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@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ tablegen description of the target (before they were hand coded).
All LLVM tools will now respond to the
--version option which
will tell you the version of LLVM on which the tool is based.
+An experimental PowerPC backend has been added, capable of compiling several
+SPEC benchmarks.
@@ -198,13 +200,15 @@ produced when linking C++ programs has been fixed.
Bytecode Reader
Global Vars Have (Somewhat) Limited
Type Range
-operator<< on a Value* now prints the address of the object instead of its contents.
+operator<< on a Value* now
+prints the address of the object instead of its contents.
Bytecode Enhancements
- Needed
-[loopsimplify] Loop simplify is really slow on 252.eon
-[code-cleanup] SymbolTable
- class cleanup, Type should not derive from Value, eliminate
- ConstantPointerRef class.
+Needed
+[loopsimplify] Loop simplify is
+really slow on 252.eon
+[code-cleanup] SymbolTable class
+cleanup, Type should not derive from Value, eliminate ConstantPointerRef
+class.
The memory footprint of the LLVM IR has been reduced substantially.
The LLVM linker and many core classes have been sped up substantially.
@@ -345,12 +349,10 @@ initialized unsigned bitfields
Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably
other unix-like systems).
Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.
-PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.3 and above (C backend and
- interpreter only, no native codegen is available yet).
+PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.2 and above.
Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries.
-
The core LLVM infrastructure uses
GNU autoconf 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.
+- The PowerPC backend is incomplete and is known to miscompile several SPEC
+benchmarks. The file llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt has
+details.
- The following passes are incomplete or buggy: -pgmdep, -memdep,
-ipmodref, -cee
-
- The -pre pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that
it should) and not thoroughly tested.
- The llvm-ar tool is incomplete and probably buggy.