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AtomicExpandPass can now lower atomic load, atomic store, atomicrmw, and cmpxchg instructions to __atomic_* library calls, when the target doesn't support atomics of a given size. This is the first step towards moving all atomic lowering from clang into llvm. When all is done, the behavior of __sync_* builtins, __atomic_* builtins, and C11 atomics will be unified. Previously LLVM would pass everything through to the ISelLowering code. There, unsupported atomic instructions would turn into __sync_* library calls. Because of that behavior, Clang currently avoids emitting llvm IR atomic instructions when this would happen, and emits __atomic_* library functions itself, in the frontend. This change makes LLVM able to emit __atomic_* libcalls, and thus will eventually allow clang to depend on LLVM to do the right thing. It is advantageous to do the new lowering to atomic libcalls in AtomicExpandPass, before ISel time, because it's important that all atomic operations for a given size either lower to __atomic_* libcalls (which may use locks), or native instructions which won't. No mixing and matching. At the moment, this code is enabled only for SPARC, as a demonstration. The next commit will expand support to all of the other targets. Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18200 llvm-svn: 266002
LLVM Documentation
==================
LLVM's documentation is written in reStructuredText, a lightweight
plaintext markup language (file extension `.rst`). While the
reStructuredText documentation should be quite readable in source form, it
is mostly meant to be processed by the Sphinx documentation generation
system to create HTML pages which are hosted on <http://llvm.org/docs/> and
updated after every commit. Manpage output is also supported, see below.
If you instead would like to generate and view the HTML locally, install
Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/> and then do:
cd <build-dir>
cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX=true -DSPHINX_OUTPUT_HTML=true <src-dir>
make -j3 docs-llvm-html
$BROWSER <build-dir>/docs//html/index.html
The mapping between reStructuredText files and generated documentation is
`docs/Foo.rst` <-> `<build-dir>/docs//html/Foo.html` <-> `http://llvm.org/docs/Foo.html`.
If you are interested in writing new documentation, you will want to read
`SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst` which will get you writing documentation
very fast and includes examples of the most important reStructuredText
markup syntax.
Manpage Output
===============
Building the manpages is similar to building the HTML documentation. The
primary difference is to use the `man` makefile target, instead of the
default (which is `html`). Sphinx then produces the man pages in the
directory `<build-dir>/docs/man/`.
cd <build-dir>
cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX=true -DSPHINX_OUTPUT_MAN=true <src-dir>
make -j3 docs-llvm-man
man -l >build-dir>/docs/man/FileCheck.1
The correspondence between .rst files and man pages is
`docs/CommandGuide/Foo.rst` <-> `<build-dir>/docs//man/Foo.1`.
These .rst files are also included during HTML generation so they are also
viewable online (as noted above) at e.g.
`http://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/Foo.html`.
Checking links
==============
The reachability of external links in the documentation can be checked by
running:
cd docs/
make -f Makefile.sphinx linkcheck