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authorNick Lewycky <nicholas@mxc.ca>2008-11-24 05:00:44 +0000
committerNick Lewycky <nicholas@mxc.ca>2008-11-24 05:00:44 +0000
commitb2b32fd3fe22ca6b165d9c21d7ec0bcd2af105f5 (patch)
tree33950b6436437290a059c9376feb1df77a73c395
parent02ff308aa1c165d37fcf35f618243180ee68eedd (diff)
Seriously strengthen the guarantee offered by noalias on a function's return
value. It must now be as if the pointer were allocated and has not escaped to the caller. Thanks to Dan Gohman for pointing out the error in the original and helping devise this definition. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@59940 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
-rw-r--r--docs/LangRef.html6
-rw-r--r--lib/Analysis/BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp6
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/LangRef.html b/docs/LangRef.html
index bc3b40b460..b469022b76 100644
--- a/docs/LangRef.html
+++ b/docs/LangRef.html
@@ -892,9 +892,9 @@ declare signext i8 @returns_signed_char()
<dt><tt>noalias</tt></dt>
<dd>This indicates that the pointer does not alias any global or any other
parameter. The caller is responsible for ensuring that this is the
- case. Additionally, on a function return value <tt>noalias</tt> indicates
- that the pointer does not alias the return value from other calls of
- itself or other noalias functions.</dd>
+ case. On a function return value, <tt>noalias</tt> additionally indicates
+ that the pointer does not alias any other pointers visible to the
+ caller.</dd>
<dt><tt>nest</tt></dt>
<dd>This indicates that the pointer parameter can be excised using the
diff --git a/lib/Analysis/BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp b/lib/Analysis/BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp
index e9c6490ebb..5b65fb1199 100644
--- a/lib/Analysis/BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp
+++ b/lib/Analysis/BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp
@@ -383,9 +383,9 @@ BasicAliasAnalysis::alias(const Value *V1, unsigned V1Size,
if (isIdentifiedObject(O1) && isIdentifiedObject(O2))
return NoAlias;
- // Local allocations can't alias with arguments or noalias functions.
- if ((isa<AllocationInst>(O1) && (isa<Argument>(O2) || isNoAliasCall(O2))) ||
- (isa<AllocationInst>(O2) && (isa<Argument>(O1) || isNoAliasCall(O1))))
+ // Arguments can't alias with local allocations or noalias calls.
+ if ((isa<Argument>(O1) && (isa<AllocationInst>(O2) || isNoAliasCall(O2))) ||
+ (isa<Argument>(O2) && (isa<AllocationInst>(O1) || isNoAliasCall(O1))))
return NoAlias;
// Most objects can't alias null.