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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 #include "llvm/InitializePasses.h"
20 #include "llvm/Transforms/Utils.h"
21 using namespace llvm;
22 
23 char UnifyFunctionExitNodes::ID = 0;
24 
25 UnifyFunctionExitNodes::UnifyFunctionExitNodes() : FunctionPass(ID) {
26   initializeUnifyFunctionExitNodesPass(*PassRegistry::getPassRegistry());
27 }
28 
29 INITIALIZE_PASS(UnifyFunctionExitNodes, "mergereturn",
30                 "Unify function exit nodes", false, false)
31 
32 Pass *llvm::createUnifyFunctionExitNodesPass() {
33   return new UnifyFunctionExitNodes();
34 }
35 
36 void UnifyFunctionExitNodes::getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const{
37   // We preserve the non-critical-edgeness property
38   AU.addPreservedID(BreakCriticalEdgesID);
39   // This is a cluster of orthogonal Transforms
40   AU.addPreservedID(LowerSwitchID);
41 }
42 
43 // UnifyAllExitNodes - Unify all exit nodes of the CFG by creating a new
44 // BasicBlock, and converting all returns to unconditional branches to this
45 // new basic block.  The singular exit node is returned.
46 //
47 // If there are no return stmts in the Function, a null pointer is returned.
48 //
49 bool UnifyFunctionExitNodes::runOnFunction(Function &F) {
50   // Loop over all of the blocks in a function, tracking all of the blocks that
51   // return.
52   //
53   std::vector<BasicBlock*> ReturningBlocks;
54   std::vector<BasicBlock*> UnreachableBlocks;
55   for (BasicBlock &I : F)
56     if (isa<ReturnInst>(I.getTerminator()))
57       ReturningBlocks.push_back(&I);
58     else if (isa<UnreachableInst>(I.getTerminator()))
59       UnreachableBlocks.push_back(&I);
60 
61   // Then unreachable blocks.
62   if (UnreachableBlocks.size() > 1) {
63     BasicBlock *UnreachableBlock = BasicBlock::Create(F.getContext(),
64                                           "UnifiedUnreachableBlock", &F);
65     new UnreachableInst(F.getContext(), UnreachableBlock);
66 
67     for (BasicBlock *BB : UnreachableBlocks) {
68       BB->getInstList().pop_back();  // Remove the unreachable inst.
69       BranchInst::Create(UnreachableBlock, BB);
70     }
71   }
72 
73   // There is nothing more to do if we do not have multiple return blocks.
74   if (ReturningBlocks.size() <= 1)
75     return false;
76 
77   // Otherwise, we need to insert a new basic block into the function, add a PHI
78   // nodes (if the function returns values), and convert all of the return
79   // instructions into unconditional branches.
80   //
81   BasicBlock *NewRetBlock = BasicBlock::Create(F.getContext(),
82                                                "UnifiedReturnBlock", &F);
83 
84   PHINode *PN = nullptr;
85   if (F.getReturnType()->isVoidTy()) {
86     ReturnInst::Create(F.getContext(), nullptr, NewRetBlock);
87   } else {
88     // If the function doesn't return void... add a PHI node to the block...
89     PN = PHINode::Create(F.getReturnType(), ReturningBlocks.size(),
90                          "UnifiedRetVal");
91     NewRetBlock->getInstList().push_back(PN);
92     ReturnInst::Create(F.getContext(), PN, NewRetBlock);
93   }
94 
95   // Loop over all of the blocks, replacing the return instruction with an
96   // unconditional branch.
97   //
98   for (BasicBlock *BB : ReturningBlocks) {
99     // Add an incoming element to the PHI node for every return instruction that
100     // is merging into this new block...
101     if (PN)
102       PN->addIncoming(BB->getTerminator()->getOperand(0), BB);
103 
104     BB->getInstList().pop_back();  // Remove the return insn
105     BranchInst::Create(NewRetBlock, BB);
106   }
107   return true;
108 }
109