[opt] Add more accurate alias analysis for ExternalPtrStmt #3859
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This PR is a follow-up of #2952. Making alias analysis more accurate can unblock future optimizations on
ExternalPtrStmt
(many of current optimization passes only focus onGlobalPtrStmt
).That said, we can already observe some benefits of this PR. For example, regarding the following code snippet,
Before this PR, the final CHI IR is,
After this PR, the final CHI IR is,
We can see that a redundant global load can now be eliminated.