From: Reid Spencer <rspencer@reidspencer.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:05:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify the use of getValue/getSExtValue/getZExtValue and add the new
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=97b4ee34ed35b03cb3832d813292f7ceb516028f;p=oota-llvm.git

Clarify the use of getValue/getSExtValue/getZExtValue and add the new
APInt constructor.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@34811 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/ProgrammersManual.html b/docs/ProgrammersManual.html
index df8f4abf470..031c86b9111 100644
--- a/docs/ProgrammersManual.html
+++ b/docs/ProgrammersManual.html
@@ -2621,10 +2621,20 @@ a subclass, which represents the address of a global variable or function.
   <li>ConstantInt : This subclass of Constant represents an integer constant of
   any width.
     <ul>
-      <li><tt>int64_t getSExtValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value of
-      this constant as a sign extended signed integer value.</li>
-      <li><tt>uint64_t getZExtValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying value 
-      of this constant as a zero extended unsigned integer value.</li>
+      <li><tt>const APInt&amp; getValue() const</tt>: Returns the underlying
+      value of this constant, an APInt value.</li>
+      <li><tt>int64_t getSExtValue() const</tt>: Converts the underlying APInt
+      value to an int64_t via sign extension. If the value (not the bit width)
+      of the APInt is too large to fit in an int64_t, an assertion will result.
+      For this reason, use of this method is discouraged.</li>
+      <li><tt>uint64_t getZExtValue() const</tt>: Converts the underlying APInt
+      value to a uint64_t via zero extension. IF the value (not the bit width)
+      of the APInt is too large to fit in a uint64_t, an assertion will result.
+      For this reason, use of this method is discourage.</li>
+      <li><tt>static ConstantInt* get(const APInt&amp; Val)</tt>: Returns the
+      ConstantInt object that represents the value provided by <tt>Val</tt>.
+      The type is implied as the IntegerType that corresponds to the bit width
+      of <tt>Val</tt>.</li>
       <li><tt>static ConstantInt* get(const Type *Ty, uint64_t Val)</tt>: 
       Returns the ConstantInt object that represents the value provided by 
       <tt>Val</tt> for integer type <tt>Ty</tt>.</li>