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    Don't delete empty preheaders in CodeGenPrepare if it would create a critical edge · d3fb38ca
    Chuang-Yu Cheng authored
    Presently, CodeGenPrepare deletes all nearly empty (only phi and branch)
    basic blocks. This pass can delete loop preheaders which frequently creates
    critical edges. A preheader can be a convenient place to spill registers to
    the stack. If the entrance to a loop body is a critical edge, then spills
    may occur in the loop body rather than immediately before it. This patch
    protects loop preheaders from deletion in CodeGenPrepare even if they are
    nearly empty.
    
    Since the patch alters the CFG, it affects a large number of test cases.
    In most cases, the changes are merely cosmetic (basic blocks have different
    names or instruction orders change slightly). I am somewhat concerned about
    the test/CodeGen/Mips/brdelayslot.ll test case. If the loop preheader is not
    deleted, then the MIPS backend does not take advantage of a branch delay
    slot. Consequently, I would like some close review by a MIPS expert.
    
    The patch also partially subsumes D16893 from George Burgess IV. George
    correctly notes that CodeGenPrepare does not actually preserve the dominator
    tree. I think the dominator tree was usually not valid when CodeGenPrepare
    ran, but I am using LoopInfo to mark preheaders, so the dominator tree is
    now always valid before CodeGenPrepare.
    
    Author: Tom Jablin (tjablin)
    Reviewers: hfinkel george.burgess.iv vkalintiris dsanders kbarton cycheng
    
    http://reviews.llvm.org/D16984
    
    llvm-svn: 265397
    d3fb38ca
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