[llvm-commits] [llvm] r130485 - in /llvm/trunk: lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineShifts.cpp test/Transforms/InstCombine/shift.ll

[Devang Patel]

On Apr 30, 2011, at 3:22 AM, Benjamin Kramer wrote:

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> On 30.04.2011, at 00:00, Devang Patel wrote:
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>> On Apr 29, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Benjamin Kramer wrote:
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>>> Are you sure this specific transformation destroys the DebugLoc? When InstCombine simply replaces one
>>> instruction with another it preserves debug information (InstructionCombining.cpp:1592).
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>> I added line 1592 however I am not sure that this particular transformation is covered by 1592 in all cases. I have seen "shl" without DebugLoc generated by instcombine before your patch landed in svn. If you're interested I can send you more info.
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> There is a way this transform can lose a DebugLoc
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> x = C1 <<  A # with DebugLoc
> y = x  << C2 # without DebugLoc
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> InstCombine will then replace 'y' with a new instruction (but there's no DebugLoc to attach to it) and 'x' is DCE'd.
> I think the only feasible way to improve here is to find out why 'y' has no debug info attached to it.
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> If you have a test case where InstCombine introduces SHLs without DebugLocs, I'd be interested in seeing it.

Sure, I'll send you the test case offline.
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Devang