[PATCH] D65118: Analysis: Don't look through aliases when simplifying GEPs.

[Peter Collingbourne via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

pcc added a comment.

Another way to look at it is that this:

  @a = private constant i8* @x
  @b = linkonce_odr alias @a

should be equivalent to:

  @b = linkonce_odr constant i8* @x

except that we also have a way of referencing this module's copy of `@b` via `@a`. See also https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27866 where this was discussed as a "canonical" form of aliases.


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