From 7b412cb823f09378d45a0d0baf1127f4466c640c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:53:10 +0000
Subject: Change llvm.gcroot to not init the root to null at runtime, this
 prevents using it for live-in values etc.

llvm-svn: 41879
---
 llvm/docs/GarbageCollection.html | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'llvm/docs/GarbageCollection.html')

diff --git a/llvm/docs/GarbageCollection.html b/llvm/docs/GarbageCollection.html
index 0accd0c78a0..e39e85ce3cd 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/GarbageCollection.html
+++ b/llvm/docs/GarbageCollection.html
@@ -166,9 +166,7 @@ interface that front-end authors should generate code for.
 The <tt>llvm.gcroot</tt> intrinsic is used to inform LLVM of a pointer variable
 on the stack.  The first argument contains the address of the variable on the
 stack, and the second contains a pointer to metadata that should be associated
-with the pointer (which <b>must</b> be a constant or global value address).  At
-runtime, the <tt>llvm.gcroot</tt> intrinsic stores a null pointer into the
-specified location to initialize the pointer.</p>
+with the pointer (which <b>must</b> be a constant or global value address).</p>
 
 <p>
 Consider the following fragment of Java code:
@@ -193,6 +191,9 @@ Entry:
    %X = alloca %Object*
    ...
 
+   ;; Java null-initializes pointers.
+   store %Object* null, %Object** %X
+
    ;; "CodeBlock" is the block corresponding to the start
    ;;  of the scope above.
 CodeBlock:
-- 
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