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Emit LLVM lifetime intrinsics #1129

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ChuanqiXu9 opened this issue Nov 15, 2024 · 1 comment
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Emit LLVM lifetime intrinsics #1129

ChuanqiXu9 opened this issue Nov 15, 2024 · 1 comment
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@ChuanqiXu9
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struct S {
    int a;
    int b;
};

S getS();

S getS2(const S&);

S foo() {
    return getS2(getS());
}

Compile it with -fclangir -O3 -emit-cir, we got:

cir.func @_Z3foov() -> !ty_S extra(#fn_attr) {
    %0 = cir.alloca !ty_S, !cir.ptr<!ty_S>, ["__retval"] {alignment = 4 : i64} loc(#loc6)
    cir.scope {
      %2 = cir.alloca !ty_S, !cir.ptr<!ty_S>, ["ref.tmp0"] {alignment = 4 : i64} loc(#loc16)
      %3 = cir.call @_Z4getSv() : () -> !ty_S loc(#loc9)
      cir.store %3, %2 : !ty_S, !cir.ptr<!ty_S> loc(#loc9)
      %4 = cir.call @_Z5getS2RK1S(%2) : (!cir.ptr<!ty_S>) -> !ty_S loc(#loc7)
      cir.store %4, %0 : !ty_S, !cir.ptr<!ty_S> loc(#loc7)
    } loc(#loc15)
    %1 = cir.load %0 : !cir.ptr<!ty_S>, !ty_S loc(#loc17)
    cir.return %1 : !ty_S loc(#loc17)
  }

This is good. We explicitly marked the scope for the temporary. However, when we lower it to LLVM, we lost the lifetime informations:

define dso_local %struct.S @_Z3foov() #0 !dbg !7 {
  %1 = alloca %struct.S, i64 1, align 4, !dbg !8
  %2 = alloca %struct.S, i64 1, align 4, !dbg !9
  br label %3, !dbg !8

3:                                                ; preds = %0
  %4 = call %struct.S @_Z4getSv(), !dbg !10
  store %struct.S %4, ptr %1, align 4, !dbg !10
  %5 = call %struct.S @_Z5getS2RK1S(ptr %1), !dbg !11
  store %struct.S %5, ptr %2, align 4, !dbg !11
  br label %6, !dbg !12

6:                                                ; preds = %3
  %7 = load %struct.S, ptr %2, align 4, !dbg !8
  ret %struct.S %7, !dbg !8
}

In the contrary, the emitted LLVM without clangir is:

define dso_local i64 @_Z3foov() #0 {
entry:
  %retval = alloca %struct.S, align 4
  %ref.tmp = alloca %struct.S, align 4
  call void @llvm.lifetime.start.p0(i64 8, ptr %ref.tmp) #3
  %call = call i64 @_Z4getSv()
  store i64 %call, ptr %ref.tmp, align 4
  %call1 = call i64 @_Z5getS2RK1S(ptr noundef nonnull align 4 dereferenceable(8) %ref.tmp)
  store i64 %call1, ptr %retval, align 4
  call void @llvm.lifetime.end.p0(i64 8, ptr %ref.tmp) #3
  %0 = load i64, ptr %retval, align 4
  ret i64 %0
}

where we can see the lifetime markers pretty clearly. The lifetime markers are pretty important for optimizations in the middle end.

We need to do this especially we've already marked the scope clearly.

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Yes, I'm not sure we have issues tracking this already, but we need to emit lifetime intrinsics, good thing is that we can do that as we unwrap scopes.

@bcardosolopes bcardosolopes changed the title We lack lifetime informations Emit LLVM lifetime intrinsics Nov 22, 2024
@bcardosolopes bcardosolopes added the good first issue Good for newcomers label Nov 22, 2024
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