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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 596d24aed9..8a0c2257c3 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -100,15 +100,10 @@ At link-time, the following optimizations are run:<p> <li>Interprocedural dead code elimination (-globaldce) </ol><p> - -TODO: Works on: SPEC CPU 2000<p> -TODO: Works on: Olden/Ptrdist benchmarks<p> - -The What's New section should give a bulletted list of what is -included, perhaps a couple of lists (Stable, Beta).<p> - -It would be useful to give a pointer to a list of the available passes (at least -for the standard compiler techniques).<p> +At this time, LLVM is known to work properly with SPEC CPU 2000, the Olden +benchmarks, and the Ptrdist benchmarks among many other programs. Note however +that the Sparc and X86 backends do not currently support exception throwing or +long jumping. For these programs you must use the C backend.<p> <!-- *********************************************************************** --> @@ -163,7 +158,8 @@ sections. <li>It is not possible to <tt>dlopen</tt> an LLVM bytecode file in the JIT.<p> -<li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is very slow. +<li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is very slow (there is no symbol +table in the archive). <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> </ul><h4><a name="c-fe"><hr size=0>Known problems with the C front-end</h4><ul> @@ -192,7 +188,6 @@ sections. <li>Bugs:<br> <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR6">Oversized integer bitfields cause crash</a>.<br> - <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR9">LLVM needs explicit support for weak variables</a>.<br> <p> <li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular, @@ -341,10 +336,6 @@ href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR16">does not currently support the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction</a>, so code that throws a C++ exception or calls the C <tt>longjmp</tt> function will abort.<p> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR4">Some executables -produced by LLC seem to intermittently crash (extremely infrequently)</a>. The -cause of the problem has not been diagnosed, and does not affect the JIT.<p> - <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> </ul><h4><a name="sparc-be"><hr size=0>Known problems with the Sparc back-end</h4><ul> @@ -363,10 +354,8 @@ Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code (for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This problem probably cannot be fixed.<p> -<li>Initializers for global variables that include floating point numbers may -not be initialized with exactly the right floating point number, if the number -is not accurately representable in decimal. This prevents the Olden "power" -benchmark from producing exactly the right results with the C back-end.<p> +<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a> +cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or Infinity.<p> <li>The code produces by the C back-end has only been tested with the Sun CC and GCC compilers. It is possible that it will have to be adjusted to support other @@ -386,7 +375,7 @@ including mailing lists publications describing algorithms and components implemented in LLVM. The web page also contains versions of the API documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code. You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into -the "<tt>llvm/www/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.<p> +the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.<p> If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact us via the mailing lists.<p> @@ -401,6 +390,6 @@ via the mailing lists.<p> Maintained By: <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/">The LLVM Team</a><br> <!-- Created: Wed Oct 1 17:38:54 CDT 2003 --> <!-- hhmts start --> -Last modified: Sun Oct 12 16:51:06 CDT 2003 +Last modified: Mon Oct 20 14:04:51 CDT 2003 <!-- hhmts end --> </body></html> |