diff --git a/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst b/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst --- a/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst @@ -3657,13 +3657,13 @@ Poison Values ------------- +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 ` with -the ``nsw`` flag. +The string '``poison``' can be used anywhere a constant is expected, and +operations such as :ref:`add ` with the ``nsw`` flag can produce +a poison value. Poison value behavior is defined in terms of value *dependence*: @@ -3732,6 +3732,7 @@ 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