The idea behind this canonicalization is that it allows us to handle less
patterns, because we know that some will be canonicalized away. This is
indeed very useful to e.g. know that constants are always on the right.
However, this is only useful if the canonicalization is actually
reliable. This is the case for constants, but not for arguments: Moving
these to the right makes it look like the "more complex" expression is
guaranteed to be on the left, but this is not actually the case in
practice. It fails as soon as you replace the argument with another
instruction.
The end result is that it looks like things correctly work in tests,
while they actually don't. We use the "thwart complexity-based
canonicalization" trick to handle this in tests, but it's often a
challenge for new contributors to get this right, and based on the
regressions this PR originally exposed, we clearly don't get this right
in many cases.
For this reason, I think that it's better to remove this complexity
canonicalization. It will make it much easier to write tests for
commuted cases and make sure that they are handled.
Compiling with '-ffast-math' tuns on all the FastMathFlags (FMF), as
expected, and that enables FP reassociation. Only the two FMF flags
'reassoc' and 'nsz' are technically required to perform reassociation,
but disabling other unrelated FMF bits is needlessly suppressing the
optimization.
This patch fixes that needless suppression, and makes appropriate
adjustments to test-cases, fixing some outstanding TODOs in the process.
Fixes: #56483
Reviewed By: spatel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129523
