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| author | Christopher Lamb <christopher.lamb@gmail.com> | 2007-12-17 01:00:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Christopher Lamb <christopher.lamb@gmail.com> | 2007-12-17 01:00:21 +0000 |
| commit | 303dae993aba2474a23753ed66737b8c38cc97a0 (patch) | |
| tree | bf2ee3531b1f46bfdaf73f6036602f8c930c3d49 /docs | |
| parent | 17af3577791f44429bc43c20cd787b960ec5d3b4 (diff) | |
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Make it clear in the LangRef that allocation instructions only operated on the generic address space. Implement support in the verifier for ensuring this is true.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@45080 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/LangRef.html b/docs/LangRef.html index df6baa7..f9e0824 100644 --- a/docs/LangRef.html +++ b/docs/LangRef.html @@ -2671,7 +2671,8 @@ allocate, and free memory in LLVM.</p> <h5>Overview:</h5> <p>The '<tt>malloc</tt>' instruction allocates memory from the system -heap and returns a pointer to it.</p> +heap and returns a pointer to it. The object is always allocated in the generic +address space (address space zero).</p> <h5>Arguments:</h5> @@ -2758,7 +2759,8 @@ after this instruction executes.</p> <p>The '<tt>alloca</tt>' instruction allocates memory on the stack frame of the currently executing function, to be automatically released when this function -returns to its caller.</p> +returns to its caller. The object is always allocated in the generic address +space (address space zero).</p> <h5>Arguments:</h5> @@ -3972,6 +3974,10 @@ Front-ends for type-safe garbage collected languages should generate these intrinsics to make use of the LLVM garbage collectors. For more details, see <a href="GarbageCollection.html">Accurate Garbage Collection with LLVM</a>. </p> + +<p>The garbage collection intrinsics only operate on objects in the generic + address space (address space zero).</p> + </div> <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> |