Summary:
The added assertion fails on the added test without the fix.
Reduced from test-suite/MultiSource/Benchmarks/MiBench/office-ispell/correct.c
In IR, getelementptr, obviously, takes pointer as it's base,
and returns a pointer.
When creating an SCEV expression, SCEV operands are sorted in hope
that it increases folding potential, and at the same time SCEVAddExpr's
type is the type of the last(!) operand.
Which means, in some exceedingly rare cases, pointer operand may happen to
end up not being the last operand, and as a result SCEV for GEP
will suddenly have a non-pointer return type.
We should ensure that does not happen.
In the end, actually storing the `Type *`, at the cost of increasing
memory footprint of `SCEVAddExpr`, appears to be the solution.
We can't just store a 'is a pointer' bit and create pointer type
on the fly since we don't have data layout in getType().
Fixes [[ https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46457 | PR46457 ]]
Reviewers: efriedma, mkazantsev, reames, nikic
Reviewed By: efriedma
Subscribers: hiraditya, javed.absar, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D82633
Roman Lebedev