// We should have never reached here if this argument isn't an gc value
return BaseDefiningValueResult(I, true);
- if (isa<GlobalVariable>(I))
- // base case
+ if (isa<Constant>(I))
+ // We assume that objects with a constant base (e.g. a global) can't move
+ // and don't need to be reported to the collector because they are always
+ // live. All constants have constant bases. Besides global references, all
+ // kinds of constants (e.g. undef, constant expressions, null pointers) can
+ // be introduced by the inliner or the optimizer, especially on dynamically
+ // dead paths. See e.g. test4 in constants.ll.
return BaseDefiningValueResult(I, true);
- // inlining could possibly introduce phi node that contains
- // undef if callee has multiple returns
- if (isa<UndefValue>(I))
- // utterly meaningless, but useful for dealing with
- // partially optimized code.
- return BaseDefiningValueResult(I, true);
-
- // Due to inheritance, this must be _after_ the global variable and undef
- // checks
- if (isa<Constant>(I)) {
- assert(!isa<GlobalVariable>(I) && !isa<UndefValue>(I) &&
- "order of checks wrong!");
- // Note: Even for frontends which don't have constant references, we can
- // see constants appearing after optimizations. A simple example is
- // specialization of an address computation on null feeding into a merge
- // point where the actual use of the now-constant input is protected by
- // another null check. (e.g. test4 in constants.ll)
- return BaseDefiningValueResult(I, true);
- }
-
if (CastInst *CI = dyn_cast<CastInst>(I)) {
Value *Def = CI->stripPointerCasts();
// If stripping pointer casts changes the address space there is an