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- #pragma once
- #ifdef __GNUC__
- #pragma GCC diagnostic push
- #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-parameter"
- #endif
- //===---- TailRecursionElimination.h ----------------------------*- C++ -*-===//
- //
- // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
- // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
- // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
- //
- //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
- //
- // This file transforms calls of the current function (self recursion) followed
- // by a return instruction with a branch to the entry of the function, creating
- // a loop. This pass also implements the following extensions to the basic
- // algorithm:
- //
- // 1. Trivial instructions between the call and return do not prevent the
- // transformation from taking place, though currently the analysis cannot
- // support moving any really useful instructions (only dead ones).
- // 2. This pass transforms functions that are prevented from being tail
- // recursive by an associative and commutative expression to use an
- // accumulator variable, thus compiling the typical naive factorial or
- // 'fib' implementation into efficient code.
- // 3. TRE is performed if the function returns void, if the return
- // returns the result returned by the call, or if the function returns a
- // run-time constant on all exits from the function. It is possible, though
- // unlikely, that the return returns something else (like constant 0), and
- // can still be TRE'd. It can be TRE'd if ALL OTHER return instructions in
- // the function return the exact same value.
- // 4. If it can prove that callees do not access their caller stack frame,
- // they are marked as eligible for tail call elimination (by the code
- // generator).
- //
- // There are several improvements that could be made:
- //
- // 1. If the function has any alloca instructions, these instructions will be
- // moved out of the entry block of the function, causing them to be
- // evaluated each time through the tail recursion. Safely keeping allocas
- // in the entry block requires analysis to proves that the tail-called
- // function does not read or write the stack object.
- // 2. Tail recursion is only performed if the call immediately precedes the
- // return instruction. It's possible that there could be a jump between
- // the call and the return.
- // 3. There can be intervening operations between the call and the return that
- // prevent the TRE from occurring. For example, there could be GEP's and
- // stores to memory that will not be read or written by the call. This
- // requires some substantial analysis (such as with DSA) to prove safe to
- // move ahead of the call, but doing so could allow many more TREs to be
- // performed, for example in TreeAdd/TreeAlloc from the treeadd benchmark.
- // 4. The algorithm we use to detect if callees access their caller stack
- // frames is very primitive.
- //
- //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
- #ifndef LLVM_TRANSFORMS_SCALAR_TAILRECURSIONELIMINATION_H
- #define LLVM_TRANSFORMS_SCALAR_TAILRECURSIONELIMINATION_H
- #include "llvm/IR/PassManager.h"
- namespace llvm {
- class Function;
- struct TailCallElimPass : PassInfoMixin<TailCallElimPass> {
- PreservedAnalyses run(Function &F, FunctionAnalysisManager &AM);
- };
- }
- #endif // LLVM_TRANSFORMS_SCALAR_TAILRECURSIONELIMINATION_H
- #ifdef __GNUC__
- #pragma GCC diagnostic pop
- #endif
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