[project @ 2005-10-26 12:05:03 by simonpj]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / ghc / docs / comm / the-beast / mangler.html

diff --git a/ghc/docs/comm/the-beast/mangler.html b/ghc/docs/comm/the-beast/mangler.html
index d6d3a08..1ad80f0 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/docs/comm/the-beast/mangler.html
+++ b/ghc/docs/comm/the-beast/mangler.html
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
     <ul>
       <li>The code executed when a closure is entered is moved adjacent to
        that closure's infotable.  Moreover, the order of the info table
-       entries is reversed.
+       entries is reversed.  Also, SRT pointers are removed from closures that
+        don't need them (non-FUN, RET and THUNK ones).
       <li>Function prologue and epilogue code is removed.  (GHC generated code
        manages its own stack and uses the system stack only for return
        addresses and during calls to C code.)
@@ -49,8 +50,8 @@
       instructions that are to be removed or altered is based on a large
       number of Perl regular expressions sprinkled over the whole code.  These
       expressions are rather fragile as they heavily rely on the structure of
-      the generated code - in fact, they even rely on the right amount of wide
-      space and thus on the formatting of the assembly.
+      the generated code - in fact, they even rely on the right amount of
+      white space and thus on the formatting of the assembly.
     <p>
       Afterwards, the chunks are reordered, some of them purged, and some
       stripped of some useless instructions.  Moreover, some instructions are
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@
 
     <p><small>
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-Last modified: Wed Aug  8 19:27:22 EST 2001
+Last modified: Sun Feb 17 17:55:47 EST 2002
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