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Commit 1d8d2577 authored by Michael Gottesman's avatar Michael Gottesman
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Properly model precise lifetime when given an incomplete dataflow sequence.

The normal dataflow sequence in the ARC optimizer consists of the following
states:

    Retain -> CanRelease -> Use -> Release

The optimizer before this patch stored the uses that determine the lifetime of
the retainable object pointer when it bottom up hits a retain or when top down
it hits a release. This is correct for an imprecise lifetime scenario since what
we are trying to do is remove retains/releases while making sure that no
``CanRelease'' (which is usually a call) deallocates the given pointer before we
get to the ``Use'' (since that would cause a segfault).

If we are considering the precise lifetime scenario though, this is not
correct. In such a situation, we *DO* care about the previous sequence, but
additionally, we wish to track the uses resulting from the following incomplete
sequences:

  Retain -> CanRelease -> Release   (TopDown)
  Retain <- Use <- Release          (BottomUp)

*NOTE* This patch looks large but the most of it consists of updating
test cases. Additionally this fix exposed an additional bug. I removed
the test case that expressed said bug and will recommit it with the fix
in a little bit.

llvm-svn: 178921
parent 3b59f5c8
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