SelectionDAG::getNode() canonicalises constants to the RHS if the
operation is commutative, but it doesn't do so for constant splat
vectors. Doing this early helps making certain folds on vector types,
simplifying the code required for target DAGCombines that are enabled
before Type legalization.
Somewhat to my surprise, DAGCombine doesn't seem to traverse the
DAG in a post-order DFS, so at the time of doing some custom fold where
the input is a MUL, DAGCombiner::visitMUL hasn't yet reordered the
constant splat to the RHS.
This patch leads to a few improvements, but also a few minor regressions,
which I traced down to D46492. When I tried reverting this change to see
if the changes were still necessary, I ran into some segfaults. Not sure
if there is some latent bug there.
We could move the dyn_casts below the isCommutative block and fully rely on isConstantIntBuildVectorOrConstantInt inside the if. That would remove the need to swap the N1C/N2C.