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<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="llvm.css" type="text/css">
<title>LLVM 2.7 Release Notes</title>
<title>LLVM 2.8 Release Notes</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.7 Release Notes</div>
<div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.8 Release Notes</div>
<img align=right src="http://llvm.org/img/DragonSmall.png"
width="136" height="136" alt="LLVM Dragon Logo">
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<ol>
<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#subproj">Sub-project Status Update</a></li>
<li><a href="#externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 2.7</a></li>
<li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in LLVM 2.7?</a></li>
<li><a href="#externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 2.8</a></li>
<li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in LLVM 2.8?</a></li>
<li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
<li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
<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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<p>
The LLVM 2.7 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM
The LLVM 2.8 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM
repository (which roughly includes the LLVM optimizers, code generators
and supporting tools), the Clang repository and the llvm-gcc repository. In
addition to this code, the LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in
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API changes are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Just about everything has been converted to use <tt>raw_ostream</tt> instead of
<tt>std::ostream</tt>.</li>
<li><tt>llvm/ADT/iterator.h</tt> has been removed, just use <tt>&lt;iterator&gt;</tt>
instead.</li>
<li>The <tt>Streams.h</tt> file and <tt>DOUT</tt> got removed, use <tt>DEBUG(errs() &lt;&lt; ...);</tt>
instead.</li>
<li>The <tt>TargetAsmInfo</tt> interface was renamed to <tt>MCAsmInfo</tt>.</li>
<li><tt>ModuleProvider</tt> has been <a
href="http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&amp;revision=94686">removed</a>
and its methods moved to <tt>Module</tt> and <tt>GlobalValue</tt>.
Most clients can remove uses of <tt>ExistingModuleProvider</tt>,
replace <tt>getBitcodeModuleProvider</tt> with
<tt>getLazyBitcodeModule</tt>, and pass their <tt>Module</tt> to
functions that used to accept <tt>ModuleProvider</tt>. Clients who
wrote their own <tt>ModuleProvider</tt>s will need to derive from
<tt>GVMaterializer</tt> instead and use
<tt>Module::setMaterializer</tt> to attach it to a
<tt>Module</tt>.</li>
<li><tt>GhostLinkage</tt> has given up the ghost.
<tt>GlobalValue</tt>s that have not yet been read from their backing
storage have the same linkage they will have after being read in.
Clients must replace calls to
<tt>GlobalValue::hasNotBeenReadFromBitcode</tt> with
<tt>GlobalValue::isMaterializable</tt>.</li>
<li>The <tt>add</tt>, <tt>sub</tt>, and <tt>mul</tt> instructions no longer
support floating-point operands. The <tt>fadd</tt>, <tt>fsub</tt>, and
<tt>fmul</tt> instructions should be used for this purpose instead.</li>
<li>The <tt>isInteger</tt>, <tt>isIntOrIntVector</tt>, <tt>isFloatingPoint</tt>,
<tt>isFPOrFPVector</tt> and <tt>isFPOrFPVector</tt> methods have been renamed
<tt>isIntegerTy</tt>, <tt>isIntOrIntVectorTy</tt>, <tt>isFloatingPointTy</tt>,
<tt>isFPOrFPVectorTy</tt> and <tt>isFPOrFPVectorTy</tt> respectively.</li>
<li><tt>llvm::Instruction::clone()</tt> no longer takes argument.</li>
<li><tt>raw_fd_ostream</tt>'s constructor now takes a flag argument, not individual
booleans (see <tt>include/llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h</tt> for details).</li>
<li>Some header files have been renamed:
<ul>
<li><tt>llvm/Support/AIXDataTypesFix.h</tt> to
<tt>llvm/System/AIXDataTypesFix.h</tt></li>
<li><tt>llvm/Support/DataTypes.h</tt> to <tt>llvm/System/DataTypes.h</tt></li>
<li><tt>llvm/Transforms/Utils/InlineCost.h</tt> to
<tt>llvm/Analysis/InlineCost.h</tt></li>
<li><tt>llvm/Support/Mangler.h</tt> to <tt>llvm/Target/Mangler.h</tt></li>
<li><tt>llvm/Analysis/Passes.h</tt> to <tt>llvm/CodeGen/Passes.h</tt></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
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