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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2004-06-01 18:35:00 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2004-06-01 18:35:00 +0000
commit5489e93101cf0ad49a35743d7830ecf6e8b66589 (patch)
tree2f91bbfc9c1bbead2fb4efd64a9d45022851f075
parent4654bdb4c1ebf3fe007af25d361eb294e9039380 (diff)
Finish the thought that got interrupted when my train arrived. :)
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@13923 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/CodeGenerator.html b/docs/CodeGenerator.html
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@@ -203,12 +203,13 @@ targets with unusual requirements can be supported with custom passes as needed.
<div class="doc_text">
-<p>The target description classes require a detailed descriptions of the target
+<p>The target description classes require a detailed description of the target
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 <a href="TableGenFundamentals.html">TableGen</a> tool to
-allow
+describe big chunks of the target machine, which allows the use of domain- and
+target-specific abstractions to reduce the amount of repetition.
</p>
</div>