[SCEV] Allow negative steps for LT exit count computation for unsigned comparisons
This bit of code is incredibly suspicious. It allows fully unknown (but potentially negative) steps, but not steps known to be negative. The comment about scev flag inference is worrying, but also not correct to my knowledge. At best, this might be covering up some related miscompile. However, there's no test in tree for it, the review history doesn't include obvious motivation, and the C++ example doesn't appear to give wrong results when hand translated to IR. I think it's time to remove this and see what falls out. During review, there were concerns raised about the correctness of the corresponding signed case. This change was deliberately narrowed to the unsigned case which has been auditted and appears correct for negative values. We need to get back to the known-negative signed case, but that'll be a future patch if nothing falls out from this one. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104140
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