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1 //===- UnifyFunctionExitNodes.cpp - Make all functions have a single exit -===//
2 //
3 // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
4 // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
6 //
7 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
8 //
9 // This pass is used to ensure that functions have at most one return and one
10 // unreachable instruction in them.
11 //
12 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
13 
14 #include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/UnifyFunctionExitNodes.h"
15 #include "llvm/IR/BasicBlock.h"
16 #include "llvm/IR/Function.h"
17 #include "llvm/IR/Instructions.h"
18 #include "llvm/IR/Type.h"
19 using namespace llvm;
20 
21 namespace {
22 
23 bool unifyUnreachableBlocks(Function &F) {
24   std::vector<BasicBlock *> UnreachableBlocks;
25 
26   for (BasicBlock &I : F)
27     if (isa<UnreachableInst>(I.getTerminator()))
28       UnreachableBlocks.push_back(&I);
29 
30   if (UnreachableBlocks.size() <= 1)
31     return false;
32 
33   BasicBlock *UnreachableBlock =
34       BasicBlock::Create(F.getContext(), "UnifiedUnreachableBlock", &F);
35   new UnreachableInst(F.getContext(), UnreachableBlock);
36 
37   for (BasicBlock *BB : UnreachableBlocks) {
38     BB->back().eraseFromParent(); // Remove the unreachable inst.
39     BranchInst::Create(UnreachableBlock, BB);
40   }
41 
42   return true;
43 }
44 
45 bool unifyReturnBlocks(Function &F) {
46   std::vector<BasicBlock *> ReturningBlocks;
47 
48   for (BasicBlock &I : F)
49     if (isa<ReturnInst>(I.getTerminator()))
50       ReturningBlocks.push_back(&I);
51 
52   if (ReturningBlocks.size() <= 1)
53     return false;
54 
55   // Insert a new basic block into the function, add PHI nodes (if the function
56   // returns values), and convert all of the return instructions into
57   // unconditional branches.
58   BasicBlock *NewRetBlock = BasicBlock::Create(F.getContext(),
59                                                "UnifiedReturnBlock", &F);
60 
61   PHINode *PN = nullptr;
62   if (F.getReturnType()->isVoidTy()) {
63     ReturnInst::Create(F.getContext(), nullptr, NewRetBlock);
64   } else {
65     // If the function doesn't return void... add a PHI node to the block...
66     PN = PHINode::Create(F.getReturnType(), ReturningBlocks.size(),
67                          "UnifiedRetVal");
68     PN->insertInto(NewRetBlock, NewRetBlock->end());
69     ReturnInst::Create(F.getContext(), PN, NewRetBlock);
70   }
71 
72   // Loop over all of the blocks, replacing the return instruction with an
73   // unconditional branch.
74   for (BasicBlock *BB : ReturningBlocks) {
75     // Add an incoming element to the PHI node for every return instruction that
76     // is merging into this new block...
77     if (PN)
78       PN->addIncoming(BB->getTerminator()->getOperand(0), BB);
79 
80     BB->back().eraseFromParent(); // Remove the return insn
81     BranchInst::Create(NewRetBlock, BB);
82   }
83 
84   return true;
85 }
86 } // namespace
87 
88 PreservedAnalyses UnifyFunctionExitNodesPass::run(Function &F,
89                                                   FunctionAnalysisManager &AM) {
90   bool Changed = false;
91   Changed |= unifyUnreachableBlocks(F);
92   Changed |= unifyReturnBlocks(F);
93   return Changed ? PreservedAnalyses() : PreservedAnalyses::all();
94 }
95