Currently LLVM is relying on ValueTracking's `isKnownNonZero` to attach `nonnull`, which can return true when the value is poison.
To make the semantics of `nonnull` consistent with the behavior of `isKnownNonZero`, this makes the semantics of `nonnull` to accept poison, and return poison if the input pointer isn't null.
This makes many transformations like below legal:
```
%p = gep inbounds %x, 1 ; % p is non-null pointer or poison
call void @f(%p) ; instcombine converts this to call void @f(nonnull %p)
```
Instead, this semantics makes propagation of `nonnull` to caller illegal.
The reason is that, passing poison to `nonnull` does not immediately raise UB anymore, so such program is still well defined, if the callee does not use the argument.
Having `noundef` attribute there re-allows this.
```
define void @f(i8* %p) { ; functionattr cannot mark %p nonnull here anymore
call void @g(i8* nonnull %p) ; .. because @g never raises UB if it never uses %p.
ret void
}
```
Another attribute that needs to be updated is `align`. This patch updates the semantics of align to accept poison as well.
Reviewed By: jdoerfert
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90529
As it's causing some bot failures (and per request from kbarton).
This reverts commit r358543/ab70da07286e618016e78247e4a24fcb84077fda.
llvm-svn: 358546
Summary: This patch replaces isKnownNonNull() with isKnownNonNullAt() when checking nullness of passing arguments at callsite. In this way it can handle cases where the argument does not have nonnull attribute but has a dominating null check from the CFG. It also adds assertions in isKnownNonNull() and isKnownNonNullFromDominatingCondition() to make sure the value checked is pointer type (as defined in LLVM document). These assertions might trip failures in things which are not covered under llvm/test, but fixes should be pretty obvious.
Reviewers: reames
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12779
llvm-svn: 247587
Summary: This patch replaces isKnownNonNull() with isKnownNonNullAt() when checking nullness of passing arguments at callsite. In this way it can handle cases where the argument does not have nonnull attribute but has a dominating null check from the CFG.
Reviewers: reames
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12779
llvm-svn: 247356
Juneyoung Lee