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authorHans Wennborg <hans@hanshq.net>2015-02-24 17:12:04 +0000
committerHans Wennborg <hans@hanshq.net>2015-02-24 17:12:04 +0000
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ReleaseNotes: final touch-ups
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_36@230346 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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+++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
* Added support for MSVC's ``__vectorcall`` calling convention as
``x86_vectorcallcc``.
-* ... next change ...
-
.. NOTE
If you would like to document a larger change, then you can add a
subsection about it right here. You can copy the following boilerplate
@@ -302,6 +300,7 @@ object::Binary doesn't own the file buffer
It is now just a wrapper, which simplifies using object::Binary with other
users of the underlying file.
+
IR in object files is now supported
-----------------------------------
@@ -321,7 +320,7 @@ The new implementation is also lazier and has a ``save-temps`` option.
Change in the representation of lazy loaded funcs
-------------------------------------------------
-Lazy loaded functions are now represented is a way that ``isDeclaration``
+Lazy loaded functions are now represented in a way that ``isDeclaration``
returns the correct answer even before reading the body.
@@ -336,10 +335,11 @@ Python 2.7 is now required
This was done to simplify compatibility with python 3.
+
The leak detector has been removed
----------------------------------
-In practice tools like asan and valgrind were finding way more bugs than
+In practice, tools like asan and valgrind were finding way more bugs than
the old leak detector, so it was removed.
@@ -354,9 +354,10 @@ The syntax of comdats was changed to
@g = global i32 0, comdat($c)
@c = global i32 0, comdat
-The version without the parentheses is a syntatic sugar for a comdat with
+The version without the parentheses is a syntactic sugar for a comdat with
the same name as the global.
+
Added support for Win64 unwind information
------------------------------------------
@@ -369,6 +370,7 @@ to unwind the stack using a standard frame pointer walk on Win64. Instead,
users should call ``CaptureStackBackTrace``, or implement equivalent
functionality by consulting the unwind tables present in the binary.
+
Diagnostic infrastructure used by lib/Linker and lib/Bitcode
------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -401,12 +403,6 @@ We are expecting to migrate away from gc.root in the 3.8 time frame,
but both mechanisms will be supported in 3.7.
-Changes to the ARM Backend
---------------------------
-
- During this release ...
-
-
Changes to the MIPS Target
--------------------------
@@ -417,6 +413,7 @@ compile the Linux kernel for 32-bit targets. Additionally, LLD now supports
microMIPS for the O32 ABI on little endian targets, and code generation for
microMIPS is almost completely passing the test-suite.
+
ABI
^^^
@@ -449,6 +446,7 @@ few notable ones:
has been fixed when the fastcc calling convention is used with 64-bit FPU's
and -mno-odd-spreg.
+
LLVMLinux
^^^^^^^^^
@@ -465,6 +463,7 @@ number of kernel patches. See the `LLVMLinux project
* Added support for a number of directives used by Linux to the Integrated
Assembler.
+
Miscellaneous
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -481,6 +480,7 @@ Miscellaneous
is in use and will be removed in LLVM 3.7. These names have never been
supported by the GNU Assembler for these ABI's.
+
Changes to the PowerPC Target
-----------------------------
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ There are numerous improvements to the PowerPC target in this release:
* LLVM now has a POWER8 instruction scheduling description.
-* Address Sanitizer (ASAN) support is now fully functional.
+* AddressSanitizer (ASan) support is now fully functional.
* Performance of simple atomic accesses has been greatly improved.
@@ -506,6 +506,7 @@ There are numerous improvements to the PowerPC target in this release:
* There have been many smaller bug fixes and performance improvements.
+
Changes to the OCaml bindings
-----------------------------
@@ -532,12 +533,14 @@ Changes to the OCaml bindings
* As usual, many more functions have been exposed to OCaml.
+
Go bindings
-----------
* A set of Go bindings based on `gollvm <https://github.com/go-llvm/llvm>`_
was introduced in this release.
+
External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.6
============================================
@@ -545,6 +548,7 @@ An exciting aspect of LLVM is that it is used as an enabling technology for
a lot of other language and tools projects. This section lists some of the
projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.6.
+
Portable Computing Language (pocl)
----------------------------------
@@ -557,6 +561,7 @@ statically parallelize multiple work-items with the kernel compiler, even in
the presence of work-group barriers. This enables static parallelization of
the fine-grained static concurrency in the work groups in multiple ways.
+
TTA-based Co-design Environment (TCE)
-------------------------------------
@@ -575,11 +580,12 @@ new LLVM-based code generators "on the fly" for the designed processors and
loads them in to the compiler backend as runtime libraries to avoid
per-target recompilation of larger parts of the compiler chain.
+
Likely
------
`Likely <http://www.liblikely.org>`_ is an embeddable just-in-time Lisp for
-image recognition and heterogenous computing. Algorithms are just-in-time
+image recognition and heterogeneous computing. Algorithms are just-in-time
compiled using LLVM's MCJIT infrastructure to execute on single or
multi-threaded CPUs and potentially OpenCL SPIR or CUDA enabled GPUs.
Likely seeks to explore new optimizations for statistical learning
@@ -587,6 +593,7 @@ algorithms by moving them from an offline model generation step to the
compile-time evaluation of a function (the learning algorithm) with constant
arguments (the training data).
+
LDC - the LLVM-based D compiler
-------------------------------
@@ -602,6 +609,7 @@ x86/x86_64 systems like Linux, OS X, FreeBSD and Windows and also Linux on
PowerPC (32/64 bit). Ports to other architectures like ARM, AArch64 and MIPS64
are underway.
+
LLVMSharp & ClangSharp
----------------------