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-rw-r--r--include/llvm/CodeGen/ValueTypes.h13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/llvm/CodeGen/ValueTypes.h b/include/llvm/CodeGen/ValueTypes.h
index 292423e272..9e583ef4d6 100644
--- a/include/llvm/CodeGen/ValueTypes.h
+++ b/include/llvm/CodeGen/ValueTypes.h
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ namespace llvm {
class LLVMContext;
struct EVT;
- class MVT { // MVT = Machine Value Type
+ /// MVT - Machine Value Type. Every type that is supported natively by some
+ /// processor targeted by LLVM occurs here. This means that any legal value
+ /// type can be represented by a MVT.
+ class MVT {
public:
enum SimpleValueType {
// If you change this numbering, you must change the values in
@@ -158,7 +161,7 @@ namespace llvm {
return !(NElts & (NElts - 1));
}
- /// getPow2VectorType - Widens the length of the given vector EVT up to
+ /// getPow2VectorType - Widens the length of the given vector MVT up to
/// the nearest power of 2 and returns that type.
MVT getPow2VectorType() const {
if (isPow2VectorType())
@@ -353,7 +356,11 @@ namespace llvm {
}
};
- struct EVT { // EVT = Extended Value Type
+
+ /// EVT - Extended Value Type. Capable of holding value types which are not
+ /// native for any processor (such as the i12345 type), as well as the types
+ /// a MVT can represent.
+ struct EVT {
private:
MVT V;
const Type *LLVMTy;