[llvm-commits] [llvm] r83788 - /llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html

[Duncan Sands]

Author: baldrick
Date: Sun Oct 11 14:40:38 2009
New Revision: 83788

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=83788&view=rev
Log:
More DragonEgg verbiage.

Modified:
    llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html

Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html?rev=83788&r1=83787&r2=83788&view=diff

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--- llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html Sun Oct 11 14:40:38 2009
@@ -245,18 +245,23 @@
 <p>
 The goal of <a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> is to make
 gcc-4.5 act like llvm-gcc without requiring any gcc modifications whatsoever.
-DragonEgg is a shared library (llvm.so) that is loaded by gcc at runtime.  It
-uses the new gcc plugin architecture to disable the GCC optimizers and code
-generators, and schedule the LLVM optimizers and code generators (or direct
-output of LLVM IR) instead.  Currently only Linux and Darwin are supported,
-and only on x86-32 and x86-64.  It should be easy to add additional unix-like
-architectures and other processor families.  Since gcc-4.5 has not yet been
-released, neither has <a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a>.
-To build <a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> you will need to
-check out the development versions of <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html/">
-gcc</a>, <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#checkout">llvm</a>
-and <a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> from their respective
-subversion repositories.
+<a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> is a shared library (llvm.so)
+that is loaded by gcc at runtime.  It uses the new gcc plugin architecture to
+disable the GCC optimizers and code generators, and schedule the LLVM optimizers
+and code generators (or direct output of LLVM IR) instead.  Currently only Linux
+and Darwin are supported, and only on x86-32 and x86-64.  It should be easy to
+add additional unix-like architectures and other processor families.  In theory
+it should be possible to use <a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a>
+with any language supported by gcc, however only C and Fortran work well for the
+moment.  Ada and C++ work to some extent, while Java, Obj-C and Obj-C++ are so
+far entirely untested.  Since gcc-4.5 has not yet been released, neither has
+<a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a>.  To build
+<a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> you will need to check out the
+development versions of <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html/"> gcc</a>,
+<a href="http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#checkout">llvm</a> and
+<a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> from their respective
+subversion repositories, and follow the instructions in the
+<a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> README.
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