This patch makes the dead_on_return parameter attribute optionally require a number
of bytes to be passed in to specify the number of bytes known to be dead
upon function return/unwind. This is aimed at enabling annotating the
this pointer in C++ destructors with dead_on_return in clang. We need
this to handle cases like the following:
```
struct X {
int n;
~X() {
this[n].n = 0;
}
};
void f() {
X xs[] = {42, -1};
}
```
Where we only certain that sizeof(X) bytes are dead upon return of ~X.
Otherwise DSE would be able to eliminate the store in ~X which would not
be correct.
This patch only does the wiring within IR. Future patches will make
clang emit correct sizing information and update DSE to only delete
stores to objects marked dead_on_return that are provably in bounds of
the number of bytes specified to be dead_on_return.
Reviewers: nikic, alinas, antoniofrighetto
Pull Request: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/171712
Let Clang emit `dead_on_return` attribute on pointer arguments
that are passed indirectly, namely, large aggregates that the
ABI mandates be passed by value; thus, the parameter is destroyed
within the callee. Writes to such arguments are not observable by
the caller after the callee returns.
This should desirably enable further MemCpyOpt/DSE optimizations.
Previous discussion: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-add-dead-on-return-attribute/86871.
As reported on #135064, the generic pointer coercion code in
CoerceIntOrPtrToIntOrPtr cannot handle address space casts (it tries to bitcast
the pointers). This bails out if an address space qualifier is found on the
pointer.
The aim here is to avoid a ptrtoint->inttoptr round-trip through the function
argument whilst keeping the calling convention the same. Given a struct which
is <= 128bits in size, which can only contain either 1 or 2 pointers, we
convert to a ptr or [2 x ptr] as opposed to the old coercion that uses i64 or
[2 x i64]. This helps alias analysis produce more accurate results.
