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| author | Dan Gohman <gohman@apple.com> | 2009-08-20 17:08:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Dan Gohman <gohman@apple.com> | 2009-08-20 17:08:17 +0000 |
| commit | 2de532c1327767f9e8ae036f1bc0a3cbae11fe65 (patch) | |
| tree | 48e8a2722273815031e6ea8db508c48827cd260b /llvm/docs/LangRef.html | |
| parent | 9a84665921c379f98fc76d3fde6642e07a954efc (diff) | |
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Clarify a few things in the inbounds description.
Describing inbounds in terms of infinitely precise arithmetic prohibits
the assumption address-space-sized integer arithmetic will wrap, with
a wrapped-around value landing within the same object.
llvm-svn: 79538
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/docs/LangRef.html b/llvm/docs/LangRef.html index 9ef7cce419f..384c1201fa1 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/LangRef.html +++ b/llvm/docs/LangRef.html @@ -4004,11 +4004,11 @@ entry: <p>If the <tt>inbounds</tt> keyword is present, the result value of the <tt>getelementptr</tt> is undefined if the base pointer is not an <i>in bounds</i> address of an allocated object, or if any of the addresses - formed by successive addition of the offsets implied by the indices to - the base address are not an <i>in bounds</i> address of that allocated - object. + that would be formed by successive addition of the offsets implied by the + indices to the base address with infinitely precise arithmetic are not an + <i>in bounds</i> address of that allocated object. The <i>in bounds</i> addresses for an allocated object are all the addresses - that point into the object, plus the address one past the end.</p> + that point into the object, plus the address one byte past the end.</p> <p>If the <tt>inbounds</tt> keyword is not present, the offsets are added to the base address with silently-wrapping two's complement arithmetic, and |

