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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index f271a6dd8d..f1f38fc97e 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -51,14 +51,17 @@ href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM releases web site</a>.</p> <p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.org/">main LLVM web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a -href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM Developer's Mailing -List</a> is a good place to send them.</p> +href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM Developer's +Mailing List</a> is a good place to send them.</p> <p>Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main LLVM web page, this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p> + +<p>FIXME: llvm.org moved to new server, mention new logo.</p> + </div> @@ -441,6 +444,33 @@ in this section. <li>...</li> </ul> +Extensible metadata solid. + +Debug info improvements: using metadata instead of llvm.dbg global variables. +This brings several enhancements including improved compile times. + +New instruction selector. +GHC Haskell ABI/ calling conv support. +Pre-Alpha support for unions in IR. +New InlineHint and StackAlignment function attributes +Code generator MC'ized except for debug info and EH. +New SCEV AA pass: -scev-aa +Inliner reuses arrays allocas when inlining multiple callers to reduce stack usage. +MC encoding and disassembler apis. +Optimal Edge Profiling? +Instcombine is now a library, has its own IRBuilder to simplify itself. +New llvm/Support/Regex.h API. FileCheck now does regex's + + + + +AndersAA got removed (from 2.7 or mainline?) +LLVM command line tools now overwrite their output, before they would only do this with -f. +DOUT removed, use DEBUG(errs() instead. +Much stuff converted to use raw_ostream instead of std::ostream. +TargetAsmInfo renamed to MCAsmInfo +llvm/ADT/iterator.h gone. + </div> <!--=========================================================================--> @@ -757,7 +787,8 @@ href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev list</a>.</p> <li>The MSIL, Alpha, SPU, MIPS, PIC16, Blackfin, MSP430 and SystemZ backends are experimental.</li> <li>The <tt>llc</tt> "<tt>-filetype=asm</tt>" (the default) is the only - supported value for this option. The ELF writer is experimental.</li> + supported value for this option. The MachO writer is experimental, and + works much better in mainline SVN.</li> </ul> </div> @@ -888,7 +919,7 @@ appropriate nops inserted to ensure restartability.</li> <!-- ======================================================================= --> <div class="doc_subsection"> - <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc C front-end</a> + <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc C and C++ front-end</a> </div> <div class="doc_text"> @@ -906,24 +937,6 @@ appropriate nops inserted to ensure restartability.</li> <!-- ======================================================================= --> <div class="doc_subsection"> - <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc C++ front-end</a> -</div> - -<div class="doc_text"> - -<p>The C++ front-end is considered to be fully -tested and works for a number of non-trivial programs, including LLVM -itself, Qt, Mozilla, etc.</p> - -<ul> -<li>Exception handling works well on the X86 and PowerPC targets. Currently - only Linux and Darwin targets are supported (both 32 and 64 bit).</li> -</ul> - -</div> - -<!-- ======================================================================= --> -<div class="doc_subsection"> <a name="fortran-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc Fortran front-end</a> </div> |