This change is motivated by the case when IndVarSimplify doesn't widen a comparison of IV increment because it can't prove IV increment being non-negative. We end up with a redundant trunc of the widened increment on this example.
for.body: %i = phi i32 [ %start, %for.body.lr.ph ], [ %i.inc, %for.inc ] %within_limits = icmp ult i32 %i, 64 br i1 %within_limits, label %continue, label %for.end continue: %i.i64 = zext i32 %i to i64 %arrayidx = getelementptr inbounds i32, i32* %base, i64 %i.i64 %val = load i32, i32* %arrayidx, align 4 br label %for.inc for.inc: %i.inc = add nsw nuw i32 %i, 1 %cmp = icmp slt i32 %i.inc, %limit br i1 %cmp, label %for.body, label %for.end
There is a range check inside of the loop which guarantees the IV to be non-negative. NSW on the increment guarantees that the increment is also non-negative. ScalarEvolution can't prove that the increments non-negative because it doesn't reason about control dependencies inside of the loop. Teach IndVarSimplify to use the range check to prove non-negativity of loop increments.
It's difficult to gather control-dependent information on demand, because when it's needed some of the dominating conditions might be already widened. That's why collect control-dependent ranges before any transformation occurs for all increments of the IV and all uses of these increments.
Current seems unused?