Question about a few properties of ideal graph

Roland Westrelin rwestrel at redhat.com
Mon Nov 2 16:32:35 UTC 2020


> Region/Phi are special cases because they merge multiple control
> flows. So if one of their inputs become top but all other inputs are
> not, the Region/Phi is still reachable.

Actually to be accurate, it also depends whether the Region is a loop
head or node. A back edge becoming top doesn't make the Region
unreachable.

Roland.



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