[llvm-dev] [4.0.0] Release notes nag email

[Adam Nemet via llvm-dev]

> On Feb 9, 2017, at 1:46 PM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear everyone,
> 
> It's time for the six-monthly release notes nag email in preparation
> for the upcoming release.
> 
> As usual, the release notes are almost empty. Please help fill them
> with the work you've done in the past six months. The notes do get
> read by a lot of people, so I think they're worth some effort.
> 
> If you made any interesting changes in the last six months, or know
> someone who did, please write something about it. You can commit
> directly the release notes on the branch, or send me a patch and I'll
> happily commit it for you.
> 
> If you're responsible for the care of a specific target, please help
> give those notes some extra love.
> 
> 
> Here are some examples we might want to mention (thanks LLVM Weekly!).
> If you're cc'd on this email, you're mentioned below.
> 
> - Adam, do you want to add a mention of opt-viewer?

opt-viewer is currently experimental and we don’t distribute it as part of LLVM yet.  I am hoping this will change for the next release though.

Adam

> - Alex, do you want to put something about RISC-V in the notes?
> 
> - Anastasia, do you want to write something about OpenCL?
> 
> - Brendon, do you want to mention MachinePipeliner? IIUC, this is only
> used by Hexagon at the moment?
> 
> - Dan, do you want to put in an update about WebAssembly?
> 
> - David, do you want to write something about ADCE?
> 
> - Davide, do you want to write something about NewGVN?
> 
> - Dean, XRay started to land in this cycle. Do you want to mention it
> in the notes?
> 
> - Dylan, do you want to include an AVR status update?
> 
> - Eric, want to add a note about clang-change-namespace to the
> clang-tools-extra notes?
> 
> - Gor, do you want to add the status of co-routines support?
> 
> - Jacques, do you want to add a note about Lanai?
> 
> - James, do you want to mention the switch range reduction through
> rotation (r277325) optimization?
> 
> - Kate, do you want to mention the gread LLDB clang-formating or LLDB
> evolution in general?
> 
> - Matthias, should we write something about MIR? It's used quite a bit
> now, is that new for this release?
> 
> - Oren, do you want to add a note about the new x86 regcall and
> vectorcall conventions?
> 
> - Quentin, there's been a lot of work on the global instructions
> selector. Should we put a status update in the notes?
> 
> - Reid, do you want to include something about CodeView support?
> 
> - Richard, want to add something about Modules TS? And C++ in general of course?
> 
> - Sebastian, can you write something about GVNHoist?
> 
> - Zach, do you want to add something about the clang-tidy VS plugin?
> 
> 
> Many thanks,
> Hans