llvm-project/llvm/docs
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith a59d3e5af8 DebugInfo: Remove MDString-based type references
Eliminate DITypeIdentifierMap and make DITypeRef a thin wrapper around
DIType*.  It is no longer legal to refer to a DICompositeType by its
'identifier:', and DIBuilder no longer retains all types with an
'identifier:' automatically.

Aside from the bitcode upgrade, this is mainly removing logic to resolve
an MDString-based reference to an actualy DIType.  The commits leading
up to this have made the implicit type map in DICompileUnit's
'retainedTypes:' field superfluous.

This does not remove DITypeRef, DIScopeRef, DINodeRef, and
DITypeRefArray, or stop using them in DI-related metadata.  Although as
of this commit they aren't serving a useful purpose, there are patchces
under review to reuse them for CodeView support.

The tests in LLVM were updated with deref-typerefs.sh, which is attached
to the thread "[RFC] Lazy-loading of debug info metadata":

  http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-April/098318.html

llvm-svn: 267296
2016-04-23 21:08:00 +00:00
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CommandGuide Document standard substitutions defined by lit. 2016-04-04 17:14:45 +00:00
Frontend [docs][PerformanceTips] Add text on allocas and alignment 2015-09-10 17:03:10 +00:00
HistoricalNotes
TableGen Rename all references to old mailing lists to new lists.llvm.org address. 2015-08-05 03:51:17 +00:00
_ocamldoc [OCaml] Use a nicer style for documentation than OCaml default. 2015-07-17 06:37:59 +00:00
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_themes/llvm-theme
tutorial Remove every uses of getGlobalContext() in LLVM (but the C API) 2016-04-14 21:59:01 +00:00
AMDGPUUsage.rst AMDGPU: Document address space mapping 2016-04-06 01:29:19 +00:00
ARM-BE-bitcastfail.png
ARM-BE-bitcastsuccess.png
ARM-BE-ld1.png
ARM-BE-ldr.png
AdvancedBuilds.rst Fixing autocorrect changing cmake->make 2016-03-18 22:11:51 +00:00
AliasAnalysis.rst fix typo 2016-01-13 16:46:41 +00:00
Atomics.rst Add __atomic_* lowering to AtomicExpandPass. 2016-04-12 20:18:48 +00:00
BigEndianNEON.rst
BitCodeFormat.rst Swift Calling Convention: add swiftcc. 2016-04-05 22:41:47 +00:00
BitSets.rst docs: Document how bitsets may be used to encode type information. 2016-02-03 02:01:08 +00:00
BlockFrequencyTerminology.rst
BranchWeightMetadata.rst Fix typos. 2015-09-12 01:17:08 +00:00
Bugpoint.rst Correct 'teh' and other typos / repeated words. 2015-04-14 20:52:58 +00:00
CMake.rst [Docs] Updating CMake docs to include LLVM_OPTIMIZED_TABLEGEN 2016-03-24 18:46:43 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt Doxygen: add build option to use svg instead of png files for graphs 2015-08-17 23:24:17 +00:00
CodeGenerator.rst [docs] "Straightforward" is one word. 2016-03-14 20:18:51 +00:00
CodingStandards.rst Disable Visual C++ 2013 Debug mode assert on null pointer in some STL algorithms, 2015-08-21 17:31:03 +00:00
CommandLine.rst Add missing underlines for a docs section. NFC 2015-07-24 00:29:50 +00:00
CompileCudaWithLLVM.rst [docs] Add gpucc publication and tutorial. 2016-03-30 05:05:40 +00:00
CompilerWriterInfo.rst Update psabi link for x86-64. Add link to linux gabi supplement. 2016-04-12 21:54:57 +00:00
CoverageMappingFormat.rst [docs] Corrections w.r.t V2 of the coverage mapping format 2016-03-28 22:16:01 +00:00
DebuggingJITedCode.rst
DeveloperPolicy.rst Point link to CODE_OWNERS.txt to klaus instead of viewvc. 2016-04-22 17:41:12 +00:00
Dummy.html
ExceptionHandling.rst [WinEH] Disallow cyclic unwinds 2016-01-10 04:31:05 +00:00
ExtendedIntegerResults.txt
ExtendingLLVM.rst [WinEH] Add llvm.eh.exceptionpointer intrinsic 2015-09-03 09:15:32 +00:00
Extensions.rst Use a comma after the unique keyword. 2015-04-06 16:34:41 +00:00
FAQ.rst FAQ: Remove the entire Build Problems section 2016-03-23 06:54:42 +00:00
FaultMaps.rst [FaultMaps] Let the frontend pre-select implicit null check candidates. 2015-06-30 21:22:32 +00:00
GarbageCollection.rst Document the CoreCLR GC Strategy 2015-05-21 00:50:10 +00:00
GetElementPtr.rst Update LangRef for getelementptr explicit type changes 2015-03-04 22:02:58 +00:00
