[cfe-dev] How to inline a C-function during code generation ?

[Nat!]

OK, I found out that llc doesn't do the inlining either. I was scratching my head why llc -O2 test.ir refused to inline my code. As it turns out, the optimization is done by a different program called "opt".

So for anyone else interested (and for myself looking this up in a year or so :))

	clang -S -emit-llvm -mllvm -disable-llvm-optzns -o test.ir test.c

produces the unoptimized readable IR file 

	opt -O2 -o test.opt.bc test.ir

then creates the optimized binary IR, which then can be assembled into an .s file with

	llc  -o test.opt.s test.opt.cb

or disassembled into a readable IR again

	llvm-dis -o test.opt.ir test.opt.cb


I am getting closer to the reason, why my code does not get inlined, but I am not there yet. I can put the following through opt -O2  and it does not inline (though "inline_call " is even  marked as alwaysinline):

---

;LLVM (http://llvm.org/):
;  LLVM version 3.6.1
;  DEBUG build with assertions.
;  Built May 26 2015 (18:26:41).
:  Default target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0
;  Host CPU: core-avx2
;  ModuleID = 'test.opt.bc'
target datalayout = "e-m:o-i64:64-f80:128-n8:16:32:64-S128"
target triple = "x86_64-apple-macosx10.10.0"

@.str = private unnamed_addr constant [4 x i8] c"hit\00", align 1

; Function Attrs: alwaysinline inlinehint nounwind readnone ssp uwtable
define internal i8* @inline_call(i8* readnone %p, i64 %aux, i8* nocapture readnone %params) #0 {
entry:
  %cmp = icmp eq i8* %p, inttoptr (i64 305419896 to i8*)
  %.p = select i1 %cmp, i8* getelementptr inbounds ([4 x i8]* @.str, i64 0, i64 0), i8* %p
  ret i8* %.p
}

; Function Attrs: nounwind ssp uwtable
define i32 @foo(i8* %p, i64 %aux) #1 {
entry:
  %call = tail call i32 bitcast (i8* (i8*, i64, i8*)* @inline_call to i32 (i8*, i64, i8*)*)(i8* %p, i64 -5999611798422882212, i8* %p) #2
  ret i32 %call
}

attributes #0 = { alwaysinline inlinehint nounwind readnone ssp uwtable "less-precise-fpmad"="false" "no-frame-pointer-elim"="true" "no-frame-pointer-elim-non-leaf" "no-infs-fp-math"="false" "no-nans-fp-math"="false" "stack-protector-buffer-size"="8" "unsafe-fp-math"="false" "use-soft-float"="false" }
attributes #1 = { nounwind ssp uwtable "less-precise-fpmad"="false" "no-frame-pointer-elim"="true" "no-frame-pointer-elim-non-leaf" "no-infs-fp-math"="false" "no-nans-fp-math"="false" "stack-protector-buffer-size"="8" "unsafe-fp-math"="false" "use-soft-float"="false" }
attributes #2 = { nounwind }
---

I suspect it has something to do with the "call bitcast". But to me it appears to be more like a limitation of llvm not to inline it, then a coding error of mine. 

Ciao
   Nat!
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