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authorDuncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>2008-10-14 07:06:37 +0000
committerDuncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>2008-10-14 07:06:37 +0000
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Mention the different constant folders that IRBuilder
can use. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@57483 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ tuples, dope vectors, etc as Value*'s instead of as a tuple of Value*'s or as
memory values.</p></li>
<li><p>LLVM 2.4 also includes an initial port for the PIC16 microprocessor. This
-is the LLVM targer that only has support for 8 bit registers, and a number of
+is the LLVM target that only has support for 8 bit registers, and a number of
other crazy constraints. While the port is still in early development stages,
it shows some interesting things you can do with LLVM.</p></li>
@@ -273,7 +273,13 @@ for any of these IR features though.</li>
easier for front-ends to create debug info descriptors, similar to the way that
IRBuilder makes it easier to create LLVM IR.</li>
-<li>LLVM now supports "function attributes", which allows us to seperate return
+<li>The <tt>IRBuilder</tt> class is now parametrized by a class responsible
+for constant folding. The default ConstantFolder class does target independent
+constant folding. The NoFolder class does no constant folding at all, which is
+useful when learning how LLVM works. The TargetFolder class folds the most,
+doing target dependent constant folding.</li>
+
+<li>LLVM now supports "function attributes", which allows us to separate return
value attributes from function attributes. LLVM now supports attributes on a
function itself, a return value, and its parameters. New supported function
attributes include noinline/alwaysinline and the "opt-size" flag which says the