From: njn <unknown>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:20:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [project @ 2002-02-12 17:20:36 by njn]
X-Git-Tag: Approximately_9120_patches~89
X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?p=ghc-hetmet.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ca590cdd7839802ac54d009b546868cc35c39f30

[project @ 2002-02-12 17:20:36 by njn]
Added note about the mangler removing unneeded SRTs.
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diff --git a/ghc/docs/comm/the-beast/mangler.html b/ghc/docs/comm/the-beast/mangler.html
index d6d3a08..928be65 100644
--- 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.)