Extended Description

The logic that folds loads of static initializers doesn't take into account
whether the variable being initialized may be modified at runtime.

Here's a patch that fixes it:

Index: SelectionDAGISel.cpp

RCS file: /var/cvs/llvm/llvm/lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/SelectionDAGISel.cpp,v
retrieving revision 1.319
diff -u -r1.319 SelectionDAGISel.cpp
--- SelectionDAGISel.cpp
+++ SelectionDAGISel.cpp
@@ -3298,7 +3298,7 @@
}
if (G) {
GlobalVariable *GV = dyn_cast(G->getGlobal());

•      if (GV) {
  

•      if (GV && GV->isConstant()) {
         Str = GV->getStringValue(false);
         if (!Str.empty()) {
           CopyFromStr = true;
  

And here's a testcase that reproduces it:

target datalayout = "e-p:32:32"
target endian = little
target pointersize = 32
target triple = "i686-pc-linux-gnu"
%fmt = global [4 x sbyte] c"%x\0A\00"
%bytes = global [4 x sbyte] c"\AA\BB\CC\DD"

implementation

void %foo() {
%y = alloca uint
%c = cast uint* %y to sbyte*
%z = getelementptr [4 x sbyte]* %bytes, int 0, int 0
call void %llvm.memcpy.i32( sbyte* %c, sbyte* %z, uint 4, uint 1 )
%r = load uint* %y
%t = cast [4 x sbyte]* %fmt to sbyte*
%tmp = call int (sbyte*, ...)* %printf( sbyte* %t, uint %r )
ret void
}

declare void %llvm.memcpy.i32(sbyte*, sbyte*, uint, uint)

declare int %printf(sbyte*, ...)