Re: LLVM 16 (opaque pointers)

Hi,

On 2023-10-13 11:06:21 +0200, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 04:31:20PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I also don't think we should add the mem2reg pass outside of -O0 - running it
> > after a real optimization pipeline doesn't seem useful and might even make the
> > code worse? mem2reg is included in default<O1> (and obviously also in O3).
>
> My understanding was that while mem2reg is included everywhere above
> -O0, this set of passes won't hurt. But yeah, if you say it could
> degrade the final result, it's better to not do this. I'll update this
> part.

It's indeed included anywhere above that, but adding it explicitly to the
schedule means it's excuted twice:

echo 'int foo(int a) { return a / 343; }' | clang-16 -emit-llvm -x c -c -o - -S -|sed -e 's/optnone//'|opt-17 -debug-pass-manager -passes='default<O1>,mem2reg' -o /dev/null 2>&1|grep Promote
Running pass: PromotePass on foo (2 instructions)
Running pass: PromotePass on foo (2 instructions)

The second one is in a point in the pipeline where it doesn't help. It also
requires another analysis pass to be executed unnecessarily.

Greetings,

Andres Freund