[docs] Make it clear shifts yield poison when shift amount >= bitwidth
Some InstCombine optimizations already rely on the result being poison
rather than undef.
For example, the following rewrite is wrong if undef is used:
; (1 << Y) * X -> X << Y
%Op0 = shl 1, %Y
%r = mul %Op0, %Op1
=>
%r = shl %Op1, %Y
ERROR: Mismatch in values for i4 %r
Example:
i4 %Y = 0x8 (8, -8)
i4 %Op0 = 0x0 (0)
i4 %Op1 = 0x0 (0)
source: 0x0 (0)
target: 0x1 (1)
The optimization is correct if poison is returned instead:
http://rise4fun.com/Alive/ygX
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33654
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@304780 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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