[PM/AA] Hoist the AliasResult enum out of the AliasAnalysis class.
authorChandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 02:16:51 +0000 (02:16 +0000)
committerChandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 02:16:51 +0000 (02:16 +0000)
commit1e3557de0d1f44907502bd99a512278387245ac0
tree4bd8a23f7ab46bfade2c160e2edbb763d7b727e7
parentab6ddadac726f8be2fb797c7bac17c03250b0d8e
[PM/AA] Hoist the AliasResult enum out of the AliasAnalysis class.

This will allow classes to implement the AA interface without deriving
from the class or referencing an internal enum of some other class as
their return types.

Also, to a pretty fundamental extent, concepts such as 'NoAlias',
'MayAlias', and 'MustAlias' are first class concepts in LLVM and we
aren't saving anything by scoping them heavily.

My mild preference would have been to use a scoped enum, but that
feature is essentially completely broken AFAICT. I'm extremely
disappointed. For example, we cannot through any reasonable[1] means
construct an enum class (or analog) which has scoped names but converts
to a boolean in order to test for the possibility of aliasing.

[1]: Richard Smith came up with a "solution", but it requires class
templates, and lots of boilerplate setting up the enumeration multiple
times. Something like Boost.PP could potentially bundle this up, but
even that would be quite painful and it doesn't seem realistically worth
it. The enum class solution would probably work without the need for
a bool conversion.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10495

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@240255 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
20 files changed:
docs/AliasAnalysis.rst
include/llvm/Analysis/AliasAnalysis.h
lib/Analysis/AliasAnalysis.cpp
lib/Analysis/AliasAnalysisCounter.cpp
lib/Analysis/AliasAnalysisEvaluator.cpp
lib/Analysis/AliasSetTracker.cpp
lib/Analysis/BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp
lib/Analysis/CFLAliasAnalysis.cpp
lib/Analysis/DependenceAnalysis.cpp
lib/Analysis/IPA/GlobalsModRef.cpp
lib/Analysis/Lint.cpp
lib/Analysis/MemoryDependenceAnalysis.cpp
lib/Analysis/ScalarEvolutionAliasAnalysis.cpp
lib/Analysis/ScopedNoAliasAA.cpp
lib/Analysis/TypeBasedAliasAnalysis.cpp
lib/CodeGen/ScheduleDAGInstrs.cpp
lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/DAGCombiner.cpp
lib/Transforms/ObjCARC/ObjCARCAliasAnalysis.cpp
lib/Transforms/ObjCARC/ObjCARCOpts.cpp
lib/Transforms/ObjCARC/ProvenanceAnalysis.cpp