This change adds some verification in the IR verifier around struct path
TBAA metadata.
Other than some basic sanity checks (e.g. we get constant integers where
we expect integers), this checks:
- That by the time an struct access tuple (base-type, offset) is "reduced" to a scalar base type, the offset is 0. For instance, in C++ you can't start from, say ("struct-a", 16), and end up with ("int", 4) -- by the time the base type is "int", the offset better be zero. In particular, a variant of this invariant is needed for llvm::getMostGenericTBAA to be correct.
- That there are no cycles in a struct path.
- That struct type nodes have their offsets listed in an ascending order.
- That when generating the struct access path, you eventually reach the access type listed in the tbaa tag node.
Can we also change the format here, like the below statement?