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  <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>
+  <title>LLVM 1.5 Release Notes</title>
 </head>
 <body>

-<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.4 Release Notes</div>
+<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.5 Release Notes</div>
 
 <ol>
  <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 </ol>

 <div class="doc_author">
-  <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM team</a><p>
+  <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Team</a><p>
 </div>

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@ -43,10 +43,10 @@
 <div class="doc_text">

 <p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
-infrastructure, release 1.4.  Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
+infrastructure, release 1.5.  Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
 known problems and improvements from the previous release.  The most up-to-date
 version of this document can be found on the <a
-href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.4/">LLVM 1.4 web site</a>.  If you are
+href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.5/">LLVM 1.5 web site</a>.  If you are
 not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because
 this document may be updated after the release.</p>

@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ web site</a>.  If you have questions or comments, the <a
 href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
 list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>

-<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS, this document applies
-to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one.  To see the release notes for
-the current or previous releases, see the <a
+<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS or the main LLVM web page,
+this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one.  To see
+the release notes for the current or previous releases, see the <a
 href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>

 </div>
@ -71,20 +71,11 @@ href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>

 <div class="doc_text">

-<p>This is the fifth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.</p>
+<p>This is the sixth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.</p>

-<p> At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile on a broad range of
-C and C++ programs, including the SPEC CPU95 &amp; 2000 suite.  This release
-includes several major enhancements to the LLVM system, including a new 
-PowerPC JIT, enhancements to the C/C++ front-end to provide source line number
-information in LLVM, a new <a href="CommandGuide/html/llvmc.html">compiler
-driver</a>, and several other enhancements listed below.  It also includes
-bug fixes for those problems found since the 1.3 release.</p>
-
-<p>Note that this release seperates the LLVM Program Testsuite out of the 
-main LLVM distribution into a seperate CVS repository and tarball.  This
-reduces the size of the main LLVM distribution.  Also note that LLVM now
-builds tools into llvm/Debug/bin by default instead of llvm/tools/Debug.</p>
+<p> At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile on a broad range of C and
+C++ programs, including the SPEC CPU95 &amp; 2000 suite. TODO.  It also includes
+bug fixes for those problems found since the 1.4 release.</p>

 </div>

@ -95,67 +86,7 @@ builds tools into llvm/Debug/bin by default instead of llvm/tools/Debug.</p>

 <div class="doc_text">
 <ol>
-  <li>LLVM now includes a Just-In-Time compiler for the PowerPC target.</li>
-  <li>llvmgcc and llvmg++ now emit source line number information when '-g' is
-  passed in, making it possible to map from LLVM code back to source.
-  This information is currently used by llvm-db and can be used with other 
-  tools and passes.</li>
-  <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 repository and
-    tarball. This shrinks the distribution size of LLVM itself significantly.
-  </li>
-  <li>LLVM now optimizes global variables more aggressively 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>Bytecode compression with bzip2 has been implemented. All bytecode files
-  generated by LLVM will now be compressed by default. Compression can be 
-  disabled with the <tt>-disable-compression</tt> option to the tools that can 
-  generate bytecode files.
-  </li>
-  <li>A generic <a href="CommandGuide/html/llvmc.html">compiler driver</a>
-  (llvmc) and
-  an associated <a href="CommandGuide/html/llvm-ld.html">generic linker</a>
-  (llvm-ld) have been added. The compiler driver is generic because it can be
-  configured
-  to pre-process, translate, optimize, assemble, and link code from any source
-  language with an LLVM front-end. This makes it easier for compiler writers
-  to hide the multiple steps required to compile a program (compiling,
-  optimizing, linking runtime libraries, etc) in one simple command.
-  </li>
-  <li>The <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR263">dependent libraries</a> 
-  feature has been implemented. This allows front end compilers to indicate in
-  the bytecode which libraries the bytecode needs to be linked with. Both the
-  C/C++ and Stacker front ends support generating the required dependencies. 
-  The linker now supports using this information to ensure required libaries are
-  linked into the module. This minimizes the need to use the <tt>-l</tt> option
-  when using <a href="CommandGuide/html/llvmc.html"><tt>llvmc</tt></a>.
-  </li>
-  <li>The LLVM makefiles have been improved to build LLVM much faster and 
-  includes new targets (like dist-check, uninstall). One important user-visible
-  change is that 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>
-  <li>The JIT-Target interfaces <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR283">are 
-    now much simpler</a> and more powerful.
-  </li>
-  <li>LLVM now provides llvm-ar and llvm-ranlib tools for working with archives
-      of LLVM bytecode files.</li>
-  <li>zlib and libpng are <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR417">no longer
-      included in the main LLVM tarball</a>.</li>
-  <li>The LLVM code generator now automatically generates assembly code writers
-      from an abstract target descriptions, eliminating the need to write
-      assembly printers manually.</li>
-  <li>LLVM regression and feature tests now use DejaGNU instead of QMTest.</li>
+  <li></li>
 </ol>

