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3 Common register allocation / spilling problem:
21 and then "merge" mul and mov:
29 It also increase the likelihood the store may become dead.
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35 %reg1037 = ADDri %reg1039, 1
36 %reg1038 = ADDrs %reg1032, %reg1039, %noreg, 10
37 Successors according to CFG: 0x8b03bf0 (#5)
39 bb76 (0x8b03bf0, LLVM BB @0x8b032d0, ID#5):
40 Predecessors according to CFG: 0x8b0c5f0 (#3) 0x8b0a7c0 (#4)
41 %reg1039 = PHI %reg1070, mbb<bb76.outer,0x8b0c5f0>, %reg1037, mbb<bb27,0x8b0a7c0>
43 Note ADDri is not a two-address instruction. However, its result %reg1037 is an
44 operand of the PHI node in bb76 and its operand %reg1039 is the result of the
45 PHI node. We should treat it as a two-address code and make sure the ADDri is
46 scheduled after any node that reads %reg1039.
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50 Use local info (i.e. register scavenger) to assign it a free register to allow
61 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
63 LLVM aggressively lift CSE out of loop. Sometimes this can be negative side-
77 Suppose there is high register pressure, R1, R2, R3, can be spilled. We need
78 to implement proper re-materialization to handle this:
85 R1 = X + 4 @ re-materialized
88 R2 = X + 7 @ re-materialized
91 R3 = X + 15 @ re-materialized
94 Furthermore, with re-association, we can enable sharing:
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109 It's not always a good idea to choose rematerialization over spilling. If all
110 the load / store instructions would be folded then spilling is cheaper because
111 it won't require new live intervals / registers. See 2003-05-31-LongShifts for
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116 With a copying garbage collector, derived pointers must not be retained across
117 collector safe points; the collector could move the objects and invalidate the
118 derived pointer. This is bad enough in the first place, but safe points can
119 crop up unpredictably. Consider:
121 %array = load { i32, [0 x %obj] }** %array_addr
122 %nth_el = getelementptr { i32, [0 x %obj] }* %array, i32 0, i32 %n
123 %old = load %obj** %nth_el
125 store %obj* %new, %obj** %nth_el
127 If the i64 division is lowered to a libcall, then a safe point will (must)
128 appear for the call site. If a collection occurs, %array and %nth_el no longer
129 point into the correct object.
131 The fix for this is to copy address calculations so that dependent pointers
132 are never live across safe point boundaries. But the loads cannot be copied
133 like this if there was an intervening store, so may be hard to get right.
135 Only a concurrent mutator can trigger a collection at the libcall safe point.
136 So single-threaded programs do not have this requirement, even with a copying
137 collector. Still, LLVM optimizations would probably undo a front-end's careful
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142 The ocaml frametable structure supports liveness information. It would be good
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147 The FIXME in ComputeCommonTailLength in BranchFolding.cpp needs to be
148 revisited. The check is there to work around a misuse of directives in inline
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153 It would be good to detect collector/target compatibility instead of silently
154 doing the wrong thing.
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158 It would be really nice to be able to write patterns in .td files for copies,
159 which would eliminate a bunch of explicit predicates on them (e.g. no side
160 effects). Once this is in place, it would be even better to have tblgen
161 synthesize the various copy insertion/inspection methods in TargetInstrInfo.
163 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
165 Stack coloring improvements:
167 1. Do proper LiveStacks analysis on all stack objects including those which are
169 2. Reorder objects to fill in gaps between objects.
170 e.g. 4, 1, <gap>, 4, 1, 1, 1, <gap>, 4 => 4, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4
172 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
174 The scheduler should be able to sort nearby instructions by their address. For
175 example, in an expanded memset sequence it's not uncommon to see code like this:
182 Each of the stores is independent, and the scheduler is currently making an
183 arbitrary decision about the order.
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187 Another opportunitiy in this code is that the $0 could be moved to a register:
194 This would save substantial code size, especially for longer sequences like
195 this. It would be easy to have a rule telling isel to avoid matching MOV32mi
196 if the immediate has more than some fixed number of uses. It's more involved
197 to teach the register allocator how to do late folding to recover from
198 excessive register pressure.