Committing unsaved changes that should've been with r66237.
authorGordon Henriksen <gordonhenriksen@mac.com>
Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:42:47 +0000 (02:42 +0000)
committerGordon Henriksen <gordonhenriksen@mac.com>
Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:42:47 +0000 (02:42 +0000)
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@66242 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

docs/GarbageCollection.html

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@@ -525,15 +525,14 @@ for completeness. In this snippet, <tt>%object</tt> is the object pointer, and
     ;; Compute the derived pointer.
     %derived = getelementptr %object, i32 0, i32 2, i32 %n</pre></blockquote>
 
+<p>LLVM does not enforce this relationship between the object and derived
+pointer (although a <a href="#plugin">plugin</a> might). However, it would be
+an unusual collector that violated it.</p>
+
 <p>The use of these intrinsics is naturally optional if the target GC does
-require the corresponding barrier. If so, the GC plugin will replace the
-intrinsic calls with the corresponding <tt>load</tt> or <tt>store</tt>
-instruction if they are used.</p>
-
-<p>LLVM does not enforce any particular relationship between the object and
-derived pointer (although a <a href="#plugin">plugin</a> might). However, it
-would be unusual that the derived pointer not be a <tt>getelementptr</tt> of the
-object pointer.</p>
+require the corresponding barrier. Such a GC plugin will replace the intrinsic
+calls with the corresponding <tt>load</tt> or <tt>store</tt> instruction if they
+are used.</p>
 
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