diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ReleaseNotes.html | 24 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index aa7c73dc55..65ea51c8c5 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ tablegen description of the target (before they were hand coded).</li> <li>All LLVM tools will now respond to the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR413"><tt>--version</tt> option</a> which will tell you the version of LLVM on which the tool is based.</li> +<li>An experimental PowerPC backend has been added, capable of compiling several +SPEC benchmarks.</li> </ol> </div> @@ -198,13 +200,15 @@ produced when linking C++ programs has been fixed.</li> Bytecode Reader</a></li> <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR392">Global Vars Have (Somewhat) Limited Type Range</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR341">operator<< on a Value* now prints the address of the object instead of its contents.</a></li> +<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR341">operator<< on a Value* now +prints the address of the object instead of its contents.</a></li> <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR402">Bytecode Enhancements - Needed</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR404">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify is really slow on 252.eon</a></li> -<li><a href="Http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR122">[code-cleanup] SymbolTable - class cleanup, Type should not derive from Value, eliminate - ConstantPointerRef class</a>.</li> +Needed</a></li> +<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR404">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify is +really slow on 252.eon</a></li> +<li><a href="Http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR122">[code-cleanup] SymbolTable class +cleanup, Type should not derive from Value, eliminate ConstantPointerRef +class</a>.</li> <li>The memory footprint of the LLVM IR has been reduced substantially.</li> <li>The LLVM linker and many core classes have been sped up substantially.</li> </ol> @@ -345,12 +349,10 @@ initialized unsigned bitfields</a></li> <li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably other unix-like systems).</li> <li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li> -<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.3 and above (C backend and - interpreter only, no native codegen is available yet).</li> +<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.2 and above.</li> <li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries.</li> </ul> - <p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor @@ -396,9 +398,11 @@ useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p> <ul> +<li>The PowerPC backend is incomplete and is known to miscompile several SPEC +benchmarks. The file <tt>llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt</tt> has +details.</li> <li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep, -ipmodref, -cee</tt></li> - <li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li> <li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool is incomplete and probably buggy.</li> |