TypeMetadataUtils.h

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//===- TypeMetadataUtils.h - Utilities related to type metadata --*- C++ -*-==//
//
// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// This file contains functions that make it easier to manipulate type metadata
// for devirtualization.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
#ifndef LLVM_ANALYSIS_TYPEMETADATAUTILS_H
#define LLVM_ANALYSIS_TYPEMETADATAUTILS_H
 
#include <cstdint>
#include <utility>
 
namespace llvm {
 
template <typename T> class SmallVectorImpl;
class CallBase;
class CallInst;
class Constant;
class Function;
class DominatorTree;
class GlobalVariable;
class Instruction;
class Module;
 
/// The type of CFI jumptable needed for a function.
enum CfiFunctionLinkage {
  CFL_Definition = 0,
  CFL_Declaration = 1,
  CFL_WeakDeclaration = 2
};
 
/// A call site that could be devirtualized.
struct DevirtCallSite {
  /// The offset from the address point to the virtual function.
  uint64_t Offset;
  /// The call site itself.
  CallBase &CB;
};
 
/// Given a call to the intrinsic \@llvm.type.test, find all devirtualizable
/// call sites based on the call and return them in DevirtCalls.
void findDevirtualizableCallsForTypeTest(
    SmallVectorImpl<DevirtCallSite> &DevirtCalls,
    SmallVectorImpl<CallInst *> &Assumes, const CallInst *CI,
    DominatorTree &DT);
 
/// Given a call to the intrinsic \@llvm.type.checked.load, find all
/// devirtualizable call sites based on the call and return them in DevirtCalls.
void findDevirtualizableCallsForTypeCheckedLoad(
    SmallVectorImpl<DevirtCallSite> &DevirtCalls,
    SmallVectorImpl<Instruction *> &LoadedPtrs,
    SmallVectorImpl<Instruction *> &Preds, bool &HasNonCallUses,
    const CallInst *CI, DominatorTree &DT);
 
/// Processes a Constant recursively looking into elements of arrays, structs
/// and expressions to find a trivial pointer element that is located at the
/// given offset (relative to the beginning of the whole outer Constant).
///
/// Used for example from GlobalDCE to find an entry in a C++ vtable that
/// matches a vcall offset.
///
/// To support relative vtables, getPointerAtOffset can see through "relative
/// pointers", i.e. (sub-)expressions of the form of:
///
/// @symbol = ... {
///   i32 trunc (i64 sub (
///     i64 ptrtoint (<type> @target to i64), i64 ptrtoint (... @symbol to i64)
///   ) to i32)
/// }
///
/// For such (sub-)expressions, getPointerAtOffset returns the @target pointer.
Constant *getPointerAtOffset(Constant *I, uint64_t Offset, Module &M,
                             Constant *TopLevelGlobal = nullptr);
 
/// Given a vtable and a specified offset, returns the function and the trivial
/// pointer at the specified offset in pair iff the pointer at the specified
/// offset is a function or an alias to a function. Returns a pair of nullptr
/// otherwise.
std::pair<Function *, Constant *>
getFunctionAtVTableOffset(GlobalVariable *GV, uint64_t Offset, Module &M);
 
/// Finds the same "relative pointer" pattern as described above, where the
/// target is `C`, and replaces the entire pattern with a constant zero.
void replaceRelativePointerUsersWithZero(Constant *C);
 
} // namespace llvm
 
#endif