[llvm-commits] [llvm] r102052 - /llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
Chris Lattner
sabre at nondot.org
Wed Apr 21 23:28:20 PDT 2010
Author: lattner
Date: Thu Apr 22 01:28:20 2010
New Revision: 102052
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=102052&view=rev
Log:
another checkpoint.
Modified:
llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html?rev=102052&r1=102051&r2=102052&view=diff
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--- llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Thu Apr 22 01:28:20 2010
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
<!-- Features that need text if they're finished for 2.7:
+ combiner-aa?
strong phi elim
llvm.dbg.value: variable debug info for optimized code
loop dependence analysis
@@ -378,6 +379,15 @@
in this section.
</p>
+</div>
+
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+<a name="orgchanges">LLVM Community Changes</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+
<p>In addition to changes to the code, between LLVM 2.6 and 2.7, a number of
organization changes have happened:
</p>
@@ -387,7 +397,7 @@
<li>Ted Kremenek and Doug Gregor have stepped forward as <a
href="http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#owners">Code Owners</a> of the
- Clang static analyzer and the Clang Frontend, respectively.</li>
+ Clang static analyzer and the Clang frontend, respectively.</li>
<li>LLVM now has an <a href="http://blog.llvm.org">official Blog</a> at
<a href="http://blog.llvm.org">http://blog.llvm.org</a>. This is a great way
@@ -480,9 +490,16 @@
allows the optimizer to infer the sizes of memory objects in some cases.
This intrinsic is used to implement the GCC <tt>__builtin_object_size</tt>
extension.</li>
+<li>LLVM IR now supports marking load and store instructions with <a
+ href="LangRef.html#i_load">"non-temporal" hints</a> (building on the new
+ metadata feature). This hint encourages the code
+ generator to generate non-temporal accesses when possible, which are useful
+ for code that is carefully managing cache behavior. Currently, only the
+ X86 backend provides target support for this feature.</li>
+
<li>LLVM 2.7 has pre-alpha support for <a
href="http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#t_union">unions in LLVM IR</a>.
- Unfortuantely, this support is not really usable in 2.7, so if you're
+ Unfortunately, this support is not really usable in 2.7, so if you're
interested in pushing it forward, please help contribute to LLVM mainline.</li>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -542,8 +559,7 @@
pointer offset expressions to disambiguate pointers. It can catch a few
cases that basicaa cannot, particularly in complex loop nests.</li>
-<li>As usual, there are countless minor optimization improvements and bug fixes,
- and the default pass ordering has been tweaked for improved optimization
+<li>The default pass ordering has been tweaked for improved optimization
effectiveness.</li>
</ul>
@@ -563,8 +579,7 @@
the new GDB 7.0 (and later) interfaces for registering debug info for
dynamically generated code.</li>
-<li>The JIT now <a
-href="http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&revision=85295">defaults
+<li>The JIT now <a href="http://llvm.org/PR5184">defaults
to compiling eagerly</a> to avoid a race condition in the lazy JIT.
Clients that still want the lazy JIT can switch it on by calling
<tt>ExecutionEngine::DisableLazyCompilation(false)</tt>.</li>
@@ -590,21 +605,48 @@
it run faster:</p>
<ul>
-<li>New instruction selector [blog post?].</li>
-<li>New LSR with "full strength reduction" mode. Description?</li>
-<li>Code generator MC'ized except for debug info and EH.</li>
-<li>New CodeGen Level CSE</li>
-<li>Combiner-AA improvements, why not on by default?</li>
-<li>Pre-regalloc tail duplication</li>
-<li>Codegen level OptimizeExtsPass pass, takes advantage of x86 subregs. </li>
-<li>Support for the GCC option -fno-schedule-insns</li>
-<li>Non-temporal load/store, only implemented on X86, see LangRef.html#i_load.</li>
-<li>MachineSSAUpdater.h</li>
-<li>X86 and XCore supports returning arbitrary return values, returning too many values is
- supported by returning through a hidden pointer.</li>
-<li>verbose-asm now produces information about spill slots and loop nests</li>
-<li>GHC Haskell ABI / calling conv support.</li>
-<li>Many improvements to debug info</li>
+<li>The 'llc -asm-verbose' option (which is now the default) has been enhanced
+ to emit many useful comments to .s files indicating information about spill
+ slots and loop nest structure. This should make it much easier to read and
+ understand assembly files. This is wired up in llvm-gcc and clang to
+ the <tt>-fverbose-asm</tt> option.</li>
+
+<li>New LSR with "full strength reduction" mode. FIXME: Description?</li>
