[PATCH] D84007: [ValueTracking] Change canCreatePoison to take Operator, add canCreateUndef

Johannes Doerfert via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Jul 17 11:54:26 PDT 2020


jdoerfert added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/lib/Analysis/ValueTracking.cpp:4783
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+  return false;
 }
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nikic wrote:
> jdoerfert wrote:
> > This seems wrong. A load of an uninitialized location should produce `undef` for example, shouldn't it? I fear there are way more things that can produce `undef`. The default should be true here.
> Returning true here would make this function always return true :) If we drop the "undef only" mode, then returning false should be fine, as this function only needs to deal with cases where undef is possible but poison is not.
What about my load example? poison is not possible but undef is, returning false still seems wrong, or maybe I'm just confused..


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