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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 9b6d5e847e942..84298376a7326 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ production-quality compiler for C, Objective-C, C++ and Objective-C++ on x86 <li>Introduced many new warnings, including <code>-Wmissing-field-initializers</code>, <code>-Wshadow</code>, <code>-Wno-protocol</code>, <code>-Wtautological-compare</code>, <code>-Wstrict-selector-match</code>, <code>-Wcast-align</code>, <code>-Wunused</code> improvements, and greatly improved format-string checking.</li> <li>Introduced the "libclang" library, a C interface to Clang intended to support IDE clients.</li> <li>Added support for <code>#pragma GCC visibility</code>, <code>#pragma align</code>, and others.</li> - <li>Added support for SSE, ARM NEON, and Altivec.</li> + <li>Added support for SSE, AVX, ARM NEON, and AltiVec.</li> <li>Improved support for many Microsoft extensions.</li> <li>Implemented support for blocks in C++.</li> <li>Implemented precompiled headers for C++.</li> @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ support new platforms, new languages, new architectures, and new features. <div class="doc_text"> <p> -<a href="http://libc++.llvm.org/">libc++</a> is another new member of the LLVM +<a href="http://libcxx.llvm.org/">libc++</a> is another new member of the LLVM family. It is an implementation of the C++ standard library, written from the ground up to specifically target the forthcoming C++'0X standard and focus on delivering great performance.</p> @@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ release includes a few major enhancements and additions to the optimizers:</p> be 13 in one of the predecessors of a block. It does this in conjunction with the new LazyValueInfo analysis pass.</li> <li>The new RegionInfo analysis pass identifies single-entry single-exit regions - in the CFG. You can play with it with the "opt -regions analyze" or + in the CFG. You can play with it with the "opt -regions -analyze" or "opt -view-regions" commands.</li> <li>The loop optimizer has significantly improved strength reduction and analysis capabilities. Notably it is able to build on the trap value and signed @@ -879,8 +879,9 @@ it run faster:</p> variables can be accessed via same base address) and potentially reducing register pressure.</li> -<li>The ARM has received many minor improvements and tweaks which lead to -substantially better performance in a wide range of different scenarios.</li> +<li>The ARM backend has received many minor improvements and tweaks which lead + to substantially better performance in a wide range of different scenarios. +</li> <li>The ARM NEON intrinsics have been substantially reworked to reduce redundancy and improve code generation. Some of the major changes are: @@ -1010,6 +1011,17 @@ API changes are:</p> LLVM. The Triple::normalize utility method has been added to help front-ends deal with funky triples. </li> +<li> + The signature of the <tt>GCMetadataPrinter::finishAssembly</tt> virtual + function changed: the <tt>raw_ostream</tt> and <tt>MCAsmInfo</tt> arguments + were dropped. GC plugins which compute stack maps must be updated to avoid + having the old definition overload the new signature. +</li> +<li> + The signature of <tt>MemoryBuffer::getMemBuffer</tt> changed. Unfortunately + calls intended for the old version still compile, but will not work correctly, + leading to a confusing error about an invalid header in the bitcode. +</li> <li> Some APIs were renamed: @@ -1102,7 +1114,7 @@ components, please contact us on the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev list</a>.</p> <ul> -<li>The Alpha, Blackfin, CellSPU, MicroBlaze, MSP430, MIPS, PIC16, SystemZ +<li>The Alpha, Blackfin, CellSPU, MicroBlaze, MSP430, MIPS, SystemZ and XCore backends are experimental.</li> <li><tt>llc</tt> "<tt>-filetype=obj</tt>" is experimental on all targets other than darwin-i386 and darwin-x86_64.</li> @@ -1287,7 +1299,7 @@ lists</a>.</p> src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401-blue" alt="Valid HTML 4.01"></a> <a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br> - Last modified: $Date: 2010-10-04 22:41:06 +0200 (Mon, 04 Oct 2010) $ + Last modified: $Date: 2010-10-26 14:43:36 +0200 (Tue, 26 Oct 2010) $ </address> </body> |