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Commit 7b60a9ed authored by Ranjeet Singh's avatar Ranjeet Singh
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[ARM] fpscr read/write intrinsics not aware of each other

The intrinsics __builtin_arm_get_fpscr and __builtin_arm_set_fpscr read and
write to the fpscr (Floating-Point Status and Control Register) register.

A bug exists in the __builtin_arm_get_fpscr intrinsic definition in llvm which
treats this intrinsic as a IntroNoMem which means it's not a memory access and
doesn't have any other side-effects. Having this property on this intrinsic
means that various optimizations can be done on this such as common
sub-expression elimination with other reads. This can cause issues if there has
been write to this register, e.g.

void foo(int *p) {
     p[0] = __builtin_arm_get_fpscr();
     __builtin_arm_set_fpscr(1);
     p[1] = __builtin_arm_get_fpscr();
}

in the above example the second read is currently CSE'd into the first read,
this is because llvm isn't aware that the write done by __builtin_arm_set_fpscr
effects the same register that __builtin_arm_get_fpscr reads from, to fix this
problem I've removed the property IntrNoMem so that __builtin_arm_get_fpscr is
treated as a memory access.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30542

llvm-svn: 296865
parent 17a4b234
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