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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW - Special-case memcpy() after conditional block"
   href="http://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32070">32070</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Special-case memcpy() after conditional block
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>new-bugs
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
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          <td>PC
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>new bugs
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>simonhosie77+llvm@gmail.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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        <pre>Given:

    void f(void *d, void const* s, size_t l, int c) {
      if (__builtin_expect(c != 0, 1)) {
        l = 0;
      }
      __builtin_memcpy(d, s, l);
    }

Compiling this I get a conditional set-register-to-zero and unconditional call
to memcpy().

Ideally we'd just skip over the call when c != 0.  Changing the code to this
makes everything better, but it's not automatic, and in realistic code it's not
something I'd want to do manually:

    void f(void *d, void const* s, size_t l, int c) {
      if (__builtin_expect(c != 0, 1)) {
        l = 0;
        __builtin_memcpy(d, s, l);
      } else {
        __builtin_memcpy(d, s, l);
      }
    }

Generally, finishing a conditional block with additional optimisation
information might produce a candidate for special-case implementation of the
common code that follows it.  For __builtin_memcpy() this would include l being
set to any small constant.</pre>
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