[llvm-commits] [llvm] r74701 - /llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html

[Bill Wendling]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Owen Anderson<resistor at mac.com> wrote:
> Author: resistor
> Date: Thu Jul  2 11:48:38 2009
> New Revision: 74701
>
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=74701&view=rev
> Log:
> Describe the LLVMContext API change.
>
> Modified:
>    llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html
>
> Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html?rev=74701&r1=74700&r2=74701&view=diff
>
> ==============================================================================
> --- llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html (original)
> +++ llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html Thu Jul  2 11:48:38 2009
> @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@
>  <div class="doc_text">
>
>  <p>If you're already an LLVM user or developer with out-of-tree changes based
> -on LLVM 2.4, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading
> +on LLVM 2.5, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading
>  from the previous release.</p>
>
>  <ul>
> @@ -433,6 +433,13 @@
>  API changes are:</p>
>
>  <ul>
> +<li>LLVM's global uniquing tables for <tt>Type</tt>s and <tt>Constant</tt>s have
> +    been privatized into members of an <tt>LLVMContext</tt>.  A number of APIs
> +    now take an <tt>LLVMContext</tt> as a parameter.  To smooth the transition
> +    for clients that will only ever use a single context, the new
> +    <tt>getGlobalContext()</tt> API can be used to access a default global
> +    context which can be passed in any and all cases where a context is
> +    required.

Please add a </li> at the end of this item.

-bw