From: Jim Grosbach Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:51:34 +0000 (+0000) Subject: add a comment explicitly calling out that allocation orders may include X-Git-Url: http://plrg.eecs.uci.edu/git/?p=oota-llvm.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=cc38399ea9aceb459a8d7e4bbc6deba9125ea869 add a comment explicitly calling out that allocation orders may include reserved regs and that register allocators need to explicitly check for them. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@113593 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- diff --git a/include/llvm/Target/TargetRegisterInfo.h b/include/llvm/Target/TargetRegisterInfo.h index 81dec3e5b78..c97f172a1e7 100644 --- a/include/llvm/Target/TargetRegisterInfo.h +++ b/include/llvm/Target/TargetRegisterInfo.h @@ -227,9 +227,12 @@ public: /// cheaper to allocate caller saved registers. /// /// These methods take a MachineFunction argument, which can be used to tune - /// the allocatable registers based on the characteristics of the function. - /// One simple example is that the frame pointer register can be used if - /// frame-pointer-elimination is performed. + /// the allocatable registers based on the characteristics of the function, + /// subtarget, or other criteria. + /// + /// Register allocators should account for the fact that an allocation + /// order iterator may return a reserved register and always check + /// if the register is allocatable (getAllocatableSet()) before using it. /// /// By default, these methods return all registers in the class. ///