diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ReleaseNotes.html | 30 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 5be4ad72a6..c9027e6bf3 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -88,8 +88,12 @@ It includes a large number of features and refinements from LLVM 2.3.</p> <li>... Attributes changes ... </li> -<li>The <tt>DbgStopPointInst</tt> methods <tt>getDirectory</tt> and <tt>getFileName</tt> now return <tt>Value*</tt> instead of strings. These can be converted to strings using <tt>llvm::GetConstantStringInfo</tt> defined via "llvm/Analysis/ValueTracking.h". +<li>The <tt>DbgStopPointInst</tt> methods <tt>getDirectory</tt> and +<tt>getFileName</tt> now return <tt>Value*</tt> instead of strings. These can be +converted to strings using <tt>llvm::GetConstantStringInfo</tt> defined via +"llvm/Analysis/ValueTracking.h".</li> +<li>API change: BinaryOperator::create -> Create (CmpInst, CastInst too)</li> </ul> </div> @@ -174,13 +178,19 @@ this section. <ul> <li> - <p>MRVs got generalized to FCAs.</p> + <p>MRVs got generalized to FCAs. getresult is gone, ret with multiple values + is gone.</p> </li> <li><p>fast isel, -O0 compile times</p></li> <li><p>Attrs changes?</p></li> + +<li><p>Initial PIC16 port</p></li> + +<li><p> builtin sync_compare_and_swap builtins + intrinsics</p></li> + <li><p>...</p></li> </ul> @@ -217,6 +227,10 @@ for the C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, and Fortran front-ends.</p> </p> <ul> +<li>use diet patch landed: saved 15% IR memory footprint</li> +<li>LLVM IR now directly represents "common" linkage, instead of + representing it as a form of weak linkage.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> @@ -234,8 +248,16 @@ LLVM 2.4 optimizers support a few major enhancements:</p> <ul> -<li>.</li> - +<li>Old-ADCE used control dependence and deleted output-free infinite loops. +Added a new Loop deletion pass (for deleting output free provably-finite loops) +and rewrote ADCE to be simpler faster, and not need control dependence.</li> + +<li>SparsePropagation framework for lattice-based dataflow solvers.</li> + +<li>LoadVN and GCSE finally bit the dust?</li> + +<li>Tail duplication was is removed from the standard optimizer sequence.</li> + </ul> </div> |