Philip Reames 1aa9710c60 Move Value.isDereferenceablePointer to ValueTracking [NFC]
Move isDereferenceablePointer function to Analysis. This function recursively tracks dereferencability over a chain of values like other functions in ValueTracking.

This refactoring is motivated by further changes to support dereferenceable_or_null attribute (http://reviews.llvm.org/D8650). isDereferenceablePointer will be extended to perform context-sensitive analysis and IR is not a good place to have such functionality.

Patch by: Artur Pilipenko <apilipenko@azulsystems.com>
Differential Revision: reviews.llvm.org/D9075




git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@235611 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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