[LLVMdev] Branch-like intrinsic

[Chris Lattner]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Edward Lee wrote:
> Is there a way to implement an intrinsic that looks like a conditional
> branch so that it has 2 edges to 2 basic blocks?

No.  All control flow operators must be terminator instructions.

> Taking a step back, I'm trying to make a special branch where Passes
> treat it just like a regular conditional branch except that it's
> condition is opaque to everyone, so it isn't removed by optimizations.
> Additionally, the special branch would codegen (to x86) to something
> other than the regular branch instructions.

Why not something like:

   %x = llvm.myintrinsic()
   br i1 %x, label %T, label %F

?

-Chris

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