From c9d69489ebe12f265828c48defb0278f6bd9121f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Lewycky <nicholas@mxc.ca>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:51:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Expound upon this comparison!

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@124406 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
---
 lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp b/lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp
index 9abb99d04d3..d8eddab923c 100644
--- a/lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp
+++ b/lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp
@@ -468,6 +468,8 @@ bool FunctionComparator::Enumerate(const Value *V1, const Value *V2) {
     if (C1->isNullValue() && C2->isNullValue() &&
 	isEquivalentType(C1->getType(), C2->getType()))
       return true;
+    // Try bitcasting C2 to C1's type. If the bitcast is legal and returns C1
+    // then they must have equal bit patterns.
     return C1->getType()->canLosslesslyBitCastTo(C2->getType()) &&
       C1 == ConstantExpr::getBitCast(const_cast<Constant*>(C2), C1->getType());
   }