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authorTorok Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>2010-08-04 12:43:22 +0000
committerTorok Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>2010-08-04 12:43:22 +0000
commit7c46cf0bfe88e2f6ce1bcad537844e3225670899 (patch)
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parente89652ccad7b2685387a8327961a46f8bac0978b (diff)
Note some LLVM 2.7 -> 2.8 APIs that changed / got renamed.
I encountered these while upgrading libclamav. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@110196 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -323,7 +323,34 @@ expose new optimization opportunities:</p>
these routines tend to perform costly dereference operations more than once. You
have to dereference the iterators yourself and pass them in.
</li>
-
+<li>
+ llvm.memcpy.*, llvm.memset.*, llvm.memmove.* (and possibly other?) intrinsics
+ take an extra parameter now (i1 isVolatile), totaling 5 parameters.
+ If you were creating these intrinsic calls and prototypes yourself (as opposed
+ to using Intrinsic::getDeclaration), you can use UpgradeIntrinsicFunction/UpgradeIntrinsicCall
+ to be portable accross releases.
+ Note that you cannot use Intrinsic::getDeclaration() in a backwards compatible
+ way (needs 2/3 types now, in 2.7 it needed just 1).
+</li>
+<li>
+ SetCurrentDebugLocation takes a DebugLoc now instead of a MDNode.
+ Change your code to use
+ SetCurrentDebugLocation(DebugLoc::getFromDILocation(...)).
+</li>
+<li>
+ VISIBILITY_HIDDEN is gone.
+</li>
+<li>
+ SMDiagnostic takes different parameters now. //FIXME: how to upgrade?
+</li>
+<li>
+ Some APIs got renamed:
+ <ul>
+ <li>llvm_report_error -&gt; report_fatal_error</li>
+ <li>llvm_install_error_handler -&gt; install_fatal_error_handler</li>
+ <li>llvm::DwarfExceptionHandling -&gt; llvm::JITExceptionHandling</li>
+ </ul>
+</li>
</ul>
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