; RUN: opt -basicaa -loop-accesses -analyze < %s | FileCheck %s ; RUN: opt -passes='require<scalar-evolution>,require<aa>,loop(print-access-info)' -disable-output < %s 2>&1 | FileCheck %s ; This loop: ; ; int **A; ; for (i) ; for (j) { ; A[i][j] = A[i-1][j] * B[j] ; B[j+1] = 2 // backward dep between this and the previous ; } ; ; is transformed by Load-PRE to stash away A[i] for the next iteration of the ; outer loop: ; ; Curr = A[0]; // Prev_0 ; for (i: 1..N) { ; Prev = Curr; // Prev = PHI (Prev_0, Curr) ; Curr = A[i]; ; for (j: 0..N) { ; Curr[j] = Prev[j] * B[j] ; B[j+1] = 2 // backward dep between this and the previous ; } ; } ; ; Since A[i] and A[i-1] are likely to be independent, getUnderlyingObjects ; should not assume that Curr and Prev share the same underlying object. ; ; If it did we would try to dependence-analyze Curr and Prev and the analysis ; would fail with non-constant distance. ; ; To illustrate one of the negative consequences of this, if the loop has a ; backward dependence we won't detect this but instead fully fall back on ; memchecks (that is what LAA does after encountering a case of non-constant ; distance). target datalayout = "e-m:o-i64:64-f80:128-n8:16:32:64-S128" target triple = "x86_64-apple-macosx10.10.0" ; CHECK: for_j.body: ; CHECK-NEXT: Report: unsafe dependent memory operations in loop ; CHECK-NEXT: Dependences: ; CHECK-NEXT: Backward: ; CHECK-NEXT: %loadB = load i8, i8* %gepB, align 1 -> ; CHECK-NEXT: store i8 2, i8* %gepB_plus_one, align 1 define void @f(i8** noalias %A, i8* noalias %B, i64 %N) { for_i.preheader: %prev_0 = load i8*, i8** %A, align 8 br label %for_i.body for_i.body: %i = phi i64 [1, %for_i.preheader], [%i.1, %for_j.end] %prev = phi i8* [%prev_0, %for_i.preheader], [%curr, %for_j.end] %gep = getelementptr inbounds i8*, i8** %A, i64 %i %curr = load i8*, i8** %gep, align 8 br label %for_j.preheader for_j.preheader: br label %for_j.body for_j.body: %j = phi i64 [0, %for_j.preheader], [%j.1, %for_j.body] %gepPrev = getelementptr inbounds i8, i8* %prev, i64 %j %gepCurr = getelementptr inbounds i8, i8* %curr, i64 %j %gepB = getelementptr inbounds i8, i8* %B, i64 %j %loadPrev = load i8, i8* %gepPrev, align 1 %loadB = load i8, i8* %gepB, align 1 %mul = mul i8 %loadPrev, %loadB store i8 %mul, i8* %gepCurr, align 1 %gepB_plus_one = getelementptr inbounds i8, i8* %gepB, i64 1 store i8 2, i8* %gepB_plus_one, align 1 %j.1 = add nuw i64 %j, 1 %exitcondj = icmp eq i64 %j.1, %N br i1 %exitcondj, label %for_j.end, label %for_j.body for_j.end: %i.1 = add nuw i64 %i, 1 %exitcond = icmp eq i64 %i.1, %N br i1 %exitcond, label %for_i.end, label %for_i.body for_i.end: ret void }