Making a width of GEP Index, which is used for address calculation, to be one of the pointer properties in the Data Layout. p[address space]:size:memory_size:alignment:pref_alignment:index_size_in_bits. The index size parameter is optional, if not specified, it is equal to the pointer size. Till now, the InstCombiner normalized GEPs and extended the Index operand to the pointer width. It works fine if you can convert pointer to integer for address calculation and all registered targets do this. But some ISAs have very restricted instruction set for the pointer calculation. During discussions were desided to retrieve information for GEP index from the Data Layout. http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-January/120416.html I added an interface to the Data Layout and I changed the InstCombiner and some other passes to take the Index width into account. This change does not affect any in-tree target. I added tests to cover data layouts with explicitly specified index size. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42123 llvm-svn: 325102
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In test/Transforms/LoopStrengthReduce/quadradic-exit-value.ll, the
ScalarEvolution expression for %r is this:
{1,+,3,+,2}<loop>
Outside the loop, this could be evaluated simply as (%n * %n), however
ScalarEvolution currently evaluates it as
(-2 + (2 * (trunc i65 (((zext i64 (-2 + %n) to i65) * (zext i64 (-1 + %n) to i65)) /u 2) to i64)) + (3 * %n))
In addition to being much more complicated, it involves i65 arithmetic,
which is very inefficient when expanded into code.
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In formatValue in test/CodeGen/X86/lsr-delayed-fold.ll,
ScalarEvolution is forming this expression:
((trunc i64 (-1 * %arg5) to i32) + (trunc i64 %arg5 to i32) + (-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32)))
This could be folded to
(-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32))
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