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[ARM] Promote small global constants to constant pools
authorJames Molloy <james.molloy@arm.com>
Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:47:27 +0000 (14:47 +0000)
committerJames Molloy <james.molloy@arm.com>
Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:47:27 +0000 (14:47 +0000)
commitb50cea71501932bd7777c0512de814b11b637cdf
tree6b36292620acd7f5fc08d28006a919c10cbde3dc
parent2ecc1fc02a57dafef8692ef094a4b573040cf2c7
[ARM] Promote small global constants to constant pools

If a constant is unamed_addr and is only used within one function, we can save
on the code size and runtime cost of an indirection by changing the global's storage
to inside the constant pool. For example, instead of:

      ldr r0, .CPI0
      bl printf
      bx lr
    .CPI0: &format_string
    format_string: .asciz "hello, world!\n"

We can emit:

      adr r0, .CPI0
      bl printf
      bx lr
    .CPI0: .asciz "hello, world!\n"

This can cause significant code size savings when many small strings are used in one
function (4 bytes per string).

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@281484 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
lib/Target/ARM/ARMAsmPrinter.cpp
lib/Target/ARM/ARMAsmPrinter.h
lib/Target/ARM/ARMISelLowering.cpp
lib/Target/ARM/ARMMachineFunctionInfo.h
test/CodeGen/ARM/constantpool-promote.ll [new file with mode: 0644]