[7.1.1] check if instruction is actually a literal (#4388) #4401
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Motivation
The compare_literals function was calling instruction::get_literal() on instructions that were not necessarily literal instructions. The function assumed that if an instruction could be evaluated (eval() returns non-empty), it was safe to call get_literal(), but this assumption was incorrect.
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