[llvm-dev] Why does FPBinOp(X, undef) -> NaN? (original) (raw)

Cameron McInally via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Feb 7 09:20:51 PST 2020


I came across this comment in SelectionDAG.cpp:

case ISD::FADD: case ISD::FSUB: case ISD::FMUL: case ISD::FDIV: case ISD::FREM: // If both operands are undef, the result is undef. If 1 operand is undef, // the result is NaN. This should match the behavior of the IR optimizer.

That isn't intuitive to me. I would have expected a binary FP operation with one undef operand to fold to undef. Does anyone know the reasoning behind that decision? I don't see the value added in returning a NaN here.

Thx, Cameron



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