GettingStarted.rst docs: Fix footnote after r260042. 2016-03-28 21:24:46 +00:00
GettingStartedVS.rst Clarifying some of the requirements for building with Visual Studio on Windows. Namely, we require the latest Update to be installed (for sanity purposes), and we require CMake 2.8.12.2 for building LLVM with Visual Studio. 2016-03-29 20:23:55 +00:00
GoldPlugin.rst [docs] Remove references to autotools build. 2016-01-30 01:10:15 +00:00
HowToAddABuilder.rst
HowToBuildOnARM.rst [Docs] Change ARM build info to CMake 2015-11-06 18:39:34 +00:00
HowToCrossCompileLLVM.rst
HowToReleaseLLVM.rst Fix some typos in the llvm doc 2016-02-14 20:16:22 +00:00
HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.rst [docs][LLVM-style RTTI] Add a mention of multiple inheritance. 2015-02-07 01:16:26 +00:00
HowToSubmitABug.rst Delete -std-compile-opts. 2014-10-16 20:00:02 +00:00
HowToUseAttributes.rst
HowToUseInstrMappings.rst
InAlloca.rst
LLVMBuild.rst Fixing the documentation builds 2016-01-26 22:53:12 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt
LangRef.rst DebugInfo: Remove MDString-based type references 2016-04-23 21:08:00 +00:00
Lexicon.rst [docs] Document "LGTM" in the lexicon. 2015-06-04 20:28:09 +00:00
LibFuzzer.rst [libFuzzer] more trophies 2016-04-19 22:37:44 +00:00
LinkTimeOptimization.rst Fix a typo in the documentation of LTO 2014-12-03 07:32:36 +00:00
MCJIT-creation.png
MCJIT-dyld-load.png
MCJIT-engine-builder.png
MCJIT-load-object.png
MCJIT-load.png
MCJIT-resolve-relocations.png
MCJITDesignAndImplementation.rst Fix several accidental DOS line endings in source files 2016-01-03 17:22:03 +00:00
MIRLangRef.rst MIRLangRef: Add documentation for the subregister indices. 2015-09-08 11:39:47 +00:00
Makefile.sphinx Bring back Makefile.sphinx 2016-03-23 00:30:57 +00:00
MarkedUpDisassembly.rst
MergeFunctions.rst Fix some typos in the llvm doc 2016-02-14 20:16:22 +00:00
NVPTXUsage.rst [NVPTX] Make NVVMReflect a function pass. 2016-03-30 20:40:11 +00:00
Packaging.rst
Passes.rst Remove the preverify pass from the documentation now that it has been removed 2015-01-30 20:51:09 +00:00
Phabricator.rst [docs] Improve the documentation on committing code reviewed on 2016-01-14 13:39:29 +00:00
ProgrammersManual.rst Remove every uses of getGlobalContext() in LLVM (but the C API) 2016-04-14 21:59:01 +00:00
Projects.rst Rename all references to old mailing lists to new lists.llvm.org address. 2015-08-05 03:51:17 +00:00
README.txt [docs] Update the docs to describe how to build the docs with cmake 2016-02-07 15:42:12 +00:00
ReleaseNotes.rst Add some release notes about the fix for PR26774 2016-04-22 22:45:23 +00:00
ReleaseProcess.rst [OPENMP] Make -fopenmp to turn on OpenMP support by default. 2015-12-10 05:45:58 +00:00
SegmentedStacks.rst
SourceLevelDebugging.rst testcase gardening: update the emissionKind enum to the new syntax. (NFC) 2016-04-01 00:16:49 +00:00
SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst
StackMaps.rst List supported architectures for StackMap section and related intrinsics 2015-07-16 21:10:46 +00:00
Statepoints.rst [Statepoint docs] Delete trailing whitespace 2016-03-04 18:14:09 +00:00
SystemLibrary.rst
TableGenFundamentals.rst
TestSuiteMakefileGuide.rst Fix the docs I broke 2016-03-11 23:31:02 +00:00
TestingGuide.rst Fixing the documentation builds 2016-01-26 22:53:12 +00:00
Vectorizers.rst Correct 'teh' and other typos / repeated words. 2015-04-14 20:52:58 +00:00
WritingAnLLVMBackend.rst configure.ac lives in autoconf/, not autotools/ 2014-11-10 22:36:04 +00:00
WritingAnLLVMPass.rst Fix typo. 2016-03-06 12:37:34 +00:00
YamlIO.rst [docs] Fix typo in YamlIO.rst 2016-02-04 20:42:43 +00:00
conf.py Update version to 3.9. 2016-01-13 17:32:32 +00:00
doxygen-mainpage.dox [docs] Updated docs to work with Doxygen 1.8.11 2016-03-06 03:50:08 +00:00
doxygen.cfg.in [docs] Updated docs to work with Doxygen 1.8.11 2016-03-06 03:50:08 +00:00
gcc-loops.png
index.rst Updates based on post-commit review of r263834 2016-03-18 21:57:51 +00:00
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make.bat
re_format.7
yaml2obj.rst Summary: 2015-07-28 16:18:17 +00:00

