General

An instruction is a basic unit of computation in Val IR that modifies the state of the executing machine. An instruction may accept zero or more arguments and return zero or more values.

Terminator instructions

An instruction is called a terminator instruction if it causes control flow to jump to another basic block or exit the current function.

The terminator instructions of Val IR are:

  • branch

  • cond_branch

  • call_fallible

  • terminate

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