Dan Gohman 8566963713 Make LoopSimplify change conditional branches in loop exiting blocks
which branch on undef to branch on a boolean constant for the edge
exiting the loop. This helps ScalarEvolution compute trip counts for
loops.

Teach ScalarEvolution to recognize single-value PHIs, when safe, and
ForgetSymbolicName to forget such single-value PHI nodes as apprpriate
in ForgetSymbolicName.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@97126 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2010-02-25 06:57:05 +00:00
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In test/Transforms/LoopStrengthReduce/quadradic-exit-value.ll, the
ScalarEvolution expression for %r is this:

  {1,+,3,+,2}<loop>

Outside the loop, this could be evaluated simply as (%n * %n), however
ScalarEvolution currently evaluates it as

  (-2 + (2 * (trunc i65 (((zext i64 (-2 + %n) to i65) * (zext i64 (-1 + %n) to i65)) /u 2) to i64)) + (3 * %n))

In addition to being much more complicated, it involves i65 arithmetic,
which is very inefficient when expanded into code.

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