From 7ba4e17285ba271758dc478cf422b64e7a2f0e8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Gohman Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 18:38:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a comment. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@92492 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- lib/VMCore/Instruction.cpp | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/VMCore/Instruction.cpp b/lib/VMCore/Instruction.cpp index 170a15f216f..3fabfd07b31 100644 --- a/lib/VMCore/Instruction.cpp +++ b/lib/VMCore/Instruction.cpp @@ -399,6 +399,8 @@ bool Instruction::isSafeToSpeculativelyExecute() const { case Load: { if (cast(this)->isVolatile()) return false; + // Note that it is not safe to speculate into a malloc'd region because + // malloc may return null. if (isa(getOperand(0))) return true; if (GlobalVariable *GV = dyn_cast(getOperand(0)))