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Tim Northover
79e72dd73c Docs: update va_arg example with valid x86_64 va_list type.
The given example was overflowing its alloca and segfaulting if actually run on
x86, so it's a good idea to provide something that works there too.

Patch by Ramkumar Ramachandra.

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2014-11-02 01:21:51 +00:00
Juergen Ributzka
c08387e220 Update llvm.donothing documentation.
llvm.donothing is no longer the only intrinsic that can be invoked.

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2014-10-23 22:36:13 +00:00
Matt Arsenault
e54627bf95 Fix number of operands in documentation for minnum / maxnum
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2014-10-22 18:25:02 +00:00
Matt Arsenault
469094d88f Try to fix documentation bot warning
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2014-10-22 00:15:53 +00:00
Matt Arsenault
252134602f Add minnum / maxnum intrinsics
These are named following the IEEE-754 names for these
functions, rather than the libm fmin / fmax to avoid
possible ambiguities. Some languages may implement something
resembling fmin / fmax which return NaN if either operand is
to propagate errors. These implement the IEEE-754 semantics
of returning the other operand if either is a NaN representing
missing data.

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2014-10-21 23:00:20 +00:00
Philip Reames
90f3f15da5 Introduce a 'nonnull' metadata on Load instructions.
The newly introduced 'nonnull' metadata is analogous to existing 'nonnull' attributes, but applies to load instructions rather than call arguments or returns.  Long term, it would be nice to combine these into a single construct.   The value of the load is allowed to vary between successive loads, but null is not a valid value to be loaded by any load marked nonnull.

Reviewed by: Hal Finkel
Differential Revision:  http://reviews.llvm.org/D5220




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2014-10-20 22:40:55 +00:00
Jonathan Roelofs
0ab5b9f647 Fix lang-ref doc bug: s/icmp lt/icmp slt/
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2014-10-16 19:28:10 +00:00
Daniel Sanders
d7d96ee191 [docs] Mention character array constants in docs/LangRef.rst
Summary:
They were used in the 'Module Structure' example but weren't otherwise
documented.

Credit to Reed Kotler for noticing.

Reviewers: hans

Reviewed By: hans

Subscribers: hans, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D5191

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2014-09-11 12:02:59 +00:00
Hans Wennborg
2bb4229297 LangRef: @baz should be @bar in the COMDAT example
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2014-09-10 17:05:08 +00:00
Dan Liew
c5bdff0176 Fix type error in insertvalue example in LangRef. %agg1 is of type {i32,
float} and thus cannot be used where a type {i32, {float}} is expected.

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2014-09-08 21:19:46 +00:00
Reid Kleckner
44b3a0b411 Declare that musttail calls in variadic functions forward the ellipsis
Summary:
There is no functionality change here except in the way we assemble and
dump musttail calls in variadic functions. There's really no need to
separate out the bits for musttail and "is forwarding varargs" on call
instructions. A musttail call by definition has to forward the ellipsis
or it would fail verification.

Reviewers: chandlerc, nlewycky

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4892

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2014-08-26 00:33:28 +00:00
Dan Liew
0ea6d4421c Add note to LangRef about how function arguments can be unnamed and
how this affects the numbering of unnamed temporaries.

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2014-08-20 15:06:30 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith
5a466d37d8 LangRef: Move example of function-scope uselistorder to a function
Should make the example added in r216025 a little more clear.

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2014-08-19 21:48:04 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith
7838818ad7 IR: Implement uselistorder assembly directives
Implement `uselistorder` and `uselistorder_bb` assembly directives,
which allow the use-list order to be recovered when round-tripping to
assembly.

This is the bulk of PR20515.

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2014-08-19 21:30:15 +00:00
Nick Lewycky
12a0c0b4b3 Fix examples of "named metadata" (some of which isn't named).
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2014-08-13 04:54:05 +00:00
Richard Smith
d1d53e81f6 Fix some grammatical errors.
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2014-07-31 04:25:36 +00:00
Rafael Espindola
d57120551f Use "weak alias" instead of "alias weak"
Before this patch we had

@a = weak global ...
but
@b = alias weak ...

