Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .. _subsystems: |
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| 3 | Subsystem Documentation |
| 4 | ======================= |
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Bill Wendling | 430c3bb | 2012-06-20 09:49:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | .. toctree:: |
| 7 | :hidden: |
| 8 | |
| 9 | AliasAnalysis |
Bill Wendling | 707f2fd | 2012-06-20 10:17:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | BranchWeightMetadata |
Bill Wendling | a3a2eb0 | 2012-06-20 10:08:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | LinkTimeOptimization |
Bill Wendling | 47997e8 | 2012-06-20 12:05:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 12 | SegmentedStacks |
Bill Wendling | 430c3bb | 2012-06-20 09:49:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | * `Writing an LLVM Pass <WritingAnLLVMPass.html>`_ |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | Information on how to write LLVM transformations and analyses. |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | * `Writing an LLVM Backend <WritingAnLLVMBackend.html>`_ |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | Information on how to write LLVM backends for machine targets. |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | * `The LLVM Target-Independent Code Generator <CodeGenerator.html>`_ |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | The design and implementation of the LLVM code generator. Useful if you are |
| 25 | working on retargetting LLVM to a new architecture, designing a new codegen |
| 26 | pass, or enhancing existing components. |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | * `TableGen Fundamentals <TableGenFundamentals.html>`_ |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | Describes the TableGen tool, which is used heavily by the LLVM code |
| 31 | generator. |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | * :ref:`alias_analysis` |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | Information on how to write a new alias analysis implementation or how to |
| 36 | use existing analyses. |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | * `Accurate Garbage Collection with LLVM <GarbageCollection.html>`_ |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | The interfaces source-language compilers should use for compiling GC'd |
| 41 | programs. |
Bill Wendling | 47997e8 | 2012-06-20 12:05:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 42 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | * `Source Level Debugging with LLVM <SourceLevelDebugging.html>`_ |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | This document describes the design and philosophy behind the LLVM |
| 46 | source-level debugger. |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | * `Zero Cost Exception handling in LLVM <ExceptionHandling.html>`_ |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | This document describes the design and implementation of exception handling |
| 51 | in LLVM. |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | * `Bugpoint <Bugpoint.html>`_ |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | Automatic bug finder and test-case reducer description and usage |
| 56 | information. |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | * `LLVM Bitcode File Format <BitCodeFormat.html>`_ |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 59 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | This describes the file format and encoding used for LLVM "bc" files. |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | * `System Library <SystemLibrary.html>`_ |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | This document describes the LLVM System Library (<tt>lib/System</tt>) and |
| 65 | how to keep LLVM source code portable |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 66 | |
Bill Wendling | a3a2eb0 | 2012-06-20 10:08:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | * :ref:`lto` |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | This document describes the interface between LLVM intermodular optimizer |
| 70 | and the linker and its design |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | * `The LLVM gold plugin <GoldPlugin.html>`_ |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | How to build your programs with link-time optimization on Linux. |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | * `The GDB JIT interface <DebuggingJITedCode.html>`_ |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | How to debug JITed code with GDB. |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | |
Bill Wendling | 707f2fd | 2012-06-20 10:17:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | * :ref:`branch_weight` |
Daniel Dunbar | 21e993c | 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | |
Bill Wendling | df870f5 | 2012-06-20 09:50:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | Provides information about Branch Prediction Information. |
Bill Wendling | 47997e8 | 2012-06-20 12:05:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 83 | |
| 84 | * :ref:`segmented_stacks` |
| 85 | |
| 86 | This document describes segmented stacks and how they are used in LLVM. |