llvm/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineLoadStoreAlloca.cpp

//===- InstCombineLoadStoreAlloca.cpp -------------------------------------===//
//
//                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
//
// This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// This file implements the visit functions for load, store and alloca.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//

#include "InstCombine.h"
#include "llvm/IntrinsicInst.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/Loads.h"
#include "llvm/Target/TargetData.h"
#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/BasicBlockUtils.h"
#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/Local.h"
#include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
using namespace llvm;

STATISTIC(NumDeadStore, "Number of dead stores eliminated");

// Try to kill dead allocas by walking through its uses until we see some use
// that could escape. This is a conservative analysis which tries to handle
// GEPs, bitcasts, stores, and no-op intrinsics. These tend to be the things
// left after inlining and SROA finish chewing on an alloca.
static Instruction *removeDeadAlloca(InstCombiner &IC, AllocaInst &AI) {
  SmallVector<Instruction *, 4> Worklist, DeadStores;
  Worklist.push_back(&AI);
  do {
    Instruction *PI = Worklist.pop_back_val();
    for (Value::use_iterator UI = PI->use_begin(), UE = PI->use_end();
         UI != UE; ++UI) {
      Instruction *I = cast<Instruction>(*UI);
      switch (I->getOpcode()) {
      default:
        // Give up the moment we see something we can't handle.
        return 0;

      case Instruction::GetElementPtr:
      case Instruction::BitCast:
        Worklist.push_back(I);
        continue;

      case Instruction::Call:
        // We can handle a limited subset of calls to no-op intrinsics.
        if (IntrinsicInst *II = dyn_cast<IntrinsicInst>(I)) {
          switch (II->getIntrinsicID()) {
          case Intrinsic::dbg_declare:
          case Intrinsic::dbg_value:
          case Intrinsic::invariant_start:
          case Intrinsic::invariant_end:
          case Intrinsic::lifetime_start:
          case Intrinsic::lifetime_end:
            continue;
          default:
            return 0;
          }
        }
        // Reject everything else.
        return 0;

      case Instruction::Store: {
        // Stores into the alloca are only live if the alloca is live.
        StoreInst *SI = cast<StoreInst>(I);
        // We can eliminate atomic stores, but not volatile.
        if (SI->isVolatile())
          return 0;
        // The store is only trivially safe if the poniter is the destination
        // as opposed to the value. We're conservative here and don't check for
        // the case where we store the address of a dead alloca into a dead
        // alloca.
        if (SI->getPointerOperand() != PI)
          return 0;
        DeadStores.push_back(I);
        continue;
      }
      }
    }
  } while (!Worklist.empty());

  // The alloca is dead. Kill off all the stores to it, and then replace it
  // with undef.
  while (!DeadStores.empty())
    IC.EraseInstFromFunction(*DeadStores.pop_back_val());
  return IC.ReplaceInstUsesWith(AI, UndefValue::get(AI.getType()));
}

Instruction *InstCombiner::visitAllocaInst(AllocaInst &AI) {
  // Ensure that the alloca array size argument has type intptr_t, so that
  // any casting is exposed early.
  if (TD) {
    Type *IntPtrTy = TD->getIntPtrType(AI.getContext());
    if (AI.getArraySize()->getType() != IntPtrTy) {
      Value *V = Builder->CreateIntCast(AI.getArraySize(),
                                        IntPtrTy, false);
      AI.setOperand(0, V);
      return &AI;
    }
  }

  // Convert: alloca Ty, C - where C is a constant != 1 into: alloca [C x Ty], 1
  if (AI.isArrayAllocation()) {  // Check C != 1
    if (const ConstantInt *C = dyn_cast<ConstantInt>(AI.getArraySize())) {
      Type *NewTy = 
        ArrayType::get(AI.getAllocatedType(), C->getZExtValue());
      assert(isa<AllocaInst>(AI) && "Unknown type of allocation inst!");
      AllocaInst *New = Builder->CreateAlloca(NewTy, 0, AI.getName());
      New->setAlignment(AI.getAlignment());

