Add an nneg flag to the zext instruction, which specifies that the
argument is non-negative. Otherwise, the result is a poison value.
The primary use-case for the flag is to preserve information when sext
gets replaced with zext due to range-based canonicalization. The nneg
flag allows us to convert the zext back into an sext later. This is
useful for some optimizations (e.g. a signed icmp can fold with sext but
not zext), as well as some targets (e.g. RISCV prefers sext over zext).
Discourse thread: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-add-zext-nneg-flag/73914
This patch is based on https://reviews.llvm.org/D156444 by
@Panagiotis156, with some implementation simplifications and additional
tests.
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Co-authored-by: Panagiotis K <karouzakispan@gmail.com>
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