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Fun with parameter attributes: For several of the "synthetic" parameters added to D functions, we can apply noalias and nocapture. They are sret parameters, 'nest' pointers passed to nested functions, and _argptr: Nocapture: - Sret and nest are nocapture because they don't represent D-level variables, and thus the callee can't (validly) obtain a pointer to them, let alone keep it around after it returns. - _argptr is nocapture because although the callee has access to it as a pointer, that pointer is invalidated when it returns. All three are noalias because they're function-local variables - Sret and _argptr are noalias because they're freshly alloca'd memory only used for a single function call that's not allowed to keep an aliasing pointer to it around (since the parameter is nocapture). - 'Nest' is noalias because the callee only ever has access to one such pointer per parent function, and every parent function has a different one. This commit also ensures attributes set on sret, _arguments and _argptr are propagated to calls to such functions. It also adds one exception to the general rule that attributes on function types should propagate to calls: the type of a delegate's function pointer has a 'nest' parameter, but this can either be a true 'nest' (for delegates to nested functions) or a 'this' (for delegates to member functions). Since 'this' is neither noalias nor nocapture, and there's generally no way to tell which one it is, we remove these attributes at the call site if the callee is a delegate.
author Frits van Bommel <fvbommel wxs.nl>
date Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:15:31 +0100
parents eef8ac26c66c
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#ifndef LDC_IR_IRFORW_H
#define LDC_IR_IRFORW_H

// dmd forward declarations
struct Module;
struct Dsymbol;
struct Declaration;
struct VarDeclaration;
struct FuncDeclaration;
struct AggregateDeclaration;
struct StructDeclaration;
struct ClassDeclaration;
struct InterfaceDeclaration;
struct Expression;
struct BaseClass;
struct Array;
struct Argument;

struct Type;
struct TypeStruct;
struct TypeClass;
struct TypeEnum;
struct TypeArray;
struct TypeFunction;

// llvm forward declarations
namespace llvm
{
    class Value;
    class GlobalValue;
    class GlobalVariable;
    class Function;
    class Constant;
    class ConstantStruct;
    class ConstantArray;
    class TargetData;
    class Type;
    class StructType;
    class ArrayType;
    class PointerType;
    class BasicBlock;
    class Instruction;
}

#endif