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| author | Bill Wendling <isanbard@gmail.com> | 2013-06-07 10:52:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Bill Wendling <isanbard@gmail.com> | 2013-06-07 10:52:37 +0000 |
| commit | a1e338368f5df797f3a1da81adac794340e30d11 (patch) | |
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Add blurb for PowerPC.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_33@183500 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index 112662c2a6..f2afdc9efe 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -114,6 +114,30 @@ New features and improvements: - Delay slot filler pass can now search successor blocks for instructions to fill delay slots (use option -disable-mips-df-succbb-search=false). +PowerPC Target +-------------- + +New features and improvements: + +- PowerPC now supports an assembly parser. +- Support added for thread-local storage. 64-bit ELF subtarget only. +- Support added for medium and large code model (-mcmodel=medium,large). + Medium code model is now the default. 64-bit ELF subtarget only. +- Improved register allocation (fewer reserved registers). +- 64-bit atomic load and store are now supported. +- Improved code generation for unaligned memory accesses of scalar types. +- Improved performance of floating-point divide and square root + with -ffast-math. +- Support for predicated returns. +- Improved code generation for comparisons. +- Support added for inline setjmp and longjmp. +- Support added for many instructions introduced in PowerISA 2.04, 2.05, + and 2.06. +- Improved spill code for vector registers. +- Support added for -mno-altivec. +- ABI compatibility fixes for complex parameters, 128-bit integer parameters, + and varargs functions. 64-bit ELF subtarget only. + Loop Vectorizer --------------- |