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-rw-r--r--include/llvm/Target/TargetInstrInfo.h17
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/llvm/Target/TargetInstrInfo.h b/include/llvm/Target/TargetInstrInfo.h
index 1ea4a96332..c8e90cf879 100644
--- a/include/llvm/Target/TargetInstrInfo.h
+++ b/include/llvm/Target/TargetInstrInfo.h
@@ -182,15 +182,15 @@ public:
/// 2. If this block ends with only an unconditional branch, it sets TBB to be
/// the destination block.
/// 3. If this block ends with an conditional branch and it falls through to
- /// an successor block, it sets TBB to be the branch destination block and a
- /// list of operands that evaluate the condition. These
+ /// an successor block, it sets TBB to be the branch destination block and
+ /// a list of operands that evaluate the condition. These
/// operands can be passed to other TargetInstrInfo methods to create new
/// branches.
/// 4. If this block ends with an conditional branch and an unconditional
- /// block, it returns the 'true' destination in TBB, the 'false' destination
- /// in FBB, and a list of operands that evaluate the condition. These
- /// operands can be passed to other TargetInstrInfo methods to create new
- /// branches.
+ /// block, it returns the 'true' destination in TBB, the 'false'
+ /// destination in FBB, and a list of operands that evaluate the condition.
+ /// These operands can be passed to other TargetInstrInfo methods to create
+ /// new branches.
///
/// Note that RemoveBranch and InsertBranch must be implemented to support
/// cases where this method returns success.
@@ -219,6 +219,11 @@ public:
/// returns success and when an unconditional branch (TBB is non-null, FBB is
/// null, Cond is empty) needs to be inserted. It returns the number of
/// instructions inserted.
+ ///
+ /// It is also invoked by tail merging to add unconditional branches in
+ /// cases where AnalyzeBranch doesn't apply because there was no original
+ /// branch to analyze. At least this much must be implemented, else tail
+ /// merging needs to be disabled.
virtual unsigned InsertBranch(MachineBasicBlock &MBB, MachineBasicBlock *TBB,
MachineBasicBlock *FBB,
const SmallVectorImpl<MachineOperand> &Cond) const {