For reference, see: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-August/116589.html
This patch fleshes out the instruction class hierarchy with respect to atomic and
non-atomic memory intrinsics. With this change, the relevant part of the class
hierarchy becomes:
IntrinsicInst
-> MemIntrinsicBase (methods-only class) -> MemIntrinsic (non-atomic intrinsics) -> MemSetInst -> MemTransferInst -> MemCpyInst -> MemMoveInst -> AtomicMemIntrinsic (atomic intrinsics) -> AtomicMemSetInst -> AtomicMemTransferInst -> AtomicMemCpyInst -> AtomicMemMoveInst -> AnyMemIntrinsic (both atomicities) -> AnyMemSetInst -> AnyMemTransferInst -> AnyMemCpyInst -> AnyMemMoveInst
This involves some class renaming:
ElementUnorderedAtomicMemCpyInst -> AtomicMemCpyInst ElementUnorderedAtomicMemMoveInst -> AtomicMemMoveInst ElementUnorderedAtomicMemSetInst -> AtomicMemSetInst
A script for doing this renaming in downstream trees is included below.
An example of where the Any* classes should be used in LLVM is when reasoning
about the effects of an instruction (ex: aliasing).
Script for renaming AtomicMem* classes:
PREFIXES="[<,([:space:]]"
CLASSES="MemIntrinsic|MemTransferInst|MemSetInst|MemMoveInst|MemCpyInst"
SUFFIXES="[;)>,[:space:]]"
REGEX="(${PREFIXES})ElementUnorderedAtomic(${CLASSES})(${SUFFIXES})"
REGEX2="visitElementUnorderedAtomic(${CLASSES})"
FILES=$( grep -E "(${REGEX}|${REGEX2})" -r . | tr ':' ' ' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq )
SED_SCRIPT="s~${REGEX}~\1Atomic\2\3~g"
SED_SCRIPT2="s~${REGEX2}~visitAtomic\1~g"
for f in $FILES; do
echo "Processing: $f" sed -i ".bak" -E "${SED_SCRIPT};${SED_SCRIPT2};${EA_SED_SCRIPT};${EA_SED_SCRIPT2}" $f
done