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@ -76,10 +76,26 @@ out and it is now as well supported as Linux on X86.</p>
<div class="doc_text">
<ul>
<li>New C front-end.</li>
<li>New SPARC backend.</li>
<li>Inline assembly support.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
<a name="changes">Significant changes in LLVM 1.7cvs</a>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
<ul>
<li>Removed the llvm.readport/llvm.writeport/llvm.readio/llvm.writeio
intrinsics.</li>
<li>Separated the other intrinsics based on type.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="doc_section">
<a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
@ -184,6 +200,10 @@ components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>
<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
<div class="doc_text">
These bugs are known for the old front-end. The new GCC-4-based C front-end
suffers from none of these.
<ul>
<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
@ -209,8 +229,6 @@ href="http://llvm.org/PR162">with the largest union member</a>.</li>
<ul>
<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
bits.</li>
@ -436,8 +454,7 @@ frontends.</li>
<div class="doc_text">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR566">Memory Mapped I/O Intrinsics do not fence
memory</a></li>
<li>None yet</li>
</ul>
</div>
@ -517,13 +534,13 @@ programs.</li>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
<a name="sparcv8">Known problems with the SPARC back-end</a>
<a name="sparc">Known problems with the SPARC back-end</a>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
<ul>
<li>This backend lacks a JIT compiler.</li>
<li>None yet.</li>
</ul>
</div>