The GEP aliasing code currently checks for the GEP decomposition
limit being reached (i.e., we did not reach the "final" underlying
object). As far as I can see, these checks are not necessary. It is
perfectly fine to work with a GEP whose base can still be further
decomposed.
Looking back through the commit history, these checks were originally
introduced in 1a444489e9. However, I
believe that the problem this was intended to address was later
properly fixed with 1726fc698c, and
the checks are no longer necessary since then (and were not the
right fix in the first place).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91010
Nikita Popov