<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>I am using various LLVM optimization passes and I noticed a strange behaviour in Mem2Reg Optimization. These pass is used for SSA construction and basically removed alloca of the corresponding pointers are just used in load/stores.</div>
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<div>I tried the following .ll file </div>
<div><br><em>define i32 @test(i32 %y,i32 %z) {<br>entry:<br> %X = alloca i32 ; type of %X is i32*.<br> %X.0 = add i32 %y ,%z<br> store i32 %X.0, i32* %X ; Update X<br> br label %cond_next</em></div>
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<div><em>cond_next:<br> %tmp1 = alloca i32<br> %tmp2 = sub i32 %y, 3<br> store i32 %tmp2,i32* %tmp1<br> ret i32 0<br>}</em></div>
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<div>I tried the Mem2Reg pass on above file and I got following output:</div>
<div> <br><em>; ModuleID = 'test4.bc'</em></div>
<div><em>define i32 @test(i32 %y, i32 %z) {<br>entry:<br> %X.0 = add i32 %y, %z ; <i32> [#uses=0]<br> br label %cond_next</em></div>
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<div><em>cond_next: ; preds = %entry<br> %tmp1 = alloca i32 ; <i32*> [#uses=1]<br> %tmp2 = sub i32 %y, 3 ; <i32> [#uses=1]<br> store i32 %tmp2, i32* %tmp1<br>
ret i32 0<br>}</em></div>
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<div>So, it removed the alloca from first basic block and not from others. If I remove the alloca from cond_next basic block and instead put that also in first Basic Block, the mem2Reg optimizes this and I get following output</div>
<div><br><em>; ModuleID = 'test4.bc'</em></div>
<div><em>define i32 @test(i32 %y, i32 %z) {<br>entry:<br> %X.0 = add i32 %y, %z ; <i32> [#uses=0]<br> br label %cond_next</em></div>
<div><em>cond_next: ; preds = %entry<br> %tmp2 = sub i32 %y, 3 ; <i32> [#uses=0]<br> ret i32 0<br>}</em></div>
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<div>So, is there any restriction that all the alloca should be put in first basic block?</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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<div>Kapil</div>
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