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"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="llvm.css" type="text/css">
<title>LLVM 1.4 Release Notes</title>
</head>
@ -88,15 +89,22 @@ benchmarks, and <b>many</b> other C and C++ programs.</p>
<ol>
<li>The test/Programs hierarchy <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR257">has
been moved out of the main LLVM tree</a> into a separate CVS repo and
tarball.</li>
tarball. This shrinks the distribution size of LLVM itself dramatically.
</li>
<li>LLVM now optimizes global variables significantly more than it did
before.</li>
<li>LLVM now includes the new '<tt>undef</tt>' value and <a
href="LangRef.html#i_unreachable"><tt>unreachable</tt></a> instruction,
which give the optimizer more information about the behavior of the
program.</li>
<li>The LLVM makefiles have been improved to build LLVM much faster and
includes new targets (like make dist-check).</li>
<li>The LLVM makefiles have been improved to build LLVM much faster (2x) and
includes new targets (like dist-check, uninstall). One important change is
associated with <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR456>PR456">PR456</a>.
The libraries and tools will now be built into
<tt>$builddir/Debug/{bin,lib}</tt> instead of
<tt>$builddir/tools/Debug</tt> and <tt>$builddir/lib/Debug</tt>. Similarly
for <tt>Release</tt> and <tt>Profile</tt> builds.
</li>
<li>The LLVM source code is much more compatible with Microsoft Visual C++,
including the JIT and runtime-code generation, though the entire system
may not work with it.</li>
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<div class="doc_text">
<ol>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR419">JIT interface should support
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR419">JIT interface should support
arbitrary calls</a></li>
<li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool was previously incomplete and didn't properly
support other ar(1) implementations. This has been corrected. <tt>llvm-ar</tt>
now fully supports all archive editing functions, table of contents listing,
extraction, and printing. It can also read BSD4.4/MacOSX and SVR4 style
archives. See <a
href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/CommandGuide/html/llvm-ar.html">llvm-ar</a>
for details.</li>
</ol>
</div>
@ -274,7 +289,6 @@ details.</li>
-ipmodref, -cee, -branch-combine, -instloops, -paths</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>
<li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development.</li>
</ul>