This intrinsic takes two arguments, `%ptr and %offset`. It loads
a 32-bit value from the address `%ptr + %offset, adds %ptr` to that
value and returns it. The constant folder specifically recognizes the form of
this intrinsic and the constant initializers it may load from; if a loaded
constant initializer is known to have the form `i32 trunc(x - %ptr)`,
the intrinsic call is folded to `x`.
LLVM provides that the calculation of such a constant initializer will
not overflow at link time under the medium code model if `x` is an
`unnamed_addr` function, however it does not provide the same for a constant
initializer folded into a function body; this intrinsic can be used to avoid
the possibility of overflows when loading from such a constant.
Depends on http://reviews.llvm.org/D17938
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