When making changes that have a large impact on coverage counter creation, this
makes it easier to see whether the number of physical counters has changed.
(The highest counter ID seen in coverage maps is not necessarily the same as
the number of physical counters actually used by the instrumented code, but
it's the best approximation we can get from looking only at the coverage maps,
and it should be reasonably accurate in most cases.)
Some of these cases currently don't occur in practice, but are included for
completeness, and to avoid having to add them later as branch coverage and
MC/DC coverage start building more complex expressions.
In some cases we need to prepare a coverage expression that is the sum of an
arbitrary number of other terms. This patch simplifies the code paths that
build those sums.
This causes some churn in the mappings, because the previous code was building
its sums in a somewhat idiosyncratic order.
