From a713918d443b76eb00ddac838545b26d3ee8dec4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pawel Wodnicki <pawel@32bitmicro.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:03:18 +0000
Subject: Partial update for release notes

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@@ -29,12 +29,6 @@
   <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 3.2
-release.<br>
-You may prefer the
-<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.1/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">LLVM 3.1
-Release Notes</a>.</h1>
-
 <!-- *********************************************************************** -->
 <h2>
   <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
@@ -98,7 +92,9 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
 <p>In the LLVM 3.2 time-frame, the Clang team has made many improvements.
    Highlights include:</p>
 <ul>
-  <li>...</li>
+  <li>Improvements to Clang's diagnostics</li>
+  <li>Support for tls_model attribute</li>
+  <li>Type safety attributes</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>For more details about the changes to Clang since the 3.1 release, see the
@@ -142,7 +138,8 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
 
 <div>
 
-<p>The new LLVM <a href="http://compiler-rt.llvm.org/">compiler-rt project</a>
+
+<p>The LLVM <a href="http://compiler-rt.llvm.org/">compiler-rt project</a>
    is a simple library that provides an implementation of the low-level
    target-specific hooks required by code generation and other runtime
    components.  For example, when compiling for a 32-bit target, converting a
@@ -154,7 +151,12 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
 <p>The 3.2 release has the following notable changes:</p>
 
 <ul>
-  <li>...</li>
+  <li><a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/tools/clang/docs/ThreadSanitizer.html">ThreadSanitizer (TSan)</a> - data race detector run-time library for C/C++ has been added.</li>
+  <li>Improvemens to <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/tools/clang/docs/AddressSanitizer.html">AddressSanitizer</a> including: increasing stack size limit to 256M,
+          better portability (iOS6,Windows,Android NDK), support for cmake based builds, enhanced error reporting.</li>
+
+  <li>Added support for A6 'Swift' CPU.</li>
+  <li><code>divsi3</code> function has been enhanced to take advantage of a hardware unsigned divide when it is available.</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
@@ -235,7 +237,12 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
 <p>Within the LLVM 3.2 time-frame there were the following highlights:</p>
 
 <ul>
-  <li>...</li>
+  <li>isl, the integer set library used by Polly, was relicensed to the MIT license</li>
+  <li>isl based code generation</li>
+  <li>MIT licensed replacement for CLooG (LGPLv2)</li>
+  <li>Fine grained option handling (separation of core and border computations, control overhead vs. code size)</li>
+  <li>Support for FORTRAN and dragonegg</li>
+  <li>OpenMP code generation fixes</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
@@ -433,9 +440,9 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
 <p>LLVM 3.2 includes several major changes and big features:</p>
 
 <ul>
-  <li>...</li>
-  <li>New NVPTX back-end (replacing existing PTX back-end) based on NVIDIA
-      sources</li>
+  <li>Loop Vectorizer.</li>
+  <li>New implementation of SROA.</li>
+  <li>New NVPTX back-end (replacing existing PTX back-end) based on NVIDIA sources.</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
@@ -454,7 +461,10 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
 <ul>
   <li>Thread local variables may have a specified TLS model. See the
   <a href="LangRef.html#globalvars">Language Reference Manual</a>.</li>
-  <li>...</li>
+  <li>'TYPE_CODE_FUNCTION_OLD' type code and autoupgrade code for old function attributes format has been removed.</li>
+  <li>Internal representation of the Attributes class has been converted into a pointer to an
+         opaque object that's uniqued by and stored in the LLVMContext object. 
+         The Attributes class then becomes a thin wrapper around this opaque object.</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
@@ -492,7 +502,7 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
     <ul>
     <li>The inner most loops must have a single basic block.</li>
     <li>The number of iterations are known before the loop starts to execute.</li>
-    <li>The loop counter needs to be incrimented by one.</li>
+    <li>The loop counter needs to be incremented by one.</li>
     <li>The loop trip count <b>can</b> be a variable.</li>
     <li>Loops do <b>not</b> need to start at zero.</li>
     <li>The induction variable can be used inside the loop.</li>
@@ -527,8 +537,19 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
    <a href="http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html">Intro
    to the LLVM MC Project Blog Post</a>.</p>
 
