Antonio Frighetto 9e0c06d708 [clang][CodeGen] Set dead_on_return when passing arguments indirectly
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.
2025-07-18 11:50:18 +02:00

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// RUN: %clang_cc1 -target-feature +altivec -triple powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu -emit-llvm -o - %s | FileCheck %s
typedef short v2i16 __attribute__((vector_size (4)));
typedef short v3i16 __attribute__((vector_size (6)));
typedef short v4i16 __attribute__((vector_size (8)));
typedef short v6i16 __attribute__((vector_size (12)));
typedef short v8i16 __attribute__((vector_size (16)));
typedef short v16i16 __attribute__((vector_size (32)));
struct v16i16 { v16i16 x; };
// CHECK: define{{.*}} i32 @test_v2i16(i32 noundef %x.coerce)
v2i16 test_v2i16(v2i16 x)
{
return x;
}
// CHECK: define{{.*}} i64 @test_v3i16(i64 %x.coerce)
v3i16 test_v3i16(v3i16 x)
{
return x;
}
// CHECK: define{{.*}} i64 @test_v4i16(i64 noundef %x.coerce)
v4i16 test_v4i16(v4i16 x)
{
return x;
}
// CHECK: define{{.*}} <6 x i16> @test_v6i16(<6 x i16> noundef %x)
v6i16 test_v6i16(v6i16 x)
{
return x;
}
// CHECK: define{{.*}} <8 x i16> @test_v8i16(<8 x i16> noundef %x)
v8i16 test_v8i16(v8i16 x)
{
return x;
}
// CHECK: define{{.*}} void @test_v16i16(ptr dead_on_unwind noalias writable sret(<16 x i16>) align 32 %agg.result, ptr dead_on_return noundef %0)
v16i16 test_v16i16(v16i16 x)
{
return x;
}
// CHECK: define{{.*}} void @test_struct_v16i16(ptr dead_on_unwind noalias writable sret(%struct.v16i16) align 32 %agg.result, [2 x i128] %x.coerce)
struct v16i16 test_struct_v16i16(struct v16i16 x)
{
return x;
}