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Commit bc9986e9 authored by Nikita Popov's avatar Nikita Popov
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Reapply "[BDCE][DemandedBits] Detect dead uses of undead instructions"

This (mostly) fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39771.

BDCE currently detects instructions that don't have any demanded bits
and replaces their uses with zero. However, if an instruction has
multiple uses, then some of the uses may be dead (have no demanded bits)
even though the instruction itself is still live. This patch extends
DemandedBits/BDCE to detect such uses and replace them with zero.
While this will not immediately render any instructions dead, it may
lead to simplifications (in the motivating case, by converting a rotate
into a simple shift), break dependencies, etc.

The implementation tries to strike a balance between analysis power and
complexity/memory usage. Originally I wanted to track demanded bits on
a per-use level, but ultimately we're only really interested in whether
a use is entirely dead or not. I'm using an extra set to track which uses
are dead. However, as initially all uses are dead, I'm not storing uses
those user is also dead. This case is checked separately instead.

The previous attempt to land this lead to miscompiles, because cases
where uses were initially dead but were later found to be live during
further analysis were not always correctly removed from the DeadUses
set. This is fixed now and the added test case demanstrates such an
instance.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55563

llvm-svn: 350188
parent e00606a1
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