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-rw-r--r--include/llvm/Analysis/InstructionSimplify.h7
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diff --git a/include/llvm/Analysis/InstructionSimplify.h b/include/llvm/Analysis/InstructionSimplify.h
index 06e4432967..d760a4cba1 100644
--- a/include/llvm/Analysis/InstructionSimplify.h
+++ b/include/llvm/Analysis/InstructionSimplify.h
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@
// values. This will prevent other code from seeing the same undef uses and
// resolving them to different values.
//
+// These routines are designed to tolerate moderately incomplete IR, such as
+// instructions that are not connected to basic blocks yet. However, they do
+// require that all the IR that they encounter be valid. In particular, they
+// require that all non-constant values be defined in the same function, and the
+// same call context of that function (and not split between caller and callee
+// contexts of a directly recursive call, for example).
+//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
#ifndef LLVM_ANALYSIS_INSTRUCTIONSIMPLIFY_H