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Commit 05f0e598 authored by Juneyoung Lee's avatar Juneyoung Lee
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[LangRef] Clarify the semantics of branch on undef

Summary:
This patch clarifies the semantics of branching on undef value.

Defining `br undef` as undefined behavior explains optimizations that use branch conditions, such as CVP (D76931) and GVN (propagateEquality).

For `switch cond`, it is defined to raise UB if cond is an expression containing undef && cond is not frozen &&
it may yield different values.
This allows that at the destination block the branch condition can be assumed to be frozen already (otherwise UB was already triggered).
This condition is slightly stricter than MemorySanitizer, which allows undef-y condition if it always leads to the same destination,
but it does not break MemorySanitizer because we are giving stricter constraint.

Reviewers: efriedma, fhahn, nikic, spatel, jdoerfert, nlopes

Reviewed By: nlopes

Subscribers: regehr, llvm-commits

Tags: #llvm

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76973
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