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        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/136663>136663</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            Documentation inconsistency for aliases
        </td>
    </tr>

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      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            new issue
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      <th>Assignees</th>
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      </td>
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    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          camilstaps
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    The documentation for aliases (GlobalAlias) says (emphasis mine):

> Aliases have a name and **an aliasee that is either a global value or a constant expression**.

The syntax, however, seems to allow for global values but not constant expressions, because of the `@` in front of `<Aliasee>`:

```llvm
@<Name> = [Linkage] [PreemptionSpecifier] [Visibility] [DLLStorageClass] [ThreadLocal] [(unnamed_addr|local_unnamed_addr)] alias <AliaseeTy>, <AliaseeTy>* @<Aliasee>
          [, partition "name"]
```

The natural language documentation seems to be correct, because (at least on X86) I can do the following:

```llvm
@x = global i32 1
@y = alias i32, i32* getelementptr (i32, ptr @x, i32 1)
```

So, I think the `@` in front of `<Aliasee>` should be removed.
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