      // Scan to the end of the allocation instructions, to skip over a block of
      // allocas if possible...also skip interleaved debug info
      //
      BasicBlock::iterator It = New;
      while (isa<AllocaInst>(*It) || isa<DbgInfoIntrinsic>(*It)) ++It;

      // Now that I is pointing to the first non-allocation-inst in the block,
      // insert our getelementptr instruction...
      //
      Value *NullIdx =Constant::getNullValue(Type::getInt32Ty(AI.getContext()));
      Value *Idx[2];
      Idx[0] = NullIdx;
      Idx[1] = NullIdx;
      Instruction *GEP =
           GetElementPtrInst::CreateInBounds(New, Idx, New->getName()+".sub");
      InsertNewInstBefore(GEP, *It);

      // Now make everything use the getelementptr instead of the original
      // allocation.
      return ReplaceInstUsesWith(AI, GEP);
    } else if (isa<UndefValue>(AI.getArraySize())) {
      return ReplaceInstUsesWith(AI, Constant::getNullValue(AI.getType()));
    }
  }

  if (TD && isa<AllocaInst>(AI) && AI.getAllocatedType()->isSized()) {
    // If alloca'ing a zero byte object, replace the alloca with a null pointer.
    // Note that we only do this for alloca's, because malloc should allocate
    // and return a unique pointer, even for a zero byte allocation.
    if (TD->getTypeAllocSize(AI.getAllocatedType()) == 0)
      return ReplaceInstUsesWith(AI, Constant::getNullValue(AI.getType()));

    // If the alignment is 0 (unspecified), assign it the preferred alignment.
    if (AI.getAlignment() == 0)
      AI.setAlignment(TD->getPrefTypeAlignment(AI.getAllocatedType()));
  }

  // Try to aggressively remove allocas which are only used for GEPs, lifetime
  // markers, and stores. This happens when SROA iteratively promotes stores
  // out of the alloca, and we need to cleanup after it.
  return removeDeadAlloca(*this, AI);
}


/// InstCombineLoadCast - Fold 'load (cast P)' -> cast (load P)' when possible.
static Instruction *InstCombineLoadCast(InstCombiner &IC, LoadInst &LI,
                                        const TargetData *TD) {
  User *CI = cast<User>(LI.getOperand(0));
  Value *CastOp = CI->getOperand(0);

  PointerType *DestTy = cast<PointerType>(CI->getType());
  Type *DestPTy = DestTy->getElementType();
  if (PointerType *SrcTy = dyn_cast<PointerType>(CastOp->getType())) {

    // If the address spaces don't match, don't eliminate the cast.
    if (DestTy->getAddressSpace() != SrcTy->getAddressSpace())
      return 0;

    Type *SrcPTy = SrcTy->getElementType();

    if (DestPTy->isIntegerTy() || DestPTy->isPointerTy() || 
         DestPTy->isVectorTy()) {
      // If the source is an array, the code below will not succeed.  Check to
      // see if a trivial 'gep P, 0, 0' will help matters.  Only do this for
      // constants.
      if (ArrayType *ASrcTy = dyn_cast<ArrayType>(SrcPTy))
        if (Constant *CSrc = dyn_cast<Constant>(CastOp))
          if (ASrcTy->getNumElements() != 0) {
            Value *Idxs[2];
            Idxs[0] = Constant::getNullValue(Type::getInt32Ty(LI.getContext()));
            Idxs[1] = Idxs[0];
            CastOp = ConstantExpr::getGetElementPtr(CSrc, Idxs);
            SrcTy = cast<PointerType>(CastOp->getType());
            SrcPTy = SrcTy->getElementType();
          }

      if (IC.getTargetData() &&
          (SrcPTy->isIntegerTy() || SrcPTy->isPointerTy() || 
            SrcPTy->isVectorTy()) &&
          // Do not allow turning this into a load of an integer, which is then
          // casted to a pointer, this pessimizes pointer analysis a lot.
          (SrcPTy->isPointerTy() == LI.getType()->isPointerTy()) &&
          IC.getTargetData()->getTypeSizeInBits(SrcPTy) ==
               IC.getTargetData()->getTypeSizeInBits(DestPTy)) {

