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Diffstat (limited to 'include/llvm/Target/TargetAsmInfo.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/llvm/Target/TargetAsmInfo.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/llvm/Target/TargetAsmInfo.h b/include/llvm/Target/TargetAsmInfo.h index 2f54696..7fd88b2 100644 --- a/include/llvm/Target/TargetAsmInfo.h +++ b/include/llvm/Target/TargetAsmInfo.h @@ -65,8 +65,15 @@ namespace llvm { /// section on this target. Null if this target doesn't support zerofill. const char *ZeroFillDirective; // Default is null. - /// NeedsSet - True if target asm can't compute addresses on data - /// directives. + /// NeedsSet - True if target asm treats expressions in data directives + /// as linktime-relocatable. For assembly-time computation, we need to + /// use a .set. Thus: + /// .set w, x-y + /// .long w + /// is computed at assembly time, while + /// .long x-y + /// is relocated if the relative locations of x and y change at linktime. + /// We want both these things in different places. bool NeedsSet; // Defaults to false. /// MaxInstLength - This is the maximum possible length of an instruction, |