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diff --git a/docs/CodeGenerator.rst b/docs/CodeGenerator.rst index 11174b7bee..ce23667eb3 100644 --- a/docs/CodeGenerator.rst +++ b/docs/CodeGenerator.rst @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ architecture. These target descriptions often have a large amount of common information (e.g., an ``add`` instruction is almost identical to a ``sub`` instruction). In order to allow the maximum amount of commonality to be factored out, the LLVM code generator uses the -`TableGen <TableGenFundamentals.html>`_ tool to describe big chunks of the +:doc:`TableGen <TableGenFundamentals>` tool to describe big chunks of the target machine, which allows the use of domain-specific and target-specific abstractions to reduce the amount of repetition. @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ for structures, the alignment requirements for various data types, the size of pointers in the target, and whether the target is little-endian or big-endian. -.. _targetlowering: +.. _TargetLowering: The ``TargetLowering`` class ---------------------------- @@ -250,6 +250,8 @@ operations. Among other things, this class indicates: * various high-level characteristics, like whether it is profitable to turn division by a constant into a multiplication sequence. +.. _TargetRegisterInfo: + The ``TargetRegisterInfo`` class -------------------------------- @@ -771,6 +773,8 @@ value of type i1, i8, i16, or i64 would be illegal, as would a DAG that uses a SREM or UREM operation. The `legalize types`_ and `legalize operations`_ phases are responsible for turning an illegal DAG into a legal DAG. +.. _SelectionDAG-Process: + SelectionDAG Instruction Selection Process ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -874,7 +878,7 @@ found, the elements are converted to scalars ("scalarizing"). A target implementation tells the legalizer which types are supported (and which register class to use for them) by calling the ``addRegisterClass`` method in -its TargetLowering constructor. +its ``TargetLowering`` constructor. .. _legalize operations: .. _Legalizer: @@ -1728,6 +1732,8 @@ This section of the document explains features or design decisions that are specific to the code generator for a particular target. First we start with a table that summarizes what features are supported by each target. +.. _target-feature-matrix: + Target Feature Matrix --------------------- |