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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index d17d5e78fd..ecd1884d76 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="llvm.css" type="text/css"> - <title>LLVM 2.7 Release Notes</title> + <title>LLVM 2.8 Release Notes</title> </head> <body> -<div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.7 Release Notes</div> +<div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.8 Release Notes</div> <img align=right src="http://llvm.org/img/DragonSmall.png" width="136" height="136" alt="LLVM Dragon Logo"> @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ <ol> <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li> <li><a href="#subproj">Sub-project Status Update</a></li> - <li><a href="#externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 2.7</a></li> - <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in LLVM 2.7?</a></li> + <li><a href="#externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 2.8</a></li> + <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in LLVM 2.8?</a></li> <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li> <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li> <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a></li> @@ -28,12 +28,11 @@ <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Team</a></p> </div> -<!-- <h1 style="color:red">These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 2.8 release.<br> You may prefer the -<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/2.6/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">LLVM 2.7 -Release Notes</a>.</h1>--> +<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/2.7/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">LLVM 2.7 +Release Notes</a>.</h1> <!-- *********************************************************************** --> <div class="doc_section"> @@ -74,7 +73,7 @@ Almost dead code. --> -<!-- Features that need text if they're finished for 2.7: +<!-- Features that need text if they're finished for 2.8: combiner-aa? strong phi elim llvm.dbg.value: variable debug info for optimized code @@ -94,7 +93,7 @@ Almost dead code. <div class="doc_text"> <p> -The LLVM 2.7 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM +The LLVM 2.8 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM repository (which roughly includes the LLVM optimizers, code generators and supporting tools), the Clang repository and the llvm-gcc repository. In addition to this code, the LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in @@ -925,50 +924,11 @@ configure with <tt>--enable-libffi</tt>.</li> API changes are:</p> <ul> -<li>Just about everything has been converted to use <tt>raw_ostream</tt> instead of - <tt>std::ostream</tt>.</li> -<li><tt>llvm/ADT/iterator.h</tt> has been removed, just use <tt><iterator></tt> - instead.</li> -<li>The <tt>Streams.h</tt> file and <tt>DOUT</tt> got removed, use <tt>DEBUG(errs() << ...);</tt> - instead.</li> -<li>The <tt>TargetAsmInfo</tt> interface was renamed to <tt>MCAsmInfo</tt>.</li> -<li><tt>ModuleProvider</tt> has been <a -href="http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&revision=94686">removed</a> -and its methods moved to <tt>Module</tt> and <tt>GlobalValue</tt>. -Most clients can remove uses of <tt>ExistingModuleProvider</tt>, -replace <tt>getBitcodeModuleProvider</tt> with -<tt>getLazyBitcodeModule</tt>, and pass their <tt>Module</tt> to -functions that used to accept <tt>ModuleProvider</tt>. Clients who -wrote their own <tt>ModuleProvider</tt>s will need to derive from -<tt>GVMaterializer</tt> instead and use -<tt>Module::setMaterializer</tt> to attach it to a -<tt>Module</tt>.</li> - -<li><tt>GhostLinkage</tt> has given up the ghost. -<tt>GlobalValue</tt>s that have not yet been read from their backing -storage have the same linkage they will have after being read in. -Clients must replace calls to -<tt>GlobalValue::hasNotBeenReadFromBitcode</tt> with -<tt>GlobalValue::isMaterializable</tt>.</li> - -<li>The <tt>isInteger</tt>, <tt>isIntOrIntVector</tt>, <tt>isFloatingPoint</tt>, -<tt>isFPOrFPVector</tt> and <tt>isFPOrFPVector</tt> methods have been renamed -<tt>isIntegerTy</tt>, <tt>isIntOrIntVectorTy</tt>, <tt>isFloatingPointTy</tt>, -<tt>isFPOrFPVectorTy</tt> and <tt>isFPOrFPVectorTy</tt> respectively.</li> - -<li><tt>llvm::Instruction::clone()</tt> no longer takes argument.</li> -<li><tt>raw_fd_ostream</tt>'s constructor now takes a flag argument, not individual - booleans (see <tt>include/llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h</tt> for details).</li> -<li>Some header files have been renamed: -<ul> - <li><tt>llvm/Support/AIXDataTypesFix.h</tt> to - <tt>llvm/System/AIXDataTypesFix.h</tt></li> - <li><tt>llvm/Support/DataTypes.h</tt> to <tt>llvm/System/DataTypes.h</tt></li> - <li><tt>llvm/Transforms/Utils/InlineCost.h</tt> to - <tt>llvm/Analysis/InlineCost.h</tt></li> - <li><tt>llvm/Support/Mangler.h</tt> to <tt>llvm/Target/Mangler.h</tt></li> - <li><tt>llvm/Analysis/Passes.h</tt> to <tt>llvm/CodeGen/Passes.h</tt></li> -</ul></li> + +<li>The <tt>add</tt>, <tt>sub</tt>, and <tt>mul</tt> instructions no longer +support floating-point operands. The <tt>fadd</tt>, <tt>fsub</tt>, and +<tt>fmul</tt> instructions should be used for this purpose instead.</li> + </ul> </div> |