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Update and improve rustc_codegen_{llvm,ssa} docs

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These docs were very out of date and misleading. They even said that
they codegen'd the *AST*!

For some reason, the `rustc_codegen_ssa::base` docs were exactly
identical to the `rustc_codegen_llvm::base` docs. They didn't really
make sense, because they had LLVM-specific information even though
`rustc_codegen_ssa` is supposed to be somewhat generic. So I removed
them as they were misleading.
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Camelid 2020-12-22 19:37:23 -08:00
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//! Codegen the completed AST to the LLVM IR.
//!
//! Some functions here, such as `codegen_block` and `codegen_expr`, return a value --
//! the result of the codegen to LLVM -- while others, such as `codegen_fn`
//! and `mono_item`, are called only for the side effect of adding a
//! particular definition to the LLVM IR output we're producing.
//!
//! Hopefully useful general knowledge about codegen:
//!
//! * There's no way to find out the `Ty` type of a `Value`. Doing so
//! would be "trying to get the eggs out of an omelette" (credit:
//! pcwalton). You can, instead, find out its `llvm::Type` by calling `val_ty`,
//! but one `llvm::Type` corresponds to many `Ty`s; for instance, `tup(int, int,
//! int)` and `rec(x=int, y=int, z=int)` will have the same `llvm::Type`.
use crate::back::write::{
compute_per_cgu_lto_type, start_async_codegen, submit_codegened_module_to_llvm,
submit_post_lto_module_to_llvm, submit_pre_lto_module_to_llvm, ComputedLtoType, OngoingCodegen,