[PATCH] D99240: [ConstantFolding] Look through local aliases when simplify GEPs

[Arthur Eubanks via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

aeubanks added a comment.

In D99240#2649468 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D99240#2649468>, @erichkeane wrote:

> So I guess I don't understand what this does differently than stripPointerCastsAndAliases?  Is limiting this to local aliases that important?

I initially tried using stripPointerCastsAndAliases(), but gep-alias.ll failed because it was specifically checking that we don't look through non-local aliases. The original comments in the test explain it better.


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