[PATCH] (PR 65950) Improve predicate for exit(0);

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>]

Hi,
  While looking through bug reports, I noticed someone had reported
that LTO caused the vectorizer not to kick in.  Originally it was not
obvious why it would change the behavior since this was a simple
program with nothing out of the ordinary.  Well it turned out paths
leading to the exit(0); at the end of main was being marked as cold
and in the LTO case the funciton (which had loop which should have
been vectorized) was considered local and being marked as cold as it
was only called now from the path leading to the exit(0);  Since
exit(0); is considered a normal exit path, there is no reason to mark
it as being as a cold path; let the other predicate handle it.

So this patch changes the predicate for exit(0) not to mark the paths
leading up to that function call as being cold.  Note this patch only
disables that when the argument is a literal zero so if we a PHI node
which contains the exit value, we still cause those paths to be
considered cold; this will be for another patch.

OK?  Bootstrapped and tested on aarch64-linux-gnu with no regressions.
Also tested it with SPEC CPU 2006 with no performance regressions.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

ChangeLog:
* predict.c (is_exit_with_zero_arg): New function.
(tree_bb_level_predictions): Don't consider paths leading to exit(0)
as nottaken.

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