[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

[Misha Brukman]

Changes in directory llvm/docs:

ReleaseNotes.html updated: 1.225 -> 1.226
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Log message:

* Mention PowerPC as new feature, and experimental feature
* Wrap long lines to 80 cols


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Diffs of the changes:  (+15 -11)

Index: llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
diff -u llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.225 llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.226
--- llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.225	Wed Aug  4 03:00:45 2004
+++ llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html	Thu Aug  5 16:04:03 2004
@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@
 <li>All LLVM tools will now respond to the 
 <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR413"><tt>--version</tt> option</a> which 
 will tell you the version of LLVM on which the tool is based.</li>
+<li>An experimental PowerPC backend has been added, capable of compiling several
+SPEC benchmarks.</li>
 </ol>
 
 </div>
@@ -198,13 +200,15 @@
 Bytecode Reader</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR392">Global Vars Have (Somewhat) Limited 
   Type Range</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR341">operator<< on a Value* now prints the address of the object instead of its contents.</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR341">operator<< on a Value* now
+prints the address of the object instead of its contents.</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR402">Bytecode Enhancements
-  Needed</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR404">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify is really slow on 252.eon</a></li>
-<li><a href="Http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR122">[code-cleanup] SymbolTable 
-    class cleanup, Type should not derive from Value, eliminate 
-    ConstantPointerRef class</a>.</li>
+Needed</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR404">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify is
+really slow on 252.eon</a></li>
+<li><a href="Http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR122">[code-cleanup] SymbolTable class
+cleanup, Type should not derive from Value, eliminate ConstantPointerRef
+class</a>.</li>
 <li>The memory footprint of the LLVM IR has been reduced substantially.</li>
 <li>The LLVM linker and many core classes have been sped up substantially.</li>
 </ol>
@@ -345,12 +349,10 @@
 <li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably 
     other unix-like systems).</li>
 <li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>
-<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.3 and above (C backend and 
-    interpreter only, no native codegen is available yet).</li>
+<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.2 and above.</li>
 <li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries.</li>
 </ul>
 
-
 <p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself
 to the machine and operating system on which it is built.  However, minor
@@ -396,9 +398,11 @@
 components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>
 
 <ul>
+<li>The PowerPC backend is incomplete and is known to miscompile several SPEC
+benchmarks. The file <tt>llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt</tt> has
+details.</li>
 <li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep,
     -ipmodref, -cee</tt></li>
-
 <li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that
     it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li>
 <li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool is incomplete and probably buggy.</li>
@@ -761,7 +765,7 @@
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