[PATCH] D49974: [GuardWidening] Widen guards with conditions of frequently taken dominated branches

Philip Reames via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Aug 2 15:47:51 PDT 2018


reames added inline comments.


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Comment at: lib/Transforms/Scalar/GuardWidening.cpp:408
+  // Only erase guard intrinsics. Do nothing about branches.
+  if (IntrinsicInst *GI = dyn_cast<IntrinsicInst>(GuardInst))
+    GI->eraseFromParent();
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mkazantsev wrote:
> reames wrote:
> > Better to move this check into the caller.
> No, it is here because we should not remove `br` instructions. We don't want the caller to know about possible types of guards.
I was suggesting that we only call this function for guards, not for branches.  Calling a function called "eliminateGuard" on a branch seems a bit odd.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D49974





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