        // Okay, we are casting from one integer or pointer type to another of
        // the same size.  Instead of casting the pointer before the load, cast
        // the result of the loaded value.
        LoadInst *NewLoad = 
          IC.Builder->CreateLoad(CastOp, LI.isVolatile(), CI->getName());
        NewLoad->setAlignment(LI.getAlignment());
        NewLoad->setAtomic(LI.getOrdering(), LI.getSynchScope());
        // Now cast the result of the load.
        return new BitCastInst(NewLoad, LI.getType());
      }
    }
  }
  return 0;
}

Instruction *InstCombiner::visitLoadInst(LoadInst &LI) {
  Value *Op = LI.getOperand(0);

  // Attempt to improve the alignment.
  if (TD) {
    unsigned KnownAlign =
      getOrEnforceKnownAlignment(Op, TD->getPrefTypeAlignment(LI.getType()),TD);
    unsigned LoadAlign = LI.getAlignment();
    unsigned EffectiveLoadAlign = LoadAlign != 0 ? LoadAlign :
      TD->getABITypeAlignment(LI.getType());

    if (KnownAlign > EffectiveLoadAlign)
      LI.setAlignment(KnownAlign);
    else if (LoadAlign == 0)
      LI.setAlignment(EffectiveLoadAlign);
  }

  // load (cast X) --> cast (load X) iff safe.
  if (isa<CastInst>(Op))
    if (Instruction *Res = InstCombineLoadCast(*this, LI, TD))
      return Res;

  // None of the following transforms are legal for volatile/atomic loads.
  // FIXME: Some of it is okay for atomic loads; needs refactoring.
  if (!LI.isSimple()) return 0;
  
  // Do really simple store-to-load forwarding and load CSE, to catch cases
  // where there are several consecutive memory accesses to the same location,
  // separated by a few arithmetic operations.
  BasicBlock::iterator BBI = &LI;
  if (Value *AvailableVal = FindAvailableLoadedValue(Op, LI.getParent(), BBI,6))
    return ReplaceInstUsesWith(LI, AvailableVal);

  // load(gep null, ...) -> unreachable
  if (GetElementPtrInst *GEPI = dyn_cast<GetElementPtrInst>(Op)) {
    const Value *GEPI0 = GEPI->getOperand(0);
    // TODO: Consider a target hook for valid address spaces for this xform.
    if (isa<ConstantPointerNull>(GEPI0) && GEPI->getPointerAddressSpace() == 0){
      // Insert a new store to null instruction before the load to indicate
      // that this code is not reachable.  We do this instead of inserting
      // an unreachable instruction directly because we cannot modify the
      // CFG.
      new StoreInst(UndefValue::get(LI.getType()),
                    Constant::getNullValue(Op->getType()), &LI);
      return ReplaceInstUsesWith(LI, UndefValue::get(LI.getType()));
    }
  } 

  // load null/undef -> unreachable
  // TODO: Consider a target hook for valid address spaces for this xform.
  if (isa<UndefValue>(Op) ||
      (isa<ConstantPointerNull>(Op) && LI.getPointerAddressSpace() == 0)) {
    // Insert a new store to null instruction before the load to indicate that
    // this code is not reachable.  We do this instead of inserting an
    // unreachable instruction directly because we cannot modify the CFG.
    new StoreInst(UndefValue::get(LI.getType()),
                  Constant::getNullValue(Op->getType()), &LI);
    return ReplaceInstUsesWith(LI, UndefValue::get(LI.getType()));
  }

  // Instcombine load (constantexpr_cast global) -> cast (load global)
  if (ConstantExpr *CE = dyn_cast<ConstantExpr>(Op))
    if (CE->isCast())
      if (Instruction *Res = InstCombineLoadCast(*this, LI, TD))
        return Res;
  
