✨ Canonicalize classical register comparisons across frontends

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Description

• Introduce cbit.cmp as the canonical QC representation for comparing a complete classical register with a same-width unsigned constant.
• Parse and emit all OpenQASM 3 register comparisons (==, !=, <, <=, >, and >=) and lower them through the MemRef, QIR, Jeff, and DD consumers.
• Normalize Qiskit tuple and typed-expression conditions during import so equivalent Qiskit and OpenQASM programs produce the same QC IR when the register layout permits, and emit typed expressions during Qiskit export.
• Treat out-of-range equality constants according to ordinary unsigned semantics instead of retaining widened legacy behavior; use generic packing only for genuinely computed or remapped expressions.
• Keep wide and repeated conditions linear by sharing pure register-condition roots within an unchanged classical snapshot and folding comparisons against untouched zero-initialized registers.

Stack

1. ✨ Preserve classical control through target mapping #2179 — classical-control-aware target mapping (merged)
2. ⚡ Avoid redundant target-compilation liveness analysis #2180 — target-compilation liveness scaling (merged)
3. ✨ Canonicalize classical register comparisons across frontends #2181 — canonical classical-register comparisons (this PR)
4. ✨ Support fixed-width classical registers across formats #2297 — bit-register integer casts (follow-up)

Testing

• uvx nox -s lint: passed.
• uvx nox -s cpp-lint: passed with zero findings.
• test/python/test_mlir_qiskit_translation.py: 244 passed.
• mqt-core-mlir-unittest-cbit-ir: 9 passed.
• release-no-mlir: 511 passed, 1 skipped.

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❌ Patch coverage is 88.32335% with 39 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
.../Dialect/QC/Translation/TranslateQCToOpenQASM3.cpp	80.5%	15 Missing ⚠️
mlir/lib/Dialect/CBit/IR/CBitOps.cpp	85.7%	9 Missing ⚠️
...Conversion/QCToQIR/QIRAdaptive/QCToQIRAdaptive.cpp	90.9%	8 Missing ⚠️
mlir/lib/Dialect/QCO/Utils/DDFunctionality.cpp	88.2%	4 Missing ⚠️
mlir/lib/Target/OpenQASM/OpenQASMSemantics.cpp	93.1%	2 Missing ⚠️
...lib/Dialect/QC/Translation/OpenQASMToQCEmitter.cpp	96.0%	1 Missing ⚠️

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• New Features

  • Added support for recognizing and emitting complete classical bit-register equality conditions in OpenQASM 2 and 3.
  • Added support for wide register comparisons, including registers larger than 64 bits.
  • Improved reuse of unchanged classical conditions for more compact generated output.

• Bug Fixes

  • OpenQASM 3 now correctly rejects comparisons involving uninitialized bits.
  • Prevented unsafe condition reuse after classical values change or across loop boundaries.
  • Added validation for invalid register widths and unsupported partial or modified comparisons.

• Documentation

  • Clarified register initialization requirements, export behavior, and supported equality conditions.

Walkthrough

The changes add OpenQASM register-equality semantics, state-aware condition caching, and OpenQASM 3 export folding. They validate initialization, register state, expression use, measurement fusion, wide registers, unsupported patterns, and round-trip behavior.

Changes

Register Equality Translation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
OpenQASM register equality semantics mlir/lib/Target/OpenQASM/OpenQASMSemantics.cpp, mlir/unittests/Target/OpenQASM/test_openqasm_semantics.cpp	OpenQASM 3 register comparisons now require initialization of every compared bit. OpenQASM 2 keeps zero-initialized behavior.
State-aware classical condition caching mlir/lib/Dialect/QC/Translation/OpenQASMToQCEmitter.cpp, mlir/unittests/Target/OpenQASM/test_openqasm_emitter.cpp	The emitter canonicalizes and reuses static conditions until classical state changes. Control-flow regions restore cached conditions only when no mutation occurs.
Register equality reconstruction and export folding mlir/lib/Dialect/QC/Translation/TranslateQCToOpenQASM3.cpp, mlir/unittests/Dialect/QC/Translation/test_openqasm3_emission.cpp, docs/mlir/OpenQASM.md	The exporter reconstructs complete register equalities, folds compatible SCF expressions, fuses measurement stores, supports wide registers, and rejects partial or modified conditions.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d991c

The PR can fail OpenQASM export when a fused measurement condition is reused by another branch, and its documentation may not accurately describe zero-initialized register behavior. The fusion case should be corrected and the documented behavior clarified before merging.

