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@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ 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 +200,15 @@ 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&lt;&lt; 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&lt;&lt; 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 +349,10 @@ 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>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.2 and above.</li>
<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries.</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 +398,11 @@ 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>