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authorMicah Villmow <villmow@gmail.com>2012-10-08 16:39:34 +0000
committerMicah Villmow <villmow@gmail.com>2012-10-08 16:39:34 +0000
commit791cfc211a9801002bfda6b3eb4de7e041f04f53 (patch)
tree6cd0d628596726a82ceecfad41e0d747aecea7fa /docs/CodeGenerator.rst
parent3574eca1b02600bac4e625297f4ecf745f4c4f32 (diff)
Move TargetData to DataLayout.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@165403 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/CodeGenerator.rst b/docs/CodeGenerator.rst
index 72b12539cd..f387e7f4c5 100644
--- a/docs/CodeGenerator.rst
+++ b/docs/CodeGenerator.rst
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Required components in the code generator
The two pieces of the LLVM code generator are the high-level interface to the
code generator and the set of reusable components that can be used to build
target-specific backends. The two most important interfaces (:raw-html:`<tt>`
-`TargetMachine`_ :raw-html:`</tt>` and :raw-html:`<tt>` `TargetData`_
+`TargetMachine`_ :raw-html:`</tt>` and :raw-html:`<tt>` `DataLayout`_
:raw-html:`</tt>`) are the only ones that are required to be defined for a
backend to fit into the LLVM system, but the others must be defined if the
reusable code generator components are going to be used.
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ any particular client. These classes are designed to capture the *abstract*
properties of the target (such as the instructions and registers it has), and do
not incorporate any particular pieces of code generation algorithms.
-All of the target description classes (except the :raw-html:`<tt>` `TargetData`_
+All of the target description classes (except the :raw-html:`<tt>` `DataLayout`_
:raw-html:`</tt>` class) are designed to be subclassed by the concrete target
implementation, and have virtual methods implemented. To get to these
implementations, the :raw-html:`<tt>` `TargetMachine`_ :raw-html:`</tt>` class
@@ -214,18 +214,18 @@ the ``get*Info`` methods (``getInstrInfo``, ``getRegisterInfo``,
``getFrameInfo``, etc.). This class is designed to be specialized by a concrete
target implementation (e.g., ``X86TargetMachine``) which implements the various
virtual methods. The only required target description class is the
-:raw-html:`<tt>` `TargetData`_ :raw-html:`</tt>` class, but if the code
+:raw-html:`<tt>` `DataLayout`_ :raw-html:`</tt>` class, but if the code
generator components are to be used, the other interfaces should be implemented
as well.
-.. _TargetData:
+.. _DataLayout:
-The ``TargetData`` class
+The ``DataLayout`` class
------------------------
-The ``TargetData`` class is the only required target description class, and it
+The ``DataLayout`` class is the only required target description class, and it
is the only class that is not extensible (you cannot derived a new class from
-it). ``TargetData`` specifies information about how the target lays out memory
+it). ``DataLayout`` specifies information about how the target lays out memory
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.