Fix most of PR10367.

This patch changes the design of GlobalAlias so that it doesn't take a
ConstantExpr anymore. It now points directly to a GlobalObject, but its type is
independent of the aliasee type.

To avoid changing all alias related tests in this patches, I kept the common
syntax

@foo = alias i32* @bar

to mean the same as now. The cases that used to use cast now use the more
general syntax

@foo = alias i16, i32* @bar.

Note that GlobalAlias now behaves a bit more like GlobalVariable. We
know that its type is always a pointer, so we omit the '*'.

For the bitcode, a nice surprise is that we were writing both identical types
already, so the format change is minimal. Auto upgrade is handled by looking
through the casts and no new fields are needed for now. New bitcode will
simply have different types for Alias and Aliasee.

One last interesting point in the patch is that replaceAllUsesWith becomes
smart enough to avoid putting a ConstantExpr in the aliasee. This seems better
than checking and updating every caller.

A followup patch will delete getAliasedGlobal now that it is redundant. Another
patch will add support for an explicit offset.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@209007 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/IR/Verifier.cpp b/lib/IR/Verifier.cpp
index ff9ca44f87..6ab5e58c4c 100644
--- a/lib/IR/Verifier.cpp
+++ b/lib/IR/Verifier.cpp
@@ -473,8 +473,6 @@ void Verifier::visitGlobalAlias(const GlobalAlias &GA) {
           "Alias should have external or external weak linkage!", &GA);
   Assert1(GA.getAliasee(),
           "Aliasee cannot be NULL!", &GA);
-  Assert1(GA.getType() == GA.getAliasee()->getType(),
-          "Alias and aliasee types should match!", &GA);
   Assert1(!GA.hasUnnamedAddr(), "Alias cannot have unnamed_addr!", &GA);
 
   const Constant *Aliasee = GA.getAliasee();
@@ -506,10 +504,6 @@ void Verifier::visitGlobalAlias(const GlobalAlias &GA) {
             &GA);
   }
 
-  const GlobalValue *AG = GA.getAliasedGlobal();
-  Assert1(AG, "Aliasing chain should end with function or global variable",
-          &GA);
-
   visitGlobalValue(GA);
 }