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#### 10.3.3 Comparing potentially-unordered `poly_int`s

In cases where there is no definite link between two `poly_int`s, we can usually make a conservatively-correct assumption. For example, the conservative assumption for alias analysis is that two references might alias.

One way of checking whether [begin1, end1) might overlap [begin2, end2) using the `poly_int` comparisons is:

         maybe_gt (end1, begin2) && maybe_gt (end2, begin1)

and another (equivalent) way is:

         !(known_le (end1, begin2) || known_le (end2, begin1))

However, in this particular example, it is better to use the range helper functions instead. See Range checks on `poly_int`s.