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Commit 004e250c authored by Chris Lattner's avatar Chris Lattner
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This patch implements two things (sorry).

First, it allows SRA of globals that have embedded arrays, implementing
GlobalOpt/globalsra-partial.llx.  This comes up infrequently, but does allow,
for example, deleting several stores to dead parts of globals in dhrystone.

Second, this implements GlobalOpt/malloc-promote-*.llx, which is the
following nifty transformation:

Basically if a global pointer is initialized with malloc, and we can tell
that the program won't notice, we transform this:

struct foo *FooPtr;
...
  FooPtr = malloc(sizeof(struct foo));
...
  FooPtr->A   FooPtr->B

Into:

struct foo FooPtrBody;
...
   FooPtrBody.A  FooPtrBody.B

This comes up occasionally, for example, the 'disp' global in 183.equake (where
the xform speeds the CBE version of the program up from 56.16s to 52.40s (7%)
on apoc), and the 'desired_accept', 'fixLRBT', 'macroArray', & 'key_queue'
globals in 300.twolf (speeding it up from 22.29s to 21.55s (3.4%)).

The nice thing about this xform is that it exposes the resulting global to
global variable optimization and makes alias analysis easier in addition to
eliminating a few loads.

llvm-svn: 16916
parent 615bd303
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