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Commit a0796555 authored by Chandler Carruth's avatar Chandler Carruth
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Teach instsimplify how to constant fold pointer differences.

Typically instcombine has handled this, but pointer differences show up
in several contexts where we would like to get constant folding, and
cannot afford to run instcombine. Specifically, I'm working on improving
the constant folding of arguments used in inline cost analysis with
instsimplify.

Doing this in instsimplify implies some algorithm changes. We have to
handle multiple layers of all-constant GEPs because instsimplify cannot
fold them into a single GEP the way instcombine can. Also, we're only
interested in all-constant GEPs. The result is that this doesn't really
replace the instcombine logic, it's just complimentary and focused on
constant folding.

Reviewed on IRC by Benjamin Kramer.

llvm-svn: 152555
parent 6242a0f7
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