The nilcheckelim pass eliminates unnecessary nil checks.
The initial implementation removes redundant nil checks.
See the comments in nilcheck.go for ideas for future
improvements.
The efficacy of the cse pass has a significant impact
on this efficacy of this pass.
There are 886 nil checks in the parts of the standard
library that SSA can currently compile (~20%).
This pass eliminates 75 (~8.5%) of them.
As a data point, with a more aggressive but unsound
cse pass that treats many more types as identical,
this pass eliminates 115 (~13%) of the nil checks.
Change-Id: I13e567a39f5f6909fc33434d55c17a7e3884a704
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11430
Reviewed-by: Alan Donovan <adonovan@google.com>
This caused the following code snippet to be miscompiled
var f int
x := g(&f)
f = 10
Moving the store of 10 above the function call.
Change-Id: Ic6951f5e7781b122cd881df324a38e519d6d66f0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11073
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Semi-regular merge of tip to dev.ssa.
Complicated a bit by the move of cmd/internal/* to cmd/compile/internal/*.
Change-Id: I1c66d3c29bb95cce4a53c5a3476373aa5245303d
