[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

[Chris Lattner]

Changes in directory llvm/docs:

ReleaseNotes.html updated: 1.346 -> 1.347
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Log message:

mention some major changes


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Diffs of the changes:  (+24 -7)

 ReleaseNotes.html |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)


Index: llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
diff -u llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.346 llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.347
--- llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.346	Sun Feb  5 00:39:36 2006
+++ llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html	Thu Mar  2 18:34:26 2006
@@ -76,10 +76,26 @@
 
 <div class="doc_text">
 <ul>
+<li>New C front-end.</li>
 <li>New SPARC backend.</li>
+<li>Inline assembly support.</li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+<a name="changes">Significant changes in LLVM 1.7cvs</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+<ul>
+<li>Removed the llvm.readport/llvm.writeport/llvm.readio/llvm.writeio
+    intrinsics.</li>
+<li>Separated the other intrinsics based on type.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+
 <!-- *********************************************************************** -->
 <div class="doc_section">
   <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
@@ -184,6 +200,10 @@
 <div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
 
 <div class="doc_text">
+
+These bugs are known for the old front-end.  The new GCC-4-based C front-end
+suffers from none of these.
+
 <ul>
 <li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of 
     scope.  Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
@@ -209,8 +229,6 @@
 
 <ul>
 
-<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
-
 <li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double".  There is no
 support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
 bits.</li>
@@ -436,8 +454,7 @@
 <div class="doc_text">
 
 <ul>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR566">Memory Mapped I/O Intrinsics do not fence 
-memory</a></li>
+<li>None yet</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
@@ -517,13 +534,13 @@
 
 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 <div class="doc_subsection">
-  <a name="sparcv8">Known problems with the SPARC back-end</a>
+  <a name="sparc">Known problems with the SPARC back-end</a>
 </div>
 
 <div class="doc_text">
 
 <ul>
-<li>This backend lacks a JIT compiler.</li>
+<li>None yet.</li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 
@@ -560,7 +577,7 @@
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   <a href="http://llvm.org/">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
-  Last modified: $Date: 2006/02/05 06:39:36 $
+  Last modified: $Date: 2006/03/03 00:34:26 $
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