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<title>LLVM 3.1 Release Notes</title>
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<title>LLVM 3.2 Release Notes</title>
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<h1>LLVM 3.1 Release Notes</h1>
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<h1>LLVM 3.2 Release Notes</h1>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
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<li><a href="#subproj">Sub-project Status Update</a></li>
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<li><a href="#externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 3.1</a></li>
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<li><a href="#externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 3.2</a></li>
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<li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in LLVM?</a></li>
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<li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
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<li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a></li>
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<p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM Team</a></p>
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</div>
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<h1 style="color:red">These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.1
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<h1 style="color:red">These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.2
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release.<br>
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You may prefer the
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<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">LLVM 3.0
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<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.1/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">LLVM 3.1
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Release Notes</a>.</h1>
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<div>
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<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler
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Infrastructure, release 3.1. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including
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Infrastructure, release 3.2. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including
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major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various
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subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code.
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All LLVM releases may be downloaded from
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the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM releases web site</a>.</p>
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subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM
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releases may be downloaded from the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM
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releases web site</a>.</p>
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<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
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release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.org/">main LLVM web
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<div>
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<p>The LLVM 3.1 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM
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repository (which roughly includes the LLVM optimizers, code generators and
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supporting tools), and the Clang repository. In addition to this code, the
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LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in development. Here we
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<p>The LLVM 3.2 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM
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repository, which roughly includes the LLVM optimizers, code generators and
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supporting tools, and the Clang repository. In addition to this code, the
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LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in development. Here we
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include updates on these subprojects.</p>
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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production-quality compiler for C, Objective-C, C++ and Objective-C++ on x86
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(32- and 64-bit), and for Darwin/ARM targets.</p>
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<p>In the LLVM 3.1 time-frame, the Clang team has made many improvements.
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<p>In the LLVM 3.2 time-frame, the Clang team has made many improvements.
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Highlights include:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Greatly expanded <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html">C++11
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support</a> including lambdas, initializer lists, constexpr, user-defined
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literals, and atomics.</li>
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<li>A new <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Tooling.html">tooling</a>
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library to ease building of clang-based standalone tools.</li>
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<li>Extended support for
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<a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html">literals in
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Objective C</a>.</li>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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<p>For more details about the changes to Clang since the 3.0 release, see the
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<p>For more details about the changes to Clang since the 3.1 release, see the
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<a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">Clang release
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notes.</a></p>
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Linux and OpenBSD platforms. It fully supports Ada, C, C++ and Fortran. It
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has partial support for Go, Java, Obj-C and Obj-C++.</p>
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<p>The 3.1 release has the following notable changes:</p>
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<p>The 3.2 release has the following notable changes:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Partial support for gcc-4.7. Ada support is poor, but other languages work
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fairly well.</li>
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<li>Support for ARM processors. Some essential gcc headers that are needed to
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build DragonEgg for ARM are not installed by gcc. To work around this,
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copy the missing headers from the gcc source tree.</li>
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<li>Better optimization for Fortran by exploiting the fact that Fortran scalar
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arguments have 'restrict' semantics.</li>
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<li>Better optimization for all languages by passing information about type
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aliasing and type ranges to the LLVM optimizers.</li>
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<li>A regression test-suite was added.</li>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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target-specific hooks required by code generation and other runtime
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components. For example, when compiling for a 32-bit target, converting a
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double to a 64-bit unsigned integer is compiled into a runtime call to the
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"__fixunsdfdi" function. The compiler-rt library provides highly optimized
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implementations of this and other low-level routines (some are 3x faster than
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the equivalent libgcc routines).</p>
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<code>__fixunsdfdi</code> function. The compiler-rt library provides highly
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optimized implementations of this and other low-level routines (some are 3x
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faster than the equivalent libgcc routines).</p>
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<p>As of 3.1, compiler-rt includes the helper functions for atomic operations,
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allowing atomic operations on arbitrary-sized quantities to work. These
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functions follow the specification defined by gcc and are used by clang.</p>
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<p>The 3.2 release has the following notable changes:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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expression parsing (particularly for C++) and uses the LLVM JIT for target
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support.</p>
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<p>The 3.2 release has the following notable changes:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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licensed</a> under the MIT and UIUC license, allowing it to be used more
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permissively.</p>
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<p>Within the LLVM 3.1 time-frame there were the following highlights:</p>
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<p>Within the LLVM 3.2 time-frame there were the following highlights:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The <code><atomic></code> header is now passing all tests, when
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compiling with clang and linking against the support code from
