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authorBill Wendling <isanbard@gmail.com>2008-11-05 23:42:27 +0000
committerBill Wendling <isanbard@gmail.com>2008-11-05 23:42:27 +0000
commitb4b130f0b10184efd34f76c0287943b02da5688b (patch)
tree717b2410b82273c92585f1f0b7922c37879c2644 /lib/VMCore/Module.cpp
parent83b5cf02721cb0f755fde9bd454172bceb356532 (diff)
Add comments to function.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@58781 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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-rw-r--r--lib/VMCore/Module.cpp6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/VMCore/Module.cpp b/lib/VMCore/Module.cpp
index d4432c6ed9..b7bb49184b 100644
--- a/lib/VMCore/Module.cpp
+++ b/lib/VMCore/Module.cpp
@@ -224,6 +224,12 @@ GlobalVariable *Module::getGlobalVariable(const std::string &Name,
return 0;
}
+/// getOrInsertGlobal - Look up the specified global in the module symbol table.
+/// 1. If it does not exist, add a declaration of the global and return it.
+/// 2. Else, the global exists but has the wrong type: return the function
+/// with a constantexpr cast to the right type.
+/// 3. Finally, if the existing global is the correct delclaration, return the
+/// existing global.
Constant *Module::getOrInsertGlobal(const std::string &Name, const Type *Ty) {
ValueSymbolTable &SymTab = getValueSymbolTable();