Nikita Popov 2ddcf721a0 [InstCombine] Perform memset -> load forwarding
InstCombine does some basic store to load forwarding. One case it
currently misses is the case where the store is actually a memset.
This patch adds support for this case. This is a minimal
implementation that only handles a load at the memset base address,
without an offset.

GVN is already capable of performing this optimization. Having it
in InstCombine can help with phase ordering issues, similar to the
existing store to load forwarding.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D137323
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Analysis Opportunities:

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In test/Transforms/LoopStrengthReduce/quadradic-exit-value.ll, the
ScalarEvolution expression for %r is this:

  {1,+,3,+,2}<loop>

Outside the loop, this could be evaluated simply as (%n * %n), however
ScalarEvolution currently evaluates it as

  (-2 + (2 * (trunc i65 (((zext i64 (-2 + %n) to i65) * (zext i64 (-1 + %n) to i65)) /u 2) to i64)) + (3 * %n))

In addition to being much more complicated, it involves i65 arithmetic,
which is very inefficient when expanded into code.

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In formatValue in test/CodeGen/X86/lsr-delayed-fold.ll,

ScalarEvolution is forming this expression:

((trunc i64 (-1 * %arg5) to i32) + (trunc i64 %arg5 to i32) + (-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32)))

This could be folded to

(-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32))

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