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@@ -2329,6 +2329,9 @@ has undefined behavior.</p>
event that a value is deleted, it will be replaced with a typeless
"<tt>null</tt>", such as "<tt>metadata !{null, i32 10}</tt>".</p>
+<p>A named metadata is a collection of metadata nodes. For example: "<tt>!foo =
+ metadata !{!4, !3}</tt>".
+
<p>Optimizations may rely on metadata to provide additional information about
the program that isn't available in the instructions, or that isn't easily
computable. Similarly, the code generator may expect a certain metadata