[llvm-dev] Missing kill flag on Machine Instruction operands

[Quentin Colombet via llvm-dev]

Hi Stephen,

The kill flags are conservatively correct and not mandatory; if they are set, they are correct, if they are not, you cannot say anything.

> On May 9, 2016, at 8:37 AM, Stephen Rogers via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm writing a MachineFunction pass that relies on the kill flag to be appropriately set on operands of Machine Instructions, but it isn't. My pass runs before register allocation. What I'm seeing when I print an instruction is something like:
> 
> %vreg218<def> = FOO %vreg217, %vreg369
> 
> but what I need is:
> 
> %vreg218<def> = FOO %vreg217<kill>, %vreg369<kill>
> 
> On this same instruction, the kill flag is being set on vreg217 and vreg369 in preceding and succeeding passes, but not in my pass. Is there some analysis pass that I need to add as required in my pass's "getAnalysisUsage" to get this flag to be set?

I would recommend to rely on the LiveInterval analysis.

Cheers,
-Quentin

> 
> Thanks,
> Stephen
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