From d06451f920a8927cd87d0a4af730015365151ffe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:39:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Optimize away cases like:         %cast109 = cast uint
 %cast212 to short          ; <short> [#uses=1]         %cast214 = cast short
 %cast109 to uint          ; <uint> [#uses=1]         %cast215 = cast uint
 %cast214 to short          ; <short> [#uses=1]

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@3897 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
---
 lib/Transforms/Scalar/InstructionCombining.cpp | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/Transforms/Scalar/InstructionCombining.cpp b/lib/Transforms/Scalar/InstructionCombining.cpp
index 082dc020b00..b60d1fa9720 100644
--- a/lib/Transforms/Scalar/InstructionCombining.cpp
+++ b/lib/Transforms/Scalar/InstructionCombining.cpp
@@ -536,6 +536,12 @@ static inline bool isEliminableCastOfCast(const CastInst &CI,
     if (SrcSize >= MidSize && MidSize >= DstSize)
       return true;
 
+    // Cases where the source and destination type are the same, but the middle
+    // type is bigger are noops.
+    //
+    if (SrcSize == DstSize && MidSize > SrcSize)
+      return true;
+
     // If we are monotonically growing, things are more complex.
     //
     if (SrcSize <= MidSize && MidSize <= DstSize) {