README.txt

LLVM Documentation
==================

LLVM's documentation is written in reStructuredText, a lightweight
plaintext markup language (file extension `.rst`). While the
reStructuredText documentation should be quite readable in source form, it
is mostly meant to be processed by the Sphinx documentation generation
system to create HTML pages which are hosted on <http://llvm.org/docs/> and
updated after every commit. Manpage output is also supported, see below.

If you instead would like to generate and view the HTML locally, install
Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/> and then do:

    cd <build-dir>
    cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX=true -DSPHINX_OUTPUT_HTML=true <src-dir>
    make -j3 docs-llvm-html
    $BROWSER <build-dir>/docs//html/index.html

The mapping between reStructuredText files and generated documentation is
`docs/Foo.rst` <-> `<build-dir>/docs//html/Foo.html` <-> `http://llvm.org/docs/Foo.html`.

If you are interested in writing new documentation, you will want to read
`SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst` which will get you writing documentation
very fast and includes examples of the most important reStructuredText
markup syntax.

Manpage Output
===============

Building the manpages is similar to building the HTML documentation. The
primary difference is to use the `man` makefile target, instead of the
default (which is `html`). Sphinx then produces the man pages in the
directory `<build-dir>/docs/man/`.

    cd <build-dir>
    cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX=true -DSPHINX_OUTPUT_MAN=true <src-dir>
    make -j3 docs-llvm-man
    man -l >build-dir>/docs/man/FileCheck.1

The correspondence between .rst files and man pages is
`docs/CommandGuide/Foo.rst` <-> `<build-dir>/docs//man/Foo.1`.
These .rst files are also included during HTML generation so they are also
viewable online (as noted above) at e.g.
`http://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/Foo.html`.

Checking links
==============

The reachability of external links in the documentation can be checked by
running:

    cd docs/
    make -f Makefile.sphinx linkcheck