From dc910080fadd6429c02fdb460ee30cba3f3979ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Lattner
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:41:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] more chris scribble.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@98714 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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docs/ReleaseNotes.html | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
index f1f38fc97eb..7f6ad47f8f4 100644
--- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
+++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the
releases page.
-FIXME: llvm.org moved to new server, mention new logo.
+FIXME: llvm.org moved to new server, mention new logo, Ted and Doug new code
+ owners.
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@ Almost dead code.
llvm/Analysis/PointerTracking.h => Edwin wants this, consider for 2.8.
ABCD, SCCVN, GEPSplitterPass
MSIL backend?
+ lib/Transforms/Utils/SSI.cpp -> ABCD depends on it.
-->
@@ -84,8 +86,6 @@ Almost dead code.
loop dependence analysis
ELF Writer? How stable?
PostRA scheduler improvements, ARM adoption (David Goodwin).
- 2.7 supports the GDB 7.0 jit interfaces for debug info.
- 2.7 eliminates ADT/iterator.h
-->
@@ -129,6 +128,7 @@ development. Here we include updates on these subprojects.
- ...
+include a link to cxx_compatibility.html
@@ -460,17 +460,31 @@ MC encoding and disassembler apis.
Optimal Edge Profiling?
Instcombine is now a library, has its own IRBuilder to simplify itself.
New llvm/Support/Regex.h API. FileCheck now does regex's
+Many subtle pointer invalidation bugs in Callgraph have been fixed and it now uses asserting value handles.
+MC Disassembler (with blog post), MCInstPrinter. Many X86 backend and AsmPrinter simplifications
+Various tools like llc and opt now read either .ll or .bc files as input.
+Malloc and free instructions got removed.
+compiler-rt support for ARM.
+completely llvm-gcc NEON support.
+Can transcode from GAS to intel syntax with "llvm-mc foo.s -output-asm-variant=1"
+JIT debug information with GDB 7.0
+New CodeGen Level LICM And CSE (did it make 2.7?)
+CMake can now run tests, what other improvements?
+ARM/Thumb register scavenging improvements?
+New SSAUpdater and MachineSSAUpdater classes for unstructured ssa updating,
+ changed jump threading, GVN, etc to use it which simplified them and speed
+ them up.
-
-
-
+CondProp pass removed (functionality merged into jump threading).
AndersAA got removed (from 2.7 or mainline?)
+PredSimplify, LoopVR, GVNPRE got removed.
LLVM command line tools now overwrite their output, before they would only do this with -f.
DOUT removed, use DEBUG(errs() instead.
Much stuff converted to use raw_ostream instead of std::ostream.
TargetAsmInfo renamed to MCAsmInfo
llvm/ADT/iterator.h gone.
+