[Clang] Add option to allow marking pass-by-value args as noalias.

After the recent discussion on cfe-dev 'Can indirect class parameters be
noalias?' [1], it seems like using using noalias is problematic for
current C++, but should be allowed for C-only code.

This patch introduces a new option to let the user indicate that it is
safe to mark indirect class parameters as noalias. Note that this also
applies to external callers, e.g. it might not be safe to use this flag
for C functions that are called by C++ functions.

In targets that allocate indirect arguments in the called function, this
enables more agressive optimizations with respect to memory operations
and brings a ~1% - 2% codesize reduction for some programs.

[1] : http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2020-July/066353.html

Reviewed By: rjmccall

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85473

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp b/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
index fbccff1..0d8b0f9 100644
--- a/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
@@ -1453,6 +1453,8 @@ static bool ParseCodeGenArgs(CodeGenOptions &Opts, ArgList &Args, InputKind IK,
       std::string(Args.getLastArgValue(OPT_fsymbol_partition_EQ));
 
   Opts.ForceAAPCSBitfieldLoad = Args.hasArg(OPT_ForceAAPCSBitfieldLoad);
+
+  Opts.PassByValueIsNoAlias = Args.hasArg(OPT_fpass_by_value_is_noalias);
   return Success;
 }