[LLVMdev] [RFC] Overhauling Attributes

[Rafael Espíndola]

On 29 December 2012 21:21, Bill Wendling <wendling at apple.com> wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
> Sorry, I forgot to respond to this. They can be arbitrary strings that are known only to the specific back-end. It may be beneficial to define them inside of the LangRef document though.

But then, what are the semantics that the middle end should use? Can a
non thumb function be inlined in a thumb one for example? If we merge
two functions, how should we combine the attributes? Or should this
not be a valid optimization at all?

> -bw
>

Cheers,
Rafael