From 8ba2d5befc05ca73d3bac8708819bbbe759e2cf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dale Johannesen
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:28:00 +0000
Subject: Rename msasm to alignstack per review.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@84795 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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docs/LangRef.html | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
(limited to 'docs')
diff --git a/docs/LangRef.html b/docs/LangRef.html
index 236538d3e4..f3e5d9f2e1 100644
--- a/docs/LangRef.html
+++ b/docs/LangRef.html
@@ -2339,9 +2339,9 @@ has undefined behavior.
a special value. This value represents the inline assembler as a string
(containing the instructions to emit), a list of operand constraints (stored
as a string), a flag that indicates whether or not the inline asm
- expression has side effects, and a flag indicating whether the asm came
- originally from an asm block. An example inline assembler
- expression is:
+ expression has side effects, and a flag indicating whether the function
+ containing the asm needs to align its stack conservatively. An example
+ inline assembler expression is:
@@ -2369,12 +2369,16 @@ call void asm sideeffect "eieio", ""()
-Inline asms derived from asm blocks are similarly marked with the
- 'msasm' keyword:
+In some cases inline asms will contain code that will not work unless the
+ stack is aligned in some way, such as calls or SSE instructions on x86,
+ yet will not contain code that does that alignment within the asm.
+ The compiler should make conservative assumptions about what the asm might
+ contain and should generate its usual stack alignment code in the prologue
+ if the 'alignstack' keyword is present:
-call void asm msasm "eieio", ""()
+call void asm alignstack "eieio", ""()
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