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-rw-r--r--lib/Analysis/BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp9
-rw-r--r--test/Transforms/GVN/null-aliases-nothing.ll20
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Analysis/BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp b/lib/Analysis/BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp
index 2f4663531a..ea10a83054 100644
--- a/lib/Analysis/BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp
+++ b/lib/Analysis/BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp
@@ -646,6 +646,15 @@ BasicAliasAnalysis::aliasCheck(const Value *V1, unsigned V1Size,
const Value *O1 = V1->getUnderlyingObject();
const Value *O2 = V2->getUnderlyingObject();
+ // Null values in the default address space don't point to any object, so they
+ // don't alias any other pointer.
+ if (const ConstantPointerNull *CPN = dyn_cast<ConstantPointerNull>(O1))
+ if (CPN->getType()->getAddressSpace() == 0)
+ return NoAlias;
+ if (const ConstantPointerNull *CPN = dyn_cast<ConstantPointerNull>(O2))
+ if (CPN->getType()->getAddressSpace() == 0)
+ return NoAlias;
+
if (O1 != O2) {
// If V1/V2 point to two different objects we know that we have no alias.
if (isIdentifiedObject(O1) && isIdentifiedObject(O2))
diff --git a/test/Transforms/GVN/null-aliases-nothing.ll b/test/Transforms/GVN/null-aliases-nothing.ll
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bc5c850e5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Transforms/GVN/null-aliases-nothing.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+; RUN: opt %s -gvn -S | FileCheck %s
+
+%t = type { i32 }
+declare void @test1f(i8*)
+
+define void @test1(%t* noalias %stuff ) {
+ %p = getelementptr inbounds %t* %stuff, i32 0, i32 0
+ %before = load i32* %p
+
+ call void @test1f(i8* null)
+
+ %after = load i32* %p ; <--- This should be a dead load
+ %sum = add i32 %before, %after;
+
+ store i32 %sum, i32* %p
+ ret void
+; CHECK: load
+; CHECK-NOT: load
+; CHECK: ret void
+}