Currently, SROA splits loads and stores only when they are accessing the whole alloca.
This patch relaxes this limitation to allow splitting a load/store if all other loads and stores to the alloca are disjoint to or fully included in the current load/store. If there is no other load or store that crosses the boundary of the current load/store, the current splitting implementation works as is.
The whole-alloca loads and stores meet this new condition and so they are still splittable.
Here is a simplified motivating example.
struct record {
long long a;
int b;
int c;
};
int func(struct record r) {
for (int i = 0; i < r.c; i++)
r.b++;
return r.b;
}When updating r.b (or r.c as well), LLVM generates redundant instructions on some platforms (such as x86_64, ppc64); here, r.b and r.c are packed into one 64-bit GPR when the struct is passed as a method argument.
With this patch, the above example is compiled into only few instructions without loop.
Without the patch, unnecessary loop-carried dependency is introduced by SROA and the loop cannot be eliminated by the later optimizers.
The path length of the std::string's assign method with istreambuf_iterator (an example below) is reduced by about 10% on ppc64.
assign((std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(ifs)),
(std::istreambuf_iterator<char>()));