From e74957a7744bcd1a912fc15a915af570bd7a9583 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hal Finkel Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:41:55 +0000 Subject: Add release notes for the PowerPC backend git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_34@197325 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index c6b72f4235..ed7b99fa58 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -110,6 +110,22 @@ For more information on MSA (including documentation for the instruction set), see the `MIPS SIMD page at Imagination Technologies `_ +PowerPC Target +-------------- + +Changes in the PowerPC backend include: + +* fast-isel support (for faster -O0 code generation) +* many improvements to the builtin assembler +* support for generating unaligned (Altivec) vector loads +* support for generating the fcpsgn instruction +* generate frin for round() (not nearbyint() and rint(), which had been done only in fast-math mode) +* improved instruction scheduling for embedded cores (such as the A2) +* improved prologue/epilogue generation (especially in 32-bit mode) +* support for dynamic stack alignment (and dynamic stack allocations with large alignments) +* improved generation of counter-register-based loops +* bug fixes + SPARC Target ------------ -- cgit v1.2.3