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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2011-04-05 23:22:33 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2011-04-05 23:22:33 +0000
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finished my pass through all the 2.9 commits, now to make this intelligible
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@@ -60,18 +60,14 @@ current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the
<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
</div>
-
-<!--
-Almost dead code.
- lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp => consider for 3.0.
--->
-
-<!-- Features that need text if they're finished for 3.0:
+<!-- Features that need text if they're finished for 3.1:
+ ARM EHABI
combiner-aa?
strong phi elim
loop dependence analysis
CorrelatedValuePropagation
+ lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp => consider for 3.1.
-->
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@@ -331,8 +327,9 @@ MC Assembler support for .file and .loc.
inline asm multiple alternative constraint support.
-LoopIdiom: memset/memcpy formation. Build with -ffreestanding or -fno-builtin
- if your memcpy is being compiled into infinite recursion.
+LoopIdiom: memset/memcpy formation and memset_pattern on darwin. Build with
+ -ffreestanding or -fno-builtin if your memcpy is being compiled into infinite
+ recursion.
TargetLibraryInfo
@@ -351,7 +348,7 @@ LoopInstSimplify pass.
- DIBuilder provides simpler interface for front ends like Clang to encode debug info in LLVM IR.
- This interface hides implementation details (e.g. DIDerivedType, existence of compile unit etc..) that any front end should not know about.
- For example,
+ For example, DIFactory DebugFactory;
Ty = DebugFactory.CreateDerivedType(DW_TAG_volatile_type,
findRegion(TYPE_CONTEXT(type)),
StringRef(),
@@ -364,6 +361,7 @@ LoopInstSimplify pass.
MainTy);
can be replaced by
DbgTy = DBuilder.createQualifiedType(DW_TAG_volatile_type, MainTy);
+DIFactory is gone now.
PPC: Switched to MCInstPrinter, and MCCodeEmitter. Ready to implement support
for directly writing out mach-o object files, but noone seems interested.
@@ -372,6 +370,9 @@ ARM: Improved code generation for Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 CPUs.
Scheduler now models operand latency and pipeline forwarding.
+Can optimize printf to iprintf when no floating point is used, for embedded
+ targets with smaller iprintf implementation.
+
error_code + libsystem + PathV2 changes
The system_error header from C++0x was added.
* Use if (error_code ec = function()) to check for error conditions
@@ -407,6 +408,7 @@ tblgen support for assembler aliases: <a
href="CodeGenerator.html#na_instparsing">MnemonicAlias and InstAlias</a>
LoopIndexSplit pass was removed, unmaintained.
+LiveValues, SimplifyHalfPowrLibCalls, and GEPSplitter were removed.
include/llvm/System merged into include/llvm/Support.
@@ -460,12 +462,29 @@ Removed the PartialSpecialization pass, it was unmaintained and buggy.
SPARC: Many improvements, including using the Y registers for multiplications
and addition of a simple delay slot filler.
-</pre></li>
-</ul>
-Still todo: [110117-110228]
+udiv, ashr, lshr, shl now have exact and nuw/nsw bits: PR8862 / LangRef.html
+
+lib/Object and llvm-objdump
+ Target Independent Code Gen:
+ The pre-register-allocation (preRA) instruction scheduler models register pressure
+ much more accurately in some cases. This allows the adoption of more
+ aggressive scheduling heuristics.
+
+ The X86 backend has adopted a new preRA scheduling
+ mode, "list-ilp", to shorten the height of instruction schedules
+ without inducing register spills.
+
+ The ARM backend preRA scheduler now models machine resources at cycle
+ granularity. This allows the scheduler to both accurately model
+ instruction latency and avoid overcommitting functional units.
+
+
+</pre></li>
+</ul>
+
</div>
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