[LLVMdev] llvm 1.8 release notes draft

[Chris Lattner]

Thanks all, I've incorporated all the feedback so far:

http://llvm.org/ChrisLLVM/projects/llvm-www/releases/1.8/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

-Chris


On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Bil wrote:

> On Aug 8, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:
>> 
>>  Hi All,
>> 
>>  Here's the first draft of the LLVM 1.8 release notes.  Please take a look 
>>  and send me any comments or feedback you have:
>>  http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
>> 
> Trivial changes:
>
> * Most of LLVM is now built with "-pedantic", ensuring better portability to 
> more C++ Compilers.
>
> Probably should be "compilers"?
>
> * The PowerPC backend now includes initial 64-bit support. The JIT is not 
> complete, and the static compiler has a couple of known bugs, but support is 
> mostly in place. LLVM 1.9 will include completed PPC-64 support.
>
> I would suggest "compete PPC-64 support" instead.
>
> * The -cee pass is known to be buggy, and may be removed in in a future 
> release.
>
> Remove one of the "in"s.
>
> * The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not 
> work:
>
> "functionalities have"
>
> * Zero arg vararg functions are not supported. This should not affect LLVM 
> produced by the C or C++ frontends.
>
> This sentence confuses me. Should it be "LLVM bytecode" or some other 
> wording?
>
> -bw
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-Chris

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