  if (Op->hasOneUse()) {
    // Change select and PHI nodes to select values instead of addresses: this
    // helps alias analysis out a lot, allows many others simplifications, and
    // exposes redundancy in the code.
    //
    // Note that we cannot do the transformation unless we know that the
    // introduced loads cannot trap!  Something like this is valid as long as
    // the condition is always false: load (select bool %C, int* null, int* %G),
    // but it would not be valid if we transformed it to load from null
    // unconditionally.
    //
    if (SelectInst *SI = dyn_cast<SelectInst>(Op)) {
      // load (select (Cond, &V1, &V2))  --> select(Cond, load &V1, load &V2).
      unsigned Align = LI.getAlignment();
      if (isSafeToLoadUnconditionally(SI->getOperand(1), SI, Align, TD) &&
          isSafeToLoadUnconditionally(SI->getOperand(2), SI, Align, TD)) {
        LoadInst *V1 = Builder->CreateLoad(SI->getOperand(1),
                                           SI->getOperand(1)->getName()+".val");
        LoadInst *V2 = Builder->CreateLoad(SI->getOperand(2),
                                           SI->getOperand(2)->getName()+".val");
        V1->setAlignment(Align);
        V2->setAlignment(Align);
        return SelectInst::Create(SI->getCondition(), V1, V2);
      }

      // load (select (cond, null, P)) -> load P
      if (Constant *C = dyn_cast<Constant>(SI->getOperand(1)))
        if (C->isNullValue()) {
          LI.setOperand(0, SI->getOperand(2));
          return &LI;
        }

      // load (select (cond, P, null)) -> load P
      if (Constant *C = dyn_cast<Constant>(SI->getOperand(2)))
        if (C->isNullValue()) {
          LI.setOperand(0, SI->getOperand(1));
          return &LI;
        }
    }
  }
  return 0;
}

/// InstCombineStoreToCast - Fold store V, (cast P) -> store (cast V), P
/// when possible.  This makes it generally easy to do alias analysis and/or
/// SROA/mem2reg of the memory object.
static Instruction *InstCombineStoreToCast(InstCombiner &IC, StoreInst &SI) {
  User *CI = cast<User>(SI.getOperand(1));
  Value *CastOp = CI->getOperand(0);

  Type *DestPTy = cast<PointerType>(CI->getType())->getElementType();
  PointerType *SrcTy = dyn_cast<PointerType>(CastOp->getType());
  if (SrcTy == 0) return 0;
  
  Type *SrcPTy = SrcTy->getElementType();

  if (!DestPTy->isIntegerTy() && !DestPTy->isPointerTy())
    return 0;
  
  /// NewGEPIndices - If SrcPTy is an aggregate type, we can emit a "noop gep"
  /// to its first element.  This allows us to handle things like:
  ///   store i32 xxx, (bitcast {foo*, float}* %P to i32*)
  /// on 32-bit hosts.
  SmallVector<Value*, 4> NewGEPIndices;
  
  // If the source is an array, the code below will not succeed.  Check to
  // see if a trivial 'gep P, 0, 0' will help matters.  Only do this for
  // constants.
  if (SrcPTy->isArrayTy() || SrcPTy->isStructTy()) {
    // Index through pointer.
    Constant *Zero = Constant::getNullValue(Type::getInt32Ty(SI.getContext()));
    NewGEPIndices.push_back(Zero);
    
    while (1) {
      if (StructType *STy = dyn_cast<StructType>(SrcPTy)) {
        if (!STy->getNumElements()) /* Struct can be empty {} */
          break;
        NewGEPIndices.push_back(Zero);
        SrcPTy = STy->getElementType(0);
      } else if (ArrayType *ATy = dyn_cast<ArrayType>(SrcPTy)) {
        NewGEPIndices.push_back(Zero);
        SrcPTy = ATy->getElementType();
      } else {
        break;
      }
    }
    
    SrcTy = PointerType::get(SrcPTy, SrcTy->getAddressSpace());
  }

  if (!SrcPTy->isIntegerTy() && !SrcPTy->isPointerTy())
    return 0;
  
  // If the pointers point into different address spaces or if they point to
  // values with different sizes, we can't do the transformation.
  if (!IC.getTargetData() ||
      SrcTy->getAddressSpace() != 
        cast<PointerType>(CI->getType())->getAddressSpace() ||
      IC.getTargetData()->getTypeSizeInBits(SrcPTy) !=
      IC.getTargetData()->getTypeSizeInBits(DestPTy))
    return 0;

