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ReleaseNotes: Add a note about zero_undef on llvm.cttz/ctlz. Extend x86 section. Add a bullet for dwarf access tables.
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@ -456,6 +456,11 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
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Objective C ABI information.</li>
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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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<li>....</li>
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</ul>
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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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</ul>
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<p> We added new TableGen infrastructure to support bundling for
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@ -576,13 +584,14 @@ static heuristics as well as source code annotations such as
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<p>New features and major changes in the X86 target include:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Bug fixes and improved support for AVX1</li>
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<li>Support for AVX2 (still incomplete at this point)</li>
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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 MS VC runtime</li>
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<li>Support for implicit TLS model used with MSVC runtime.</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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