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Documentation inconsistency for aliases #136663

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The documentation for aliases (GlobalAlias) says (emphasis mine):

Aliases have a name and an aliasee that is either a global value or a constant expression.

The syntax, however, seems to allow for global values but not constant expressions, because of the @ in front of <Aliasee>:

@<Name> = [Linkage] [PreemptionSpecifier] [Visibility] [DLLStorageClass] [ThreadLocal] [(unnamed_addr|local_unnamed_addr)] alias <AliaseeTy>, <AliaseeTy>* @<Aliasee>
          [, partition "name"]

The natural language documentation seems to be correct, because (at least on X86) I can do the following:

@x = global i32 1
@y = alias i32, i32* getelementptr (i32, ptr @x, i32 1)

So, I think the @ in front of <Aliasee> should be removed.

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