MachineVerifier: Allow undef reads if a matching superreg is defined.

Summary:
Some pseudo instruction expansions break down a wide register use into
multiple uses of smaller sub registers. If the super register was
partially undefined the broken down sub registers may be completely
undefined now leading to MachineVerifier complaints. Unfortunately
liveness information to add the required dead flags is not easily
(cheaply) available when expanding pseudo instructions.

This commit changes the verifier to be quiet if there is an additional
implicit use of a super register. Pseudo instruction expanders can use
this to mark cases where partially defined values get potentially broken
into completely undefined ones.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6973

llvm-svn: 226047

llvm/lib/CodeGen/MachineVerifier.cpp

@@ -1077,6 +1077,25 @@ void MachineVerifier::checkLiveness(const MachineOperand *MO, unsigned MONum) {
             }
           }
         }
+        // If there is an additional implicit-use of a super register we stop
+        // here. By definition we are fine if the super register is not
+        // (completely) dead, if the complete super register is dead we will
+        // get a report for its operand.
+        if (Bad) {
+          for (const MachineOperand &MOP : MI->uses()) {
+            if (!MOP.isReg())
+              continue;
+            if (!MOP.isImplicit())
+              continue;
+            for (MCSubRegIterator SubRegs(MOP.getReg(), TRI); SubRegs.isValid();
+                 ++SubRegs) {
+              if (*SubRegs == Reg) {
+                Bad = false;
+                break;
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        }
         if (Bad)
           report("Using an undefined physical register", MO, MONum);
       } else if (MRI->def_empty(Reg)) {