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diff --git a/docs/GarbageCollection.html b/docs/GarbageCollection.html index d5fe258ba1..bd114b562f 100644 --- a/docs/GarbageCollection.html +++ b/docs/GarbageCollection.html @@ -151,14 +151,14 @@ collector models. For instance, the intrinsics permit:</p> support a broad class of garbage collected languages including Scheme, ML, Java, C#, Perl, Python, Lua, Ruby, other scripting languages, and more.</p> -<p>However, LLVM does not itself provide a garbage collector—this should +<p>However, LLVM does not itself provide a garbage collector—this should be part of your language's runtime library. LLVM provides a framework for compile time <a href="#plugin">code generation plugins</a>. The role of these plugins is to generate code and data structures which conforms to the <em>binary interface</em> specified by the <em>runtime library</em>. This is similar to the relationship between LLVM and DWARF debugging info, for example. The difference primarily lies in the lack of an established standard in the domain -of garbage collection—thus the plugins.</p> +of garbage collection—thus the plugins.</p> <p>The aspects of the binary interface with which LLVM's GC support is concerned are:</p> |