From 00f23ec5c2e0f4071b9720485ae63333149ee047 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:02:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] reapply my previous patch with a bugfix.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@34627 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
---
 lib/VMCore/Globals.cpp | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/VMCore/Globals.cpp b/lib/VMCore/Globals.cpp
index 327e2ad9aa2..ab1118dd0b1 100644
--- a/lib/VMCore/Globals.cpp
+++ b/lib/VMCore/Globals.cpp
@@ -22,20 +22,18 @@ using namespace llvm;
 //                            GlobalValue Class
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
-/// This could be named "SafeToDestroyGlobalValue". It just makes sure that
-/// there are no non-constant uses of this GlobalValue. If there aren't then
-/// this and the transitive closure of the constants can be deleted. See the
-/// destructor for details.
-static bool removeDeadConstantUsers(Constant* C) {
+/// removeDeadUsersOfConstant - If the specified constantexpr is dead, remove
+/// it.  This involves recursively eliminating any dead users of the
+/// constantexpr.
+static bool removeDeadUsersOfConstant(Constant *C) {
   if (isa<GlobalValue>(C)) return false; // Cannot remove this
 
-  while (!C->use_empty())
-    if (Constant *User = dyn_cast<Constant>(C->use_back())) {
-      if (!removeDeadConstantUsers(User))
-        return false; // Constant wasn't dead
-    } else {
-      return false; // Non-constant usage;
-    }
+  while (!C->use_empty()) {
+    Constant *User = dyn_cast<Constant>(C->use_back());
+    if (!User) return false; // Non-constant usage;
+    if (!removeDeadUsersOfConstant(User))
+      return false; // Constant wasn't dead
+  }
 
   C->destroyConstant();
   return true;
@@ -45,17 +43,29 @@ static bool removeDeadConstantUsers(Constant* C) {
 /// off of this global value, remove them.  This method is useful for clients
 /// that want to check to see if a global is unused, but don't want to deal
 /// with potentially dead constants hanging off of the globals.
-///
-/// This function returns true if the global value is now dead.  If all
-/// users of this global are not dead, this method may return false and
-/// leave some of them around.
 void GlobalValue::removeDeadConstantUsers() {
-  while(!use_empty()) {
-    if (Constant* User = dyn_cast<Constant>(use_back())) {
-      if (!::removeDeadConstantUsers(User))
-        return; // Constant wasn't dead
+  Value::use_iterator I = use_begin(), E = use_end();
+  Value::use_iterator LastNonDeadUser = E;
+  while (I != E) {
+    if (Constant *User = dyn_cast<Constant>(*I)) {
+      if (!removeDeadUsersOfConstant(User)) {
+        // If the constant wasn't dead, remember that this was the last live use
+        // and move on to the next constant.
+        LastNonDeadUser = I;
+        ++I;
+      } else {
+        // If the constant was dead, then the iterator is invalidated.
+        if (LastNonDeadUser == E) {
+          I = use_begin();
+          if (I == E) break;
+        } else {
+          I = LastNonDeadUser;
+          ++I;
+        }
+      }
     } else {
-      return; // Non-constant usage;
+      LastNonDeadUser = I;
+      ++I;
     }
   }
 }
-- 
2.34.1