[PATCH] D80249: CodeGen: Don't lazily construct MachineFunctionInfo

Matt Arsenault via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Jul 16 13:20:43 PDT 2020


arsenm added a comment.

In D80249#2156869 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D80249#2156869>, @nhaehnle wrote:

> Do you really need to change the signature of `MachineFunctionInfo::create`? That seems orthogonal to the problem you're trying to solve, or perhaps a redundant solution.
>
> The problem is: due to lazy construction and being able to refer to the MachineFunction, the state of the MachineFunctionInfo can have surprising accidental differences depending on when exactly it was created. There are two possible solutions:
>
> 1. Prevent the MachineFunctionInfo from accessing the MachineFunction.
> 2. Always create the MachineFunctionInfo in the same place.
>
>   This change does both, but either solution should be sufficient, and I personally find #1 counter-intuitive: it seems to me that the additional target-specific info about an object should be allowed to access that object.


You can't really do anything with the empty MachineFunction on construction. At the construction point, there isn't any information to access and it would always be a mistake to inspect it or make any construction decisions based on it (it would also be bad for the constructor to modify the MachineFunction).


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