failure results in a miscompile. This
verification pass checks that all (reachable) counter-based branches are
dominated by a loop mtctr instruction, and that no instructions in between
clobber the counter register. If these conditions are not satisfied, then an
ICE will be triggered.
In short, this is to help us sleep better at night.
llvm-svn: 182295
