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diff --git a/docs/CodeGenerator.rst b/docs/CodeGenerator.rst index a1fec81d3c..4b99288811 100644 --- a/docs/CodeGenerator.rst +++ b/docs/CodeGenerator.rst @@ -636,6 +636,13 @@ file (MCObjectStreamer). MCAsmStreamer is a straight-forward implementation that prints out a directive for each method (e.g. ``EmitValue -> .byte``), but MCObjectStreamer implements a full assembler. +For target specific directives, the MCStreamer has a MCTargetStreamer instance. +Each target that needs it defines a class that inherits from it and is a lot +like MCStreamer itself: It has one method per directive and two classes that +inherit from it, a target object streamer and a target asm streamer. The target +asm streamer just prints it (``emitFnStart -> .fnstrart``), and the object +streamer implement the assembler logic for it. + The ``MCContext`` class ----------------------- |