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authorDan Gohman <gohman@apple.com>2009-07-14 18:48:32 +0000
committerDan Gohman <gohman@apple.com>2009-07-14 18:48:32 +0000
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Add a comment clarifying the role of getPrimitiveTypeSizeInBits.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@75659 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/include/llvm/Type.h b/include/llvm/Type.h
index d4f86f0b5c..4a8bbf03de 100644
--- a/include/llvm/Type.h
+++ b/include/llvm/Type.h
@@ -268,6 +268,11 @@ public:
/// This will return zero if the type does not have a size or is not a
/// primitive type.
///
+ /// Note that this may not reflect the size of memory allocated for an
+ /// instance of the type or the number of bytes that are written when an
+ /// intance of the type is stored to memory. The TargetData class provides
+ /// additional query functions to provide this information.
+ ///
unsigned getPrimitiveSizeInBits() const;
/// getScalarSizeInBits - If this is a vector type, return the