llvm/docs
Reid Kleckner 0a17ddc991 [IR] Add llvm.dbg.addr, a control-dependent version of llvm.dbg.declare
Summary:
This implements the design discussed on llvm-dev for better tracking of
variables that live in memory through optimizations:
  http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-September/117222.html

This is tracked as PR34136

llvm.dbg.addr is intended to be produced and used in almost precisely
the same way as llvm.dbg.declare is today, with the exception that it is
control-dependent. That means that dbg.addr should always have a
position in the instruction stream, and it will allow passes that
optimize memory operations on local variables to insert llvm.dbg.value
calls to reflect deleted stores. See SourceLevelDebugging.rst for more
details.

The main drawback to generating DBG_VALUE machine instrs is that they
usually cause LLVM to emit a location list for DW_AT_location. The next
step will be to teach DwarfDebug.cpp how to recognize more DBG_VALUE
ranges as not needing a location list, and possibly start setting
DW_AT_start_offset for variables whose lifetimes begin mid-scope.

Reviewers: aprantl, dblaikie, probinson

Subscribers: eraman, hiraditya, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37768

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@313825 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2017-09-20 21:52:33 +00:00
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CommandGuide [docs] llvm-cov: Document -show-instantiation-summary 2017-09-20 21:52:09 +00:00
Frontend
HistoricalNotes
PDB
Proposals fix various typos 2017-06-26 02:45:39 +00:00
TableGen Improvements to TableGen/LangIntro.rst 2017-05-02 13:47:10 +00:00
tutorial [ORC][Kaleidoscope] Update ORCJit tutorial. 2017-09-17 00:24:43 +00:00
AdvancedBuilds.rst
AliasAnalysis.rst [docs] AliasAnalysis: clarify that PartialAlias doesn't enforce 2017-07-15 09:09:24 +00:00
AMDGPUUsage.rst Update AMDGPUUsage.rst documentation: 2017-08-15 20:47:41 +00:00
ARM-BE-bitcastfail.png
ARM-BE-bitcastsuccess.png
ARM-BE-ld1.png
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Atomics.rst
Benchmarking.rst Add some tips on benchmarking. 2017-05-24 16:39:12 +00:00
BigEndianNEON.rst
BitCodeFormat.rst Bitcode: Add a string table to the bitcode format. 2017-04-17 17:51:36 +00:00
BlockFrequencyTerminology.rst
BranchWeightMetadata.rst [Doc] Document prof metadata in LangRef 2017-06-15 15:57:12 +00:00
Bugpoint.rst
CFIVerify.rst Introduce the llvm-cfi-verify tool (resubmission of D37937). 2017-09-20 20:38:14 +00:00
CMake.rst [docs] Make a note of LLVM_BUILD_INSTRUMENTED_COVERAGE 2017-09-20 17:16:00 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt Revert "Revert "CMake: Move sphinx detection into AddSphinxTarget.cmake"" 2017-05-09 01:41:28 +00:00
CMakePrimer.rst [docs] In the CMake primer, correct the description of the ARGV/ARGN variables. 2017-08-24 05:38:39 +00:00
CodeGenerator.rst Add documentation for various aspects of the AMDGPU backend. 2017-06-06 20:31:59 +00:00
CodeOfConduct.rst
CodingStandards.rst [docs] Add a note on iteration of unordered containers to coding standards 2017-09-06 20:19:10 +00:00
CommandLine.rst
CompileCudaWithLLVM.rst [Docs] Update docs to indicate that CUDA compilation is supported on Windows. 2017-01-05 16:54:28 +00:00
CompilerWriterInfo.rst Fix broken links to the Itanium CXX ABI 2017-09-12 00:19:11 +00:00
conf.py Update trunk version to 6.0.0svn 2017-07-19 12:19:01 +00:00
Coroutines.rst fix trivial typos in documents; NFC 2017-07-02 12:44:27 +00:00
CoverageMappingFormat.rst [Coverage] Use gap regions to select better line exec counts 2017-09-18 23:37:28 +00:00
DebuggingJITedCode.rst
DeveloperPolicy.rst Update Bugzilla URLs in docs 2017-02-17 08:26:11 +00:00
Docker.rst Made a script to build docker images easier to use. 2017-07-06 12:46:51 +00:00
doxygen-mainpage.dox
doxygen.cfg.in Sync with changes from r300825 in clang. 2017-04-27 17:23:53 +00:00
ExceptionHandling.rst Fix broken links to the Itanium CXX ABI 2017-09-12 00:19:11 +00:00
ExtendedIntegerResults.txt
ExtendingLLVM.rst
Extensions.rst Change section flag character for SHF_LINK_ORDER to "o". 2017-04-04 22:35:08 +00:00
FAQ.rst
FaultMaps.rst Fix the docs build 2017-02-07 20:36:03 +00:00
GarbageCollection.rst
gcc-loops.png
GetElementPtr.rst [docs] change a few code-blocks to llvm from text 2017-07-26 14:11:23 +00:00
