Move the Metadata merging methods from GVN and make them public in MDNode.

There are other passes, BBVectorize specifically, that also need some of
this functionality.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@158605 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/llvm/Metadata.h b/include/llvm/Metadata.h
index 7357986..b40549b 100644
--- a/include/llvm/Metadata.h
+++ b/include/llvm/Metadata.h
@@ -165,6 +165,11 @@ public:
   static bool classof(const Value *V) {
     return V->getValueID() == MDNodeVal;
   }
+
+  /// Methods for metadata merging.
+  static MDNode *getMostGenericTBAA(MDNode *A, MDNode *B);
+  static MDNode *getMostGenericFPMath(MDNode *A, MDNode *B);
+  static MDNode *getMostGenericRange(MDNode *A, MDNode *B);
 private:
   // destroy - Delete this node.  Only when there are no uses.
   void destroy();