[clang] [Clang] Add fake use emission to Clang with -fextend-lifetimes (PR #110102)

Stephen Tozer via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Nov 29 10:43:41 PST 2024


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@@ -1664,6 +1710,17 @@ CodeGenFunction::EmitAutoVarAlloca(const VarDecl &D) {
                                          emission.getOriginalAllocatedAddress(),
                                          emission.getSizeForLifetimeMarkers());
 
+  // Analogous to lifetime markers, we use a 'cleanup' to emit fake.use
+  // calls for local variables. We are exempting volatile variables and
+  // non-scalars larger than 4 times the size of an unsigned int (32 bytes).
+  // Larger non-scalars are often allocated in memory and may create unnecessary
+  // overhead.
+  if (CGM.getCodeGenOpts().ExtendLifetimes) {
+    if (extendLifetime(getContext(), CurCodeDecl, D, CXXABIThisDecl))
+      EHStack.pushCleanup<FakeUse>(NormalFakeUse,
+                                   emission.getAllocatedAddress());
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SLTozer wrote:

I'll look into it - I'm not familiar enough to know, and a quick test indicates it's nothing obviously wrong, but I'll try to verify if it should change or not.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110102


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