[llvm-dev] Preserving Call to Intrinsic function

[Pierre-Andre Saulais via llvm-dev]

Hi Kumail,

There is a flag that does what you are looking for (see Intrinsics.td
for definitions):

// IntrNoduplicate - Calls to this intrinsic cannot be duplicated.
// Parallels the noduplicate attribute on LLVM IR functions.
def IntrNoDuplicate : IntrinsicProperty;

Another thing to check is whether your intrinsic is marked as having
side-effects or not. Intrinsics with no side effects may be optimized by
LLVM. If you inspect the DAG using llc, an intrinsic with side-effects
should have a chain (blue dashed edge) going to and coming from its node:

llc -O1 foo.ll -view-isel-dags

If it doesn't, you can mark it as having side-effects using one of the
following attributes:

// IntrReadMem - This intrinsic only reads from memory. It does not write to
// memory and has no other side effects. Therefore, it cannot be moved
across
// potentially aliasing stores. However, it can be reordered otherwise
and can
// be deleted if dead.
def IntrReadMem : IntrinsicProperty;

// IntrWriteMem - This intrinsic only writes to memory, but does not
read from
// memory, and has no other side effects. This means dead stores before
calls
// to this intrinsics may be removed.
def IntrWriteMem : IntrinsicProperty;

By default intrinsics returning void are assumed to have side effects.

Pierre-Andre

On 27/01/17 16:33, Kumail Ahmed via llvm-dev wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> Consider we have this following set of code:
>
> int foo() {
>
> int a,b;
> a = __builtin_XX(0x11);
> b = __builtin_XX(0x11);
> return a+b;
> }
>
> The problem currently is that LLVM eliminated the second call and
> copied the result from the first call into a new set of registers. Is
> there is a way to force LLVM to generate two explicit calls to a
> builtin function. The builtin takes in an integer type, and also
> returns back an integer type:
>
>   def int_XX : GCCBuiltin<"__builtin_XX">, Intrinsic<[llvm_i32_ty],
> [llvm_i32_ty]>;
>
> Is there some flag that I'm missing? Your help will be really appreciated.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Kumail Ahmed
>
>
>
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