[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
Chris Lattner
lattner at cs.uiuc.edu
Mon Apr 17 23:32:20 PDT 2006
Changes in directory llvm/docs:
ReleaseNotes.html updated: 1.348 -> 1.349
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Log message:
Add some more notes, many still missing
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Diffs of the changes: (+31 -2)
ReleaseNotes.html | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
diff -u llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.348 llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.349
--- llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.348 Tue Apr 18 01:18:36 2006
+++ llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Tue Apr 18 01:32:08 2006
@@ -171,13 +171,42 @@
</div>
+<!--_________________________________________________________________________-->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="othernew">Optimizer
+Improvements</a></div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+<ul>
+<li>The Loop Unswitching pass (<tt>-loop-unswitch</tt>) has had several bugs
+ fixed, has several new features, and is enabled by default in llvmgcc3
+ now.</li>
+<li>The Loop Strength Reduction pass (<tt>-loop-reduce</tt>) is now enabled for
+ the X86 backend.</li>
+<li>The Instruction Combining pass (<tt>-instcombine</tt>) now includes a
+ framework and implementation for simplifying code based on whether computed
+ bits are demanded or not.</li>
+<li>The Scalar Replacement of Aggregates pass (<tt>-scalarrepl</tt>) can now
+ promote simple unions to registers.</li>
+<li>Several LLVM passes are <a href="http://llvm.org/PR681">significantly
+faster</a>.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
<!--_________________________________________________________________________-->
<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="othernew">Other New Features</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
<ul>
-<li>foo</li>
+<li>LLVM now supports first class global ctor/dtor initialization lists, no
+ longer forcing targets to use "__main".</li>
+<li>LLVM supports assigning globals and functions to a particular section
+ in the result executable using the GCC section attribute.</li>
+<li><a href="ExtendingLLVM.html">Adding intrinsics to LLVM</a> is now
+significantly easier.</li>
+<li>llvmgcc4 now fully supports C99 Variable Length Arrays, including dynamic
+ stack deallocation.</li>
+
</ul>
</div>
@@ -701,7 +730,7 @@
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+ Last modified: $Date: 2006/04/18 06:32:08 $
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