[llvm-commits] [Review] Attributes Documentation

[James Molloy]

Hi Bill,

On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 02:01 +0000, Bill Wendling wrote:
> In practice, there won't be a large number of differences between
> functions. The attributes come about in only a few ways:
>
>         - through command line options
>         - via '__attribute__' declarations

You forget compiler-added annotations such as
readonly/readnone/noreturn, which can serve as analysis markers. These
can get added during optimization passes, so your IR attribute groups
are going to change during optimization passes (eww).

Cheers,

James

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