[PATCH] D48066: Add one more No-alias case to alias analysis.

[Hal Finkel via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

hfinkel added a comment.

I put this on the llvm-dev thread, but to repeat it here:

In your example, we have:

3 - idx == idx => 3 == 2*idx

and you've generalized this slightly to make this:

(odd number) == 2*idx

which makes sense. I think that we can go further looking at:

n == 2*idx

and, calling computeKnownBits on n and idx, then asking whether:

knownZeros(n) == (knownZeros(idx) << 1) | 1 and
knownOnes(n) == knownOnes(idx) << 1

(please note the comment in aliasSameBasePointerGEPs regarding avoiding
PR32314)

also, if we have more than one array access, we can have:

n - idx == m - idx

then we have:

n-m == 2*idx

and so we can check:

knownZeros(n-m) == (knownZeros(idx) << 1) | 1 and
knownOnes(n-m) == knownOnes(idx) << 1

Sadly, we don't have a good API to do the knownBits check on the
subtraction of non-constants, but you only need the constants in your
case, and we can leave the more-general case for future work.


Repository:
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https://reviews.llvm.org/D48066