[llvm-commits] [llvm] r145287 - /llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
Joe Abbey
jabbey at arxan.com
Mon Nov 28 14:07:12 PST 2011
Author: jabbey
Date: Mon Nov 28 16:07:12 2011
New Revision: 145287
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=145287&view=rev
Log:
Merging two bullet points into one
Modified:
llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html?rev=145287&r1=145286&r2=145287&view=diff
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--- llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Mon Nov 28 16:07:12 2011
@@ -1148,9 +1148,14 @@
LLVM API changes are:</p>
<ul>
- <li>The biggest and most pervasive change is that llvm::Types are no longer
- returned or accepted as 'const' values. Instead, just pass around
- non-const Types.</li>
+ <li>The biggest and most pervasive change is that the type system has been
+ rewritten: <code>PATypeHolder</code> and <code>OpaqueType</code> are gone,
+ and all APIs deal with <code>Type*</code> instead of <code>const
+ Type*</code>. If you need to create recursive structures, then create a
+ named structure, and use <code>setBody()</code> when all its elements are
+ built. Type merging and refining is gone too: named structures are not
+ merged with other structures, even if their layout is identical. (of
+ course anonymous structures are still uniqued by layout).</li>
<li><code>PHINode::reserveOperandSpace</code> has been removed. Instead, you
must specify how many operands to reserve space for when you create the
@@ -1225,15 +1230,6 @@
use <code>DIBuilder::finalize()</code> at the end of translation unit to
complete debugging information encoding.</li>
- <li>The way the type system works has been
- rewritten: <code>PATypeHolder</code> and <code>OpaqueType</code> are gone,
- and all APIs deal with <code>Type*</code> instead of <code>const
- Type*</code>. If you need to create recursive structures, then create a
- named structure, and use <code>setBody()</code> when all its elements are
- built. Type merging and refining is gone too: named structures are not
- merged with other structures, even if their layout is identical. (of
- course anonymous structures are still uniqued by layout).</li>
-
<li>TargetSelect.h moved to Support/ from Target/</li>
<li>UpgradeIntrinsicCall no longer upgrades pre-2.9 intrinsic calls (for
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