[llvm-commits] [hlvm] r38238 - /hlvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

[Reid Spencer]

Author: reid
Date: Sat Jul  7 19:01:29 2007
New Revision: 38238

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=38238&view=rev
Log:
Clear the release notes in preparation for release 0.2

Modified:
    hlvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

Modified: hlvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/hlvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html?rev=38238&r1=38237&r2=38238&view=diff

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 <div class="section"><a name="new"><b>What's New</b></a></div>
 <!-- *********************************************************************** -->
 <div class="text">
-  <p>This is the first public release of the High Level Virtual Machine. This is
-  a very early pre-release, version 0.1. That is, HLVM is not complete yet and
-  it doesn't do very much.  The main goal for this release was to get HLVM to
-  run the "Hello, World" program, which it does.  However, completing that goal
-  means that two things are in place: (1) the build system and (2) the basic
-  architecture of the project.</p>
-  <p>This release is probably only of interest to the HLVM developers and those
-  who are just crazily interested in virtual machine technology. This software
-  is being released early because of our release policy which follows Linus
-  Torvald's philosophy: Release Early, Release Often.  Essentially, we define 
-  feature sets for upcoming releases in small increments. When those features 
-  are completed we release it to the public. This requires the developers to
-  quickly cycle through the entire software development life cycle and ensures
-  that HLVM never gets too far off course or loses quality.</p>
-  <h2><a name="features">New Features In HLVM 0.1</a></h2>
-  <p>Since this is the first release of HLVM, <i>everything</i> in HLVM is new!
-  However, here are the main things accomplished in this release:</p>
+  <p>This is the second public release of the High Level Virtual Machine. This 
+  is a very early pre-release, version 0.2. That is, HLVM is not complete yet 
+  and it doesn't do very much.  The main goal for this release is to get HLVM 
+  to be "Turing Complete".</p>
+  <h2><a name="features">New Features In HLVM 0.2</a></h2>
+  <p>Here are the main things accomplished in this release:</p>
   <ol>
-    <li><em>Build System</em>. A build system based on 
-    <a href="http://www.scons.org">scons</a> was implemented and currently
-    handles building the software, running the test suite, generating the
-    documentation, participating in code generation, compiling the runtime with
-    LLVM, and installing the final product.</li>
-    <li><em>Basic Architecture</em>. We have defined several libraries for HLVM:
-    <ul>
-      <li><b>AST</b>. This library provides the implementation of the Abstract
-      Syntax Tree which is the heart of the HLVM implementation. These classes
-      form a multi-way tree that is used as the representation of the user's
-      program.</li>
-      <li><b>Base</b>. This library provides common utilities shared across all
-      of HLVM.</li>
-      <li><b>Reader</b>. This library will contain readers to translate a
-      variety of on-disk format into the in-memory AST nodes. Currently there 
-      is only an implemented reader for XML.</li>
-      <li><b>Writer</b>. This library will contain writers to translate from the
-      in-memory AST nodes to a variety of on-disk formats. Currently there is
-      only an implemented writer for XML. This library complements the Reader
-      library and the two libraries should be synchronized in the formats they
-      read and write.</li>
-      <li><b>Pass</b>. This library provides a mechanism for making a
-      <i>pass</i> over the AST nodes and various pass implementations.
-      Currently, only a rudimentary verification pass has been implemented. In
-      the future this library will contain optimization passes and other
-      AST->AST passes.</li>
-      <li><b>CodeGen</b>. This library provides code generation passes. This is
-      a separate library because none of thse passes produce AST nodes. Instead,
-      they translate the AST into some other form, from which translation back
-      to AST is not possible. Currently a rudimentary code generator for 
-      <a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM</a> is provided. In the future there may
-      be other code generators for generating XHTML documentation, C code, 
-      etc.</li>
-      <li><b>Runtime</b>. This library provides the HLVM runtime. This is the
-      component of HLVM that is linked with the user's program to provide
-      services to it. Currently, the HLVM runtime provides a few functions for
-      handling output and command line arguments so that the "Hello, World"
-      program could be implmented.</li>
-    </ul></li>
-    <li><em>Tools</em>. HLVM has a set of executable tools built from the 
-    libraries that HLVM provides. Currently, the tool set includes:
-    <ul>
-      <li><b>hlvm</b>. This tool provides an implementation of the HLVM Runtime
-      as a stand alone executable. Currently it doesn't do much but tell you its
-      version and provide help with options</li>
-      <li><b>hlvm-xml2xml</b>. This tool converts HLVM XML input into the AST
-      tree nodes and then back out to HLVM XML again. This is used mainly as a
-      test driver to ensure construction and pass management is working in HLVM
-      without invoking other parts of the sytsem.</li>
-      <li><b>hlvm-compiler</b>. This tool converts HLVM XML into LLVM bytecode 
-      or LLVM assembly code. In the future it may be able to compile HLVM into 
-      any of the other forms that HLVM supports as well as create stand-alone
-      programs.</li>
-    </ul></li>
-    <li><em>Test Suite</em>. HLVM provides a test suite that uses Deja-Gnu to
-    automate the tests. Currently the test suite provides two kinds of tests.
-    The <tt>xml2xml</tt> test suite uses the <tt>hlvm-xml2xml</tt> tool to
-    validate that HLVM can generate its input to its output. These are
-    fundamental tests that ensure the stability of the AST.</li> The
-    <tt>return0</tt> test suite uses the <tt>hlvm-compiler</tt> to generate an
-    executable program from XML source, execute it, and assert that the program
-    returns 0. Right now there's only a few programs in this category but there
-    will be many more in the future.</li>
+    <li>Nothing yet</li>
   </ol>
-  <h2><a name="changes">Significant Changes in HLVM 0.1</a></h2>
+  <h2><a name="changes">Significant Changes in HLVM 0.2</a></h2>
   <p>There have been no changes since the last release.</p>
   <h2><a name="platforms">Platform Support</a></h2>
   <p>HLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p>