[LLVMdev] Small error in documentation?

John McCall rjmccall at apple.com
Fri Feb 12 19:53:24 PST 2010


On Feb 12, 2010, at 7:47 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:

> 
> On Feb 12, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Russell Wallace wrote:
> 
>> http://llvm.org/docs/ProgrammersManual.html#BasicBlock
>> 
>> "This class represents a single entry multiple exit section of the
>> code, commonly known as a basic block by the compiler community."
>> 
>> This should perhaps read 'single entry single exit'?
> 
> basic blocks can end with conditional branches etc, which have multiple exists.

Sure, but it's a single point of exit, which is (1) different from some other SSA designs and (2) what people normally use SESE to mean.

John.



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