Peter Collingbourne 4568158c4d IR: Change PointerType to derive from Type rather than SequentialType.
As proposed on llvm-dev:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-October/106640.html

This is for a couple of reasons:

- Values of type PointerType are unlike the other SequentialTypes (arrays
  and vectors) in that they do not hold values of the element type. By moving
  PointerType we can unify certain aspects of how the other SequentialTypes
  are handled.
- PointerType will have no place in the SequentialType hierarchy once
  pointee types are removed, so this is a necessary step towards removing
  pointee types.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26595

llvm-svn: 288462
2016-12-02 03:05:41 +00:00
..
2016-08-25 01:29:55 +00:00
2016-04-18 09:17:29 +00:00

Analysis Opportunities:

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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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