[llvm-commits] [llvm] r166157 - /llvm/trunk/lib/VMCore/Verifier.cpp

[Bill Wendling]

On Oct 18, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:

> On Oct 18, 2012, at 8:04 AM, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Oh. I didn't know that LLVM defines things in a non-standard way.
>> 
>> It is very standard actually. A dominates B if all execution paths
>> that reach B pass through A. In this case, all the 0 paths that reach
>> B pass through A.
> 
> This is also the only reasonable way to define dominance and SSA.  If not, things like trivial copy propagation are potentially really complicated and expensive.
> 
Okay. Good to know. Because one pass is creating this for reachable code, which is making GVN blow up.

-bw