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authorBill Wendling <isanbard@gmail.com>2012-05-14 08:11:53 +0000
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@@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
<p>The LLVM 3.1 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM
repository (which roughly includes the LLVM optimizers, code generators and
- supporting tools), and the Clang repository. In
- addition to this code, the LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are
- in development. Here we include updates on these subprojects.</p>
+ supporting tools), and the Clang repository. In addition to this code, the
+ LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in development. Here we
+ include updates on these subprojects.</p>
<!--=========================================================================-->
<h3>
@@ -107,10 +107,9 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
Objective C</a>.</li>
</ul>
- <p>For more details about the changes to Clang since the 3.0 release, see the
-<a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">Clang release notes</a>
-</p>
-
+<p>For more details about the changes to Clang since the 3.0 release, see the
+ <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">Clang release
+ notes.</a></p>
<p>If Clang rejects your code but another compiler accepts it, please take a
look at the <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/compatibility.html">language
@@ -125,6 +124,7 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
</h3>
<div>
+
<p><a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> is a
<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugins">gcc plugin</a> that replaces GCC's
optimizers and code generators with LLVM's. It works with gcc-4.5 and gcc-4.6
@@ -135,8 +135,7 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
<p>The 3.1 release has the following notable changes:</p>
- <ul>
-
+<ul>
<li>Partial support for gcc-4.7. Ada support is poor, but other languages work
fairly well.</li>
@@ -151,7 +150,6 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
aliasing and type ranges to the LLVM optimizers.</li>
<li>A regression test-suite was added.</li>
-
</ul>
</div>
@@ -172,8 +170,6 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
implementations of this and other low-level routines (some are 3x faster than
the equivalent libgcc routines).</p>
-<p>....</p>
-
</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
@@ -189,8 +185,6 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
expression parsing (particularly for C++) and uses the LLVM JIT for target
support.</p>
-<p>...</p>
-
</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
@@ -204,8 +198,6 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
licensed</a> under the MIT and UIUC license, allowing it to be used more
permissively.</p>
-<p>...</p>
-
</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
@@ -215,16 +207,12 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
<div>
- <p>The <a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/">VMKit project</a> is an
- implementation of a Java Virtual Machine (Java VM or JVM) that uses LLVM for
- static and just-in-time compilation.
-
- <p>In the LLVM 3.1 time-frame, VMKit has had significant improvements on both
- runtime and startup performance:</p>
+<p>The <a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/">VMKit project</a> is an implementation
+ of a Java Virtual Machine (Java VM or JVM) that uses LLVM for static and
+ just-in-time compilation.</p>
- <ul>
- <li>...</li>
- </ul>
+<p>In the LLVM 3.1 time-frame, VMKit has had significant improvements on both
+ runtime and startup performance.</p>
</div>
@@ -236,25 +224,23 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
<div>
- <p><a href="http://polly.llvm.org/">Polly</a> is an <em>experimental</em>
+<p><a href="http://polly.llvm.org/">Polly</a> is an <em>experimental</em>
optimizer for data locality and parallelism. It currently provides high-level
loop optimizations and automatic parallelisation (using the OpenMP run time).
Work in the area of automatic SIMD and accelerator code generation was
- started.
+ started.</p>
- <p>Within the LLVM 3.1 time-frame there were the following highlights:</p>
+<p>Within the LLVM 3.1 time-frame there were the following highlights:</p>
- <ul>
+<ul>
<li>Polly became an official LLVM project</li>
- <li>Polly can be loaded directly into clang (Enabled by '-O3 -mllvm -polly'
- )</li>
- <li>An automatic scheduling optimizer (derived from <a
- href="http://pluto-compiler.sourceforge.net/">Pluto</a>) was integrated. It
- performs loop transformations to optimize for data-locality and parallelism.
- The transformations include, but are not limited to interchange, fusion,
- fission, skewing and tiling.
