poly_int marker value ¶It is sometimes useful to have a special “marker value” that is not meant to be taken literally. For example, some code uses a size of -1 to represent an unknown size, rather than having to carry around a separate boolean to say whether the size is known.
The best way of checking whether something is a marker value is
known_eq. Conversely the best way of checking whether something
is not a marker value is maybe_ne.
Thus in the size example just mentioned, ‘known_eq (size, -1)’ would check for an unknown size and ‘maybe_ne (size, -1)’ would check for a known size.