[LLVMdev] Fail to unroll loop on simple examples.

[Claude Helmstetter]

Hi all,

I have tried to use the loop-unroll pass on a large example, but without
success. So I have tried on smaller examples, and I did not get more
success.

My simplest example is attached. It comes from this C code (using llvm-gcc,
but similar result with clang):

int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
  int i;
  for (i = 0; i!=5; ++i) {}
  return 0;
}

I use this command (version 2.8svn, from July 1st)
~/Build/llvm-trunk/Release/bin/opt -mem2reg -indvars -loop-unroll -stats
loop.ll | llvm-dis

Whereas ScalarEvolution can compute the loop count, LoopInfo fails because
the conditional branch is not in the expected block. If I provide the loop
count with -unroll-count=5, then the function UnrollLoop fails form the same
reason. The pass "-loopsimplify" has no effect.

If I add the pass "-loop-rotate" before "-indvars", then the loop is
successfully unrolled. However, I think this pass may increase the size of
the code for all loops, including the loops that cannot be unrolled.

Is this a bug? Or is there any other pass that can help UnrollLoop?


-- 
Claude Helmstetter
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