[clang] [CIR] Inline trivial copy/move assignment at call sites (PR #198918)
Andy Kaylor via cfe-commits
cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Jun 12 15:45:54 PDT 2026
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@@ -901,6 +901,33 @@ void CIRGenFunction::emitImplicitAssignmentOperatorBody(FunctionArgList &args) {
assert(!cir::MissingFeatures::incrementProfileCounter());
assert(!cir::MissingFeatures::runCleanupsScope());
+ // For a memcpy-equivalent special member (a union, or a trivially-copyable
+ // record) the synthesized body either copies nothing -- a union body is just
+ // `return *this` -- or relies on a memcpy the AST does not spell out as
+ // field assignments. Mirror classic CodeGen's AssignmentMemcpyizer: copy
+ // the whole object once, then fall through to emit the trailing
+ // `return *this`. Emitting the copy but skipping the return would leave the
+ // result reference uninitialized.
+ if (assignOp->isMemcpyEquivalentSpecialMember(getContext())) {
+ CanQualType recordTy =
+ getContext().getCanonicalTagType(assignOp->getParent());
+ LValue dest = makeNaturalAlignAddrLValue(loadCXXThis(), recordTy);
+ // The source is the trailing reference parameter; load it to get the
+ // referent's address before copying (mirrors the copy-constructor path).
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andykaylor wrote:
I find this comment to be more confusing than helpful.
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/198918
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