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Sanjoy Das c83e065234 [SCEV] Clarify behavior around max backedge taken count
This is a re-application of a r303497 that was reverted in r303498.
I thought it had broken a bot when it had not (the breakage did not
go away with the revert).

This change makes the split between the "exact" backedge taken count
and the "maximum" backedge taken count a bit more obvious.  Both of
these are upper bounds on the number of times the loop header
executes (since SCEV does not account for most kinds of abnormal
control flow), but the latter is guaranteed to be a constant.

There were a few places where the max backedge taken count *was* a
non-constant; I've changed those to compute constants instead.

At this point, I'm not sure if the constant max backedge count can be
computed by calling `getUnsignedRange(Exact).getUnsignedMax()` without
losing precision.  If it can, we can simplify even further by making
`getMaxBackedgeTakenCount` a thin wrapper around
`getBackedgeTakenCount` and `getUnsignedRange`.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@303531 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2017-05-22 06:46:04 +00:00
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