Commit e396667b authored by Keith Randall's avatar Keith Randall
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[release-branch.go1.8] cmd/compile: zero ambiguously live variables at VARKILLs

This is a redo of CL 41076 backported to the 1.8 release branch.
There were major conflicts, so I had to basically rewrite it again
from scratch.  The way Progs are allocated changed.  Liveness analysis
and Prog generation got reordered.  Liveness analysis changed from
running on gc.BasicBlock to ssa.Block.  All that makes the logic quite
a bit different.

Please review carefully.

From CL 41076:

At VARKILLs, zero a variable if it is ambiguously live.
After the VARKILL anything this variable references
might be collected. If it were to become live again later,
the GC will see references to already-collected objects.

We don't know a variable is ambiguously live until very
late in compilation (after lowering, register allocation, ...),
so it is hard to generate the code in an arch-independent way.
We also have to be careful not to clobber any registers.
Fortunately, this almost never happens so performance is ~irrelevant.

There are only 2 instances where this triggers in the stdlib.

Fixes #20029

Change-Id: Ibb757eec58ee07f40df5e561b19d315684dc4bda
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/43998


Run-TryBot: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
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