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<a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/116144>116144</a>
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[LoopInterchange][DependenceAnalysis] Miscompilation on loops with anti-dependencies
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<th>Reporter</th>
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mshockwave
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<pre>
Consider this simple function:
``` c
void anti(int *A, int x, unsigned N, unsigned M) {
for (unsigned m = 0; m < M; ++m)
for (unsigned i = 0U; i < N - 1; ++i) {
A[i] = A[i + 1] + x;
}
}
```
LoopInterchange currently kicks in on this loop and turns it into:
``` c
void anti(int *A, int x, unsigned N, unsigned M) {
for (unsigned i = 0U; i < N - 1; ++i)
for (unsigned m = 0; m < M; ++m) {
A[i] = A[i + 1] + x;
}
}
```
Which is apparently wrong.
To further illustrate the problem, one can run the function with this `main` function:
``` c
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
int A[5] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
anti(A, argc + 2, 5, 3);
for (unsigned i = 0U; i < 5; ++i) {
printf(" %d", A[i]);
}
printf("\n");
return 0;
}
```
The `-O0` program prints out " 13 14 11 8 5" while the incorrectly interchanged program prints " 5 6 7 8 5", hence the miscompile.
-----
The culprit of this problem comes from DependenceAnalysis, which provides a direction vector (between `A[i]` & `A[i + 1]`) of "[S <]" in this case, but I think it really should yield "[S >]" because we have an anti-dependency here. LoopInterchange should be able to stop doing any optimization when it sees "[S >]" as it violates the legality.
CC @sjoerdmeijer @Meinersbur @bmahjour
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