[llvm-commits] [PATCH] Alloca clarification in LangRef

Matt Johnson johnso87 at crhc.illinois.edu
Wed Feb 15 19:14:16 PST 2012


Ping?  I'm willing to let this one go if I'm the only one who didn't get 
it immediately :)
-Matt

On 02/11/2012 02:33 AM, Matt Johnson wrote:
> Hi all,
>     The attached patch clears up an ambiguity in the textual 
> description of alloca in LangRef.  The "Syntax" section points out (in 
> a comment off to the side) that an alloca allocating multiple elements 
> still returns a type*, not a pointer to some newly created 
> array-of-type.  I propagated this information down to the "arguments" 
> section, which previously just said "the appropriate type".  I then 
> re-80-columned and made a couple minor stylistic changes to the 
> surrounding sentences.
> Thanks!
> -Matt



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