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After coverage instrumentation and MIR transformations, we can sometimes end up with coverage expressions that always have a value of zero. Any expression operand that refers to an always-zero expression can be replaced with a literal `Operand::Zero`, making the emitted coverage mapping data smaller and simpler. This simplification step is mostly redundant with the simplifications performed inline in `expressions_with_regions`, except that it does a slightly more thorough job in some cases (because it checks for always-zero expressions *after* other simplifications). However, adding this simplification step will then let us greatly simplify that code, without affecting the quality of the emitted coverage maps.
The codegen crate contains the code to convert from MIR into LLVM IR,
and then from LLVM IR into machine code. In general it contains code
that runs towards the end of the compilation process.
For more information about how codegen works, see the rustc dev guide.