Commit 015192c6 authored by River Riddle's avatar River Riddle
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[mlir:DialectConversion] Restructure how argument/target materializations get invoked

The current implementation invokes materializations
whenever an input operand does not have a mapping for the
desired type, i.e. it requires materialization at the earliest possible
point. This conflicts with goal of dialect conversion (and also the
current documentation) which states that a materialization is only
required if the materialization is supposed to persist after the
conversion process has finished.

This revision refactors this such that whenever a target
materialization "might" be necessary, we insert an
unrealized_conversion_cast to act as a temporary materialization.
This allows for deferring the invocation of the user
materialization hooks until the end of the conversion process,
where we actually have a better sense if it's actually
necessary. This has several benefits:

* In some cases a target materialization hook is no longer
   necessary
When performing a full conversion, there are some situations
w...
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