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authorStephen Hines <srhines@google.com>2015-03-23 12:10:34 -0700
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@@ -221,6 +221,13 @@ lowered according to the calling convention specified at the
intrinsic's callsite. Variants of the intrinsic with non-void return
type also return a value according to calling convention.
+On PowerPC, note that ``<target>`` must be the actual intended target of
+the indirect call. Specifically, even when compiling for the ELF V1 ABI,
+``<target>`` is not the function-descriptor address normally used as the C/C++
+function-pointer representation. As a result, the call target must be local
+because no adjustment or restoration of the TOC pointer (in register r2) will
+be performed.
+
Requesting zero patch point arguments is valid. In this case, all
variable operands are handled just like
``llvm.experimental.stackmap.*``. The difference is that space will