[llvm-dev] Liveness of virtual registers

[Krzysztof Parzyszek via llvm-dev]

On 7/28/2016 3:37 PM, Xiaochu Liu via llvm-dev wrote:
>
> I am trying to use liveness of a variable while writing a
> machinefunction pass. But it seems that some virtual registers are not
> marked as dead while they should be (never used by anything else). I get
> those info by callings isDead or isDef function for that MachineOperand
> (vreg). Is there a way to get more accurate liveness info?

The absence of these flags does not mean anything, but if they are 
present, then they must be correct.

You can always use functions use_empty and use_nodbg_empty, both in 
MachineRegisterInfo.  A precise liveness information is calculated by 
Live Interval Analysis.

-Krzysztof


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