[llvm-dev] how to simplify FP ops with an undef operand?

Wed Feb 28 17:46:38 PST 2018

On Feb 28, 2018, at 3:29 PM, Kaylor, Andrew via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> For the first part of Sanjay’s question, I think the answer is, “Yes, we can fold all of these to NaN in the general case.”

Agreed.  Those IR instructions are undefined on SNAN, and that undef could take on an SNAN value.  Folding these instructions to undef seems reasonable, and it is arguable that you could even fold it to an ‘unreachable'.

-Chris

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