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compiler-rt.</li>
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<li>FreeBSD now includes libc++ as part of the base system.</li>
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<li>libc++ has been ported to Solaris and, in combination with libcxxrt and
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clang, is working with a large body of existing code.</li>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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of a Java Virtual Machine (Java VM or JVM) that uses LLVM for static and
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just-in-time compilation.</p>
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<p>In the LLVM 3.1 time-frame, VMKit has had significant improvements on both
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runtime and startup performance.</p>
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<p>The 3.2 release has the following notable changes:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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Work in the area of automatic SIMD and accelerator code generation was
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started.</p>
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<p>Within the LLVM 3.1 time-frame there were the following highlights:</p>
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<p>Within the LLVM 3.2 time-frame there were the following highlights:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Polly became an official LLVM project</li>
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<li>Polly can be loaded directly into clang (enabled by '-O3 -mllvm -polly')</li>
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<li>An automatic scheduling optimizer (derived
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from <a href="http://pluto-compiler.sourceforge.net/">Pluto</a>) was
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integrated. It performs loop transformations to optimize for data-locality
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and parallelism. The transformations include, but are not limited to
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interchange, fusion, fission, skewing and tiling.</li>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
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<h2>
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<a name="externalproj">External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.1</a>
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<a name="externalproj">External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.2</a>
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</h2>
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<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
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<div>
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<p>An exciting aspect of LLVM is that it is used as an enabling technology for
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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 3.1.</p>
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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 3.2.</p>
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<h3>Crack</h3>
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<h2>
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<a name="whatsnew">What's New in LLVM 3.1?</a>
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<a name="whatsnew">What's New in LLVM 3.2?</a>
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</h2>
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<div>
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<p>This release includes a huge number of bug fixes, performance tweaks and
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minor improvements. Some of the major improvements and new features are
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minor improvements. Some of the major improvements and new features are
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listed in this section.</p>
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ARM EHABI
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combiner-aa?
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strong phi elim
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loop dependence analysis
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CorrelatedValuePropagation
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lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp => consider for 3.1.
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lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp => consider for 3.2.
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Integrated assembler on by default for arm/thumb?
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-->
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llvm/lib/Archive - replace with lib object?
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-->
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<p>LLVM 3.1 includes several major changes and big features:</p>
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<p>LLVM 3.2 includes several major changes and big features:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="../tools/clang/docs/AddressSanitizer.html">AddressSanitizer</a>,
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a fast memory error detector.</li>
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<li><a href="CodeGenerator.html#machineinstrbundle">MachineInstr Bundles</a>,
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Support to model instruction bundling / packing.</li>
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<li><a href="#armintegratedassembler">ARM Integrated Assembler</a>,
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<li><a href="#blockplacement">Basic Block Placement</a>
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Probability driven basic block placement.</li>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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<ul>
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<li>A new type representing 16 bit <i>half</i> floating point values has
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been added.</li>
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<li>IR now supports vectors of pointers, including vector GEPs.</li>
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<li>Module flags have been introduced. They convey information about the
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module as a whole to LLVM subsystems. This is currently used to encode
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<li>Loads can now have range metadata attached to them to describe the
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possible values being loaded.</li>
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<li>The <tt>llvm.ctlz</tt> and <tt>llvm.cttz</tt> intrinsics now have an
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additional argument which indicates whether the behavior of the intrinsic
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is undefined on a zero input. This can be used to generate more efficient
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code on platforms that only have instructions which don't return the type
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size when counting bits in 0.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>In addition to many minor performance tweaks and bug fixes, this
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release includes a few major enhancements and additions to the
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optimizers:</p>
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<p>In addition to many minor performance tweaks and bug fixes, this release
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includes a few major enhancements and additions to the optimizers:</p>
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<li>The loop unroll pass now is able to unroll loops with run-time trip counts.
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<code>-unroll-runtime</code> flag.</li>
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<li>A new basic-block autovectorization pass is available. Pass
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<code>-vectorize</code> to run this pass along with some associated
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post-vectorization cleanup passes. For more information, see the EuroLLVM
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2012 slides: <a href="http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-04-12/Slides/Hal_Finkel.pdf">
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Autovectorization with LLVM</a>.</li>
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<li>Inline cost heuristics have been completely overhauled and now closely
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model constant propagation through call sites, disregard trivially dead
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code costs, and can model C++ STL iterator patterns.</li>
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<p>The LLVM Machine Code (aka MC) subsystem was created to solve a number of
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problems in the realm of assembly, disassembly, object file format handling,
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and a number of other related areas that CPU instruction-set level tools work
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in. For more information, please see
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the <a href="http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html">Intro
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to the LLVM MC Project Blog Post</a>.</p>
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in. For more information, please see the
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<a href="http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html">Intro
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<ul>
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<li>The integrated assembler can optionally emit debug information when
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assembling a </tt>.s</tt> file. It can be enabled by passing the
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<tt>-g</tt> option to <tt>llvm-mc</tt>.</li>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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make it run faster:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>TableGen can now synthesize register classes that are only needed to
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represent combinations of constraints from instructions and sub-registers.
