This performs a substitution of code following the pattern:
let <id> = if let <pat> = ... { identity } else { ... : ! };
To simplify it to:
let <pat> = ... { identity } else { ... : ! };
By adopting the let_else feature.
Simply shift the bitcast from the store to the load, so that
we can use the destination type. I'm not sure the bitcast is
really necessary, but keeping it for now.
This makes load generation compatible with opaque pointers.
The generation of nontemporal copies still accesses the pointer
element type, as fixing this requires more movement.
Make to_immediate/from_immediate configurable by backends
`librustc_codegen_ssa` has the concept of an immediate vs. memory type, and `librustc_codegen_llvm` uses this distinction to implement `bool`s being `i8` in memory, and `i1` in immediate contexts. However, some of that implementation leaked into `codegen_ssa` when converting to/from immediate values. So, move those methods into builder traits, so that behavior can be configured by backends.
This is useful if a backend is able to keep bools as bools, or, needs to do more trickery than just bools to bytes.
(Note that there's already a large amount of things abstracted with "immediate types" - this is just bringing this particular thing in line to be abstracted as well)
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Pinging @eddyb since that's who I was talking about this change with when they suggested I submit a PR.
