[InstCombine] allow any pair of bitcasts to be combined
This change is discussed in D15392 and should allow us to effectively revert: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=revision&revision=255261 if we canonicalize bitcasts ahead of extracts. It should be safe to convert any pair of bitcasts into a single bitcast, however, it was mentioned here: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20110829/127089.html that we're not allowed to bitcast from an x86_mmx to some other types, but I'm not seeing any failures from that, and we have regression tests in CodeGen/X86 that appear to cover all of those cases. Some day we'll get to remove that MMX wart from LLVM IR completely? Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15468 llvm-svn: 255399
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