[LLVMdev] Documentation of malloc/free

[Garrison Venn]

Ouch! Didn't see that. So at the risk of irritating those still in the process of baking 2.7, what is the sanction way of doing heap allocation going forward? :-)

Garrison
 
On Dec 7, 2009, at 11:18, Chris Lattner wrote:

> 
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 2:13 AM, Florian Merz wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I noticed that MallocInst and FreeInst have been removed from the LLVM IR as 
>> well as the language reference[1]. May I propose that at least some 
>> placeholder is left in that document telling the reader that these 
>> instructions have been removed. This should be kept in at least until there is 
>> one official release that does not support these instructions anymore.
>> The same goes for the addition of the indirect branch instruction. A note in 
>> the language reference would be nice telling the reader when this instruction 
>> has been added to the language.
> 
> Hi Florian,
> 
> The documentation for LLVM is intended to describe the state of the system without a historical view.  To get the historical view we put major changes in the release notes.  These haven't been written yet for 2.7 though.
> 
> -Chris
> 
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