The patch changes aliases to look more like global variables.

Looking at some really old code suggests that the reason was that the old
bison based parser had a reduction for alias linkages and another one for
global variable linkages. Putting the alias first avoided the reduce/reduce
conflict.

The days of the old .ll parser are long gone. The new one parses just "linkage"
and a later check is responsible for deciding if a linkage is valid in a
given context.

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2014-07-30 22:51:54 +00:00
Hans Wennborg
dab34a615b LangRef: add a note about the mangling-suppressing \01 prefix
Someone asked about this on IRC the other day, and I couldn't
find the magic prefix documented anywhere.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4728

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2014-07-30 20:02:08 +00:00
Manuel Jacob
b5b178a1ed Correct vector type definition in LangRef.
According to VectorType::isValidElementType, any integer, floating point
or pointer type is a valid vector element type.


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2014-07-30 12:30:06 +00:00
Dan Liew
e301e0b9a1 Fixed sphinx warning.
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2014-07-28 13:33:51 +00:00
Hal Finkel
8ef7b17dfc Add @llvm.assume, lowering, and some basic properties
This is the first commit in a series that add an @llvm.assume intrinsic which
can be used to provide the optimizer with a condition it may assume to be true
(when the control flow would hit the intrinsic call). Some basic properties are added here:

 - llvm.invariant(true) is dead.
 - llvm.invariant(false) is unreachable (this directly corresponds to the
   documented behavior of MSVC's __assume(0)), so is llvm.invariant(undef).

The intrinsic is tagged as writing arbitrarily, in order to maintain control
dependencies. BasicAA has been updated, however, to return NoModRef for any
particular location-based query so that we don't unnecessarily block code
motion.

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2014-07-25 21:13:35 +00:00
Hal Finkel
6f5c609076 Simplify and improve scoped-noalias metadata semantics
In the process of fixing the noalias parameter -> metadata conversion process
that will take place during inlining (which will be committed soon, but not
turned on by default), I have come to realize that the semantics provided by
yesterday's commit are not really what we want. Here's why:

void foo(noalias a, noalias b, noalias c, bool x) {
  *q = x ? a : b;
  *c = *q;
}

Generically, we know that *c does not alias with *a and with *b (so there is an
'and' in what we know we're not), and we know that *q might be derived from *a
or from *b (so there is an 'or' in what we know that we are). So we do not want
the semantics currently, where any noalias scope matching any alias.scope
causes a NoAlias return. What we want to know is that the noalias scopes form a
superset of the alias.scope list (meaning that all the things we know we're not
is a superset of all of things the other instruction might be).

Making that change, however, introduces a composibility problem. If we inline
once, adding the noalias metadata, and then inline again adding more, and we
append new scopes onto the noalias and alias.scope lists each time. But, this
means that we could change what was a NoAlias result previously into a MayAlias
result because we appended an additional scope onto one of the alias.scope
lists. So, instead of giving scopes the ability to have parents (which I had
borrowed from the TBAA implementation, but seems increasingly unlikely to be
useful in practice), I've given them domains. The subset/superset condition now
applies within each domain independently, and we only need it to hold in one
domain. Each time we inline, we add the new scopes in a new scope domain, and
everything now composes nicely. In addition, this simplifies the
implementation.

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2014-07-25 15:50:02 +00:00
Hal Finkel
16fd27b2c3 Add scoped-noalias metadata
This commit adds scoped noalias metadata. The primary motivations for this
feature are:
  1. To preserve noalias function attribute information when inlining
  2. To provide the ability to model block-scope C99 restrict pointers

Neither of these two abilities are added here, only the necessary
infrastructure. In fact, there should be no change to existing functionality,
only the addition of new features. The logic that converts noalias function
parameters into this metadata during inlining will come in a follow-up commit.

