[llvm-branch-commits] [llvm-branch] r242962 - Add a few items to the 3.7 release note, from Rafael

[Hans Wennborg]

Author: hans
Date: Wed Jul 22 18:15:32 2015
New Revision: 242962

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=242962&view=rev
Log:
Add a few items to the 3.7 release note, from Rafael

Modified:
    llvm/branches/release_37/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst

Modified: llvm/branches/release_37/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_37/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?rev=242962&r1=242961&r2=242962&view=diff
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--- llvm/branches/release_37/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst (original)
+++ llvm/branches/release_37/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Wed Jul 22 18:15:32 2015
@@ -53,6 +53,19 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in thi
   a pointer to make it explicit. The Module owns the datalayout and it has to
   match the one attached to the TargetMachine for generating code.
 
+* Comdats are now ortogonal to the linkage. LLVM will not create
+  comdats for weak linkage globals and the frontends are responsible
+  for explicitly adding them.
+
+* On ELF we now support multiple sections with the same name and
+  comdat. This allows for smaller object files since multiple
+  sections can have a simple name (`.text`, `.rodata`, etc).
+
+* LLVM now lazily loads metadata in some cases. Creating archives
+  with IR files with debug info is now 25X faster.
+
+* llvm-ar can create archives in the BSD format used by OS X.
+
 * ... next change ...
 
 .. NOTE