Suggested reviewers: burgholzer

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant QCIR
  participant CompatibilityAnalysis
  participant OpenQASM3Emitter
  QCIR->>CompatibilityAnalysis: provide conditions, loads, stores, and SCF expressions
  CompatibilityAnalysis->>CompatibilityAnalysis: validate register state and reconstruct equality
  CompatibilityAnalysis->>OpenQASM3Emitter: provide folded conditions and measurement fusions
  OpenQASM3Emitter->>OpenQASM3Emitter: emit register comparison and direct measurement assignment

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A rabbit checks each bit in line
Wide registers now compare fine
Conditions rest until writes appear
Fused measurements hop near
Unsafe paths get turned away
Clean OpenQASM marks the day

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/mlir/OpenQASM.md`:
- Around line 152-158: Update the OpenQASM documentation to remove the OpenQASM
2-only restriction for register-equality export: at docs/mlir/OpenQASM.md lines
152-158, use version-neutral wording and note that OpenQASM 3 reaches this path
when every compared bit is initialized; at lines 168-168, say the
structured-control row is produced by the frontend; and at lines 215-216,
replace “OpenQASM 2 frontend” with “frontend.”
- Around line 217-218: Update the register-condition compatibility claim near
“one register comparison” to state that partial conditions are accepted for
zero-initialized registers when omitted bits remain unwritten, while registers
with Initialization::Undefined require every bit to be constrained; preserve the
existing rejection rules for mixed, dynamically indexed, or modified conditions.

In `@mlir/lib/Dialect/QC/Translation/OpenQASMToQCEmitter.cpp`:
- Around line 2404-2408: Introduce an RAII ConditionCacheScope for
OpenQASMToQCEmitter that saves conditionCache and classicalStateGeneration,
clears the cache on region entry via a named enterRegion() helper, and restores
or clears the cache in its destructor based on whether the generation changed.
Replace the repeated save/clear/restore sequences in emitIf, emitFor, emitWhile,
and emitSwitch with this guard and helper, preserving existing behavior across
all six region-entry paths.
- Around line 2290-2294: No code changes are needed; retain the existing cache
invalidation in assignBit and emitBitVectorAssignment, with emitBitAssignment
continuing to delegate through assignBit.

In `@mlir/lib/Dialect/QC/Translation/TranslateQCToOpenQASM3.cpp`:
- Around line 810-875: Bound collectCompatibilityPatterns with a work budget
covering candidate matching and subsequent expression-use analysis, using the
emitter’s existing analysis-budget conventions where applicable. Track work
consumed by preservesRegisterSnapshot, hasOnlyRepresentedRegisterWrites,
referencesValueRecursively, and candidate/fixpoint processing; when exhausted,
stop collecting further compatibility candidates and leave remaining conditions
for normal emission without changing correctness.
- Around line 1382-1384: Remove the unreachable foldedMeasurementStores
early-return branch from emitStore, since collectCompatibilityPatterns already
records these stores and emitStore handles them before this point. Preserve the
remaining store emission logic and adjacent-measurement behavior for cases not
covered by the recorded patterns.
- Around line 912-916: Update collectCompatibilityPatterns() handling so folded
expression operations are skipped without filtering out qc::MeasureOp consumers
needed by the fused emitMeasurement() path. Adjust the guard around
foldedRegisterExpressionOperations and dispatch logic, ensuring qc::MeasureOp
still reaches emitMeasurement() while other folded expressions remain excluded
from emitOperation() validation.

In `@mlir/unittests/Dialect/QC/Translation/test_openqasm3_emission.cpp`:
- Line 354: After each successful export assertion in the OpenQASM emission
tests, strictly validate the emitted text using the frontend analyzer with
GatePolicy::Strict; initialize fixtures that currently produce
`#cbit.init`<undefined> registers or update expectations to require emission
failure when strict validation rejects the output, while ensuring valid IR does
not crash.

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[burgholzer]

looking at this now.

stale

[burgholzer]

alright. I took this for quite a spin because I had the impression that this could have been way simpler. turns out that enabled quite a few IR simplifications and broader support for comparisons across OpenQASM and Qiskit. I am happy with this now. @simon1hofmann feel free to take a look yourself and merge it afterwards. I got a few cleanups for the next pr in the stack lined up as well.

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Five reproducible findings from the changes added after 6545b95de. Each inline comment includes the failing case and the smallest safe direction for a fix.

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Five reproducible findings from the changes added after 6545b95de. Each inline comment includes the failing case and the smallest safe direction for a fix.

Thanks for running another pass over this. Fresh context certainly always helps. Commented on each finding. Generally, I have the feeling that simply programmatically rejecting some of these corner cases is the way to go for many of them. Should also allow us to add more simplifications throughout the code.

[burgholzer]

@simon1hofmann Changes look good, thanks 🙏🏼 let's get this in once CI is green! 🚀