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LLVM 3.8 Release Notes
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======================
.. contents::
:local:
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.. warning::
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These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.8 release. You may
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prefer the `LLVM 3.7 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/3.7.0/docs
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/ReleaseNotes.html>`_.
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Introduction
============
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
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release 3.8. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
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from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and
some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded
from the `LLVM releases web site <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
release, please check out the `main LLVM web site <http://llvm.org/>`_. If you
have questions or comments, the `LLVM Developer's Mailing List
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<http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev>`_ is a good place to send
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them.
Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main
LLVM web page, this document applies to the *next* release, not the current
one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the `releases
page <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
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Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
=================================================
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* With this release, the minimum Windows version required for running LLVM is
Windows 7. Earlier versions, including Windows Vista and XP are no longer
supported.
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Deprecate Autoconf As per the very positive feedback from llvm-dev (http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-November/092150.html), this commit officially deprecates the LLVM autoconf-based build system. Anyone still using it should switch to CMake. llvm-svn: 252520
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* With this release, the autoconf build system is deprecated. It will be removed
in the 3.9 release. Please migrate to using CMake. For more information see:
`Building LLVM with CMake <CMake.html>`_
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* The C API function LLVMLinkModules is deprecated. It will be removed in the
3.9 release. Please migrate to LLVMLinkModules2. Unlike the old function the
new one
* Doesn't take an unused parameter.
* Destroys the source instead of only damaging it.
* Does not record a message. Use the diagnostic handler instead.
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* The deprecated C APIs LLVMGetBitcodeModuleProviderInContext and
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.. NOTE
For small 1-3 sentence descriptions, just add an entry at the end of
this list. If your description won't fit comfortably in one bullet
point (e.g. maybe you would like to give an example of the
functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below
for adding a new subsection.
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* ... next change ...
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.. 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
and un-indent it (the indentation causes it to be inside this comment).
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Special New Feature
-------------------
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Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
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Changes to the PowerPC Target
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Changes to the OCaml bindings
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* The ocaml function link_modules has been replaced with link_modules' which
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External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.8
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============================================
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
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projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.8.
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* A project
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Additional Information
======================
A wide variety of additional information is available on the `LLVM web page
<http://llvm.org/>`_, in particular in the `documentation
<http://llvm.org/docs/>`_ section. The web page also contains versions of the
API documentation which is up-to-date with the Subversion version of the source
code. You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by
going into the ``llvm/docs/`` directory in the LLVM tree.
If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
us via the `mailing lists <http://llvm.org/docs/#maillist>`_.