[LLVMdev] Small error in documentation?

Russell Wallace russell.wallace at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 19:52:31 PST 2010


Ah, I normally interpret 'multiple exits' to mean there can be more
than one exit instruction (as opposed to just more than one
destination). That having been said, if I'm the only one who
interprets it that way, it's not a problem :-)

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> 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.
>
> -Chris



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