2005-01-31 Zoltan Varga <vargaz@freemail.hu>

[mono.git] / docs / mini-doc.txt

diff --git a/docs/mini-doc.txt b/docs/mini-doc.txt
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--- a/docs/mini-doc.txt
+++ b/docs/mini-doc.txt
@@ -375,7 +375,8 @@
        variables to registers.  The linear scan pass uses the
        information that was previously gathered by the loop nesting
        and loop structure computation to favor variables in inner
-       loops. 
+       loops.   This process updates the basic block `nesting' field
+       which is later used during liveness analysis.
 
        Stack space is then reserved for the local variables and any
        temporary variables generated during the various
@@ -489,7 +490,9 @@
        operations if possible.
 
        The rest of the code generation is fairly simple: a switch
-       statement is used to generate code for each of the MonoInsts
+       statement is used to generate code for each of the MonoInsts,
+       in the mono/mini/mini-ARCH.c files, the method is called
+       "mono_arch_output_basic_block".
 
        We always try to allocate code in sequence, instead of just using
        malloc. This way we increase spatial locality which gives a massive