What is added here is the ability to generally specify noalias memory-access
sets. Regarding the metadata, alias-analysis scopes are defined similar to TBAA
nodes:

!scope0 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope of foo()" }
!scope1 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 1", metadata !scope0 }
!scope2 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 2", metadata !scope0 }
!scope3 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 2.1", metadata !scope2 }
!scope4 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 2.2", metadata !scope2 }

Loads and stores can be tagged with an alias-analysis scope, and also, with a
noalias tag for a specific scope:

... = load %ptr1, !alias.scope !{ !scope1 }
... = load %ptr2, !alias.scope !{ !scope1, !scope2 }, !noalias !{ !scope1 }

When evaluating an aliasing query, if one of the instructions is associated
with an alias.scope id that is identical to the noalias scope associated with
the other instruction, or is a descendant (in the scope hierarchy) of the
noalias scope associated with the other instruction, then the two memory
accesses are assumed not to alias.

Note that is the first element of the scope metadata is a string, then it can
be combined accross functions and translation units. The string can be replaced
by a self-reference to create globally unqiue scope identifiers.

[Note: This overview is slightly stylized, since the metadata nodes really need
to just be numbers (!0 instead of !scope0), and the scope lists are also global
unnamed metadata.]

Existing noalias metadata in a callee is "cloned" for use by the inlined code.
This is necessary because the aliasing scopes are unique to each call site
(because of possible control dependencies on the aliasing properties). For
example, consider a function: foo(noalias a, noalias b) { *a = *b; } that gets
inlined into bar() { ... if (...) foo(a1, b1); ... if (...) foo(a2, b2); } --
now just because we know that a1 does not alias with b1 at the first call site,
and a2 does not alias with b2 at the second call site, we cannot let inlining
these functons have the metadata imply that a1 does not alias with b2.

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2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
Mark Heffernan
e8d7ebcd5a In unroll pragma syntax and loop hint metadata, change "enable" forms to a new form using the string "full".
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2014-07-23 17:31:37 +00:00
Hal Finkel
b3b2aac5be Make use of the align parameter attribute for all pointer arguments
We previously supported the align attribute on all (pointer) parameters, but we
only used it for byval parameters. However, it is completely consistent at the
IR level to treat 'align n' on all pointer parameters as an alignment
assumption on the pointer, and now we wll. Specifically, this causes
computeKnownBits to use the align attribute on all pointer parameters, not just
byval parameters. I've also added an explicit parameter attribute test for this
to test/Bitcode/attributes.ll.

And I've updated the LangRef to document the align parameter attribute (as it
turns out, it was not documented at all previously, although the byval
documentation mentioned that it could be used).

There are (at least) two benefits to doing this:
 - It allows enhancing alignment based on the pointer alignment after inlining callees.
 - It allows simplification of pointer arithmetic.

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2014-07-22 16:58:55 +00:00
Dan Liew
d883110014 Fix Sphinx warning.
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2014-07-22 14:59:38 +00:00
Mark Heffernan
bc7f1aba2d Rename metadata llvm.loop.vectorize.unroll to llvm.loop.vectorize.interleave.
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2014-07-21 23:11:03 +00:00
Mark Heffernan
8ec1546db4 Add loop unrolling metadata descriptions to docs/LangRef.rst.
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2014-07-18 19:24:51 +00:00
Hal Finkel
11af4b49b2 Add a dereferenceable attribute
This attribute indicates that the parameter or return pointer is
dereferenceable. Practically speaking, loads from such a pointer within the
associated byte range are safe to speculatively execute. Such pointer
parameters are common in source languages (C++ references, for example).

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2014-07-18 15:51:28 +00:00
Tim Northover
3e61ccdded CodeGen: extend f16 conversions to permit types > float.
This makes the two intrinsics @llvm.convert.from.f16 and
@llvm.convert.to.f16 accept types other than simple "float". This is
only strictly needed for the truncate operation, since otherwise
double rounding occurs and there's no way to represent the strict IEEE
conversion. However, for symmetry we allow larger types in the extend
too.

During legalization, we can expand an "fp16_to_double" operation into
two extends for convenience, but abort when the truncate isn't legal. A new
libcall is probably needed here.

Even after this commit, various target tweaks are needed to actually use the
extended intrinsics. I've put these into separate commits for clarity, so there
are no actual tests of f64 conversion here.

