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| author | mark <markm@cs.wisc.edu> | 2020-04-30 11:28:44 -0500 |
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| committer | Who? Me?! <mark-i-m@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-05-08 09:42:27 -0500 |
| commit | 52ffc3edfcbef33f64b13b293d858955e93f2181 (patch) | |
| tree | 6421643646dd468a88a21b2eb1488bb74ff92fe3 /src/doc/rustc-dev-guide | |
| parent | b4641e0e959b80aab9be06b8ae218b3e460ac3e9 (diff) | |
| download | rust-52ffc3edfcbef33f64b13b293d858955e93f2181.tar.gz rust-52ffc3edfcbef33f64b13b293d858955e93f2181.zip | |
add a bit to part 3 intro
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diff --git a/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/part-3-intro.md b/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/part-3-intro.md index a1ec3ca90ad..2af8cce23e2 100644 --- a/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/part-3-intro.md +++ b/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/part-3-intro.md @@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ This part describes the process of taking raw source code from the user and transforming it into various forms that the compiler can work with easily. -These are called intermediate representations. +These are called _intermediate representations (IRs)_. This process starts with compiler understanding what the user has asked for: parsing the command line arguments given and determining what it is to compile. +After that, the compiler transforms the user input into a series of IRs that +look progressively less like what the user wrote. |