From: Nate Begeman <natebegeman@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:54:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add some documentation for address-space-based access to the segment registers.
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=34509841e747f155adea8608af727e1a83c35dae;p=oota-llvm.git

Add some documentation for address-space-based access to the segment registers.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@62986 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/CodeGenerator.html b/docs/CodeGenerator.html
index 009ecd67678..66d793dfa03 100644
--- a/docs/CodeGenerator.html
+++ b/docs/CodeGenerator.html
@@ -1718,7 +1718,7 @@ processors, and includes support for ISA extensions such as MMX and SSE.
 
 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 <div class="doc_subsubsection">
-  <a name="x86_tt">X86 Target Triples Supported</a>
+  <a name="x86_tt">X86 Target Triples supported</a>
 </div>
 
 <div class="doc_text">
@@ -1789,6 +1789,27 @@ same way and in the same order.</p>
 
 </div>
 
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+  <a name="x86_memory">X86 address spaces supported</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>x86 has the ability to perform loads and stores to different address spaces 
+via the x86 segment registers.  A segment override prefix byte on an instruction
+causes the instruction's memory access to go to the specified segment.  LLVM
+address space 0 is the default address space, which includes the stack, and
+any unqualified memory accesses in a program.  Address spaces 1-255 are
+currently reserved for user-defined code.  The GS-segment is represented by
+address space 256.  Other x86 segments have yet to be allocated address space
+numbers.
+
+<p>Some operating systems use the GS-segment to implement TLS, so care should be
+taken when reading and writing to address space 256 on these platforms.
+
+</div>
+
 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 <div class="doc_subsubsection">
   <a name="x86_names">Instruction naming</a>