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LLVM 7.0.0 Release Notes
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These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 7 release.
Release notes for previous releases can be found on
`the Download Page <http://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_.
Introduction
============
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
release 7.0.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
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
<http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev>`_ is a good place to send
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/>`_.
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
=================================================
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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.
* Libraries have been renamed from 7.0 to 7. This change also impacts
downstream libraries like lldb.
* The LoopInstSimplify pass (-loop-instsimplify) has been removed.
* Symbols starting with ``?`` are no longer mangled by LLVM when using the
Windows ``x`` or ``w`` IR mangling schemes.
* A new tool named :doc:`llvm-exegesis <CommandGuide/llvm-exegesis>` has been
added. :program:`llvm-exegesis` automatically measures instruction scheduling
properties (latency/uops) and provides a principled way to edit scheduling
models.
* A new tool named :doc:`llvm-mca <CommandGuide/llvm-mca>` has been added.
:program:`llvm-mca` is a static performance analysis tool that uses
information available in LLVM to statically predict the performance of
machine code for a specific CPU.
* The optimization flag to merge constants (-fmerge-all-constants) is no longer
applied by default.
* Optimization of floating-point casts is improved. This may cause surprising
results for code that is relying on the undefined behavior of overflowing
casts. The optimization can be disabled by specifying a function attribute:
"strict-float-cast-overflow"="false". This attribute may be created by the
clang option :option:`-fno-strict-float-cast-overflow`.
Code sanitizers can be used to detect affected patterns. The option for
detecting this problem alone is "-fsanitize=float-cast-overflow":
.. code-block:: c
int main() {
float x = 4294967296.0f;
x = (float)((int)x);
printf("junk in the ftrunc: %f\n", x);
return 0;
}
.. code-block:: bash
clang -O1 ftrunc.c -fsanitize=float-cast-overflow ; ./a.out
ftrunc.c:5:15: runtime error: 4.29497e+09 is outside the range of representable values of type 'int'
junk in the ftrunc: 0.000000
* ``LLVM_ON_WIN32`` is no longer set by ``llvm/Config/config.h`` and
``llvm/Config/llvm-config.h``. If you used this macro, use the compiler-set
``_WIN32`` instead which is set exactly when ``LLVM_ON_WIN32`` used to be set.
* Note..
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and un-indent it (the indentation causes it to be inside this comment).
Special New Feature
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Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
Changes to the LLVM IR
----------------------
* The signatures for the builtins @llvm.memcpy, @llvm.memmove, and @llvm.memset
have changed. Alignment is no longer an argument, and are instead conveyed as
parameter attributes.
* invariant.group.barrier has been renamed to launder.invariant.group.
* invariant.group metadata can now refer only empty metadata nodes.
Changes to the ARM Backend
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Changes to the MIPS Target
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Changes to the PowerPC Target
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Changes to the X86 Target
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Changes to the AMDGPU Target
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Changes to the AVR Target
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Changes to the OCaml bindings
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Changes to the C API
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External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 7
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* A project...
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>`_.