-<ul>
-  <li>...</li>
+<ul>    
+  <li> Added support for following assembler directives: <code>.ifb</code>, <code>.ifnb</code>, <code>.ifc</code>, 
+          <code>.ifnc</code>, <code>.purgem</code>, <code>.rept</code> and <code>.version</code> (ELF) as well as Darwin specific
+	<code>.pushsection</code>, <code>.popsection</code> and  <code>.previous</code> .</li>
+  <li>Enhanced handling of <code>.lcomm directive</code>.</li>
+  <li>MS style inline assembler: added implementation of the offset and TYPE operators.</li>
+  <li>Targets can specify minimum supported NOP size for NOP padding.</li>
+  <li>ELF improvements: added support for generating ELF objects on Windows.</li>
+  <li>MachO improvements:  symbol-difference variables are marked as N_ABS, added direct-to-object attribute for data-in-code markers.</li>
+  <li>Added support for annotated disassembly output for x86 and arm targets.</li>
+  <li>Arm support has been improved by adding support for ARM TARGET2 relocation
+          and fixing hadling of ARM-style "$d.*" labels.</li>
+   <li>Implemented local-exec TLS on PowerPC.</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
@@ -591,7 +612,7 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
 <p>New features and major changes in the X86 target include:</p>
 
 <ul>
-  <li>...</li>
+  <li>Small codegen optimizations, especially for AVX2.</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
@@ -606,7 +627,7 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
 <p>New features of the ARM target include:</p>
 
 <ul>
-  <li>...</li>
+  <li>Support and performance tuning for the A6 'Swift' CPU.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <!--_________________________________________________________________________-->
@@ -643,7 +664,31 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
 <p>New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p>
 
 <ul>
-  <li>...</li>
+  <li>Integrated assembler support: 
+         MIPS32 works for both PIC and static, known limitation is the PR14456 where 
+         R_MIPS_GPREL16 relocation is generated with the wrong addend.
+         MIPS64 support is incomplete, for example exception handling is not working.</li>
+   <li>Support for fast calling convention has been added.</li>
+   <li>Support for Android MIPS toolchain has been added to clang driver.</li>
+   <li>Added clang driver support for MIPS N32 ABI through "-mabi=n32" option.</li>
+   <li>MIPS32 and MIPS64 disassembler has been implemented.</li>
+   <li>Support for compiling programs with large GOTs (exceeding 64kB in size) has be added 
+           through llc option "-mxgot".</li>
+  <li>Experimental support for MIPS32 DSP intrinsics has been added</li>
+  <li>Experimental support for MIPS16 with following limitations: only soft float is supported,
+         C++ exceptions are not supported, large stack frames (> 32000 bytes) are not supported,
+         direct object code emission is not supported yet (only .s).</li>
+  <li>Standalone assembler (llvm-mc):  implementation is in progress and assembler should be 
+         considered experimental</li>
+  <li>All classic JIT and MCJIT tests pass on Little and Big Endian MIPS32 platforms.</li>
+  <li>Inline asm support: all  common constraints and operand modifiers
+      have been implemented.</li>
+  <li>Tail call optimization support has been added, use llc option "-enable-mips-tail-calls"
+      or clang options "-mllvm -enable-mips-tail-calls"to enable it.</li>
+  <li>Improved register allocation by removing registers 'FP', 'GP', 'RA' and 'AT' from the list of reserved registers.</li>
+  <li>Long branch expansion pass has been implemented, which expands branch
+      instructions with offsets that do not fit in the 16-bit field.</li>
+  <li>Cavium Octeon II board is used for testing builds (llvm-mips-linux builder).</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
@@ -655,7 +700,6 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
 
 <div>
 
-<ul>
 <p>Many fixes and changes across LLVM (and Clang) for better compliance with
    the 64-bit PowerPC ELF Application Binary Interface, interoperability with
    GCC, and overall 64-bit PowerPC support.   Some highlights include:</p>
@@ -684,7 +728,6 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
 <p>There have also been code generation improvements for both 32- and 64-bit
    code. Instruction scheduling support for the Freescale e500mc and e5500
    cores has been added.</p>
-</ul>
 
 </div>
 
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