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| author | Charles Davis <cdavis@mines.edu> | 2010-10-25 16:29:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Charles Davis <cdavis@mines.edu> | 2010-10-25 16:29:03 +0000 |
| commit | 1b2d372b9f6d47343dacec116f4ae9deeed35c57 (patch) | |
| tree | ade449109871073e8831b9d206511f6ea0c81fd7 /llvm/docs/LangRef.html | |
| parent | 1033ce669bc808ff104ec8c0b7e6d9dac82df2d9 (diff) | |
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Make hotpatch attribute description a little less Wintel-specific.
llvm-svn: 117267
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/docs/LangRef.html b/llvm/docs/LangRef.html index c2ee7019b96..3f6d9c68a28 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/LangRef.html +++ b/llvm/docs/LangRef.html @@ -1132,9 +1132,11 @@ define void @f() optsize { ... } threshold for this caller.</dd> <dt><tt><b>hotpatch</b></tt></dt> - <dd>This attribute indicates that the prologue should contain a 'hotpatch' - sequence at the beginning. This is the same sequence used in the - system DLLs in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and higher.</dd> + <dd>This attribute indicates that the function should be 'hotpatchable', + meaning the function can be patched even while it is loaded into memory. + On x86, the function prologue will contain a two-byte no-op sequence; + this is the same sequence used in the system DLLs in Microsoft Windows + XP Service Pack 2 and higher.</dd> <dt><tt><b>inlinehint</b></tt></dt> <dd>This attribute indicates that the source code contained a hint that inlining |
