From 1763525fa9d464b286423353c1922e12c897abef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:18:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add some information about the Instruction class and
 Instruction.def

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@3690 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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 docs/ProgrammersManual.html | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/ProgrammersManual.html b/docs/ProgrammersManual.html
index 3caeaa4f5fb..c81f89c39de 100644
--- a/docs/ProgrammersManual.html
+++ b/docs/ProgrammersManual.html
@@ -901,6 +901,17 @@ way as for other <a href="#User"><tt>User</tt></a>s (with the
 <tt>getOperand()</tt>/<tt>getNumOperands()</tt> and
 <tt>op_begin()</tt>/<tt>op_end()</tt> methods).<p>
 
+An important file for the <tt>Instruction</tt> class is the
+<tt>llvm/Instruction.def</tt> file.  This file contains some meta-data about the
+various different types of instructions in LLVM.  It describes the enum values
+that are used as opcodes (for example <tt>Instruction::Add</tt> and
+<tt>Instruction::SetLE</tt>), as well as the concrete sub-classes of
+<tt>Instruction</tt> that implement the instruction (for example <tt><a
+href="#BinaryOperator">BinaryOperator</a></tt> and <tt><a
+href="#SetCondInst">SetCondInst</a></tt>).  Unfortunately, the use of macros in
+this file confused doxygen, so these enum values don't show up correctly in the
+<a href="/doxygen/classInstruction.html">doxygen output</a>.<p>
+
 
 <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 </ul><h4><a name="m_Instruction"><hr size=0>Important Public Members of
@@ -920,6 +931,14 @@ Returns true if the instruction has side effects, i.e. it is a <tt>call</tt>,
 
 Returns the opcode for the <tt>Instruction</tt>.<p>
 
+<li><tt><a href="#Instruction">Instruction</a> *clone() const</tt><p>
+
+Returns another instance of the specified instruction, identical in all ways to
+the original except that the instruction has no parent (ie it's not embedded
+into a <a href="#BasicBlock"><tt>BasicBlock</tt></a>), and it has no name.<p>
+
+
+
 <!--
 
 \subsection{Subclasses of Instruction :} 
@@ -1540,6 +1559,6 @@ pointer to the parent Function.
 <a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a></address>
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+Last modified: Thu Sep 12 12:18:04 CDT 2002
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