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| author | Owen Anderson <resistor@mac.com> | 2009-07-02 16:48:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Owen Anderson <resistor@mac.com> | 2009-07-02 16:48:38 +0000 |
| commit | e27be3aae9afbab1d06383f0cc50c9419f5f9462 (patch) | |
| tree | 75728e4ed002bf3737376830dc2db0bc33c5f714 /docs | |
| parent | 20674338529dc034211b41d9224e536ab3893e8d (diff) | |
Describe the LLVMContext API change.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@74701 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html index 412db74867..eed5caf11d 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ it run faster:</p> <div class="doc_text"> <p>If you're already an LLVM user or developer with out-of-tree changes based -on LLVM 2.4, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading +on LLVM 2.5, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading from the previous release.</p> <ul> @@ -433,6 +433,13 @@ from the previous release.</p> API changes are:</p> <ul> +<li>LLVM's global uniquing tables for <tt>Type</tt>s and <tt>Constant</tt>s have + been privatized into members of an <tt>LLVMContext</tt>. A number of APIs + now take an <tt>LLVMContext</tt> as a parameter. To smooth the transition + for clients that will only ever use a single context, the new + <tt>getGlobalContext()</tt> API can be used to access a default global + context which can be passed in any and all cases where a context is + required. <li>The <tt>getABITypeSize</tt> methods are now called <tt>getAllocSize</tt>.</li> </ul> |