[llvm-branch-commits] [llvm] 935ad40 - ReleaseNotes: Attributor

[Hans Wennborg via llvm-branch-commits]

Author: Hans Wennborg
Date: 2020-02-24T16:52:12+01:00
New Revision: 935ad4036ef6f13aedb301691dc86b46fc14369a

URL: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/935ad4036ef6f13aedb301691dc86b46fc14369a
DIFF: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/935ad4036ef6f13aedb301691dc86b46fc14369a.diff

LOG: ReleaseNotes: Attributor

By Johannes Doerfert!

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Modified: 
    llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst

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diff  --git a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
index 9c4bb3c33f03..0904a5793e77 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -98,7 +98,15 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
   which has 3 values: ``none``, ``non-leaf``, and ``all``. The values mean what
   functions should retain frame pointers.
 
-* ...
+* The inter-procedural analysis and optimization capabilities in the Attributor
+  framework and pass have been substantially advanced (initial commit
+  `D59918 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D59918>`_, `LLVM-Dev talk <https://youtu.be/CzWkc_JcfS0>`_).
+  In this release, 19 
diff erent attributes are inferred, including 12 LLVM IR
+  attributes and 7 "abstract" attributes, such as liveness. The Attributor is
+  still under heavy development and disabled by default, to enable an early run
+  pass ``-mllvm -attributor-disable=false`` to an invocation of clang.
+
+
 
 Changes to the LLVM IR
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