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| author | Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr> | 2009-02-25 11:37:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr> | 2009-02-25 11:37:39 +0000 |
| commit | 8524cb9fa54143a47d0601486dbd13ba8f148326 (patch) | |
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Add note on support for arbitrary precision integers.
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index d45ffca056..d89cab293d 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -201,7 +201,15 @@ in this section. <p>LLVM 2.5 includes several major new capabilities:</p> <ul> -<li><p> Legalize Types</p></li> +<li><p>The code generator now supports arbitrary precision integers. +Types like <tt>i33</tt> have long been valid in the LLVM IR, but previously +could only be used with the interpreter. +Now IR using such types can be compiled to native code on all targets. +All operations are supported if the integer is not bigger than twice the +target machine word size. +Simple operations like loads, stores and shifts by a constant amount are +supported for integers of any size. +</p></li> <!-- Random stuff: |