[PATCH] D39138: [CodeGen] Generate TBAA info for 'this' pointers

John McCall via Phabricator via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Oct 25 11:28:33 PDT 2017


rjmccall added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D39138#906623, @kosarev wrote:

> Hmm, according to our research such loads constitute about 18% of all loads under ##-O -Xclang -disable-llvm-passes## on the LLVM code base. I wonder, do you think it would be nice to not generate them at all? I mean, provided that necessary changes do not add too much special-case code.


It would be straightforward to not generate them, but it would create longer live ranges at -O0 and allow 'this' to disappear in debug info, both of which are undesirable.


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