content="A glossary of terms used with the LLVM project.">
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-<div class="doc_title">The LLVM Lexicon</div>
+<h1>The LLVM Lexicon</h1>
<p class="doc_warning">NOTE: This document is a work in progress!</p>
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-<div class="doc_section">Table Of Contents</div>
+<h2>Table Of Contents</h2>
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+<div>
<table>
<tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#A">A</a> -</b></th></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#DSA">DSA</a></td>
<td><a href="#DSE">DSE</a></td>
</tr>
+ <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#F">F</a> -</b></th></tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><a href="#FCA">FCA</a></td>
+ </tr>
<tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#G">G</a> -</b></th></tr>
+ <tr>
<td><a href="#GC">GC</a></td>
</tr>
<tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#I">I</a> -</b></th></tr>
<td><a href="#LCSSA">LCSSA</a></td>
<td><a href="#LICM">LICM</a></td>
<td><a href="#Load-VN">Load-VN</a></td>
+ <td><a href="#LTO">LTO</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#M">M</a> -</b></th></tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><a href="#MC">MC</a></td>
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<tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#O">O</a> -</b></th></tr>
<tr>
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-<div class="doc_section">Definitions</div>
+<h2>Definitions</h2>
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+<div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="A">- A -</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="A">- A -</a></h3>
+<div>
<dl>
<dt><a name="ADCE"><b>ADCE</b></a></dt>
<dd>Aggressive Dead Code Elimination</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="B">- B -</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="B">- B -</a></h3>
+<div>
<dl>
<dt><a name="BURS"><b>BURS</b></a></dt>
<dd>Bottom Up Rewriting System—A method of instruction selection for
</dl>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="C">- C -</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="C">- C -</a></h3>
+<div>
<dl>
<dt><a name="CSE"><b>CSE</b></a></dt>
<dd>Common Subexpression Elimination. An optimization that removes common
</dl>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="D">- D -</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="D">- D -</a></h3>
+<div>
<dl>
<dt><a name="DAG"><b>DAG</b></a></dt>
<dd>Directed Acyclic Graph</dd>
</dl>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="G">- G -</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="F">- F -</a></h3>
+<div>
+ <dl>
+ <dt><a name="FCA"><b>FCA</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>First Class Aggregate</dd>
+ </dl>
+</div>
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+<h3><a name="G">- G -</a></h3>
+<div>
<dl>
<dt><a name="GC"><b>GC</b></a></dt>
<dd>Garbage Collection. The practice of using reachability analysis instead
</dl>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="H">- H -</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="H">- H -</a></h3>
+<div>
<dl>
<dt><a name="Heap"><b>Heap</b></a></dt>
<dd>In garbage collection, the region of memory which is managed using
</dl>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="I">- I -</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="I">- I -</a></h3>
+<div>
<dl>
<dt><a name="IPA"><b>IPA</b></a></dt>
<dd>Inter-Procedural Analysis. Refers to any variety of code analysis that
</dl>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="L">- L -</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="L">- L -</a></h3>
+<div>
<dl>
- <dt><a name="LCSSA"><b>LCSSA</b></a></dt>
- <dd>Loop-Closed Static Single Assignment Form</dd>
+ <dt><a name="LCSSA"><b>LCSSA</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Loop-Closed Static Single Assignment Form</dd>
<dt><a name="LICM"><b>LICM</b></a></dt>
<dd>Loop Invariant Code Motion</dd>
<dt><a name="Load-VN"><b>Load-VN</b></a></dt>
<dd>Load Value Numbering</dd>
+ <dt><a name="LTO"><b>LTO</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Link-Time Optimization</dd>
+ </dl>
+</div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<h3><a name="M">- M -</a></h3>
+<div>
+ <dl>
+ <dt><a name="MC"><b>MC</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Machine Code</dd>
</dl>
</div>
-
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="O">- O -</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="O">- O -</a></h3>
+<div>
<dl>
<dt><a name="Object_Pointer"><b>Object Pointer</b></a></dt>
<dd>A pointer to an object such that the garbage collector is able to trace
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="P">- P -</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="P">- P -</a></h3>
+<div>
<dl>
<dt><a name="PRE"><b>PRE</b></a></dt>
<dd>Partial Redundancy Elimination</dd>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="R">- R -</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="R">- R -</a></h3>
+<div>
<dl>
<dt><a name="RAUW"><b>RAUW</b></a></dt> <dd>An abbreviation for Replace
All Uses With. The functions User::replaceUsesOfWith(),
<dt><a name="Root"><b>Root</b></a></dt> <dd>In garbage collection, a
pointer variable lying outside of the <a href="#Heap">heap</a> from which
the collector begins its reachability analysis. In the context of code
- generation, "root" almost always refers to a "stack root"—a local or
+ generation, "root" almost always refers to a "stack root" -- a local or
temporary variable within an executing function.</dd>
</dl>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="S">- S -</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="S">- S -</a></h3>
+<div>
<dl>
<dt><a name="Safe_Point"><b>Safe Point</b></a></dt>
<dd>In garbage collection, it is necessary to identify <a href="#Root">stack
function.</dd>
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