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authorReid Spencer <rspencer@reidspencer.com>2006-10-20 07:07:24 +0000
committerReid Spencer <rspencer@reidspencer.com>2006-10-20 07:07:24 +0000
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For PR950:
This patch implements the first increment for the Signless Types feature. All changes pertain to removing the ConstantSInt and ConstantUInt classes in favor of just using ConstantInt. llvm-svn: 31063
Diffstat (limited to 'llvm/docs')
-rw-r--r--llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.html19
-rw-r--r--llvm/docs/Stacker.html10
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.html b/llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.html
index bd797476266..950c937824a 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.html
+++ b/llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.html
@@ -2390,8 +2390,8 @@ provide a name for it (probably based on the name of the translation unit).</p>
<div class="doc_text">
<p>Constant represents a base class for different types of constants. It
-is subclassed by ConstantBool, ConstantInt, ConstantSInt, ConstantUInt,
-ConstantArray etc for representing the various types of Constants.</p>
+is subclassed by ConstantBool, ConstantInt, ConstantArray etc for representing
+the various types of Constants.</p>
</div>
@@ -2406,17 +2406,12 @@ ConstantArray etc for representing the various types of Constants.</p>
<div class="doc_subsubsection">Important Subclasses of Constant </div>
<div class="doc_text">
<ul>
- <li>ConstantSInt : This subclass of Constant represents a signed integer
- constant.
+ <li>ConstantInt : This subclass of Constant represents an integer constant.
<ul>
- <li><tt>int64_t getValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value of
- this constant. </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>ConstantUInt : This class represents an unsigned integer.
- <ul>
- <li><tt>uint64_t getValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value of
- this constant. </li>
+ <li><tt>int64_t getSExtValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value of
+ this constant as a sign extended signed integer value.</li>
+ <li><tt>uint64_t getZExtValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value
+ of this constant as a zero extended unsigned integer value.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>ConstantFP : This class represents a floating point constant.
diff --git a/llvm/docs/Stacker.html b/llvm/docs/Stacker.html
index 7656dc10c08..a49b56de863 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/Stacker.html
+++ b/llvm/docs/Stacker.html
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ this: </p>
Value*
expression(BasicBlock* bb, Value* a, Value* b, Value* x, Value* y )
{
- ConstantSInt* one = ConstantSInt::get(Type::IntTy, 1);
+ ConstantInt* one = ConstantInt::get(Type::IntTy, 1);
BinaryOperator* or1 = BinaryOperator::createOr(a, b, "", bb);
BinaryOperator* add1 = BinaryOperator::createAdd(x, one, "", bb);
BinaryOperator* add2 = BinaryOperator::createAdd(y, one, "", bb);
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ things, this leads to the idiom:
</p>
<pre>
std::vector&lt;Value*&gt; index_vector;
-index_vector.push_back( ConstantSInt::get( Type::LongTy, 0 );
+index_vector.push_back( ConstantInt::get( Type::LongTy, 0 );
// ... push other indices ...
GetElementPtrInst* gep = new GetElementPtrInst( ptr, index_vector );
</pre>
@@ -367,9 +367,9 @@ functions in the LLVM IR that make things easier. Here's what I learned: </p>
<ul>
<li>Constants are Values like anything else and can be operands of instructions</li>
<li>Integer constants, frequently needed, can be created using the static "get"
- methods of the ConstantInt, ConstantSInt, and ConstantUInt classes. The nice thing
- about these is that you can "get" any kind of integer quickly.</li>
- <li>There's a special method on Constant class which allows you to get the null
+ methods of the ConstantInt class. The nice thing about these is that you can
+ "get" any kind of integer quickly.</li>
+ <li>There's a special method on Constant class which allows you to get the null
constant for <em>any</em> type. This is really handy for initializing large
arrays or structures, etc.</li>
</ul>
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