[clang] [lld] [llvm] [WIP][IR][Constants] Change the semantic of `ConstantPointerNull` to represent an actual `nullptr` instead of a zero-value pointer (PR #166667)
Alexander Richardson via llvm-commits
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Mon Nov 17 10:42:07 PST 2025
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@@ -126,6 +126,40 @@ Constant *llvm::ConstantFoldCastInstruction(unsigned opc, Constant *V,
if (isa<PoisonValue>(V))
return PoisonValue::get(DestTy);
+ if (opc == Instruction::IntToPtr) {
+ // We can't fold inttoptr(0) to ConstantPointerNull without checking the
+ // target data layout. However, since data layout is not available here, we
+ // can't do this.
+ if (V->isZeroValue())
+ return nullptr;
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arichardson wrote:
```suggestion
// Note: We can't fold inttoptr(0) to ConstantPointerNull without checking
// the target data layout since null pointers could also be all-ones.
```
I don't think we need the early return here? Although I guess it's a cheap check and so might actually be better to have it.
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/166667
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