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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html index 8a2f9b4d40..518ef31aa8 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html @@ -245,18 +245,23 @@ KLEE.</p> <p> The goal of <a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> is to make gcc-4.5 act like llvm-gcc without requiring any gcc modifications whatsoever. -DragonEgg is a shared library (llvm.so) that is loaded by gcc at runtime. It -uses the new gcc plugin architecture to disable the GCC optimizers and code -generators, and schedule the LLVM optimizers and code generators (or direct -output of LLVM IR) instead. Currently only Linux and Darwin are supported, -and only on x86-32 and x86-64. It should be easy to add additional unix-like -architectures and other processor families. Since gcc-4.5 has not yet been -released, neither has <a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a>. -To build <a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> you will need to -check out the development versions of <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html/"> -gcc</a>, <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#checkout">llvm</a> -and <a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> from their respective -subversion repositories. +<a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> is a shared library (llvm.so) +that is loaded by gcc at runtime. It uses the new gcc plugin architecture to +disable the GCC optimizers and code generators, and schedule the LLVM optimizers +and code generators (or direct output of LLVM IR) instead. Currently only Linux +and Darwin are supported, and only on x86-32 and x86-64. It should be easy to +add additional unix-like architectures and other processor families. In theory +it should be possible to use <a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> +with any language supported by gcc, however only C and Fortran work well for the +moment. Ada and C++ work to some extent, while Java, Obj-C and Obj-C++ are so +far entirely untested. Since gcc-4.5 has not yet been released, neither has +<a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a>. To build +<a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> you will need to check out the +development versions of <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html/"> gcc</a>, +<a href="http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#checkout">llvm</a> and +<a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> from their respective +subversion repositories, and follow the instructions in the +<a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> README. </p> </div> |