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diff --git a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt index ee819a402b69..11a1d2d4f681 100644 --- a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt +++ b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt @@ -464,9 +464,10 @@ to address dependencies, since the address of a location accessed through a pointer will depend on the value read earlier from that pointer. -Finally, a read event and another memory access event are linked by a -control dependency if the value obtained by the read affects whether -the second event is executed at all. Simple example: +Finally, a read event X and a write event Y are linked by a control +dependency if Y syntactically lies within an arm of an if statement and +X affects the evaluation of the if condition via a data or address +dependency (or similarly for a switch statement). Simple example: int x, y; |