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-LLVM 3.3 Release Notes
+LLVM 3.5 Release Notes
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.. warning::
- These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.3 release. You may
- prefer the `LLVM 3.2 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/docs
+ These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.5 release. You may
+ prefer the `LLVM 3.4 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/3.4/docs
/ReleaseNotes.html>`_.
============
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
-release 3.3. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
+release 3.5. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and
some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded
from the `LLVM releases web site <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
=================================================
-.. NOTE
- For small 1-3 sentence descriptions, just add an entry at the end of
- this list. If your description won't fit comfortably in one bullet
- point (e.g. maybe you would like to give an example of the
- functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below
- for adding a new subsection.
-
-* The CellSPU port has been removed. It can still be found in older versions.
+* All backends have been changed to use the MC asm printer and support for the
+ non MC one has been removed.
-* The IR-level extended linker APIs (for example, to link bitcode files out of
- archives) have been removed. Any existing clients of these features should
- move to using a linker with integrated LTO support.
+* The ARM back-end now has the EHABI exception handling enabled by default. Use
+ `-arm-disable-ehabi` to turn it off (both landing pads and unwind tables).
-* LLVM and Clang's documentation has been migrated to the `Sphinx
- <http://sphinx-doc.org/>`_ documentation generation system which uses
- easy-to-write reStructuredText. See `llvm/docs/README.txt` for more
- information.
+* Clang can now successfully self-host itself on Linux/Sparc64 and on
+ FreeBSD/Sparc64.
-* TargetTransformInfo (TTI) is a new interface that can be used by IR-level
- passes to obtain target-specific information, such as the costs of
- instructions. Only "Lowering" passes such as LSR and the vectorizer are
- allowed to use the TTI infrastructure.
+* LLVM now assumes the assembler supports ``.loc`` for generating debug line
+ numbers. The old support for printing the debug line info directly was only
+ used by ``llc`` and has been removed.
-* We've improved the X86 and ARM cost model.
+* All inline assembly is parsed by the integrated assembler when it is enabled.
+ Previously this was only the case for object-file output. It is now the case
+ for assembly output as well. The integrated assembler can be disabled with
+ the ``-no-integrated-as`` option,
-* The Attributes classes have been completely rewritten and expanded. They now
- support not only enumerated attributes and alignments, but "string"
- attributes, which are useful for passing information to code generation. See
- :doc:`HowToUseAttributes` for more details.
+* llvm-ar now handles IR files like regular object files. In particular, a
+ regular symbol table is created for symbols defined in IR files.
-* 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.
+.. NOTE
+ For small 1-3 sentence descriptions, just add an entry at the end of
+ this list. If your description won't fit comfortably in one bullet
+ point (e.g. maybe you would like to give an example of the
+ functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below
+ for adding a new subsection.
* ... next change ...
Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
-AArch64 target
---------------
-
-We've added support for AArch64, ARM's 64-bit architecture. Development is still
-in fairly early stages, but we expect successful compilation when:
-
-- compiling standard compliant C99 and C++03 with Clang;
-- using Linux as a target platform;
-- where code + static data doesn't exceed 4GB in size (heap allocated data has
- no limitation).
-
-Some additional functionality is also implemented, notably DWARF debugging,
-GNU-style thread local storage and inline assembly.
-
-Hexagon Target
---------------
-
-- Removed support for legacy hexagonv2 and hexagonv3 processor
- architectures which are no longer in use. Currently supported
- architectures are hexagonv4 and hexagonv5.
-
-Loop Vectorizer
----------------
-
-We've continued the work on the loop vectorizer. The loop vectorizer now
-has the following features:
-
-- Loops with unknown trip count.
-- Runtime checks of pointers
-- Reductions, Inductions
-- If Conversion
-- Pointer induction variables
-- Reverse iterators
-- Vectorization of mixed types
-- Vectorization of function calls
-- Partial unrolling during vectorization
-
-The loop vectorizer is now enabled by default for -O3.
-
-SLP Vectorizer
---------------
-
-LLVM now has a new SLP vectorizer. The new SLP vectorizer is not enabled by
-default but can be enabled using the clang flag -fslp-vectorize. The BB-vectorizer
-can also be enabled using the command line flag -fslp-vectorize-aggressive.
-
-R600 Backend
-------------
-
-The R600 backend was added in this release, it supports AMD GPUs
-(HD2XXX - HD7XXX). This backend is used in AMD's Open Source
-graphics / compute drivers which are developed as part of the `Mesa3D
-<http://www.mesa3d.org>`_ project.
+External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.5
+============================================
+An exciting aspect of LLVM is that it is used as an enabling technology for
+a lot of other language and tools projects. This section lists some of the
+projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.5.
Additional Information
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