[llvm] r177848 - Mention the new TableGen pattern format in the release notes.
Jakob Stoklund Olesen
stoklund at 2pi.dk
Sun Mar 24 17:36:53 PDT 2013
Author: stoklund
Date: Sun Mar 24 19:36:53 2013
New Revision: 177848
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=177848&view=rev
Log:
Mention the new TableGen pattern format in the release notes.
Make threats about removing the old syntax.
Modified:
llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?rev=177848&r1=177847&r2=177848&view=diff
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--- llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Sun Mar 24 19:36:53 2013
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in thi
attributes, which are useful for passing information to code generation. See
:doc:`HowToUseAttributes` for more details.
+* TableGen's syntax for instruction selection patterns has been simplified.
+ Instead of specifying types indirectly with register classes, you should now
+ specify types directly in the input patterns. See ``SparcInstrInfo.td`` for
+ examples of the new syntax. The old syntax using register classes still
+ works, but it will be removed in a future LLVM release.
+
* ... next change ...
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