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author | Bruce Mitchener <bruce.mitchener@gmail.com> | 2013-01-31 13:40:18 +0700 |
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committer | Bruce Mitchener <bruce.mitchener@gmail.com> | 2013-01-31 17:12:31 +0700 |
commit | 000ae7fbdcb3d522c55d9a9466f8171405b3175f (patch) | |
tree | 53e8768499fa78087f68582c976073ff3772eee9 /docs/paper.tex | |
parent | 7b129450d48a3552dc8189d96ef695db8cc9c15b (diff) |
fix typos in paper.
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diff --git a/docs/paper.tex b/docs/paper.tex index 4ad795b8..3b8da618 100644 --- a/docs/paper.tex +++ b/docs/paper.tex @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ main ones of which are Clang and LLVM-GCC) into the LLVM intermediary representation (which can be machine-readable bitcode, or human-readable assembly), and then passes it through a \emph{backend} which generates actual machine code for a particular -architecure. Emscripten plays the role of a backend which targets JavaScript. +architecture. Emscripten plays the role of a backend which targets JavaScript. By using Emscripten, potentially many languages can be run on the web, using one of the following methods: @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ run on the web, using one of the following methods: From a technical standpoint, one challenge in designing and implementing Emscripten is that it compiles a low-level language -- LLVM assembly -- into -a high-level one -- JavaScript. This is somethat the reverse of the usual +a high-level one -- JavaScript. This is somewhat the reverse of the usual situation one is in when building a compiler, and leads to some unique difficulties. For example, to get good performance in JavaScript one must use natural JavaScript code flow structures, like loops and ifs, but @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ a compilation option, SAFE\_HEAP, which generates code that checks that LSC hold doesn't. It also warns about other memory-related issues like reading from memory before a value was written (somewhat similarly to tools like Valgrind\footnote{\url{http://valgrind.org/}}). When such problems are detected, possible solutions are to ignore the issue (if it has no actual -consqeuences), or alter the source code. +consequences), or alter the source code. Note that it is somewhat wasteful to allocate 4 memory locations for a 32-bit integer, and use only one of them. It is possible to change @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ surprisingly easy to implement. For example, C++ exceptions are represented in LLVM by \emph{invoke} and \emph{unwind}, where \emph{invoke} is a call to a function that will potentially trigger an \emph{unwind}, and \emph{unwind} returns to the earliest invoke. If one were to implement those -in a typical compiler, doing so would require careful work. In Emscripen, however, +in a typical compiler, doing so would require careful work. In Emscripten, however, it is possible to do so using JavaScript exceptions in a straightforward manner: \emph{invoke} becomes a function call wrapped in a \emph{try} block, and \emph{unwind} becomes \emph{throw}. This is a case where compiling to a high-level language turns |