Make the addressing modes smarter

[oota-llvm.git] / docs / CFEBuildInstrs.html

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@@ -68,19 +68,20 @@ located in a top-level directory (like <tt>/cygdrive/c/llvm</tt> and
 and Settings" directory).  We welcome patches to fix this issue.
 </p>
 <p>It has been found that the GCC 3.3.3 compiler provided with recent Cygwin
-versions is incapable of compiling the LLVM CFE correctly. If your Cygwin
-installation includes GCC 3.3.3 we <i>strongly</i> recommend that you download
-GCC 3.4.3, build it separately, and use it for compiling LLVM CFE. This has been
+versions is incapable of compiling the LLVM GCC front-end correctly. If your
+Cygwin
+installation includes GCC 3.3.3, we <i>strongly</i> recommend that you download
+GCC 3.4.3, build it separately, and use it for compiling the LLVM GCC front-end. This has been
 shown to work correctly.</p>
 <p>Some versions of Cygwin utilize an experimental version of GNU binutils that
 will cause the GNU <tt>ld</tt> linker to fail an assertion when linking
 components of the libstdc++. It is recommended that you replace the entire
 binutils package with version 2.15 such that "<tt>ld --version</tt>" responds
-with<br/>
+with</p>
 <pre>GNU ld version 2.15</pre>
 not with:<br/>
 <pre>GNU ld version 2.15.91 20040725</pre>
-</p></div>
+</div>
 
 <!--=========================================================================-->
 <div class="doc_subsection"><a name="aix">Building under AIX</a></div>
@@ -101,8 +102,10 @@ invalid code.  Instead, use the system assembler and linker.
 <p>
 <ol>
 <li><p>Configure and build the LLVM libraries and tools. There are two ways to
-do this: either with <i>objdir</i> == <i>srcdir</i> or not. It is recommended 
-that <i>srcdir</i> not be the same as <i>objdir</i>:</p>
+do this: either with <i>objdir</i> == <i>srcdir</i> or
+<i>objdir</i> != <i>srcdir</i>. It is recommended 
+that <i>srcdir</i> be the same as <i>objdir</i> for your LLVM tree (but note
+that you should always use <i>srcdir</i> != <i>objdir</i> for llvm-gcc):</p>
 <ul>
   <li>With <i>objdir</i> != <i>srcdir</i>:<pre>
  % cd <i>objdir</i>
@@ -128,10 +131,10 @@ of permissions. Specify a path into which LLVM can be installed (e.g.
 </pre></li>
 
 <li><p>Unpack the C/C++ front-end source into cfrontend/src, either by
-       untar'ing an llvm-gcc.tar.gz file or checking out CVS into this
+       untar'ing a cfrontend.source.tar.gz file or checking out CVS into this
        directory.</p></li>
 
-<li><p>Make "build" and "install" directories as siblings of the "src" tree.</p>
+<li><p>Make "build" and "install" directories as siblings of the "src" tree:</p>
 <pre>
  % pwd
  /usr/local/example/cfrontend/src
@@ -145,6 +148,7 @@ of permissions. Specify a path into which LLVM can be installed (e.g.
 
 <p>
 <b>Linux/x86:</b><br>
+<b>Linux/IA-64:</b><br>
 <b>MacOS X/PowerPC</b> (requires dlcompat library):<br>
 <b>AIX/PowerPC:</b>
 </p>
@@ -169,8 +173,15 @@ of permissions. Specify a path into which LLVM can be installed (e.g.
 <p><b>Solaris/SPARC:</b></p>
 
 <p>
-For Solaris/SPARC, LLVM only supports the SPARC V9 architecture.  Therefore,
-the configure command line should specify sparcv9, as shown below. Also,
+The GCC front-end can be configured for either SPARC V8 (32 bit) or SPARC V9 (64
+bit).  This changes, among other things, the sizes of integer types and the
+macros defined for conditional compilation.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The SPARC V8 backend is still beta quality software.  Unless you are working on
+the SPARC V8 backend, you should specify sparcv9 on the configure command line,
+as shown below. Also,
 note that Solaris has trouble with various wide (multibyte) character
 functions from C as referenced from C++, so we typically configure with
 --disable-c-mbchar (cf. <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR206">Bug 206</a>).
@@ -292,7 +303,7 @@ The software also has the following additional copyrights:
 
 <pre>
 
-Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
+Copyright (c) 2003, 2004, 2005 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
 All rights reserved.
 
 Developed by: