llvm-project/llvm/docs
Rafael Espindola 24a669d225 Prevent alias from pointing to weak aliases.
This adds back r204781.

Original message:

Aliases are just another name for a position in a file. As such, the
regular symbol resolutions are not applied. For example, given

define void @my_func() {
  ret void
}
@my_alias = alias weak void ()* @my_func
@my_alias2 = alias void ()* @my_alias

We produce without this patch:

        .weak   my_alias
my_alias = my_func
        .globl  my_alias2
my_alias2 = my_alias

That is, in the resulting ELF file my_alias, my_func and my_alias are
just 3 names pointing to offset 0 of .text. That is *not* the
semantics of IR linking. For example, linking in a

@my_alias = alias void ()* @other_func

would require the strong my_alias to override the weak one and
my_alias2 would end up pointing to other_func.

There is no way to represent that with aliases being just another
name, so the best solution seems to be to just disallow it, converting
a miscompile into an error.

llvm-svn: 204934
2014-03-27 15:26:56 +00:00
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TableGen Adding some very nascent information about the clang tablegen backends, with a promise to add more information later. 2014-03-24 18:18:31 +00:00
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AliasAnalysis.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
Atomics.rst Small correction to unordered memory code generation of ARM LDRD 2013-06-18 23:07:16 +00:00
BitCodeFormat.rst Remove the linker_private and linker_private_weak linkages. 2014-03-13 23:18:37 +00:00
BranchWeightMetadata.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
Bugpoint.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
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CodingStandards.rst C++11: Remove const from in auto guidelines 2014-03-07 18:06:15 +00:00
CommandLine.rst Correct word hyphenations 2013-12-05 05:44:44 +00:00
CompilerWriterInfo.rst [docs] Add links to XMOS XCore documentation. 2014-03-14 15:53:50 +00:00
DebuggingJITedCode.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
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ExceptionHandling.rst Exception handling docs: Fix a typo 2014-02-27 06:54:04 +00:00
ExtendedIntegerResults.txt
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GettingStarted.rst Remove projects/sample. 2014-03-12 22:40:22 +00:00
GettingStartedVS.rst Updating the getting started guide for Visual Studio a smidge. 2014-01-23 20:46:44 +00:00
GoldPlugin.rst Update the LTO GoldPlugin documentation 2013-12-02 07:15:33 +00:00
HowToAddABuilder.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
HowToBuildOnARM.rst Adding some info about stability of ARM boards 2013-11-15 08:42:14 +00:00
HowToCrossCompileLLVM.rst [docs] Some typographical fixes. 2013-09-09 19:05:03 +00:00
HowToReleaseLLVM.rst [docs] Fix some Sphinx warnings. 2014-03-02 00:21:42 +00:00
HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.rst [C++11] Replace LLVM-style type traits with C++11 standard ones. 2014-03-07 14:42:25 +00:00
HowToSubmitABug.rst [docs] Nuke some references to llvm-gcc 2014-02-18 23:56:43 +00:00
HowToUseAttributes.rst Documentation: HowToUseAttributes: formatting (use monospaced font) 2013-02-12 18:26:08 +00:00
HowToUseInstrMappings.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
InAlloca.rst inalloca: *Really* fix the docs 2014-03-27 01:38:48 +00:00
LLVMBuild.rst Fix documentation typos 2013-12-20 00:33:39 +00:00
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LangRef.rst Prevent alias from pointing to weak aliases. 2014-03-27 15:26:56 +00:00
Lexicon.rst [docs] PR15254: Add "AST" to the lexicon. 2013-02-13 21:17:20 +00:00
LinkTimeOptimization.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
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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 docs/
    make -f Makefile.sphinx
    $BROWSER _build/html/index.html

The mapping between reStructuredText files and generated documentation is
`docs/Foo.rst` <-> `_build/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/man/`.

    cd docs/
    make -f Makefile.sphinx man
    man -l _build/man/FileCheck.1

The correspondence between .rst files and man pages is
`docs/CommandGuide/Foo.rst` <-> `_build/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`.