LICM.h

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//===- LICM.h - Loop Invariant Code Motion Pass -------*- C++ -*-===//
//
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//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// This pass performs loop invariant code motion, attempting to remove as much
// code from the body of a loop as possible.  It does this by either hoisting
// code into the preheader block, or by sinking code to the exit blocks if it is
// safe.  This pass also promotes must-aliased memory locations in the loop to
// live in registers, thus hoisting and sinking "invariant" loads and stores.
//
// This pass uses alias analysis for two purposes:
//
//  1. Moving loop invariant loads and calls out of loops.  If we can determine
//     that a load or call inside of a loop never aliases anything stored to,
//     we can hoist it or sink it like any other instruction.
//  2. Scalar Promotion of Memory - If there is a store instruction inside of
//     the loop, we try to move the store to happen AFTER the loop instead of
//     inside of the loop.  This can only happen if a few conditions are true:
//       A. The pointer stored through is loop invariant
//       B. There are no stores or loads in the loop which _may_ alias the
//          pointer.  There are no calls in the loop which mod/ref the pointer.
//     If these conditions are true, we can promote the loads and stores in the
//     loop of the pointer to use a temporary alloca'd variable.  We then use
//     the SSAUpdater to construct the appropriate SSA form for the value.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//

#ifndef LLVM_TRANSFORMS_SCALAR_LICM_H
#define LLVM_TRANSFORMS_SCALAR_LICM_H

#include "llvm/Analysis/LoopInfo.h"
#include "llvm/IR/PassManager.h"
#include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar/LoopPassManager.h"

namespace llvm {

/// Performs Loop Invariant Code Motion Pass.
class LICMPass : public PassInfoMixin<LICMPass> {
public:
  PreservedAnalyses run(Loop &L, LoopAnalysisManager &AM,
                        LoopStandardAnalysisResults &AR, LPMUpdater &U);
};
} // end namespace llvm

#endif // LLVM_TRANSFORMS_SCALAR_LICM_H