From: Chris Lattner
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:22:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: clarify that not having the ".o file writing" feature
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=219ddf5626c526da298f255edb166f2ba5b75b1f;p=oota-llvm.git
clarify that not having the ".o file writing" feature
doesn't mean that you can't get a .o file. Apparently
this is confusing :)
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@117523 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/CodeGenerator.html b/docs/CodeGenerator.html
index f811998eb65..3e0ac1be346 100644
--- a/docs/CodeGenerator.html
+++ b/docs/CodeGenerator.html
@@ -2160,6 +2160,10 @@ ELF, and/or COFF) files directly from the target. Note that the target also
must include an assembly parser and general inline assembly support for full
inline assembly support in the .o writer.
+Targets that don't support this feature can obviously still write out .o
+files, they just rely on having an external assembler to translate from a .s
+file to a .o file (as is the case for many C compilers).
+