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author | Anton Korobeynikov <asl@math.spbu.ru> | 2007-01-12 19:20:47 +0000 |
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committer | Anton Korobeynikov <asl@math.spbu.ru> | 2007-01-12 19:20:47 +0000 |
commit | 7f70559bc47877bafc6dfa92b7df6b64650445fb (patch) | |
tree | 35e2a9f532175fdf23d0253f970ff2132448e5d9 /docs | |
parent | ab7752c1496c2913793305ba4b989a551c5617e1 (diff) | |
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* PIC codegen for X86/Linux has been implemented
* PIC-aware internal structures in X86 Codegen have been refactored
* Visibility (default/weak) has been added
* Docs fixes (external weak linkage, visibility, formatting)
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@33136 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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-rw-r--r-- | docs/BytecodeFormat.html | 46 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | docs/LangRef.html | 32 |
2 files changed, 55 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/docs/BytecodeFormat.html b/docs/BytecodeFormat.html index cc0ae7ca5f..e65ee0cba4 100644 --- a/docs/BytecodeFormat.html +++ b/docs/BytecodeFormat.html @@ -743,7 +743,6 @@ describes the latest version, 1.3):</p> <li>#3: LLVM 1.3</li> <li>#4: LLVM 1.3.x (not released)</li> <li>#5: LLVM 1.4 and newer</li> - </li> </ul> <p>Note that we plan to eventually expand the target description capabilities @@ -1082,7 +1081,11 @@ and can includes more information:</p> <td class="td_left">If this bit is set, a SectionID follows this vbr.</td> </tr> <tr> - <td><a href="#bit">bit(10-31)</a></td> + <td><a href="#bit">bit(10-12)</a></td> + <td class="td_left">Visibility style: 0=Default, 1=Hidden.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td><a href="#bit">bit(13-31)</a></td> <td class="td_left">Currently unassigned.</td> </tr> </tbody> @@ -1337,7 +1340,7 @@ field values of the structure.</li> </div> <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> -<div class="doc_subsubsection">Undef Entries</a></div> +<div class="doc_subsubsection">Undef Entries</div> <div class="doc_text"> <p>When the number of operands to the constant is one, we have an 'undef' value @@ -1345,7 +1348,7 @@ of the specified type.</p> </div> <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> -<div class="doc_subsubsection">Inline Assembler Entries</a></div> +<div class="doc_subsubsection">Inline Assembler Entries</div> <div class="doc_text"> <p>Inline Assembler entries are stored in the constant pool, though they are not @@ -1369,7 +1372,7 @@ of the specified type.</p> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#uint32_vbr">uint32_vbr</a></td> - <td class="td_left">Flags</sup></td> + <td class="td_left">Flags</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> @@ -1380,7 +1383,7 @@ of the specified type.</p> </div> <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> -<div class="doc_subsubsection">Constant Expression Entries</a></div> +<div class="doc_subsubsection">Constant Expression Entries</div> <div class="doc_text"> @@ -1436,8 +1439,8 @@ size<br> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#uint32_vbr">uint32_vbr</a></td> - <td class="td_left">The linkage type of the function: 0=External, 1=Weak, -2=Appending, 3=Internal, 4=LinkOnce, 5=DllImport, 6=DllExport<sup>1</sup></td> + <td class="td_left"><a href="#funclinkage_and_visibility">The linkage and + visibility</a> style field</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#block">block</a></td> @@ -1470,7 +1473,34 @@ other fields will be present as the function is defined elsewhere.</li> be written. Compaction tables are only written if they will actually save bytecode space. If not, then a regular constant pool is written.</li> </ol> + +<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> +<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="funclinkage_and_visibility">Linkage and + visibility word</a> +</div> +<div class="doc_text"> + +<table> + <tbody> + <tr> + <th><b>Type</b></th> + <th class="td_left"><b>Field Description</b></th> + </tr> + <tr> + <td><a href="#bit">bit(0-15)</a></td> + <td class="td_left">The linkage type of the function: 0=External, 1=Weak, +2=Appending, 3=Internal, 4=LinkOnce, 5=DllImport, 6=DllExport<sup>1</sup></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td><a href="#bit">bit(16-31)</a></td> + <td class="td_left">Visibility style: 0=Default, 1=Hidden.