Value *ConstantOffsetExtractor::removeConstOffset(unsigned ChainIndex) {
  if (ChainIndex == 0) {
    assert(isa<ConstantInt>(UserChain[ChainIndex]));
    return ConstantInt::getNullValue(UserChain[ChainIndex]->getType());
  }

  BinaryOperator *BO = cast<BinaryOperator>(UserChain[ChainIndex]);
  assert(BO->getNumUses() <= 1 &&
         "distributeExtsAndCloneChain clones each BinaryOperator in "
         "UserChain, so no one should be used more than "
         "once");

  unsigned OpNo = (BO->getOperand(0) == UserChain[ChainIndex - 1] ? 0 : 1);
  assert(BO->getOperand(OpNo) == UserChain[ChainIndex - 1]);
  Value *NextInChain = removeConstOffset(ChainIndex - 1);
  Value *TheOther = BO->getOperand(1 - OpNo);

  // If NextInChain is 0 and not the LHS of a sub, we can simplify the
  // sub-expression to be just TheOther.
  if (ConstantInt *CI = dyn_cast<ConstantInt>(NextInChain)) {
    if (CI->isZero() && !(BO->getOpcode() == Instruction::Sub && OpNo == 0))
      return TheOther;
  }

  BinaryOperator::BinaryOps NewOp = BO->getOpcode();
  if (BO->getOpcode() == Instruction::Or) {
    // Rebuild "or" as "add", because "or" may be invalid for the new
    // epxression.
    //
    // For instance, given
    //   a | (b + 5) where a and b + 5 have no common bits,
    // we can extract 5 as the constant offset.
    //
    // However, reusing the "or" in the new index would give us
    //   (a | b) + 5
    // which does not equal a | (b + 5).
    //
    // Replacing the "or" with "add" is fine, because
    //   a | (b + 5) = a + (b + 5) = (a + b) + 5
    NewOp = Instruction::Add;
  }

  BinaryOperator *NewBO;
  if (OpNo == 0) {
    NewBO = BinaryOperator::Create(NewOp, NextInChain, TheOther, "", IP);
  } else {
    NewBO = BinaryOperator::Create(NewOp, TheOther, NextInChain, "", IP);
  }
  NewBO->takeName(BO);
  return NewBO;
}