Add some more notes, many still missing

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Chris Lattner 2006-04-18 06:32:08 +00:00
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<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="othernew">Optimizer
Improvements</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
<ul>
<li>The Loop Unswitching pass (<tt>-loop-unswitch</tt>) has had several bugs
fixed, has several new features, and is enabled by default in llvmgcc3
now.</li>
<li>The Loop Strength Reduction pass (<tt>-loop-reduce</tt>) is now enabled for
the X86 backend.</li>
<li>The Instruction Combining pass (<tt>-instcombine</tt>) now includes a
framework and implementation for simplifying code based on whether computed
bits are demanded or not.</li>
<li>The Scalar Replacement of Aggregates pass (<tt>-scalarrepl</tt>) can now
promote simple unions to registers.</li>
<li>Several LLVM passes are <a href="http://llvm.org/PR681">significantly
faster</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="othernew">Other New Features</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
<ul>
<li>foo</li>
<li>LLVM now supports first class global ctor/dtor initialization lists, no
longer forcing targets to use "__main".</li>
<li>LLVM supports assigning globals and functions to a particular section
in the result executable using the GCC section attribute.</li>
<li><a href="ExtendingLLVM.html">Adding intrinsics to LLVM</a> is now
significantly easier.</li>
<li>llvmgcc4 now fully supports C99 Variable Length Arrays, including dynamic
stack deallocation.</li>
</ul>
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