[llvm-commits] [llvm] r149914 - /llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

[Duncan Sands]

Hi Bill,

> --- llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html (original)
> +++ llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Mon Feb  6 15:59:44 2012
> @@ -285,7 +285,10 @@
>
>     <ul>
>       <li>IR support for half float</li>
> -	<li>IR support for vectors of pointers, including vector GEPs.</li>
> +<li>IR support for vectors of pointers, including vector GEPs.</li>
> +<li>The<tt>unwind</tt>  instruction is now gone. It has been replaced by
> +        the<tt>landingpad</tt>/<tt>resume</tt>  exception handling
> +        mechanisms.</li>

I reckon the mention of the landingpad/resume scheme will just confuse people.
Probably most people thought of unwind as a way of throwing an exception (rather
than a way of rethrowing an exception), and the new scheme doesn't replace that
functionality at all.

Ciao, Duncan.