It used to be that all of our intrinsics were call instructions, but over time, we've added more and more invokable intrinsics. According to the verifier, we're up to 8 right now. As IntrinsicInst is a sub-class of CallInst, this puts us in an awkward spot where the idiomatic means to check for intrinsic has a false negative if the intrinsic is invoked.
This change switches IntrinsicInst from being a sub-class of CallInst to being a subclass of CallBase. This allows invoked intrinsics to be instances of IntrinsicInst, at the cost of requiring a few more casts to CallInst in places where the intrinsic really is known to be a call, not an invoke.
This is admittedly a debatable stylistic issue. To me, allowing invokeable intrinsics seems cleaner, but I also spent a lot of my time dealing with those intrinsics. Do others agree?
At the moment, this patch only builds on x86. I'm sure there will be analogous changes in the other targets. I'll do them if folks are okay with the overall direction.
After this lands (if it does), planned cleanups:
- Make GCStatepointInst a IntrinsicInst subclass.
- Merge intrinsic handling in InstCombine and use idiomatic visitIntrinsicInst entry point for InstVisitor.
- Do the same in SelectionDAG.
- Do the same in FastISEL.
non-CallBase