Add notes about two known X86-64 limitations.
authorDan Gohman <gohman@apple.com>
Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:05:11 +0000 (23:05 +0000)
committerDan Gohman <gohman@apple.com>
Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:05:11 +0000 (23:05 +0000)
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@52108 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

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     currently due
     to <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2255">several</a>
     <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2257">bugs</a> in FP stackifier
+  <li>The X86-64 backend does not yet support position-independent code (PIC)
+      generation on Linux targets.</li>
+  <li>The X86-64 backend does not yet support the LLVM IR instruction
+      <tt>va_arg</tt>. Currently, the llvm-gcc front-end supports variadic
+      argument constructs on X86-64 by lowering them manually.</li>
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