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@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ fn example(b: bool) -> i32 {
 
 I hope it is not very surprising that calling `example` on, e.g., `3` transmuted to `bool` is Undefined Behavior (UB).
 When compiling `if`, the compiler assumes that `0` and `1` are the only possible values; there is no saying what could go wrong when that assumption is violated.
+(This is a compiler-understood *validity invariant* that is fixed in the language specification, which is very different from a user-defined *safety invariant*.
+See [this earlier post]({% post_url 2018-08-22-two-kinds-of-invariants.md %}) for more details on that distinction.)
 
 What is less obvious is why calling `example` on `3` is UB even when there is no such `if` being executed.
 To understand why that is important, let us consider the following example: