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author | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2010-04-22 06:38:11 +0000 |
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committer | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2010-04-22 06:38:11 +0000 |
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add mc and static analyzer blurbs.
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index fc662618e9..8931bc801e 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -145,13 +145,18 @@ suitable for use as a a beta quality ARM compiler.</li> <div class="doc_text"> -<p>Previously announced in the 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6 LLVM releases, the Clang project also -includes an early stage static source code analysis tool for <a -href="http://clang.llvm.org/StaticAnalysis.html">automatically finding bugs</a> -in C and Objective-C programs. The tool performs checks to find -bugs that occur on a specific path within a program.</p> - -<p>In the LLVM 2.7 time-frame, the analyzer core has sprouted legs and...</p> +<p>The <a href="http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/">Clang Static Analyzer</a> + project is an effort to use static source code analysis techniques to + automatically find bugs in C and Objective-C programs (and hopefully <a + href="http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/dev_cxx.html">C++ in the + future</a>!). The tool is very good at finding bugs that occur on specific + paths through code, such as on error conditions.</p> + +<p>In the LLVM 2.7 time-frame, the analyzer core has made several major and + minor improvements, including better support for tracking the fields of + structures, initial support (not enabled by default yet) for doing + interprocedural (cross-function) analysis, and new checks have been added. +</p> </div> @@ -255,12 +260,27 @@ DragonEgg is a new project which is seeing its first release with llvm-2.7. <div class="doc_text"> <p> -The LLVM Machine Code (MC) Toolkit project is ... +The LLVM Machine Code (aka MC) sub-project of LLVM was created to solve a number +of problems in the realm of assembly, disassembly, object file format handling, +and a number of other related areas that CPU instruction-set level tools work +in. It is a sub-project of LLVM which provides it with a number of advantages +over other compilers that do not have tightly integrated assembly-level tools. +For a gentle introduction, please see the <a +href="http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html">Intro to the +LLVM MC Project Blog Post</a>. </p> -<p> -MC Disassembler (with blog post), MCInstPrinter. Many X86 backend and AsmPrinter simplifications -Can transcode from GAS to intel syntax with "llvm-mc foo.s -output-asm-variant=1" +<p>2.7 includes major parts of the work required by the new MC Project. A few + targets have been refactored to support it, and work is underway to support a + native assembler in LLVM. This work is not complete in LLVM 2.7, but you has + made substantially more progress on LLVM mainline.</p> + +<p>One minor example of what MC can do is to transcode an AT&T syntax + X86 .s file into intel syntax. You can do this with something like:</p> + +<pre> + llvm-mc foo.s -output-asm-variant=1 -o foo-intel.s +</pre> </p> </div> @@ -455,13 +475,8 @@ Address of Label and Indirect Branches in LLVM IR Blog Post</a>. href="http://blog.llvm.org/2010/01/x86-disassembler.html">The X86 Disassembler Blog Post</a> for more information.</li> -<li>2.7 includes major parts of the work required by the new MC Project, - which aims to rework our handling of low-level machine code. A few targets - have been refactored to support it, and work is underway to support a native - assembler in LLVM. This work is not complete in LLVM 2.7, but you has made - substantially more progress on LLVM mainline. You can read more about this - in the <a href="http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html"> - Intro to the LLVM MC Project Blog Post</a>. +<li>2.7 includes major parts of the work required by the new MC Project, + see the <a href="#mc">MC update above</a> for more information.</li> </li> </ul> |