</td> + </tr> + </tbody> +</table> + +</div> </div> + <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> <div class="doc_subsection"><a name="compactiontable">Compaction Table</a> </div> diff --git a/docs/LangRef.html b/docs/LangRef.html index e9daca07e5..2e40842dfb 100644 --- a/docs/LangRef.html +++ b/docs/LangRef.html @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ purposes:</p> For example, %foo, %DivisionByZero, %a.really.long.identifier. The actual regular expression used is '<tt>%[a-zA-Z$._][a-zA-Z$._0-9]*</tt>'. Identifiers which require other characters in their names can be surrounded - with quotes. In this way, anything except a <tt>"</tt> character can be used + with quotes. In this way, anything except a <tt>"</tt> character can be used in a name.</li> <li>Unnamed values are represented as an unsigned numeric value with a '%' @@ -452,6 +452,13 @@ All Global Variables and Functions have one of the following types of linkage: "sections" with identical names when .o files are linked. </dd> + <dt><tt><b><a name="linkage_externweak">extern_weak</a></b></tt>: </dt> + <dd>The semantics of this linkage follow the ELF model: the symbol is weak + until linked, if not linked, the symbol becomes null instead of being an + undefined reference. + </dd> +</dl> + <dt><tt><b><a name="linkage_external">externally visible</a></b></tt>:</dt> <dd>If none of the above identifiers are used, the global is externally @@ -459,17 +466,13 @@ All Global Variables and Functions have one of the following types of linkage: external symbol references. </dd> - <dt><tt><b><a name="linkage_externweak">extern_weak</a></b></tt>: </dt> - - <dd>"<tt>extern_weak</tt>" TBD - </dd> - <p> The next two types of linkage are targeted for Microsoft Windows platform only. They are designed to support importing (exporting) symbols from (to) DLLs. </p> + <dl> <dt><tt><b><a name="linkage_dllimport">dllimport</a></b></tt>: </dt> <dd>"<tt>dllimport</tt>" linkage causes the compiler to reference a function @@ -489,7 +492,7 @@ All Global Variables and Functions have one of the following types of linkage: </dl> -<p><a name="linkage_external">For example, since the "<tt>.LC0</tt>" +<p><a name="linkage_external"></a>For example, since the "<tt>.LC0</tt>" variable is defined to be internal, if another module defined a "<tt>.LC0</tt>" variable and was linked with this one, one of the two would be renamed, preventing a collision. Since "<tt>main</tt>" and "<tt>puts</tt>" are @@ -497,7 +500,7 @@ external (i.e., lacking any linkage declarations), they are accessible outside of the current module.</p> <p>It is illegal for a function <i>declaration</i> to have any linkage type other than "externally visible", <tt>dllimport</tt>, -or <tt>extern_weak</tt>.</a></p> +or <tt>extern_weak</tt>.</p> </div> @@ -676,13 +679,13 @@ a power of 2.</p> <p>Parameter attributes consist of an at sign (@) followed by either a single keyword or a comma separate list of keywords enclosed in parentheses. For - example:<pre> + example:</p><pre> %someFunc = i16 @zext (i8 @(sext) %someParam) %someFunc = i16 @zext (i8 @zext %someParam)</pre> - Note that the two function types above are unique because the parameter - has a different attribute (@sext in the first one, @zext in the second).</p> + <p>Note that the two function types above are unique because the parameter has + a different attribute (@sext in the first one, @zext in the second).</p> - <p>Currently, only the following parameter attributes are defined: + <p>Currently, only the following parameter attributes are defined:</p> <dl> <dt><tt>@zext</tt></dt> <dd>This indicates that the parameter should be zero extended just before @@ -690,7 +693,7 @@ a power of 2.</p> <dt><tt>@sext</tt></dt> <dd>This indicates that the parameter should be sign extended just before a call to this function.</dd> - </dl></p> + </dl> <p>The current motivation for parameter attributes is to enable the sign and zero extend information necessary for the C calling convention to be passed @@ -3053,7 +3056,7 @@ a pointer type, <tt>ty2</tt>.</p> <h5>Arguments:</h5> <p>The '<tt>inttoptr</tt>' instruction takes an <a href="i_integer">integer</a> value to cast, and a type to cast it to, which must be a -<a href="#t_pointer">pointer</a> type. </tt> +<a href="#t_pointer">pointer</a> type. <h5>Semantics:</h5> <p>The '<tt>inttoptr</tt>' instruction converts <tt>value</tt> to type @@ -3172,7 +3175,6 @@ yields a <a href="#t_primitive">i1</a> result, as follows: <tt>true</tt> if <tt>var1</tt> is less than <tt>var2</tt>.</li> <li><tt>sle</tt>: interprets the operands as signed values and yields <tt>true</tt> if <tt>var1</tt> is less than or equal to <tt>var2</tt>.</li> - </li> </ol> <p>If the operands are <a href="#t_pointer">pointer</a> typed, the pointer values are treated as integers and then compared.</p> |