From 8901bb66fb1c5d3a3e87fff5828bfd65a7fe6e03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Gottesman <mgottesman@apple.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 09:57:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added new Global Variable marker ``externally_initialized''
 to LangRef.

llvm-svn: 174270
---
 llvm/docs/LangRef.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst b/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
index c9f37bd..023a050 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
@@ -506,7 +506,8 @@ variables defined within the module are not modified from their
 initial values before the start of the global initializer.  This is
 true even for variables potentially accessible from outside the
 module, including those with external linkage or appearing in
-``@llvm.used``.
+``@llvm.used``. This assumption may be suppressed by marking the
+variable with ``externally_initialized``.
 
 An explicit alignment may be specified for a global, which must be a
 power of 2. If not present, or if the alignment is set to zero, the
-- 
2.7.4