I'm proposing to reverse the canonicalization of fneg relative to fmul/fdiv. That makes it easier to implement the transforms (and possibly other fneg transforms) in 1 place because we can always start the pattern match from fneg (either the legacy binop or the new unop).
There's a secondary practical benefit seen in PR21914 and PR42681:
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21914
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42681
...hoisting fneg rather than sinking seems to play nicer with LICM in IR (although this change may expose analysis holes in the other direction).
- The instcombine test changes show the expected neutral IR diffs from reversing the order.
- The reassociation tests show that we were missing an optimization opportunity to fold away fneg-of-fneg. My reading of IEEE-754 says that all of these transforms are allowed (regardless of binop/unop fneg version) because:
"For all other operations [besides copy/abs/negate/copysign], this standard does not specify the sign bit of a NaN result."
In all of these transforms, we always have some other binop (fadd/fsub/fmul/fdiv), so we are free to flip the sign bit of a potential intermediate NaN operand.
(If that interpretation is wrong, then we must already have a bug in the existing transforms?)