From 71f2df0e2800c8141d5926f1e37d68bf814ec1d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ashok Thirumurthi Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 14:23:07 +0000 Subject: Added a sub-project status update section to the release notes with details on the LLDB 3.3 release. Reviewed by: Greg Clayton and Bill Wendling git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@182931 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/ReleaseNotes.rst') diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index f669a1f7bd..5b18b96390 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -155,6 +155,44 @@ is restricted to GNU/Linux (GNU triplet s390x-linux-gnu) and requires z10 or greater. +Sub-project Status Update +============================================ + +In addition to the core LLVM 3.3 distribution of production-quality compiler +infrastructure, the LLVM project includes sub-projects that use the LLVM core +and share the same distribution license. This section provides updates on +these sub-projects. + + +LLDB: Low Level Debugger +------------------------ + +`LLDB `_ is a ground-up implementation of a command-line +debugger, as well as a debugger API that can be used from scripts and other +applications. LLDB uses the following components of the LLVM core distribution +to support the latest language features and target support: + +- the Clang parser for high-quality parsing of C, C++ and Objective C +- the LLVM disassembler +- the LLVM JIT compiler (MCJIT) for expression evaluation + +The `3.3 release `_ has the following notable changes. + +Linux Features: + +- Support for watchpoints +- vim integration for lldb commands and program status using a `vim plug-in `_ +- Improved register support including vector registers +- Builds with cmake/ninja/auto-tools/clang 3.3/gcc 4.6 + +Linux Improvements: + +- Debugging multi-threaded programs +- Debugging i386 programs +- Process list, attach and fork +- Expression evaluation + + External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.3 ============================================ -- cgit v1.2.3