  // Okay, we are casting from one integer or pointer type to another of
  // the same size.  Instead of casting the pointer before 
  // the store, cast the value to be stored.
  Value *NewCast;
  Value *SIOp0 = SI.getOperand(0);
  Instruction::CastOps opcode = Instruction::BitCast;
  Type* CastSrcTy = SIOp0->getType();
  Type* CastDstTy = SrcPTy;
  if (CastDstTy->isPointerTy()) {
    if (CastSrcTy->isIntegerTy())
      opcode = Instruction::IntToPtr;
  } else if (CastDstTy->isIntegerTy()) {
    if (SIOp0->getType()->isPointerTy())
      opcode = Instruction::PtrToInt;
  }
  
  // SIOp0 is a pointer to aggregate and this is a store to the first field,
  // emit a GEP to index into its first field.
  if (!NewGEPIndices.empty())
    CastOp = IC.Builder->CreateInBoundsGEP(CastOp, NewGEPIndices);
  
  NewCast = IC.Builder->CreateCast(opcode, SIOp0, CastDstTy,
                                   SIOp0->getName()+".c");
  SI.setOperand(0, NewCast);
  SI.setOperand(1, CastOp);
  return &SI;
}

/// equivalentAddressValues - Test if A and B will obviously have the same
/// value. This includes recognizing that %t0 and %t1 will have the same
/// value in code like this:
///   %t0 = getelementptr \@a, 0, 3
///   store i32 0, i32* %t0
///   %t1 = getelementptr \@a, 0, 3
///   %t2 = load i32* %t1
///
static bool equivalentAddressValues(Value *A, Value *B) {
  // Test if the values are trivially equivalent.
  if (A == B) return true;
  
  // Test if the values come form identical arithmetic instructions.
  // This uses isIdenticalToWhenDefined instead of isIdenticalTo because
  // its only used to compare two uses within the same basic block, which
  // means that they'll always either have the same value or one of them
  // will have an undefined value.
  if (isa<BinaryOperator>(A) ||
      isa<CastInst>(A) ||
      isa<PHINode>(A) ||
      isa<GetElementPtrInst>(A))
    if (Instruction *BI = dyn_cast<Instruction>(B))
      if (cast<Instruction>(A)->isIdenticalToWhenDefined(BI))
        return true;
  
  // Otherwise they may not be equivalent.
  return false;
}

Instruction *InstCombiner::visitStoreInst(StoreInst &SI) {
  Value *Val = SI.getOperand(0);
  Value *Ptr = SI.getOperand(1);

  // Attempt to improve the alignment.
  if (TD) {
    unsigned KnownAlign =
      getOrEnforceKnownAlignment(Ptr, TD->getPrefTypeAlignment(Val->getType()),
                                 TD);
    unsigned StoreAlign = SI.getAlignment();
    unsigned EffectiveStoreAlign = StoreAlign != 0 ? StoreAlign :
      TD->getABITypeAlignment(Val->getType());

    if (KnownAlign > EffectiveStoreAlign)
      SI.setAlignment(KnownAlign);
    else if (StoreAlign == 0)
      SI.setAlignment(EffectiveStoreAlign);
  }

  // Don't hack volatile/atomic stores.
  // FIXME: Some bits are legal for atomic stores; needs refactoring.
  if (!SI.isSimple()) return 0;

  // If the RHS is an alloca with a single use, zapify the store, making the
  // alloca dead.
  if (Ptr->hasOneUse()) {
    if (isa<AllocaInst>(Ptr)) 
      return EraseInstFromFunction(SI);
    if (GetElementPtrInst *GEP = dyn_cast<GetElementPtrInst>(Ptr)) {
      if (isa<AllocaInst>(GEP->getOperand(0))) {
        if (GEP->getOperand(0)->hasOneUse())
          return EraseInstFromFunction(SI);
      }
    }
  }

