`PtrMetadata` doesn't care about `*const`/`*mut`/`&`/`&mut`, so GVN away those casts in its argument.
This includes updating MIR to allow calling PtrMetadata on references too, not just raw pointers. That means that `[T]::len` can be just `_0 = PtrMetadata(_1)`, for example.
# Conflicts:
# tests/mir-opt/pre-codegen/slice_index.slice_get_unchecked_mut_range.PreCodegen.after.panic-abort.mir
# tests/mir-opt/pre-codegen/slice_index.slice_get_unchecked_mut_range.PreCodegen.after.panic-unwind.mir
Apparently MIR borrowck cares about at least one of these for checking variance.
In runtime MIR, though, there's no need for them as `PtrToPtr` does the same thing.
(Banning them simplifies passes like GVN that no longer need to handle multiple cast possibilities.)
Casting to `*const ()` or `*mut ()` just bloats the MIR, so let's not.
If ACP#362 goes through we can keep calling `ptr::from_raw_parts(_mut)` in these also without the cast, but that hasn't had any libs-api attention yet, so I'm not waiting on it.
It makes it sound like the `ExprKind` and `Rvalue` are supposed to represent all pointer related
casts, when in reality their just used to share a some enum variants. Make it clear there these
are only coercion to make it clear why only some pointer related "casts" are in the enum.
To reproduce the changes in this commit locally:
- Run `./x test tidy` and remove all the output files not associated
with a test file anymore, as reported by tidy.
- Run `./x test tests/mir-opt --bless` to generate the new outputs.
