[llvm-dev] [MemorySSA] A question about how to update the MemorySSA when we call RecursivelyDeleteTriviallyDeadInstructions (original) (raw)

Wei Mi via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Apr 28 11:29:21 PDT 2017

When we erase a memory access instruction, existing passes using memory ssa like GVN, NewGVN, GVNHoist and EarlyCSE uses MemorySSAUpdater to do the update before the instruction is erased.

However, if we call llvm::RecursivelyDeleteTriviallyDeadInstructions to find out dead instruction recursively and memory access instructions may be erased inside the recursive process, we need a way to update MemorySSA for those instructions. Note MemorySSA update should be done before the instruction is erased.

Is it acceptable to have an API with MemorySSAUpdater as a param, or it is better for MemoryUseOrDef to have a callback value handler to do the update transparently, or there are better ways to be suggested.

Thanks, Wei.

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