[RFC][MLIR] Use AffineExprRef in place of AffineExpr* in IR
This CL starts by replacing AffineExpr* with value-type AffineExprRef in a few places in the IR. By a domino effect that is pretty telling of the inconsistencies in the codebase, const is removed where it makes sense. The rationale is that the decision was concisously made that unique'd types have pointer semantics without const specifier. This is fine but we should be consistent. In the end, the only logical invariant is that there should never be such a thing as a const AffineExpr*, const AffineMap* or const IntegerSet* in our codebase. This CL takes a number of shortcuts to killing const with fire, in particular forcing const AffineExprRef to return the underlying non-const AffineExpr*. This will be removed once AffineExpr* has disappeared in containers but for now such shortcuts allow a bit of sanity in this long quest for cleanups. The **only** places where const AffineExpr*, const AffineMap* or const IntegerSet* may still appear is by transitive needs from containers, comparison operators etc. There is still one major thing remaining here: figure out why cast/dyn_cast return me a const AffineXXX*, which in turn requires a bunch of ugly const_casts. I suspect this is due to the classof taking const AffineXXXExpr*. I wonder whether this is a side effect of 1., if it is coming from llvm itself (I'd doubt it) or something else (clattner@?) In light of this, the whole discussion about const makes total sense to me now and I would systematically apply the rule that in the end, we should never have any const XXX in our codebase for unique'd types (assuming we can remove them all in containers and no additional constness constraint is added on us from the outside world). PiperOrigin-RevId: 215811554
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