Benjamin Kramer ff18310274 Add a basic verifier for SCEV's backedge taken counts.
Enabled with -verify-scev. This could be extended significantly but hopefully
catches the common cases now. Note that it's not enabled by default in any
configuration because the way it tries to distinguish SCEVs is still fragile and
may produce false positives. Also the test-suite isn't clean yet, one example
is that it fails if a pass drops an NSW bit but it's still present in SCEV's
cached. Cleaning up all those cases will take some time.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@166786 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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Analysis Opportunities:

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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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In formatValue in test/CodeGen/X86/lsr-delayed-fold.ll,

ScalarEvolution is forming this expression:

((trunc i64 (-1 * %arg5) to i32) + (trunc i64 %arg5 to i32) + (-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32)))

This could be folded to

(-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32))

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