+
+<li>A new codegen level Common Subexpression Elimination pass (MachineCSE)
+ is available and enabled by default. It catches redundancies exposed by
+ lowering.</li>
+<li>A new pre-register-allocation tail duplication pass is available and enabled
+ by default, it can substantially improve branch prediction quality in some
+ cases.</li>
+<li>A new sign and zero extension optimization pass (OptimizeExtsPass)
+ is available and enabled by default. This pass can takes advantage
+ architecture features like x86-64 implicit zero extension behavior and
+ sub-registers.</li>
+<li>The code generator now supports a mode where it attempts to preserve the
+ order of instructions in the input code. This is important for source that
+ is hand scheduled and extremely sensitive to scheduling. It is compatible
+ with the GCC <tt>-fno-schedule-insns</tt> option.</li>
+<li>The target-independent code generator now supports generating code with
+ arbitrary numbers of result values. Returning more values than was
+ previously supported is handled by returning through a hidden pointer. In
+ 2.7, only the X86 and XCore targets have adopted support for this
+ though.</li>
+<li>The code generator now supports generating code that follows the
+ <a href="LangRef.html#callingconv">Glasgow Haskell Compiler Calling
+ Convention</a> and ABI.</li>
+<li>The "<a href="CodeGenerator.html#selectiondag_select">DAG instruction
+ selection</a>" phase of the code generator has been largely rewritten for
+ 2.7. Previously, tblgen spit out tons of C++ code which was compiled and
+ linked into the target to do the pattern matching, now it emits a much
+ smaller table which is read by the target-independent code. The primary
+ advantages of this approach is that the size and compile time of various
+ targets is much improved. The X86 code generator shrunk by 1.5MB of code,
+ for example.</li>
+<li>Almost the entire code generator has switched to emitting code through the
+ MC interfaces instead of printing textually to the .s file. This led to a
+ number of cleanups and speedups. In 2.7, debug an exception handling
+ information does not go through MC yet.</li>
</ul>
</div>
@@ -760,7 +802,7 @@
<li>The LLVM interpreter now defaults to <em>not</em> using <tt>libffi</tt> even
if you have it installed. This makes it more likely that an LLVM built on one
system will work when copied to a similar system. To use <tt>libffi</tt>,
-configure with <tt>--enable-libffi</tt></li>.
+configure with <tt>--enable-libffi</tt>.</li>
<li>Debug information uses a completely different representation, an LLVM 2.6
.bc file should work with LLVM 2.7, but debug info won't come forward.</li>
@@ -827,7 +869,7 @@
<li>Intel and AMD machines (IA32, X86-64, AMD64, EMT-64) running Red Hat
Linux, Fedora Core, FreeBSD and AuroraUX (and probably other unix-like
systems).</li>
-<li>PowerPC and X86-based Mac OS X systems, running 10.3 and above in 32-bit
+<li>PowerPC and X86-based Mac OS X systems, running 10.4 and above in 32-bit
and 64-bit modes.</li>
<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 using MinGW libraries (native).</li>
<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries (limited
@@ -884,7 +926,7 @@
<ul>
<li>The MSIL, Alpha, SPU, MIPS, PIC16, Blackfin, MSP430, SystemZ and MicroBlaze
backends are experimental.</li>
-<li>The <tt>llc</tt> "<tt>-filetype=asm</tt>" (the default) is the only
+<li><tt>llc</tt> "<tt>-filetype=asm</tt>" (the default) is the only
supported value for this option. The MachO writer is experimental, and
works much better in mainline SVN.</li>
</ul>
@@ -907,13 +949,10 @@
to generate code for systems that don't have SSE2.</li>
<li>Win64 code generation wasn't widely tested. Everything should work, but we
expect small issues to happen. Also, llvm-gcc cannot build the mingw64
- runtime currently due
- to <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2255">several</a>
- <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2257">bugs</a> and due to lack of support for
- the
- 'u' inline assembly constraint and for X87 floating point inline assembly.</li>
+ runtime currently due to lack of support for the 'u' inline assembly
+ constraint and for X87 floating point inline assembly.</li>
<li>The X86-64 backend does not yet support the LLVM IR instruction
- <tt>va_arg</tt>. Currently, the llvm-gcc and front-ends support variadic
+ <tt>va_arg</tt>. Currently, front-ends support variadic
argument constructs on X86-64 by lowering them manually.</li>
</ul>
@@ -1025,9 +1064,6 @@
supported on some targets (these are used when you take the address of a
nested function).</p>
-<p>If you run into GCC extensions which are not supported, please let us know.
-</p>
-
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