more notes to self.

llvm-svn: 128902
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Chris Lattner 2011-04-05 18:38:45 +00:00
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@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ looking forward to the C++ committee finalizing the C++'0x standard.-->
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last release for llvm-gcc
TBAA
TBAA: On by default in clang. Disable it with -fno-strict-aliasing.
Could be more aggressive for structs.
Triple::normalize is new, llvm triples are always stored in normalized form internally.
Triple x86_64--mingw64 is obsoleted. Use x86_64--mingw32 instead.
@ -315,7 +317,8 @@ Much better debug info generated, particularly in optimized code situations.
ARM Fast ISel
ELF MC support
ELF MC support: on by default in clang. There are still known missing features
for human written assembly.
X86: Reimplemented all of MMX to introduce a new LLVM IR x86_mmx type. Now
random types like &lt;2 x i32&gt; are not iseld to mmx without emms.
@ -340,16 +343,57 @@ PointerTracking has been removed from mainline, moved to ClamAV.
EarlyCSE pass.
- DIBuilder provides simpler interface for front ends like Clang to encode debug info in LLVM IR.
- This interface hides implementation details (e.g. DIDerivedType, existence of compile unit etc..) that any front end should not know about.
For example,
Ty = DebugFactory.CreateDerivedType(DW_TAG_volatile_type,
findRegion(TYPE_CONTEXT(type)),
StringRef(),
getOrCreateFile(main_input_filename),
0 /*line no*/,
NodeSizeInBits(type),
NodeAlignInBits(type),
0 /*offset */,
0 /* flags */,
MainTy);
can be replaced by
DbgTy = DBuilder.createQualifiedType(DW_TAG_volatile_type, MainTy);
PPC: Switched to MCInstPrinter, and MCCodeEmitter. Ready to implement support
for directly writing out mach-o object files, but noone seems interested.
ARM: Improved code generation for Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 CPUs.
Scheduler now models operand latency and pipeline forwarding.
Major regalloc rewrite, not on by default for 2.9.
error_code + libsystem + PathV2 changes
new macho-dump tool
Major regalloc rewrite, not on by default for 2.9 and not advised to use it.
* New basic register allocator that can be used as a safe fallback when
debugging. Enable with -regalloc=basic.
* New infrastructure for live range splitting. SplitKit can break a live
interval into smaller pieces while preserving SSA form, and SpillPlacement
can help find the best split points. This is a work in progress so the API
is changing quickly.
* The inline spiller has learned to clean up after live range splitting. It
can hoist spills out of loops, and it can eliminate redundant spills.
Rematerialization works with live range splitting.
* New greedy register allocator using live range splitting. This will be the
default register allocator in the next LLVM release, but it is not turned on
by default in 2.9.
ARM: __builtin_prefetch turns into prefetch instructions.
MC assembler support for 3dNow! and 3DNowA instructions.
tblgen support for assembler aliases: <a
href="CodeGenerator.html#na_instparsing">MnemonicAlias and InstAlias</a>
LoopIndexSplit pass was removed, unmaintained.
include/llvm/System merged into include/llvm/Support.
Win32 PE-COFF support in the MC assembler has made a lot of progress in the 2.9
timeframe, but is still not generally useful. Please see
@ -361,10 +405,19 @@ New <a href="WritingAnLLVMPass.html#RegionPass">RegionPass</a> infrastructure
MicroBlaze: major updates for aggressive delay slot filler, MC-based assembly
printing, assembly instruction parsing, ELF .o file emission, and MC
instruction disassembler.
Countless ARM microoptimizations.
Speedups to various mid-level passes:
GVN is much faster on functions with deep dominator trees / lots of BBs.
DomTree and DominatorFrontier are much faster to compute.
new 'hotpatch' attribute: LangRef.html#fnattrs
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Still todo: [101025-110228]
Still todo: [101129-110228]
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