  // Do really simple DSE, to catch cases where there are several consecutive
  // stores to the same location, separated by a few arithmetic operations. This
  // situation often occurs with bitfield accesses.
  BasicBlock::iterator BBI = &SI;
  for (unsigned ScanInsts = 6; BBI != SI.getParent()->begin() && ScanInsts;
       --ScanInsts) {
    --BBI;
    // Don't count debug info directives, lest they affect codegen,
    // and we skip pointer-to-pointer bitcasts, which are NOPs.
    if (isa<DbgInfoIntrinsic>(BBI) ||
        (isa<BitCastInst>(BBI) && BBI->getType()->isPointerTy())) {
      ScanInsts++;
      continue;
    }    
    
    if (StoreInst *PrevSI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(BBI)) {
      // Prev store isn't volatile, and stores to the same location?
      if (PrevSI->isSimple() && equivalentAddressValues(PrevSI->getOperand(1),
                                                        SI.getOperand(1))) {
        ++NumDeadStore;
        ++BBI;
        EraseInstFromFunction(*PrevSI);
        continue;
      }
      break;
    }
    
    // If this is a load, we have to stop.  However, if the loaded value is from
    // the pointer we're loading and is producing the pointer we're storing,
    // then *this* store is dead (X = load P; store X -> P).
    if (LoadInst *LI = dyn_cast<LoadInst>(BBI)) {
      if (LI == Val && equivalentAddressValues(LI->getOperand(0), Ptr) &&
          LI->isSimple())
        return EraseInstFromFunction(SI);
      
      // Otherwise, this is a load from some other location.  Stores before it
      // may not be dead.
      break;
    }
    
    // Don't skip over loads or things that can modify memory.
    if (BBI->mayWriteToMemory() || BBI->mayReadFromMemory())
      break;
  }

  // store X, null    -> turns into 'unreachable' in SimplifyCFG
  if (isa<ConstantPointerNull>(Ptr) && SI.getPointerAddressSpace() == 0) {
    if (!isa<UndefValue>(Val)) {
      SI.setOperand(0, UndefValue::get(Val->getType()));
      if (Instruction *U = dyn_cast<Instruction>(Val))
        Worklist.Add(U);  // Dropped a use.
    }
    return 0;  // Do not modify these!
  }

  // store undef, Ptr -> noop
  if (isa<UndefValue>(Val))
    return EraseInstFromFunction(SI);

  // If the pointer destination is a cast, see if we can fold the cast into the
  // source instead.
  if (isa<CastInst>(Ptr))
    if (Instruction *Res = InstCombineStoreToCast(*this, SI))
      return Res;
  if (ConstantExpr *CE = dyn_cast<ConstantExpr>(Ptr))
    if (CE->isCast())
      if (Instruction *Res = InstCombineStoreToCast(*this, SI))
        return Res;

  
  // If this store is the last instruction in the basic block (possibly
  // excepting debug info instructions), and if the block ends with an
  // unconditional branch, try to move it to the successor block.
  BBI = &SI; 
  do {
    ++BBI;
  } while (isa<DbgInfoIntrinsic>(BBI) ||
           (isa<BitCastInst>(BBI) && BBI->getType()->isPointerTy()));
  if (BranchInst *BI = dyn_cast<BranchInst>(BBI))
    if (BI->isUnconditional())
      if (SimplifyStoreAtEndOfBlock(SI))
        return 0;  // xform done!
  
  return 0;
}

/// SimplifyStoreAtEndOfBlock - Turn things like:
///   if () { *P = v1; } else { *P = v2 }
/// into a phi node with a store in the successor.
///
/// Simplify things like:
///   *P = v1; if () { *P = v2; }
/// into a phi node with a store in the successor.
///
bool InstCombiner::SimplifyStoreAtEndOfBlock(StoreInst &SI) {
  BasicBlock *StoreBB = SI.getParent();
  
  // Check to see if the successor block has exactly two incoming edges.  If
  // so, see if the other predecessor contains a store to the same location.
  // if so, insert a PHI node (if needed) and move the stores down.
  BasicBlock *DestBB = StoreBB->getTerminator()->getSuccessor(0);
  