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The synthetic register classes inherit most of their properties form their
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closest user-defined super-class.</li>
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<li><code>MachineRegisterInfo</code> now allows the reserved registers to be
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frozen when register allocation starts. Target hooks should use the
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<code>MRI->canReserveReg(FramePtr)</code> method to avoid accidentally
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disabling frame pointer elimination during register allocation.</li>
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<li>A new kind of <code>MachineOperand</code> provides a compact
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representation of large clobber lists on call instructions. The register
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mask operand references a bit mask of preserved registers. Everything else
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is clobbered.</li>
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<li>The DWARF debug info writer gained support for emitting data for the
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<a href="SourceLevelDebugging.html#acceltable">name accelerator tables
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DWARF extension</a>. It is used by LLDB to speed up name lookup.</li>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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<p>A probability based block placement and code layout algorithm was added to
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LLVM's code generator. This layout pass supports probabilities derived from
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static heuristics as well as source code annotations such as
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<code>__builtin_expect</code>.</p>
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LLVM's code generator. This layout pass supports probabilities derived from
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static heuristics as well as source code annotations such as
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<li>Greatly improved support for AVX2.</li>
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<li>Lots of bug fixes and improvements for AVX1.</li>
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<li>Support for the FMA4 and XOP instruction set extensions.</li>
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<li>Call instructions use the new register mask operands for faster compile
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times and better support for different calling conventions. The old WINCALL
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instructions are no longer needed.</li>
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<li>DW2 Exception Handling is enabled on Cygwin and MinGW.</li>
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<li>Support for implicit TLS model used with MSVC runtime.</li>
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<li>The constant island pass now supports basic block and constant pool entry
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alignments greater than 4 bytes.</li>
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<li>On Darwin, the ARM target now has a full-featured integrated assembler.
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</li>
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<li>...</li>
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<p>The ARM target now includes a full featured macro assembler, including
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direct-to-object module support for clang. The assembler is currently enabled
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by default for Darwin only pending testing and any additional necessary
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platform specific support for Linux.</p>
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direct-to-object module support for clang. The assembler is currently enabled
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by default for Darwin only pending testing and any additional necessary
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platform specific support for Linux.</p>
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<p>Full support is included for Thumb1, Thumb2 and ARM modes, along with
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subtarget and CPU specific extensions for VFP2, VFP3 and NEON.</p>
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subtarget and CPU specific extensions for VFP2, VFP3 and NEON.</p>
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<p>The assembler is Unified Syntax only (see ARM Architecural Reference Manual
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for details). While there is some, and growing, support for pre-unfied (divided)
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syntax, there are still significant gaps in that support.</p>
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for details). While there is some, and growing, support for pre-unfied
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(divided) syntax, there are still significant gaps in that support.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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<h3>
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<a name="MIPS">MIPS Target Improvements</a>
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</h3>
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<div>
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New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p>
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<p>New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>MIPS32 little-endian direct object code emission is functional.</li>
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<li>MIPS64 little-endian code generation is largely functional for N64 ABI in assembly printing mode with the exception of handling of long double (f128) type.</li>
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<li>Support for new instructions has been added, which includes swap-bytes
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instructions (WSBH and DSBH), floating point multiply-add/subtract and
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negative multiply-add/subtract instructions, and floating
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point load/store instructions with reg+reg addressing (LWXC1, etc.)</li>
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<li>Various fixes to improve performance have been implemented.</li>
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<li>Post-RA scheduling is now enabled at -O3.</li>
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<li>Support for soft-float code generation has been added.</li>
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<li>clang driver's support for MIPS 64-bits targets.</li>
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<li>Support for MIPS floating point ABI option in clang driver.</li>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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<h3>
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<a name="PTX">PTX Target Improvements</a>
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</h3>
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<div>
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<p>An outstanding conditional inversion bug was fixed in this release.</p>
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<p><b>NOTE</b>: LLVM 3.1 marks the last release of the PTX back-end, in its
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current form. The back-end is currently being replaced by the NVPTX
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back-end, currently in SVN ToT.</p>
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</div>
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|
@ -702,7 +612,7 @@ New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p>
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<div>
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<ul>
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<li>Support for Qualcomm's Hexagon VLIW processor has been added.</li>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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|
@ -715,25 +625,11 @@ New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p>
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<div>
|
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|
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<p>If you're already an LLVM user or developer with out-of-tree changes based on
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||||
LLVM 3.1, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading
|
||||
LLVM 3.2, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading
|
||||
from the previous release.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li>LLVM's build system now requires a python 2 interpreter to be present at
|
||||
build time. A perl interpreter is no longer required.</li>
|
||||
<li>The C backend has been removed. It had numerous problems, to the point of
|
||||
not being able to compile any nontrivial program.</li>
|
||||
<li>The Alpha, Blackfin and SystemZ targets have been removed due to lack of
|
||||
maintenance.</li>
|
||||
<li>LLVM 3.1 removes support for reading LLVM 2.9 bitcode files. Going
|
||||
forward, we aim for all future versions of LLVM to read bitcode files and
|
||||
<tt>.ll</tt> files produced by LLVM 3.0 and later.</li>
|
||||
<li>The <tt>unwind</tt> instruction is now gone. With the introduction of the
|
||||
new exception handling system in LLVM 3.0, the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction
|
||||
became obsolete.</li>
|
||||
<li>LLVM 3.0 and earlier automatically added the returns_twice fo functions
|
||||
like setjmp based on the name. This functionality was removed in 3.1.
