[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm/lib/VMCore/IntrinsicInst.cpp

[Jim Laskey]

Changes in directory llvm/lib/VMCore:

IntrinsicInst.cpp updated: 1.1 -> 1.2
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Log message:

Clean up some commentary.


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Diffs of the changes:  (+19 -1)

 IntrinsicInst.cpp |   20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


Index: llvm/lib/VMCore/IntrinsicInst.cpp
diff -u llvm/lib/VMCore/IntrinsicInst.cpp:1.1 llvm/lib/VMCore/IntrinsicInst.cpp:1.2
--- llvm/lib/VMCore/IntrinsicInst.cpp:1.1	Thu Mar 23 12:05:12 2006
+++ llvm/lib/VMCore/IntrinsicInst.cpp	Fri Mar 24 04:00:56 2006
@@ -2,10 +2,28 @@
 //
 //                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
 //
-// This file was developed by the LLVM research group and is distributed under
+// This file was developed by James M. Laskey and is distributed under
 // the University of Illinois Open Source License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
 //
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// This file implements methods that make it really easy to deal with intrinsic
+// functions with the isa/dyncast family of functions.  In particular, this
+// allows you to do things like:
+//
+//     if (DbgStopPointInst *SPI = dyn_cast<DbgStopPointInst>(Inst))
+//        ... SPI->getFileName() ... SPI->getDirectory() ...
+//
+// All intrinsic function calls are instances of the call instruction, so these
+// are all subclasses of the CallInst class.  Note that none of these classes
+// has state or virtual methods, which is an important part of this gross/neat
+// hack working.
+// 
+// In some cases, arguments to intrinsics need to be generic and are defined as
+// type pointer to empty struct { }*.  To access the real item of interest the
+// cast instruction needs to be stripped away. 
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
 #include "llvm/IntrinsicInst.h"