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* Fixes for crash when inlining at global scope (#2593)Theresa Foley2023-01-14
* Fixes for crash when inlining at global scope Recent changes to the way inlining is implemented in the Slang compiler have broken certain scenarios involving `static const` declarations. The basic problem is that the initial-value expression for a `static const` gets lowered into IR code at the global scope of a module, and if that code includes `call`s to stdlib operations marked `forceInlineEarly`, then we end up trying to apply inlining to code at module scope. The current inlining operation assumes that all `call`s are in basic blocks, and that the correct way to do inlining involves splitting those blocks. This change adds logic to detect when the callee at a call site to be inlined consists of a single basic block ending in a `return`, and in that case it invokes specialized inlining logic that doesn't split basic blocks and doesn't need to care if the original `call` is in a basic block. Thus we are able to inline calls to single-basic-block `forceInlineEarly` functions called as part of the initialization for global-scope `static const` variables. This logic does *not* solve the problem of calls to multi-block `forceInlineEarly` functions from the global scope. Such calls cannot really be inlined. A secondary problem that arises when inlining such calls is that the callee might include local temporaries (`var` instructions) that are read and written (`load`s and `store`s), and none of those instructions should be allowed at the global scope. In the case of the functions being inlined here, the `load`/`store` operations are superfluous, and should be cleaned up by our SSA pass. The only reason that they seem to *not* be getting cleaned up in the case that was been triggering crashes is that the callee is a generic. The current logic for the SSA pass was skipping the bodies of generic functions, so they would not be cleaned up. This change enables the SSA pass to apply to the bodies of generic functions, and also ensures that SSA cleanups are applied *before* any `forceInlineEarly` functions get inlined. * fixup: liveness test outputs