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author | John Criswell <criswell@uiuc.edu> | 2004-08-09 21:15:20 +0000 |
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committer | John Criswell <criswell@uiuc.edu> | 2004-08-09 21:15:20 +0000 |
commit | 362f4b3e5d6796887a455aba71726dbf3dfbbbb4 (patch) | |
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Updated release notes from mainline.
llvm-svn: 15594
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diff --git a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index aa7c73d..e152c7f 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p> release primarily improves the <a href="#codequality">performance of the code</a> produced by all aspects of the LLVM compiler, adds many <a href="#newfeatures">new features</a>, <a href="#bugfix">fixes a few -bugs</a>, and speeds up the compiler.</p> +bugs</a>, speeds up the compiler, and introduces a new (experimental) +PowerPC code generator.</p> <p> At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all C & C++ SPEC CPU95 & 2000 benchmarks, the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist @@ -149,6 +150,8 @@ tablegen description of the target (before they were hand coded).</li> <li>All LLVM tools will now respond to the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR413"><tt>--version</tt> option</a> which will tell you the version of LLVM on which the tool is based.</li> +<li>An experimental PowerPC backend has been added, capable of compiling several +SPEC benchmarks.</li> </ol> </div> @@ -198,13 +201,15 @@ produced when linking C++ programs has been fixed.</li> Bytecode Reader</a></li> <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR392">Global Vars Have (Somewhat) Limited Type Range</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR341">operator<< on a Value* now prints the address of the object instead of its contents.</a></li> +<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR341">operator<< on a Value* now +prints the address of the object instead of its contents.</a></li> <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR402">Bytecode Enhancements - Needed</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR404">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify is really slow on 252.eon</a></li> -<li><a href="Http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR122">[code-cleanup] SymbolTable - class cleanup, Type should not derive from Value, eliminate - ConstantPointerRef class</a>.</li> +Needed</a></li> +<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR404">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify is +really slow on 252.eon</a></li> +<li><a href="Http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR122">[code-cleanup] SymbolTable class +cleanup, Type should not derive from Value, eliminate ConstantPointerRef +class</a>.</li> <li>The memory footprint of the LLVM IR has been reduced substantially.</li> <li>The LLVM linker and many core classes have been sped up substantially.</li> </ol> @@ -345,12 +350,12 @@ initialized unsigned bitfields</a></li> <li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably other unix-like systems).</li> <li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li> -<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.3 and above (C backend and - interpreter only, no native codegen is available yet).</li> <li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries.</li> +<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.2 and above. Note that no JIT +support is available yet, and LLC support is beta. The C backend can be used +to produce stable code for this platform.</li> </ul> - <p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor @@ -396,9 +401,11 @@ useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p> <ul> +<li>The PowerPC backend is incomplete and is known to miscompile several SPEC +benchmarks. The file <tt>llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt</tt> has +details.</li> <li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep, -ipmodref, -cee</tt></li> - <li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li> <li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool is incomplete and probably buggy.</li> @@ -423,9 +430,7 @@ work.</li> such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be corrupted.</li> -<li>It is not possible to <tt>dlopen</tt> an LLVM bytecode file in the JIT.</li> - -<li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is very slow (there is no symbol +<li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is slow (there is no symbol table in the archive).</li> <li>The gccld program <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR139">does not link |