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| author | Steven Wu <stevenwu@apple.com> | 2016-02-29 19:40:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Steven Wu <stevenwu@apple.com> | 2016-02-29 19:40:10 +0000 |
| commit | b9de197a7a6792eebcf597c8eb9e221151355a04 (patch) | |
| tree | 9cf2ab975bd1d4876442a3c0800104cf5789c7e2 /docs/BitCodeFormat.rst | |
| parent | 462318cb2d2ca2a5d15cc4a3552856e055f62b92 (diff) | |
Rename embedded bitcode section in MachO
Summary:
Rename the section embeds bitcode from ".llvmbc,.llvmbc" to "__LLVM,__bitcode".
The new name matches MachO section naming convention.
Reviewers: rafael, pcc
Subscribers: davide, llvm-commits, joker.eph
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17388
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@262245 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/BitCodeFormat.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/BitCodeFormat.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/BitCodeFormat.rst b/docs/BitCodeFormat.rst index d6e3099bdb63..f6a560df8df5 100644 --- a/docs/BitCodeFormat.rst +++ b/docs/BitCodeFormat.rst @@ -467,10 +467,11 @@ Native Object File Wrapper Format ================================= Bitcode files for LLVM IR may also be wrapped in a native object file -(i.e. ELF, COFF, Mach-O). The bitcode must be stored in a section of the -object file named ``.llvmbc``. This wrapper format is useful for accommodating -LTO in compilation pipelines where intermediate objects must be native object -files which contain metadata in other sections. +(i.e. ELF, COFF, Mach-O). The bitcode must be stored in a section of the object +file named ``__LLVM,__bitcode`` for MachO and ``.llvmbc`` for the other object +formats. This wrapper format is useful for accommodating LTO in compilation +pipelines where intermediate objects must be native object files which contain +metadata in other sections. Not all tools support this format. |