GettingStarted.rst Fix git command line in the Getting Started guide. 2017-05-15 22:32:34 +00:00
GettingStartedVS.rst Update the documentation and CMake file for Visual Studio generators. 2017-05-25 21:01:30 +00:00
GlobalISel.rst Reapply "[GlobalISel] Remove the GISelAccessor API." 2017-08-15 22:31:51 +00:00
GoldPlugin.rst [docs] As of binutils 2.21.51.0.2, ld.bfd supports plugins too, represent this in docs 2017-06-23 13:54:10 +00:00
HowToAddABuilder.rst Added more info on silent master to the doc. 2017-07-05 20:45:44 +00:00
HowToBuildOnARM.rst
HowToCrossCompileLLVM.rst
HowToReleaseLLVM.rst docs: Fix formatting in HowToReleaseLLVM 2017-09-19 03:27:26 +00:00
HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.rst
HowToSubmitABug.rst Update Bugzilla URLs in docs 2017-02-17 08:26:11 +00:00
HowToUseAttributes.rst Fix RST docs AttributeList heading underline 2017-03-21 17:05:00 +00:00
HowToUseInstrMappings.rst
InAlloca.rst
index.rst Introduce the llvm-cfi-verify tool (resubmission of D37937). 2017-09-20 20:38:14 +00:00
LangRef.rst Fix a misleading phrase in the LangRef 2017-09-13 18:49:22 +00:00
Lexicon.rst [Lexicon] Add "GEP" 2017-08-18 15:35:53 +00:00
LibFuzzer.rst [libFuzzer] one more trophy 2017-09-18 20:48:35 +00:00
LinkTimeOptimization.rst
linpack-pc.png
LLVMBuild.rst Fix LLVMBuild.txt typo. NFC 2017-04-03 18:21:50 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt
make.bat
Makefile.sphinx
MarkedUpDisassembly.rst
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MCJITDesignAndImplementation.rst
MemorySSA.rst
MergeFunctions.rst
MIRLangRef.rst MIParser/MIRPrinter: Compute block successors if not explicitely specified 2017-05-05 21:09:30 +00:00
NVPTXUsage.rst Update NVVMReflect usage doc to new idiom for adding target-specific early passes. 2017-01-27 19:44:24 +00:00
OptBisect.rst Remove opt-bisect support for "cases" in favor of debug counters 2017-03-11 01:41:03 +00:00
Packaging.rst
Passes.rst
Phabricator.rst docs/Phabricator: Better git examples to produce full context patches 2017-06-15 22:09:30 +00:00
ProgrammersManual.rst Refine report_fatal_error guidance after post-commit review 2017-08-18 06:45:34 +00:00
Projects.rst
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README.txt Remove test commit change. 2017-06-24 20:13:32 +00:00
ReleaseNotes.rst Add a ReleaseNotes blurb for Execute.*Wait API change 2017-09-15 11:45:30 +00:00
ReleaseProcess.rst
ReportingGuide.rst
ScudoHardenedAllocator.rst [docs] Fix Scudo documentation error 2017-08-29 19:54:19 +00:00
SegmentedStacks.rst
SourceLevelDebugging.rst [IR] Add llvm.dbg.addr, a control-dependent version of llvm.dbg.declare 2017-09-20 21:52:33 +00:00
SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst
StackMaps.rst [StackMaps] Increase the size of the "location size" field 2017-04-28 04:48:42 +00:00
Statepoints.rst [docs] change a few code-blocks to llvm from text 2017-07-26 14:11:23 +00:00
SystemLibrary.rst
TableGenFundamentals.rst
TestingGuide.rst [docs] cleanup documentation on lit substitutions 2017-02-09 14:12:30 +00:00
TestSuiteMakefileGuide.rst
TypeMetadata.rst Fix broken links to the Itanium CXX ABI 2017-09-12 00:19:11 +00:00
Vectorizers.rst [docs] Update name of vectorization interleave flag. 2017-05-31 23:02:55 +00:00
WritingAnLLVMBackend.rst [docs] Document how to debug instruction scheduling model generation 2017-07-19 14:10:42 +00:00
WritingAnLLVMPass.rst
XRay.rst Xray docs with description of Flight Data Recorder binary format. 2017-08-02 21:47:27 +00:00
XRayExample.rst Fix some minor typos in the llvm XRay exemple 2017-08-12 15:08:11 +00:00
XRayFDRFormat.rst [XRay][tools] Support tail-call exits before we write them in the runtime 2017-09-18 06:08:46 +00:00
yaml2obj.rst
YamlIO.rst fix some typos in the doc 2017-01-14 11:37:01 +00:00

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

Doxygen page Output
==============

Install doxygen <http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/download.html> and dot2tex <https://dot2tex.readthedocs.io/en/latest>.

    cd <build-dir>
    cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_DOXYGEN=On <llvm-top-src-dir>
    make doxygen-llvm # for LLVM docs
    make doxygen-clang # for clang docs

It will generate html in
    
    <build-dir>/docs/doxygen/html # for LLVM docs
    <build-dir>/tools/clang/docs/doxygen/html # for clang docs