Enhance the init generation logic to emit a memset followed by a few stores when
a global is larger than 32 bytes and has fewer than 6 non-zero values in the
initializer. Previously we'd turn something like this:
char test8(int X) {
char str[10000] = "abc";
into a 10K global variable which we then memcpy'd from. Now we generate:
%str = alloca [10000 x i8], align 16
%tmp = getelementptr inbounds [10000 x i8]* %str, i64 0, i64 0
call void @llvm.memset.p0i8.i64(i8* %tmp, i8 0, i64 10000, i32 16, i1 false)
store i8 97, i8* %tmp, align 16
%0 = getelementptr [10000 x i8]* %str, i64 0, i64 1
store i8 98, i8* %0, align 1
%1 = getelementptr [10000 x i8]* %str, i64 0, i64 2
store i8 99, i8* %1, align 2
Which is much smaller in space and also likely faster.
This is part of PR279
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@120645 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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