 </div>
@ -169,16 +100,7 @@ In this release, the following missing features were implemented:
 <div class="doc_text">

 <ol>
-  <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="CommandGuide/html/llvm-ar.html">llvm-ar</a> for 
-  details.
-  </li>
+   <li></li>
 </ol>

 </div>
@ -192,26 +114,7 @@ issues were fixed:</a>
 <div class="doc_text">

 <ol>
-  <li>The linker no longer <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR426">emits many
-      useless warnings</a> when linking C++ programs.
-  </li>
-  <li>The LLVM <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR352">#include namespace</a>
-      has been made consistent.  Files in <tt>llvm/include/{Support,Config}</tt>
-      are now located in <tt>llvm/include/llvm/{Support,Config}</tt>.
-  </li>
-  <li>The names of the libraries generated by compiling LLVM source have been 
-  changed to ensure they do not conflict with other packages upon installation.
-  Each LLVM library is now prefixed with LLVM and uses mixed clase. For example,
-  the library <tt>libasmparser.a</tt> in 1.3 has become
-  <tt>libLLVMAsmParser.a</tt> in release 1.4.
-  </li>
-  <li>The C++ frontend no longer expands and emits <a 
-      href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR459">all inline functions, even if they
-      are unused</a>.  It now properly tracks which functions are needed and
-      only compiles those.</li>
-
-  <li>Many improvements in the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR256">autoconf
-      and makefile systems</a> have been implemented.</li>
+   <li></li>
 </ol>
 </div>

@ -223,12 +126,7 @@ improvements:</a>

 <div class="doc_text">
 <ol>
-  <li>The optimizer produces <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR362">more 
-      efficient code for std::min/std::max</a> and other similar functions.</li>
-  <li>The X86 backend generates substantially faster code for floating point
-      intensive programs.</li>
-  <li>The PowerPC backend generates more efficient code in many common
-      scenarios.</li>
+   <li></li>
 </ol>
 </div>

@ -243,48 +141,13 @@ were fixed:</a>
 <p>Bugs fixed in the LLVM Core:</p>

 <ol>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR420">[licm] LICM invalidates alias 
-    analysis info and uses broken information</a> (optimizer crash)</li>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR422">[asmwriter] Asmwriter is really 
-    slow for functions with lots of values</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR423">[anders-aa] Andersen's AA is 
-    completely broken in LLVM 1.3</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR430">[bcwriter] Empty compaction 
-    tables defined</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR227">[X86] llc output for functions 
-    w/certain names tickles GNU 'as' bugs</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR472">[cbackend] Static globals are 
-      prototyped as 'extern'</a></li>
+   <li></li>
 </ol>

 <p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>

 <ol>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR445">[llvmg++] not enough templates are
-    instantiated</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR450">[llvmg++] Extern const globals 
-    cannot be marked 'constant' if they have nontrivial ctors or dtors</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR461">[llvmgcc] Crash compiling unnamed 
-    bitfield which does not increase struct size</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR424">[llvmgcc] llvmgcc emits invalid 
-    constant exprs</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR421">[llvmg++] Crash initializing 
-    array with constructors in hard EH situations</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR397">[llvm-gcc] Inline function 
-    redefinitions error due to 'asm' function rename</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR244">[llvm-gcc] Error when an 
-    implicitly external function is re-declared as static</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR360">[llvmgcc] Structure field with 
-    non-constant offset crashes llvmgcc</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR447">[llvmg++] Crash compiling 
-    friend with default argument</a></li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>Bugs fixed in the Sparc V9 back-end:</p>
-
-<ol>
-  <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR428">[sparcv9] regalloc assertion
-    failure with certain indirect calls</a></li>
+   <li></li>
 </ol>

 </div>
@ -314,17 +177,6 @@ to the machine and operating system on which it is built.  However, minor
 porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms.  We welcome your
 portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>

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