[interp aot] documentation

diff --git a/man/mono.1 b/man/mono.1
index 28695ee9402eef26c7bbe1342ffc500584d37115..e822ff94c89b2aa98b745633ab4fcff87fbdb2ba 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mono.1
+++ b/man/mono.1
@@ -181,6 +181,16 @@ Gives the path for the temporary LLVM bitcode file created during AOT.
 .I info
 Print the architecture the AOT in this copy of Mono targets and quit.
 .TP
+.I interp
+Generates all required wrappers, so that it is possible to run --interpreter without
+any code generation at runtime.  This option only makes sense with \fBmscorlib.dll\fR.
+Embedders can set
+
+.nf
+mono_jit_set_aot_mode (MONO_AOT_MODE_INTERP);
+.fi
+.ne
+.TP
 .I ld-flags
 Additional flags to pass to the C linker (if the current AOT mode calls for invoking it).
 .TP

diff --git a/mono/mini/jit.h b/mono/mini/jit.h
index 28b2482c8f25e819b18300939c4978534a18b9c0..302b28b69e2d7393f036a55141ac6de893df55dc 100644 (file)
--- a/mono/mini/jit.h
+++ b/mono/mini/jit.h
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ typedef enum {
        MONO_AOT_MODE_FULL,
        /* Same as full, but use only llvm compiled code */
        MONO_AOT_MODE_LLVMONLY,
+       /* Uses Interpreter, JIT is disabled and not allowed,
+        * equivalent to "--full-aot --interpreter" */
        MONO_AOT_MODE_INTERP
 } MonoAotMode;