The current code expects the users of the constant manager to initialize
it with all of the constants in the module. The problem is that you do
not want to redo the work multiple times. So I decided to move that
code to the constructor of the constant manager. This way it will
always be initialized on first use.
I also removed an assert that expects all constant instructions to be
successfully mapped. This is because not all OpConstant* instruction
can map to a constant, and neither do the OpSpecConstant* instructions.
The real problem is that an OpConstantComposite can contain a member
that is OpUndef. I tried to treat OpUndef like OpConstantNull, but this
failed because an OpSpecConstantComposite with an OpUndef cannot be
changed to an OpConstantComposite. Since I feel this case will not be
common, I decided to not complicate the code.
Fixes#1193.
This implements the conditional constant propagation pass proposed in
Constant propagation with conditional branches,
Wegman and Zadeck, ACM TOPLAS 13(2):181-210.
The main logic resides in CCPPass::VisitInstruction. Instruction that
may produce a constant value are evaluated with the constant folder. If
they produce a new constant, the instruction is considered interesting.
Otherwise, it's considered varying (for unfoldable instructions) or
just not interesting (when not enough operands have a constant value).
The other main piece of logic is in CCPPass::VisitBranch. This
evaluates the selector of the branch. When it's found to be a known
value, it computes the destination basic block and sets it. This tells
the propagator which branches to follow.
The patch required extensions to the constant manager as well. Instead
of hashing the Constant pointers, this patch changes the constant pool
to hash the contents of the Constant. This allows the lookups to be
done using the actual values of the Constant, preventing duplicate
definitions.
types. This allows the lookup of type declaration ids from arbitrarily
constructed types. Users should be cautious when dealing with non-unique
types (structs and potentially pointers) to get the exact id if
necessary.
* Changed the spec composite constant folder to handle ambiguous composites
* Added functionality to create necessary instructions for a type
* Added ability to remove ids from the type manager
This patch adds a new constant manager class to interface with
analysis::Constant. The new constant manager lives in ir::IRContext
together with the type manager (analysis::TypeManager).
The new analysis::ConstantManager is used by the spec constant folder
and the constant propagator (in progress).
Another cleanup introduced by this patch removes the ID management from
the fold spec constant pass, and ir::IRContext and moves it to
ir::Module. SSA IDs were maintained by IRContext and Module. That's
pointless and leads to mismatch IDs. Fixed by moving all the bookkeeping
to ir::Module.
