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Now that 2.5 is about to branch, I'd like to bring up one of Scott's favorite topics: certain optimizers widen or narrow arithmetic, without regard for whether the type is legal for the target. In his specific case, instcombine is turning an i32 multiply into an i64 multiply in order to eliminate a cast. This does simplify/reduce the number of IR operations, but an i64 multiply