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@ -2118,7 +2118,46 @@ logically read from arbitrary registers that happen to be around when needed,
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so the value is not neccesarily consistent over time. In fact, %A and %C need
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to have the same semantics of the core LLVM "replace all uses with" concept
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would not hold.</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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%A = fdiv undef, %X
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%B = fdiv %X, undef
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Safe:
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%A = undef
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b: unreachable
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>These examples show the crucial difference between an <em>undefined
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value</em> and <em>undefined behavior</em>. An undefined value (like undef) is
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allowed to have an arbitrary bit-pattern. This means that the %A operation
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can be constant folded to undef because the undef could be an SNaN, and fdiv is
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not (currently) defined on SNaN's. However, in the second example, we can make
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a more aggressive assumption: because the undef is allowed to be an arbitrary
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value, we are allowed to assume that it could be zero. Since a divide by zero
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is has <em>undefined behavior</em>, we are allowed to assume that the operation
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does not execute at all. This allows us to delete the divide and all code after
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it: since the undefined operation "can't happen", the optimizer can assume that
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it occurs in dead code.
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</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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a: store undef -> %X
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b: store %X -> undef
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Safe:
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a: <deleted>
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b: unreachable
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>These examples reiterate the fdiv example: a store "of" an undefined value
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can be assumed to not have any effect: we can assume that the value is
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overwritten with bits that happen to match what was already there. However, a
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store "to" an undefined location could clobber arbitrary memory, therefore, it
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has undefined behavior.</p>
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</div>
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