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2014-07-17 10:51:23 +00:00
Hal Finkel
e0fd412fb2 Fix a typo in the inalloca description
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2014-07-16 21:22:46 +00:00
Reid Kleckner
cbebdef6eb Document the maximum LLVM IR alignment, which is 1 << 29 or 0.5 GiB
Add verifier checks.  We already check these in the assembly parser, but
a frontend producing IR in memory wouldn't hit those checks.

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2014-07-15 01:16:09 +00:00
Matt Arsenault
985d66c081 Fix types in documentation.
The examples were using f32, but the IR type is called float

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2014-07-10 03:22:16 +00:00
Sanjay Patel
d4921230be fixed typos
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2014-07-04 19:40:43 +00:00
Alp Toker
a0d04ac9f1 Fix 'platform-specific' hyphenations
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2014-06-30 18:57:16 +00:00
David Majnemer
c8a1169c93 IR: Add COMDATs to the IR
This new IR facility allows us to represent the object-file semantic of
a COMDAT group.

COMDATs allow us to tie together sections and make the inclusion of one
dependent on another. This is required to implement features like MS
ABI VFTables and optimizing away certain kinds of initialization in C++.

This functionality is only representable in COFF and ELF, Mach-O has no
similar mechanism.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4178

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2014-06-27 18:19:56 +00:00
Eli Bendersky
bb167336b3 Rename loop unrolling and loop vectorizer metadata to have a common prefix.
[LLVM part]

These patches rename the loop unrolling and loop vectorizer metadata
such that they have a common 'llvm.loop.' prefix.  Metadata name
changes:

llvm.vectorizer.* => llvm.loop.vectorizer.*
llvm.loopunroll.* => llvm.loop.unroll.*

This was a suggestion from an earlier review
(http://reviews.llvm.org/D4090) which added the loop unrolling
metadata. 

Patch by Mark Heffernan.



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2014-06-25 15:41:00 +00:00
Oliver Stannard
e5241cc488 Emit the ARM build attributes ABI_PCS_wchar_t and ABI_enum_size.
Emit the ARM build attributes ABI_PCS_wchar_t and ABI_enum_size based on
module flags metadata.



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2014-06-20 10:08:11 +00:00
Jingyue Wu
e4d0a5ec18 [ValueTracking] Extend range metadata to call/invoke
Summary:
With this patch, range metadata can be added to call/invoke including
IntrinsicInst. Previously, it could only be added to load.

Rename computeKnownBitsLoad to computeKnownBitsFromRangeMetadata because
range metadata is not only used by load.

Update the language reference to reflect this change.

Test Plan:
Add several tests in range-2.ll to confirm the verifier is happy with
having range metadata on call/invoke.

Add two tests in AddOverFlow.ll to confirm annotating range metadata to
call/invoke can benefit InstCombine.

Reviewers: meheff, nlewycky, reames, hfinkel, eliben

Reviewed By: eliben

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4187

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2014-06-19 16:50:16 +00:00
Tim Northover
6eaf840a3d Docs: remove extra {} around result types.
It makes the types look like they're single-element structures. And
when we have instructions that *do* result in a struct, that can get
confusing rather quickly.

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2014-06-13 14:24:23 +00:00
Tim Northover
ab47c159b0 Docs: fix grammar error in description
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2014-06-13 14:24:16 +00:00
Tim Northover
8f2a85e099 IR: add "cmpxchg weak" variant to support permitted failure.
This commit adds a weak variant of the cmpxchg operation, as described
in C++11. A cmpxchg instruction with this modifier is permitted to
fail to store, even if the comparison indicated it should.

As a result, cmpxchg instructions must return a flag indicating
success in addition to their original iN value loaded. Thus, for
uniformity *all* cmpxchg instructions now return "{ iN, i1 }". The
second flag is 1 when the store succeeded.

At the DAG level, a new ATOMIC_CMP_SWAP_WITH_SUCCESS node has been
added as the natural representation for the new cmpxchg instructions.
It is a strong cmpxchg.

