This change is part of step five in the series of changes to remove alignment argument from
memcpy/memmove/memset in favour of alignment attributes. In particular, this changes
AArch64FastISel to cease using the old getAlignment() API of MemoryIntrinsic in favour of getting
source & dest specific alignments through the new API.
Steps:
Step 1) Remove alignment parameter and create alignment parameter attributes for
memcpy/memmove/memset. ( rL322965, rC322964, rL322963 )
Step 2) Expand the IRBuilder API to allow creation of memcpy/memmove with differing
source and dest alignments. ( rL323597 )
Step 3) Update Clang to use the new IRBuilder API. ( rC323617 )
Step 4) Update Polly to use the new IRBuilder API. ( rL323618 )
Step 5) Update LLVM passes that create memcpy/memmove calls to use the new IRBuilder API,
and those that use use MemIntrinsicInst::[get|set]Alignment() to use [get|set]DestAlignment()
and [get|set]SourceAlignment() instead. ( rL323886, r323891 )
Step 6) Remove the single-alignment IRBuilder API for memcpy/memmove, and the
MemIntrinsicInst::[get|set]Alignment() methods.
Reference
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-August/089384.html http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20151109/312083.html
I really don't know anything about AArch64; hence why I created a review for such a seemingly trivial change. Is this FIXME accurate on AArch64? i.e. Is there any value in knowing both the source & destination alignments when generating inlined tiny memcpy code sequences?