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Commit 7c49d984 authored by Brian Gaeke's avatar Brian Gaeke
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Clarify the roles of gccld and gccas.

Mention that they should really read the gcc manual.

llvm-svn: 9264
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......@@ -28,9 +28,12 @@ C programs and compiles them into LLVM bytecode or assembly language, depending
upon the options.
<p>
The <tt>llvmgcc</tt> program uses the <a href="gccas.html"><tt>gccas</tt></a>
and <a href="gccld.html"><tt>gccld</tt></a> programs to do the work of creating
complete programs.
Unless the <tt>-S</tt> option is specified, <tt>llvmgcc</tt> will use the
<a href="gccas.html"><tt>gccas</tt></a> program to perform some optimizations
and create an LLVM bytecode file. Unless the <tt>-c</tt> option is specified,
<tt>llvmgcc</tt> will also use the <a href="gccld.html"><tt>gccld</tt></a>
program to perform further optimizations and link the resulting bytecode
file(s) with support libraries to create an executable program.
<p>
Being derived from GCC, llvmgcc has many of GCC's features and accepts most of
......@@ -100,7 +103,8 @@ SEE ALSO
</h3>
<A HREF="llvmgxx.html"><tt>llvmg++</tt></A>,
<A HREF="gccas.html"><tt>gccas</tt></A>,
<A HREF="gccld.html"><tt>gccld</tt></A>
<A HREF="gccld.html"><tt>gccld</tt></A>,
and the Info documentation for <tt>gcc</tt>.
<HR>
Maintained by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Team</a>.
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