Index: llvm/trunk/docs/LangRef.rst =================================================================== --- llvm/trunk/docs/LangRef.rst +++ llvm/trunk/docs/LangRef.rst @@ -3245,6 +3245,17 @@ location could clobber arbitrary memory, therefore, it has undefined behavior. +**MemorySanitizer**, a detector of uses of uninitialized memory, +defines a branch with condition that depends on an undef value (or +certain other values, like e.g. a result of a load from heap-allocated +memory that has never been stored to) to have an externally visible +side effect. For this reason functions with *sanitize_memory* +attribute are not allowed to produce such branches "out of thin +air". More strictly, an optimization that inserts a conditional branch +is only valid if in all executions where the branch condition has at +least one undefined bit, the same branch condition is evaluated in the +input IR as well. + .. _poisonvalues: Poison Values