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31<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="RedundantTests">RedundantTests</a> is an optimization pass for the <a href="SSA">SSA</a>\r
32<a href="IntermediateLanguage">IntermediateLanguage</a>, invoked from <a href="SSASimplify">SSASimplify</a>.</p></div>\r
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36<h2 id="_description">Description</h2>\r
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38<div class="paragraph"><p>This pass simplifies conditionals whose results are implied by a\r
39previous conditional test.</p></div>\r
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43<h2 id="_implementation">Implementation</h2>\r
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48<a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/mlton/ssa/redundant-tests.fun"><span class="monospaced">redundant-tests.fun</span></a>\r
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55<h2 id="_details_and_notes">Details and Notes</h2>\r
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57<div class="paragraph"><p>An additional test will sometimes eliminate the overflow test when\r
58adding or subtracting 1. In particular, it will eliminate it in the\r
59following cases:</p></div>\r
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61<div class="content"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">if</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">x</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">&lt;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">y</span><span class="w"></span>\r
62<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">then</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">...</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">x</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">+</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">...</span><span class="w"></span>\r
63<span class="k">else</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">...</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">y</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">...</span><span class="w"></span>\r
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