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Hi, If the special handling in the meg2reg pass is to look for lifetime intrinsics, shouldn't it cast to <IntrisicInst> and then use getInstrinsicID to check for lifetime_start and lifetime_end ? The thing that I don't understand is the following piece of code, which finds all the users and cast it to <Instruction> then eraseFromParent(). How can this guarantee that it only erase lifetime instrinsics ? -guoqing // The only us...

----- Original Message ----- > From: "guoqing zhang" <gqzhang81 at gmail.com> > To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 4:29:16 AM > Subject: [LLVMdev] About user of bitcast/GEP instruction > > Hi, > > > In PromoteMemoryToRegister.cpp, it seems to rely on the fact that the > only users of bitcast/GEP instruction are lifetime

Hi, In PromoteMemoryToRegister.cpp, it seems to rely on the fact that the only users of bitcast/GEP instruction are lifetime intrinsics (llvm.lifetime.start/end). I did some searching in llvm/test folder, it seems to be true. However, by reading LLVM IR manual, I don't see any restriction stated on the possible user of bitcast/GEP instruction. So my question is who impose the restriction ?