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diff --git a/docs/CodeGenerator.html b/docs/CodeGenerator.html index 8480d34d3a..b0ed0499fa 100644 --- a/docs/CodeGenerator.html +++ b/docs/CodeGenerator.html @@ -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> |