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author | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2009-04-26 22:21:57 +0000 |
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committer | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2009-04-26 22:21:57 +0000 |
commit | a6fdf5a8c9512046b2cc36a2dfaa1420156a0cde (patch) | |
tree | c5a9d638320172412987785a535d037f5a5939c1 /llvm/docs/BitCodeFormat.html | |
parent | 56930a4b8177a49bb5d91fa9f4301439b888769c (diff) | |
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Add two new record types to the blockinfo block:
BLOCKNAME and SETRECORDNAME. This allows a bitcode
file to be self describing with pretty names for
records and blocks in addition to numbers. This
enhances llvm-bcanalyzer to use this to print prettily.
llvm-svn: 70165
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diff --git a/llvm/docs/BitCodeFormat.html b/llvm/docs/BitCodeFormat.html index 54b9361c379..8813b017f91 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/BitCodeFormat.html +++ b/llvm/docs/BitCodeFormat.html @@ -563,6 +563,8 @@ blocks. The currently specified records are: <pre> [SETBID (#1), blockid] [DEFINE_ABBREV, ...] +[BLOCKNAME, ...name...] +[SETRECORDNAME, RecordID, ...name...] </pre> </div> @@ -582,6 +584,15 @@ in <tt>BLOCKINFO</tt> blocks receive abbreviation IDs as described in <tt><a href="#DEFINE_ABBREV">DEFINE_ABBREV</a></tt>. </p> +<p>The <tt>BLOCKNAME</tt> can optionally occur in this block. The elements of +the record are the bytes for the string name of the block. llvm-bcanalyzer uses +this to dump out bitcode files symbolically.</p> + +<p>The <tt>SETRECORDNAME</tt> record can optionally occur in this block. The +first entry is a record ID number and the rest of the elements of the record are +the bytes for the string name of the record. llvm-bcanalyzer uses +this to dump out bitcode files symbolically.</p> + <p> Note that although the data in <tt>BLOCKINFO</tt> blocks is described as "metadata," the abbreviations they contain are essential for parsing records |