  // Determine whether Dest has exactly two predecessors and, if so, compute
  // the other predecessor.
  pred_iterator PI = pred_begin(DestBB);
  BasicBlock *P = *PI;
  BasicBlock *OtherBB = 0;

  if (P != StoreBB)
    OtherBB = P;

  if (++PI == pred_end(DestBB))
    return false;
  
  P = *PI;
  if (P != StoreBB) {
    if (OtherBB)
      return false;
    OtherBB = P;
  }
  if (++PI != pred_end(DestBB))
    return false;

  // Bail out if all the relevant blocks aren't distinct (this can happen,
  // for example, if SI is in an infinite loop)
  if (StoreBB == DestBB || OtherBB == DestBB)
    return false;

  // Verify that the other block ends in a branch and is not otherwise empty.
  BasicBlock::iterator BBI = OtherBB->getTerminator();
  BranchInst *OtherBr = dyn_cast<BranchInst>(BBI);
  if (!OtherBr || BBI == OtherBB->begin())
    return false;
  
  // If the other block ends in an unconditional branch, check for the 'if then
  // else' case.  there is an instruction before the branch.
  StoreInst *OtherStore = 0;
  if (OtherBr->isUnconditional()) {
    --BBI;
    // Skip over debugging info.
    while (isa<DbgInfoIntrinsic>(BBI) ||
           (isa<BitCastInst>(BBI) && BBI->getType()->isPointerTy())) {
      if (BBI==OtherBB->begin())
        return false;
      --BBI;
    }
    // If this isn't a store, isn't a store to the same location, or is not the
    // right kind of store, bail out.
    OtherStore = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(BBI);
    if (!OtherStore || OtherStore->getOperand(1) != SI.getOperand(1) ||
        !SI.isSameOperationAs(OtherStore))
      return false;
  } else {
    // Otherwise, the other block ended with a conditional branch. If one of the
    // destinations is StoreBB, then we have the if/then case.
    if (OtherBr->getSuccessor(0) != StoreBB && 
        OtherBr->getSuccessor(1) != StoreBB)
      return false;
    
    // Okay, we know that OtherBr now goes to Dest and StoreBB, so this is an
    // if/then triangle.  See if there is a store to the same ptr as SI that
    // lives in OtherBB.
    for (;; --BBI) {
      // Check to see if we find the matching store.
      if ((OtherStore = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(BBI))) {
        if (OtherStore->getOperand(1) != SI.getOperand(1) ||
            !SI.isSameOperationAs(OtherStore))
          return false;
        break;
      }
      // If we find something that may be using or overwriting the stored
      // value, or if we run out of instructions, we can't do the xform.
      if (BBI->mayReadFromMemory() || BBI->mayWriteToMemory() ||
          BBI == OtherBB->begin())
        return false;
    }
    
    // In order to eliminate the store in OtherBr, we have to
    // make sure nothing reads or overwrites the stored value in
    // StoreBB.
    for (BasicBlock::iterator I = StoreBB->begin(); &*I != &SI; ++I) {
      // FIXME: This should really be AA driven.
      if (I->mayReadFromMemory() || I->mayWriteToMemory())
        return false;
    }
  }
  
  // Insert a PHI node now if we need it.
  Value *MergedVal = OtherStore->getOperand(0);
  if (MergedVal != SI.getOperand(0)) {
    PHINode *PN = PHINode::Create(MergedVal->getType(), 2, "storemerge");
    PN->addIncoming(SI.getOperand(0), SI.getParent());
    PN->addIncoming(OtherStore->getOperand(0), OtherBB);
    MergedVal = InsertNewInstBefore(PN, DestBB->front());
  }
  
  // Advance to a place where it is safe to insert the new store and
  // insert it.
  BBI = DestBB->getFirstInsertionPt();
  StoreInst *NewSI = new StoreInst(MergedVal, SI.getOperand(1),
                                   SI.isVolatile(),
                                   SI.getAlignment(),
                                   SI.getOrdering(),
                                   SI.getSynchScope());
  InsertNewInstBefore(NewSI, *BBI);
  NewSI->setDebugLoc(OtherStore->getDebugLoc()); 

  // Nuke the old stores.
  EraseInstFromFunction(SI);
  EraseInstFromFunction(*OtherStore);
  return true;
}