Poison Values
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+A poison value is a result of an erroneous operation.
In order to facilitate speculative execution, many instructions do not
invoke immediate undefined behavior when provided with illegal operands,
and return a poison value instead.
-
-There is currently no way of representing a poison value in the IR; they
-only exist when produced by operations such as :ref:`add <i_add>` with
-the ``nsw`` flag.
+The string '``poison``' can be used anywhere a constant is expected, and
+operations such as :ref:`add <i_add>` with the ``nsw`` flag can produce
+a poison value.
Poison value behavior is defined in terms of value *dependence*:
entry:
%poison = sub nuw i32 0, 1 ; Results in a poison value.
+ %poison2 = sub i32 poison, 1 ; Also results in a poison value.
%still_poison = and i32 %poison, 0 ; 0, but also poison.
%poison_yet_again = getelementptr i32, i32* @h, i32 %still_poison
store i32 0, i32* %poison_yet_again ; Undefined behavior due to
; store to poison.
store i32 %poison, i32* @g ; Poison value stored to memory.
- %poison2 = load i32, i32* @g ; Poison value loaded back from memory.
+ %poison3 = load i32, i32* @g ; Poison value loaded back from memory.
%narrowaddr = bitcast i32* @g to i16*
%wideaddr = bitcast i32* @g to i64*