[llvm-dev] scheduling across calls to avoid spills

[Davis, Alan via llvm-dev]

I have some machine code that looks something like:

	flag = true
	c = call()
	if (c)
		flag = false
		...
	...
	if (flag) ...

The 'flag' variable is a Boolean value of type i1. The target has 1-bit condition registers but none are preserved across calls. So flag is spilled to memory, resulting in terrible code.

There is no dependency between the flag=true instruction and the call, so I'd like to move it after the call. I was hoping the front end would do it via TargetTransformInfo::getCostOfKeepingLiveOverCall.  But apparently that only applies to vectorization transforms.

The pre-RA MachineScheduler won't do it either, because scheduling regions are delimited by calls. (From MachineScheduler.cpp: "MachineScheduler does not currently support scheduling across calls.")

Is there some standard way in the front end or codegen to make this happen?

-Alan