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authorDouglas Gregor <dgregor@apple.com>2009-06-03 18:35:59 +0000
committerDouglas Gregor <dgregor@apple.com>2009-06-03 18:35:59 +0000
commit923cb23eabaf800a647dd9466ed68fe5b83c3250 (patch)
tree2997a112ca4a95c34523a4575dd1320a179d5333 /docs
parentfe3f223de8d670cdfdb1f362242c2b952e1c5f34 (diff)
Add a table of contents to the PCH design document
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@72791 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/PCHInternals.html b/docs/PCHInternals.html
index f1cfeb3673..7c0c1403fa 100644
--- a/docs/PCHInternals.html
+++ b/docs/PCHInternals.html
@@ -16,7 +16,26 @@
view, please see the <a
href="UsersManual.html#precompiledheaders">User's Manual</a>.</p>
-<h2>Using precompiled headers with <tt>clang-cc</tt></h2>
+ <p><b>Table of Contents</b></p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#usage">Using Precompiled Headers with
+ <tt>clang-cc</tt></a></li>
+ <li><a href="#philosophy">Design Philosophy</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#contents">Precompiled Header Contents</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#metadata">Metadata Block</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#sourcemgr">Source Manager Block</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#preprocessor">Preprocessor Block</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#types">Types Block</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#decls">Declarations Block</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#stmt">Statements and Expressions</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#idtable">Identifier Table Block</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#method-pool">Method Pool Block</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+<h2 id="usage">Using Precompiled Headers with <tt>clang-cc</tt></h2>
<p>The low-level Clang compiler, <tt>clang-cc</tt>, supports two command
line options for generating and using PCH files.<p>
@@ -36,7 +55,7 @@ with the <b><tt>-include-pch</tt></b> option:</p>
$ clang-cc -include-pch test.h.pch test.c -o test.s
</pre>
-<h2>PCH Design Philosophy</h2>
+<h2 id="philosophy">Design Philosophy</h2>
<p>Precompiled headers are meant to improve overall compile times for
projects, so the design of precompiled headers is entirely driven by
@@ -86,7 +105,7 @@ for a translation unit is proportional to the amount of code actually
used from the header, rather than being proportional to the size of
the header itself.</p> </body>
-<h2>Precompiled Header Contents</h2>
+<h2 id="contents">Precompiled Header Contents</h2>
<img src="PCHLayout.png" align="right" alt="Precompiled header layout">
@@ -98,7 +117,7 @@ either a block or a record within <a
format</a>. The contents of each of these logical blocks are described
below.</p>
-<h3 name="metadata">Metadata Block</h3>
+<h3 id="metadata">Metadata Block</h3>
<p>The metadata block contains several records that provide
information about how the precompiled header was built. This metadata
@@ -143,7 +162,7 @@ contents are verified along with the rest of the metadata.</dd>
</dl>
-<h3 name="sourcemgr">Source Manager Block</h3>
+<h3 id="sourcemgr">Source Manager Block</h3>
<p>The source manager block contains the serialized representation of
Clang's <a
@@ -176,7 +195,7 @@ system calls performed when building the precompiled header. The
latter is particularly useful in reducing system time when searching
for include files.</p>
-<h3 name="preprocessor">Preprocessor Block</h3>
+<h3 id="preprocessor">Preprocessor Block</h3>
<p>The preprocessor block contains the serialized representation of
the preprocessor. Specifically, it contains all of the macros that
@@ -187,7 +206,7 @@ name of the macro first occurs in the program. This lazy loading of
macro definitions is trigged by lookups into the <a
href="#idtable">identifier table</a>.</p>
-<h3 name="types">Types Block</h3>
+<h3 id="types">Types Block</h3>
<p>The types block contains the serialized representation of all of
the types referenced in the translation unit. Each Clang type node
@@ -213,7 +232,7 @@ Clang's <a
href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/InternalsManual.html#Type">QualType</a>
class.</p>
-<h3 name="decls">Declarations Block</h3>
+<h3 id="decls">Declarations Block</h3>
<p>The declarations block contains the serialized representation of
all of the declarations referenced in the translation unit. Each Clang
@@ -276,7 +295,7 @@ the name-lookup and iteration behavior described above:</p>
contain relatively few declarations in the common case.</li>
</ul>
-<h3 name"stmt">Statements and Expressions</h3>
+<h3 id="stmt">Statements and Expressions</h3>
<p>Statements and expressions are stored in the precompiled header in
both the <a href="#types">types</a> and the <a
@@ -319,7 +338,7 @@ code indicates that we have reached the end of a serialized expression
or statement; other expression or statement records may follow, but
they are part of a different expression.</p>
-<h3 name="idtable">Identifier Table Block</h3>
+<h3 id="idtable">Identifier Table Block</h3>
<p>The identifier table block contains an on-disk hash table that maps
each identifier mentioned within the precompiled header to the
@@ -351,7 +370,7 @@ hash table where that identifier is stored. This mapping is used when
deserializing the name of a declaration, the identifier of a token, or
any other construct in the PCH file that refers to a name.</p>
-<h3 name="method-pool">Method Pool Block</h3>
+<h3 id="method-pool">Method Pool Block</h3>
<p>The method pool block is represented as an on-disk hash table that
serves two purposes: it provides a mapping from the names of
@@ -374,6 +393,7 @@ values to the offset of the selector within the on-disk hash table,
and will be used when de-serializing an Objective-C method declaration
(or other Objective-C construct) that refers to the selector.</p>
+<h2 id="tendrils"></h2>
</div>
</html>