LoopVectorizer: Extend the induction variable to a larger type

In some case the loop exit count computation can overflow. Extend the type to
prevent most of those cases.

The problem is loops like:
int main ()
{
  int a = 1;
  char b = 0;
  lbl:
    a &= 4;
    b--;
    if (b) goto lbl;
  return a;
}

The backedge count is 255. The induction variable type is i8. If we add one to
255 to get the exit count we overflow to zero.

To work around this issue we extend the type of the induction variable to i32 in
the case of i8 and i16.

PR17532

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@195008 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/Transforms/LoopVectorize/induction.ll b/test/Transforms/LoopVectorize/induction.ll
index 2471c52..50c3b6b 100644
--- a/test/Transforms/LoopVectorize/induction.ll
+++ b/test/Transforms/LoopVectorize/induction.ll
@@ -66,3 +66,45 @@ for.body:
 loopexit:
   ret void
 }
+
+
+; Make sure that the loop exit count computation does not overflow for i8 and
+; i16. The exit count of these loops is i8/i16 max + 1. If we don't cast the
+; induction variable to a bigger type the exit count computation will overflow
+; to 0.
+; PR17532
+
+; CHECK-LABEL: i8_loop
+; CHECK; icmp eq i32 {{.*}}, 256
+define i32 @i8_loop() nounwind readnone ssp uwtable {
+  br label %1
+
+; <label>:1                                       ; preds = %1, %0
+  %a.0 = phi i32 [ 1, %0 ], [ %2, %1 ]
+  %b.0 = phi i8 [ 0, %0 ], [ %3, %1 ]
+  %2 = and i32 %a.0, 4
+  %3 = add i8 %b.0, -1
+  %4 = icmp eq i8 %3, 0
+  br i1 %4, label %5, label %1
+
+; <label>:5                                       ; preds = %1
+  ret i32 %2
+}
+
+; CHECK-LABEL: i16_loop
+; CHECK; icmp eq i32 {{.*}}, 65536
+
+define i32 @i16_loop() nounwind readnone ssp uwtable {
+  br label %1
+
+; <label>:1                                       ; preds = %1, %0
+  %a.0 = phi i32 [ 1, %0 ], [ %2, %1 ]
+  %b.0 = phi i16 [ 0, %0 ], [ %3, %1 ]
+  %2 = and i32 %a.0, 4
+  %3 = add i16 %b.0, -1
+  %4 = icmp eq i16 %3, 0
+  br i1 %4, label %5, label %1
+
+; <label>:5                                       ; preds = %1
+  ret i32 %2
+}