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Philip Reames d5252f4ce6 [nofree] Restrict semantics to memory visible to caller
This patch clarifies the semantics of the nofree function attribute to make clear that it provides an "as if" semantic. That is, a nofree function is guaranteed not to free memory which existed before the call, but might allocate and then deallocate that same memory within the lifetime of the callee.

This is the result of the discussion on llvm-dev under the thread "Ambiguity in the nofree function attribute".

The most important part of this change is the LangRef wording. The rest is minor comment changes to emphasize the new semantics where code was accidentally consistent, and fix one place which wasn't consistent. That one place is currently narrowly used as it is primarily part of the ongoing (and not yet enabled) deref-at-point semantics work.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100141
2021-04-16 11:38:55 -07:00
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AMDGPU [AMDGPU][MC][NFC][DOC] Updated AMD GPU assembler syntax description. 2020-08-21 14:25:14 +03:00
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AliasAnalysis.rst [Docs] Remove no-aa from the alias analysis documentation 2021-03-04 00:35:52 -06:00
AMDGPUDwarfExtensionsForHeterogeneousDebugging.rst [NFC][AMDGPU] Correct typo in DWARF Extensions For Heterogeneous Debugging 2021-03-09 00:23:23 +00:00
AMDGPUInstructionNotation.rst [AMDGPU][MC][NFC][DOC] Updated AMD GPU assembler syntax description. 2020-08-21 14:25:14 +03:00
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CodingStandards.rst Update references to 'master' branch. 2020-12-21 19:10:34 +00:00
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CompilerWriterInfo.rst [XCore][docs] Fix XCore compiler writer documentation links. 2020-12-08 12:21:09 +00:00
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Contributing.rst [docs] Fix up dead clang-format links after monorepo move. NFC 2021-03-30 14:29:35 -07:00
Coroutines.rst [LICM][Coroutine] Don't sink stores from loops with coro.suspend instructions 2021-03-03 15:21:57 -08:00
CoverageMappingFormat.rst [Coverage] Store compilation dir separately in coverage mapping 2021-02-18 14:34:39 -08:00
DebuggingJITedCode.rst [docs] Update DebuggingJITedCode page after fix in LLDB 2021-01-14 15:43:11 +01:00
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Extensions.rst Introduce and use a new section type for the bb_addr_map section. 2020-10-08 11:13:19 -07:00
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GettingStarted.rst [docs] remove references to checking out svn repos 2021-03-30 10:00:31 +01:00
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HowToBuildOnARM.rst Remove Python2 fallback and only advertise Python3 in the doc 2020-12-17 15:40:16 +01:00
HowToBuildWindowsItaniumPrograms.rst Reland: [Docs][Windows Itanium] Add a How-To document for Windows Itanium. 2021-03-09 01:36:34 +00:00
HowToBuildWithPGO.rst docs: Add pointer to cmake caches for PGO 2020-12-07 15:55:26 -05:00
HowToCrossCompileBuiltinsOnArm.rst [arm builtin crosscompile docs] add COMPILER_RT_BUILD_MEMPROF=OFF 2021-02-25 10:44:52 -05:00
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HowToReleaseLLVM.rst HowToReleaseLLVM: Update document to match the current release process 2020-12-21 15:16:11 -08:00
HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.rst [docs] Fix typos 2020-08-09 19:31:49 -07:00
HowToSubmitABug.rst [Docs] Update HowToSubmitABug 2021-02-02 21:19:20 -08:00
HowToUpdateDebugInfo.rst [Debugify] Expose original debug info preservation check as CC1 option 2021-03-25 05:29:42 -07:00
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index.rst [docs] LLVM Security Group and Process 2020-07-10 15:24:02 -07:00
JITLink.rst [docs][JITLink] Fix a typo (NFC) 2021-03-02 15:07:36 +01:00
LangRef.rst [nofree] Restrict semantics to memory visible to caller 2021-04-16 11:38:55 -07:00
Lexicon.rst [llvm] Fix typos in documentation (NFC) 2021-02-27 10:09:23 -08:00
LibFuzzer.rst Update references to 'master' branch. 2020-12-21 19:10:34 +00:00
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LLVM Documentation
==================

LLVM's documentation is written in reStructuredText, a lightweight
plaintext markup language (file extension `.rst`). While the
reStructuredText documentation should be quite readable in source form, it
is mostly meant to be processed by the Sphinx documentation generation
system to create HTML pages which are hosted on <https://llvm.org/docs/> and
updated after every commit. Manpage output is also supported, see below.

If you instead would like to generate and view the HTML locally, install
Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/> and then do:

    cd <build-dir>
    cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX=true -DSPHINX_OUTPUT_HTML=true <src-dir>
    make -j3 docs-llvm-html
    $BROWSER <build-dir>/docs//html/index.html

The mapping between reStructuredText files and generated documentation is
`docs/Foo.rst` <-> `<build-dir>/docs//html/Foo.html` <-> `https://llvm.org/docs/Foo.html`.

If you are interested in writing new documentation, you will want to read
`SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst` which will get you writing documentation
very fast and includes examples of the most important reStructuredText
markup syntax.

Manpage Output
===============

Building the manpages is similar to building the HTML documentation. The
primary difference is to use the `man` makefile target, instead of the
default (which is `html`). Sphinx then produces the man pages in the
directory `<build-dir>/docs/man/`.

    cd <build-dir>
    cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX=true -DSPHINX_OUTPUT_MAN=true <src-dir>
    make -j3 docs-llvm-man
    man -l >build-dir>/docs/man/FileCheck.1

The correspondence between .rst files and man pages is
`docs/CommandGuide/Foo.rst` <-> `<build-dir>/docs//man/Foo.1`.
These .rst files are also included during HTML generation so they are also
viewable online (as noted above) at e.g.
`https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/Foo.html`.

Checking links
==============

The reachability of external links in the documentation can be checked by
running:

    cd docs/
    make -f Makefile.sphinx linkcheck

Doxygen page Output
==============

Install doxygen <http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/download.html> and dot2tex <https://dot2tex.readthedocs.io/en/latest>.

    cd <build-dir>
    cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_DOXYGEN=On <llvm-top-src-dir>
    make doxygen-llvm # for LLVM docs
    make doxygen-clang # for clang docs

It will generate html in

    <build-dir>/docs/doxygen/html # for LLVM docs
    <build-dir>/tools/clang/docs/doxygen/html # for clang docs