The REINTERPRET_CAST operation generates redundant and and ptrue instructions. For some instructions, this is redundant, because its inactive lanes are zeroed by construction.
for example. codegen before:
facgt p2.d, p0/z, z4.d, z1.d ptrue p1.d and p1.b, p2/z, p2.b, p1.b
After:
facgt p1.d, p0/z, z4.d, z1.d
Just to add context to my comments below. Here "inactive lanes" means those lanes that are not visible within the DAG. By which I mean the MVTs for SVE's predicate vector types represent a subset of the underlying bits within a predicate register. This function is asking whether the specified operation is known to zero the bits that are not part of this subset. (e.g. nxv2i1 represents every eighth bit of the predicate register 0,8,16... and this function returns true if the operation is guaranteed to zero bits 1-7,9-15...)