A dead malloc, a free(NULL) and a free(undef) are all trivially dead

instructions.

This doesn't introduce any optimizations we weren't doing before (except
potentially due to pass ordering issues), now passes will eliminate them sooner
as part of their own cleanups.

llvm-svn: 142787

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/Local.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/Local.cpp
index 7034feb..134ab71 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/Local.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/Local.cpp
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include "llvm/Analysis/DIBuilder.h"
 #include "llvm/Analysis/Dominators.h"
 #include "llvm/Analysis/InstructionSimplify.h"
+#include "llvm/Analysis/MemoryBuiltins.h"
 #include "llvm/Analysis/ProfileInfo.h"
 #include "llvm/Analysis/ValueTracking.h"
 #include "llvm/Target/TargetData.h"
@@ -257,6 +258,13 @@ bool llvm::isInstructionTriviallyDead(Instruction *I) {
         II->getIntrinsicID() == Intrinsic::lifetime_end)
       return isa<UndefValue>(II->getArgOperand(1));
   }
+
+  if (extractMallocCall(I)) return true;
+
+  if (CallInst *CI = isFreeCall(I))
+    if (Constant *C = dyn_cast<Constant>(CI->getArgOperand(0)))
+      return C->isNullValue() || isa<UndefValue>(C);
+
   return false;
 }