Fix PR3694: add an instcombine micro-optimization that helps
clean up when using variable length arrays in llvm-gcc.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@65832 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
diff --git a/lib/Transforms/Scalar/InstructionCombining.cpp b/lib/Transforms/Scalar/InstructionCombining.cpp
index 8e91b36..7ddbb4c 100644
--- a/lib/Transforms/Scalar/InstructionCombining.cpp
+++ b/lib/Transforms/Scalar/InstructionCombining.cpp
@@ -10766,15 +10766,25 @@
// transform: GEP (bitcast [10 x i8]* X to [0 x i8]*), i32 0, ...
// into : GEP [10 x i8]* X, i32 0, ...
//
+ // Likewise, transform: GEP (bitcast i8* X to [0 x i8]*), i32 0, ...
+ // into : GEP i8* X, ...
+ //
// This occurs when the program declares an array extern like "int X[];"
- //
const PointerType *CPTy = cast<PointerType>(PtrOp->getType());
const PointerType *XTy = cast<PointerType>(X->getType());
- if (const ArrayType *XATy =
- dyn_cast<ArrayType>(XTy->getElementType()))
- if (const ArrayType *CATy =
- dyn_cast<ArrayType>(CPTy->getElementType()))
+ if (const ArrayType *CATy =
+ dyn_cast<ArrayType>(CPTy->getElementType())) {
+ // GEP (bitcast i8* X to [0 x i8]*), i32 0, ... ?
+ if (CATy->getElementType() == XTy->getElementType()) {
+ // -> GEP i8* X, ...
+ SmallVector<Value*, 8> Indices(GEP.idx_begin()+1, GEP.idx_end());
+ return GetElementPtrInst::Create(X, Indices.begin(), Indices.end(),
+ GEP.getName());
+ } else if (const ArrayType *XATy =
+ dyn_cast<ArrayType>(XTy->getElementType())) {
+ // GEP (bitcast [10 x i8]* X to [0 x i8]*), i32 0, ... ?
if (CATy->getElementType() == XATy->getElementType()) {
+ // -> GEP [10 x i8]* X, i32 0, ...
// At this point, we know that the cast source type is a pointer
// to an array of the same type as the destination pointer
// array. Because the array type is never stepped over (there
@@ -10782,6 +10792,8 @@
GEP.setOperand(0, X);
return &GEP;
}
+ }
+ }
} else if (GEP.getNumOperands() == 2) {
// Transform things like:
// %t = getelementptr i32* bitcast ([2 x i32]* %str to i32*), i32 %V