IR: Add nofpclass parameter attribute
This carries a bitmask indicating forbidden floating-point value kinds in the argument or return value. This will enable interprocedural -ffinite-math-only optimizations. This is primarily to cover the no-nans and no-infinities cases, but also covers the other floating point classes for free. Textually, this provides a number of names corresponding to bits in FPClassTest, e.g. call nofpclass(nan inf) @must_be_finite() call nofpclass(snan) @cannot_be_snan() This is more expressive than the existing nnan and ninf fast math flags. As an added bonus, you can represent fun things like nanf: declare nofpclass(inf zero sub norm) float @only_nans() Compared to nnan/ninf: - Can be applied to individual call operands as well as the return value - Can distinguish signaling and quiet nans - Distinguishes the sign of infinities - Can be safely propagated since it doesn't imply anything about other operands. - Does not apply to FP instructions; it's not a flag This is one step closer to being able to retire "no-nans-fp-math" and "no-infs-fp-math". The one remaining situation where we have no way to represent no-nans/infs is for loads (if we wanted to solve this we could introduce !nofpclass metadata, following along with noundef/!noundef). This is to help simplify the GPU builtin math library distribution. Currently the library code has explicit finite math only checks, read from global constants the compiler driver needs to set based on the compiler flags during linking. We end up having to internalize the library into each translation unit in case different linked modules have different math flags. By propagating known-not-nan and known-not-infinity information, we can automatically prune the edge case handling in most functions if the function is only reached from fast math uses.
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