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authorAnton Korobeynikov <asl@math.spbu.ru>2007-01-12 19:20:47 +0000
committerAnton Korobeynikov <asl@math.spbu.ru>2007-01-12 19:20:47 +0000
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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.html46
-rw-r--r--docs/LangRef.html32
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>&quot;</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>