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    Impose and enforce some basic rules of sanity for where Phi functions are... · 50f06281
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    Impose and enforce some basic rules of sanity for where Phi functions are allowed to occur and where their (optional) corresponding MovHints can be
    https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125480
    
    Reviewed by Geoffrey Garen.
            
    Previously, if you wanted to insert some speculation right after where a value was
    produced, you'd get super confused if that value was produced by a Phi node.  You can't
    necessarily insert speculations after a Phi node because Phi nodes appear in this
    special sequence of Phis and MovHints that establish the OSR exit state for a block.
    So, you'd probably want to search for the next place where it's safe to insert things.
    We already do this "search for beginning of next bytecode instruction" search by
    looking at the next node that has a different CodeOrigin.  But this would be hard for a
    Phi because those Phis and MovHints have basically random CodeOrigins and they can all
    have different CodeOrigins.
    
    This change imposes some sanity for this situation:
    
    - Phis must have unset CodeOrigins.
    
    - In each basic block, all nodes that have unset CodeOrigins must come before all nodes
      that have set CodeOrigins.
    
    This all ends up working out just great because prior to this change we didn't have a 
    use for unset CodeOrigins.  I think it's appropriate to make "unset CodeOrigin" mean
    that we're in the prologue of a basic block.
    
    It's interesting what this means for block merging, which we don't yet do in SSA.
    Consider merging the edge A->B.  One possibility is that the block merger is now
    required to clean up Phi/Upsilons, and reascribe the MovHints to have the CodeOrigin of
    the A's block terminal.  But an answer that might be better is that the originless
    nodes at the top of the B are just given the origin of the terminal and we keep the
    Phis.  That would require changing the above rules.  We'll see how it goes, and what we
    end up picking...
    
    Overall, this special-things-at-the-top rule is analogous to what other SSA-based
    compilers do.  For example, LLVM has rules mandating that Phis appear at the top of a
    block.
    
    * bytecode/CodeOrigin.cpp:
    (JSC::CodeOrigin::dump):
    * dfg/DFGOSRExitBase.h:
    (JSC::DFG::OSRExitBase::OSRExitBase):
    * dfg/DFGSSAConversionPhase.cpp:
    (JSC::DFG::SSAConversionPhase::run):
    * dfg/DFGValidate.cpp:
    (JSC::DFG::Validate::validate):
    (JSC::DFG::Validate::validateSSA):
    
    
    
    git-svn-id: http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk@160348 268f45cc-cd09-0410-ab3c-d52691b4dbfc
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