|
||||
This affects Clang users, if -ffreestanding is used.</li>
|
||||
<li>...</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
@ -749,40 +645,7 @@ New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p>
|
|||
LLVM API changes are:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li>Target specific options have been moved from global variables to members
|
||||
on the new <code>TargetOptions</code> class, which is local to each
|
||||
<code>TargetMachine</code>. As a consequence, the associated flags will
|
||||
no longer be accepted by <tt>clang -mllvm</tt>. This includes:
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::PrintMachineCode</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::NoFramePointerElim</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::NoFramePointerElimNonLeaf</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::DisableFramePointerElim(const MachineFunction &)</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::LessPreciseFPMADOption</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::LessPrecideFPMAD()</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::NoExcessFPPrecision</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::UnsafeFPMath</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::NoInfsFPMath</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::NoNaNsFPMath</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::HonorSignDependentRoundingFPMathOption</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::HonorSignDependentRoundingFPMath()</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::UseSoftFloat</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::FloatABIType</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::NoZerosInBSS</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::JITExceptionHandling</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::JITEmitDebugInfo</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::JITEmitDebugInfoToDisk</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::GuaranteedTailCallOpt</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::StackAlignmentOverride</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::RealignStack</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::DisableJumpTables</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::EnableFastISel</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::getTrapFunctionName()</code></li>
|
||||
<li><code>llvm::EnableSegmentedStacks</code></li>
|
||||
</ul></li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li>The <code>MDBuilder</code> class has been added to simplify the creation
|
||||
of metadata.</li>
|
||||
<li>...</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
@ -797,13 +660,8 @@ New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p>
|
|||
<p>In addition, some tools have changed in this release. Some of the changes
|
||||
are:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li><tt>llvm-stress</tt> is a command line tool for generating random
|
||||
<tt>.ll</tt> files to fuzz different LLVM components. </li>
|
||||
<li>The <tt>llvm-ld</tt> tool has been removed. The clang driver provides a
|
||||
more reliable solution for turning a set of bitcode files into a binary.
|
||||
To merge bitcode files <tt>llvm-link</tt> can be used instead.</li>
|
||||
<li>...</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
@ -817,19 +675,12 @@ New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p>
|
|||
<div>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Officially supported Python bindings have been added! Feature support is far
|
||||
from complete. The current bindings support interfaces to:</p>
|
||||
from complete. The current bindings support interfaces to:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li>Object File Interface</li>
|
||||
<li>Disassembler</li>
|
||||
<li>...</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Using the Object File Interface, it is possible to inspect binary object files.
|
||||
Think of it as a Python version of readelf or llvm-objdump.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Support for additional features is currently being developed by community
|
||||
contributors. If you are interested in shaping the direction of the Python
|
||||
bindings, please express your intent on IRC or the developers list.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
@ -845,11 +696,11 @@ bindings, please express your intent on IRC or the developers list.</p>
|
|||
<p>LLVM is generally a production quality compiler, and is used by a broad range
|
||||
of applications and shipping in many products. That said, not every
|
||||
subsystem is as mature as the aggregate, particularly the more obscure
|
||||
targets. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
|
||||
href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
|
||||
there isn't already one or ask on the <a
|
||||
href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev
|
||||
list</a>.</p>
|
||||
targets. If you run into a problem, please check
|
||||
the <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
|
||||
there isn't already one or ask on
|
||||
the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev
|
||||
list</a>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Known problem areas include:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -857,7 +708,7 @@ bindings, please express your intent on IRC or the developers list.</p>
|
|||
<li>The CellSPU, MSP430, PTX and XCore backends are experimental.</li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li>The integrated assembler, disassembler, and JIT is not supported by
|
||||
several targets. If an integrated assembler is not supported, then a
|
||||
several targets. If an integrated assembler is not supported, then a
|
||||
system assembler is required. For more details, see the <a
|
||||
href="CodeGenerator.html#targetfeatures">Target Features Matrix</a>.
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
|
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