Summary:
This is RFC for fixes in poison-related functions of ValueTracking.
These functions assume that a value can be poison bitwisely, but the semantics
of bitwise poison is not clear at the moment.
Allowing a value to have bitwise poison adds complexity to reasoning about
correctness of optimizations.
This patch makes the analysis functions simply assume that a value is
either fully poison or not, which has been used to understand the correctness
of a few previous optimizations.
The bitwise poison semantics seems to be only used by these functions as well.
In terms of implementation, using value-wise poison concept makes existing
functions do more precise analysis, which is what this patch contains.
Reviewers: spatel, lebedev.ri, jdoerfert, reames, nikic, nlopes, regehr
Reviewed By: nikic
Subscribers: fhahn, hiraditya, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78503
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