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authorDan Gohman <gohman@apple.com>2010-10-20 22:11:14 +0000
committerDan Gohman <gohman@apple.com>2010-10-20 22:11:14 +0000
commitba13864483b696e7f8e2058c3a50b5d901f2213b (patch)
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Factor out the main aliasing check into a separate function.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@116958 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Analysis/TypeBasedAliasAnalysis.cpp')
-rw-r--r--lib/Analysis/TypeBasedAliasAnalysis.cpp63
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Analysis/TypeBasedAliasAnalysis.cpp b/lib/Analysis/TypeBasedAliasAnalysis.cpp
index 787db7351a..5994ffd702 100644
--- a/lib/Analysis/TypeBasedAliasAnalysis.cpp
+++ b/lib/Analysis/TypeBasedAliasAnalysis.cpp
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ namespace {
return this;
}
+ bool Aliases(const MDNode *A, const MDNode *B) const;
+
private:
virtual void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const;
virtual AliasResult alias(const Location &LocA, const Location &LocB);
@@ -125,27 +127,19 @@ TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const {
AliasAnalysis::getAnalysisUsage(AU);
}
-AliasAnalysis::AliasResult
-TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::alias(const Location &LocA,
- const Location &LocB) {
- if (!EnableTBAA)
- return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA, LocB);
-
- // Get the attached MDNodes. If either value lacks a tbaa MDNode, we must
- // be conservative.
- const MDNode *AM = LocA.TBAATag;
- if (!AM) return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA, LocB);
- const MDNode *BM = LocB.TBAATag;
- if (!BM) return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA, LocB);
-
+/// Aliases - Test whether the type represented by A may alias the
+/// type represented by B.
+bool
+TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::Aliases(const MDNode *A,
+ const MDNode *B) const {
// Keep track of the root node for A and B.
TBAANode RootA, RootB;
// Climb the tree from A to see if we reach B.
- for (TBAANode T(AM); ; ) {
- if (T.getNode() == BM)
+ for (TBAANode T(A); ; ) {
+ if (T.getNode() == B)
// B is an ancestor of A.
- return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA, LocB);
+ return true;
RootA = T;
T = T.getParent();
@@ -154,10 +148,10 @@ TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::alias(const Location &LocA,
}
// Climb the tree from B to see if we reach A.
- for (TBAANode T(BM); ; ) {
- if (T.getNode() == AM)
+ for (TBAANode T(B); ; ) {
+ if (T.getNode() == A)
// A is an ancestor of B.
- return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA, LocB);
+ return true;
RootB = T;
T = T.getParent();
@@ -167,13 +161,34 @@ TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::alias(const Location &LocA,
// Neither node is an ancestor of the other.
- // If they have the same root, then we've proved there's no alias.
- if (RootA.getNode() == RootB.getNode())
- return NoAlias;
-
// If they have different roots, they're part of different potentially
// unrelated type systems, so we must be conservative.
- return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA, LocB);
+ if (RootA.getNode() != RootB.getNode())
+ return true;
+
+ // If they have the same root, then we've proved there's no alias.
+ return false;
+}
+
+AliasAnalysis::AliasResult
+TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::alias(const Location &LocA,
+ const Location &LocB) {
+ if (!EnableTBAA)
+ return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA, LocB);
+
+ // Get the attached MDNodes. If either value lacks a tbaa MDNode, we must
+ // be conservative.
+ const MDNode *AM = LocA.TBAATag;
+ if (!AM) return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA, LocB);
+ const MDNode *BM = LocB.TBAATag;
+ if (!BM) return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA, LocB);
+
+ // If they may alias, chain to the next AliasAnalysis.
+ if (Aliases(AM, BM))
+ return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA, LocB);
+
+ // Otherwise return a definitive result.
+ return NoAlias;
}
bool TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::pointsToConstantMemory(const Location &Loc) {