By default this gets Expanded to the existing ATOMIC_CMP_SWAP during
Legalization, so existing backends should see no change in behaviour.
If they wish to deal with the enhanced node instead, they can call
setOperationAction on it. Beware: as a node with 2 results, it cannot
be selected from TableGen.

Currently, no use is made of the extra information provided in this
patch. Test updates are almost entirely adapting the input IR to the
new scheme.

Summary for out of tree users:
------------------------------

+ Legacy Bitcode files are upgraded during read.
+ Legacy assembly IR files will be invalid.
+ Front-ends must adapt to different type for "cmpxchg".
+ Backends should be unaffected by default.

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2014-06-13 14:24:07 +00:00
Bob Wilson
4cea00282f LangRef: clarify that global declarations can have section and alignment info.
I'm not sure what it means to set a section for a declaration in another
translation unit, but there are some tests in the tree that do it so it seems
to be legal now regardless.

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2014-06-12 20:40:33 +00:00
Bob Wilson
7c3436d941 Add missing "InitializerConstant" to global variable syntax in LangRef.
The syntax for Global Variables in LangRef is missing the initializer.
This syntax section was added in r199218 along with changes to the
dllexport/dllimport handling, and I guess it was just an oversight to omit the
initializer values. I’ve marked the initializer as optional because this syntax
is used for both declarations and definitions.

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2014-06-12 18:42:55 +00:00
Rafael Espindola
ed7d283ce5 Update langref for unnamed_addr being allowed in aliases.
Thanks to Duncan P. N. Exon Smith and Owen Anderson for noticing.

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2014-06-09 21:21:33 +00:00
Pekka Jaaskelainen
53b344dcca Slight language tweak from Jonathan Humphreys.
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2014-06-06 11:21:44 +00:00
Rafael Espindola
6fd1b8ee48 Allow aliases to be unnamed_addr.
Alias with unnamed_addr were in a strange state. It is stored in GlobalValue,
the language reference talks about "unnamed_addr aliases" but the verifier
was rejecting them.

It seems natural to allow unnamed_addr in aliases:

* It is a property of how it is accessed, not of the data itself.
* It is perfectly possible to write code that depends on the address
of an alias.

This patch then makes unname_addr legal for aliases. One side effect is that
the syntax changes for a corner case: In globals, unnamed_addr is now printed
before the address space.

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2014-06-06 01:20:28 +00:00
Tom Roeder
5d0f7af3dc Add a new attribute called 'jumptable' that creates jump-instruction tables for functions marked with this attribute.
It includes a pass that rewrites all indirect calls to jumptable functions to pass through these tables.

This also adds backend support for generating the jump-instruction tables on ARM and X86.
Note that since the jumptable attribute creates a second function pointer for a
function, any function marked with jumptable must also be marked with unnamed_addr.


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2014-06-05 19:29:43 +00:00
Rafael Espindola
2d21b25393 Allow alias to point to an arbitrary ConstantExpr.
This  patch changes GlobalAlias to point to an arbitrary ConstantExpr and it is
up to MC (or the system assembler) to decide if that expression is valid or not.

This reduces our ability to diagnose invalid uses and how early we can spot
them, but it also lets us do things like

@test5 = alias inttoptr(i32 sub (i32 ptrtoint (i32* @test2 to i32),
                                 i32 ptrtoint (i32* @bar to i32)) to i32*)

An important implication of this patch is that the notion of aliased global
doesn't exist any more. The alias has to encode the information needed to
access it in its metadata (linkage, visibility, type, etc).

Another consequence to notice is that getSection has to return a "const char *".
It could return a NullTerminatedStringRef if there was such a thing, but when
that was proposed the decision was to just uses "const char*" for that.

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2014-06-03 02:41:57 +00:00
Rafael Espindola
665d42accf [pr19844] Add thread local mode to aliases.
This matches gcc's behavior. It also seems natural given that aliases
contain other properties that govern how it is accessed (linkage,
visibility, dll storage).

Clang still has to be updated to expose this feature to C.

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2014-05-28 18:15:43 +00:00