Sanjoy Das 0714e3e245 [SCEV] Fix a latent bug in getPreStartForExtend
I could not come up a way to test this -- I think this bug is latent
today, and will not actually result in a miscompile.

In `getPreStartForExtend`, SCEV constructs `PreStart` as a sum of all of
`SA`'s operands except `Op`.  It also uses `SA`'s no-wrap flags, and
this is problematic because removing an element from an add expression
can make it signed-wrap.  E.g. if `SA` was `(127 + 1 + -1)`, then it
could safely be `<nsw>` (since `sext(127) + sext(1) + sext(-1)` ==
`sext(127 + 1 + -1)`), but `(127 + 1)` (== `PreStart` if `Op` is `-1`)
is not `<nsw>`.

Transferring `<nuw>` from `SA` to `PreStart` is safe, as far as I can
tell.

llvm-svn: 251097
2015-10-23 06:33:47 +00:00
..
2015-08-14 05:09:07 +00:00

Analysis Opportunities:

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In test/Transforms/LoopStrengthReduce/quadradic-exit-value.ll, the
ScalarEvolution expression for %r is this:

  {1,+,3,+,2}<loop>

Outside the loop, this could be evaluated simply as (%n * %n), however
ScalarEvolution currently evaluates it as

  (-2 + (2 * (trunc i65 (((zext i64 (-2 + %n) to i65) * (zext i64 (-1 + %n) to i65)) /u 2) to i64)) + (3 * %n))

In addition to being much more complicated, it involves i65 arithmetic,
which is very inefficient when expanded into code.

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In formatValue in test/CodeGen/X86/lsr-delayed-fold.ll,

ScalarEvolution is forming this expression:

((trunc i64 (-1 * %arg5) to i32) + (trunc i64 %arg5 to i32) + (-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32)))

This could be folded to

(-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32))

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