From d51e5d0ee7137b278933e74aad098a8bf24329ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Gohman Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:48:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a comment clarifying the role of getPrimitiveTypeSizeInBits. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@75659 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- include/llvm/Type.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/llvm/Type.h b/include/llvm/Type.h index d4f86f0b5c4..4a8bbf03de4 100644 --- a/include/llvm/Type.h +++ b/include/llvm/Type.h @@ -268,6 +268,11 @@ public: /// This will return zero if the type does not have a size or is not a /// primitive type. /// + /// Note that this may not reflect the size of memory allocated for an + /// instance of the type or the number of bytes that are written when an + /// intance of the type is stored to memory. The TargetData class provides + /// additional query functions to provide this information. + /// unsigned getPrimitiveSizeInBits() const; /// getScalarSizeInBits - If this is a vector type, return the