- </li>
- </ul>
+ <li>Polly can be loaded directly into clang (enabled by '-O3 -mllvm -polly')</li>
+ <li>An automatic scheduling optimizer (derived
+ from <a href="http://pluto-compiler.sourceforge.net/">Pluto</a>) was
+ integrated. It performs loop transformations to optimize for data-locality
+ and parallelism. The transformations include, but are not limited to
+ interchange, fusion, fission, skewing and tiling.</li>
+</ul>
</div>
@@ -447,7 +433,6 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
A full featured assembler and direct-to-object support for ARM.</li>
<li><a href="#blockplacement">Basic Block Placement</a>
Probability driven basic block placement.</li>
- <li>....</li>
</ul>
</div>
@@ -463,22 +448,22 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
<p>LLVM IR has several new features for better support of new targets and that
expose new optimization opportunities:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>A new type representing 16 bit <i>half</i> floating point values has
- been added.</li>
- <li>IR now supports vectors of pointers, including vector GEPs.</li>
- <li>Module flags have been introduced. They convey information about the
- module as a whole to LLVM subsystems. This is currently used to encode
- Objective C ABI information.</li>
- <li>Loads can now have range metadata attached to them to describe the
- possible values being loaded.</li>
- <li>The <tt>llvm.ctlz</tt> and <tt>llvm.cttz</tt> intrinsics now have an
- additional argument which indicates whether the behavior of the intrinsic
- is undefined on a zero input. This can be used to generate more efficient
- code on platforms that only have instructions which don't return the type
- size when counting bits in 0.</li>
- <li>....</li>
- </ul>
+<ul>
+ <li>A new type representing 16 bit <i>half</i> floating point values has
+ been added.</li>
+ <li>IR now supports vectors of pointers, including vector GEPs.</li>
+ <li>Module flags have been introduced. They convey information about the
+ module as a whole to LLVM subsystems. This is currently used to encode
+ Objective C ABI information.</li>
+ <li>Loads can now have range metadata attached to them to describe the
+ possible values being loaded.</li>
+ <li>The <tt>llvm.ctlz</tt> and <tt>llvm.cttz</tt> intrinsics now have an
+ additional argument which indicates whether the behavior of the intrinsic
+ is undefined on a zero input. This can be used to generate more efficient
+ code on platforms that only have instructions which don't return the type
+ size when counting bits in 0.</li>
+</ul>
+
</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
@@ -504,7 +489,6 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
<li>Inline cost heuristics have been completely overhauled and now closely
model constant propagation through call sites, disregard trivially dead
code costs, and can model C++ STL iterator patterns.</li>
- <li>....</li>
</ul>
</div>
@@ -527,7 +511,6 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
<li>The integrated assembler can optionally emit debug information when
assembling a </tt>.s</tt> file. It can be enabled by passing the
<tt>-g</tt> option to <tt>llvm-mc</tt>.</li>
- <li>....</li>
</ul>
</div>
@@ -683,12 +666,8 @@ syntax, there are still significant gaps in that support.</p>
<div>
-<p>Support for Qualcomm's Hexagon VLIW processor has been added.</p>
-
<ul>
- <li>....</li>
-
-
+ <li>Support for Qualcomm's Hexagon VLIW processor has been added.</li>
</ul>
</div>
@@ -720,7 +699,6 @@ syntax, there are still significant gaps in that support.</p>
<li>LLVM 3.0 and earlier automatically added the returns_twice fo functions
like setjmp based on the name. This functionality was removed in 3.1.
This affects Clang users, if -ffreestanding is used.</li>
- <li>....</li>
</ul>
</div>
@@ -767,9 +745,9 @@ syntax, there are still significant gaps in that support.</p>
<li><code>llvm::getTrapFunctionName()</code></li>
<li><code>llvm::EnableSegmentedStacks</code></li>
</ul></li>
- <li>The MDBuilder class has been added to simplify the creation of
- metadata.</li>
- <li>....</li>
+
+ <li>The <code>MDBuilder</code> class has been added to simplify the creation
+ of metadata.</li>
</ul>
</div>
@@ -791,7 +769,6 @@ syntax, there are still significant gaps in that support.</p>
<li>The <tt>llvm-ld</tt> tool has been removed. The clang driver provides a
more reliable solution for turning a set of bitcode files into a binary.
To merge bitcode files <tt>llvm-link</tt> can be used instead.</li>
- <li>....</li>
</ul>
</div>