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authorGabor Greif <ggreif@gmail.com>2009-10-12 16:27:44 +0000
committerGabor Greif <ggreif@gmail.com>2009-10-12 16:27:44 +0000
commit6bd6ede7d758a815cc640839658fda50922e5eea (patch)
tree49e0e6e7339d788b14abd5e1b5b1344693185f51
parent6bd7567910a724cd773965aa4aacd418f011c1db (diff)
more typewriter face
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@83852 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -637,7 +637,8 @@ it run faster:</p>
commutable operations, various spiller peephole optimizations, and can now
coalesce cross-register-class copies.</li>
<li>Tblgen now supports multiclass inheritance and a number of new string and
- list operations like !(subst), !(foreach), !car, !cdr, !null, !if, !cast.
+ list operations like <tt>!(subst)</tt>, <tt>!(foreach)</tt>, <tt>!car</tt>,
+ <tt>!cdr</tt>, <tt>!null</tt>, <tt>!if</tt>, <tt>!cast</tt>.
These make the .td files more expressive and allow more aggressive factoring
of duplication across instruction patterns.</li>
<li>Target-specific intrinsics can now be added without having to hack VMCore to
@@ -656,12 +657,13 @@ it run faster:</p>
from the compiler. It works well for many simple C testcases, but doesn't
support exception handling, debug info, inline assembly, etc.</li>
<li>Targets can now specify register allocation hints through
- MachineRegisterInfo::setRegAllocationHint. A regalloc hint consists of hint
- type and physical register number. A hint type of zero specifies a register
- allocation preference. Other hint type values are target specific which are
- resolved by TargetRegisterInfo::ResolveRegAllocHint. An example is the ARM
- target which uses register hints to request that the register allocator
- provide an even / odd register pair to two virtual registers.</li>
+ <tt>MachineRegisterInfo::setRegAllocationHint</tt>. A regalloc hint consists
+ of hint type and physical register number. A hint type of zero specifies a
+ register allocation preference. Other hint type values are target specific
+ which are resolved by <tt>TargetRegisterInfo::ResolveRegAllocHint</tt>. An
+ example is the ARM target which uses register hints to request that the
+ register allocator provide an even / odd register pair to two virtual
+ registers.</li>
</ul>
</div>
@@ -804,12 +806,13 @@ branched.</p>
make operations on character ranges and
string concatenation to be more efficient. StringRef is just a <tt>const
char*</tt> with a length, Twine is a light-weight rope.</li>
-<li>LLVM has new WeakVH, AssertingVH and CallbackVH classes, which make it
- easier to write LLVM IR transformations. WeakVH is automatically drops to
- null when the referenced Value is deleted, and is updated across a
- replaceAllUsesWith operation. AssertingVH aborts the program if the
- referenced value is destroyed while it is being referenced. CallbackVH is
- a customizable class for handling value references. See <a
+<li>LLVM has new <tt>WeakVH</tt>, <tt>AssertingVH</tt> and <tt>CallbackVH</tt>
+ classes, which make it easier to write LLVM IR transformations. <tt>WeakVH</tt>
+ is automatically drops to null when the referenced <tt>Value</tt> is deleted,
+ and is updated across a <tt>replaceAllUsesWith</tt> operation.
+ <tt>AssertingVH</tt> aborts the program if the
+ referenced value is destroyed while it is being referenced. <tt>CallbackVH</tt>
+ is a customizable class for handling value references. See <a
href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/ValueHandle_8h-source.html">ValueHandle.h</a>
for more information.</li>
<li>The new '<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/Triple_8h-source.html">Triple
@@ -823,9 +826,9 @@ branched.</p>
and <a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/RWMutex_8h-source.html">reader/writer
locks</a>.</li>
<li>LLVM has new <a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/SourceMgr_8h-source.html">
- SourceMgr and SMLoc classes</a> which implement caret diagnostics and basic
- include stack processing for simple parsers. It is used by tablegen,
- llvm-mc, the .ll parser and FileCheck.</li>
+ <tt>SourceMgr</tt> and <tt>SMLoc</tt> classes</a> which implement caret
+ diagnostics and basic include stack processing for simple parsers. It is
+ used by tablegen, llvm-mc, the .ll parser and FileCheck.</li>
</ul>
@@ -859,7 +862,7 @@ CPU2000).</li>
<ul>
<li>Dynamic plugins now work on Windows.</li>
<li>New option property: init. Makes possible to provide default values for
- options defined in plugins (interface to cl::init).</li>
+ options defined in plugins (interface to <tt>cl::init</tt>).</li>
<li>New example: Skeleton, shows how to create a standalone LLVMC-based
driver.</li>
<li>New example: mcc16, a driver for the PIC16 toolchain.</li>