From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:13:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add comment about ownership semantics
X-Git-Url: http://plrg.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dc095240c9016a7957a1976f6b1c0266b648f9d0;p=oota-llvm.git

Add comment about ownership semantics


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@4859 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/include/llvm/Target/TargetMachine.h b/include/llvm/Target/TargetMachine.h
index 0440cccdc5d..0e80d4718a1 100644
--- a/include/llvm/Target/TargetMachine.h
+++ b/include/llvm/Target/TargetMachine.h
@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ public:
   /// get machine code emitted.  This uses a MAchineCodeEmitter object to handle
   /// actually outputting the machine code and resolving things like the address
   /// of functions.  This method should returns true if machine code emission is
-  /// not supported.
+  /// not supported.  The ownership of the MCE is not transfered to the backend
+  /// pass... the caller of this method should delete it.
   ///
   virtual bool addPassesToEmitMachineCode(PassManager &PM,
                                           MachineCodeEmitter *MCE) {