X-Git-Url: http://plrg.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=docs%2FReleaseNotes.rst;h=93452bb734cc20eeca1f3715b6f0090720621c6e;hb=7609bf251117db67abfe0d5b6622860afc769278;hp=437c50fa5ca9413e0636a2fbbf2c752700aa2622;hpb=ec95d6fe25dcb8b1450c4440da7c7a7e2982b6f2;p=oota-llvm.git diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index 437c50fa5ca..93452bb734c 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -89,6 +89,23 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release the node ``N`` is guaranteed not to be the last in the list, it is safe to call ``&*++N->getIterator()`` directly. +* The `Kaleidoscope tutorials `_ have been updated to use + the ORC JIT APIs. + +* ORC now has a basic set of C bindings. + +* Optional support for linking clang and the LLVM tools with a single libLLVM + shared library. To enable this, pass ``-DLLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB=ON`` to CMake. + See `Building LLVM with CMake`_ for more details. + +* The optimization to move the prologue and epilogue of functions in colder + code path (shrink-wrapping) is now enabled by default. + +* A new target-independent gcc-compatible emulated Thread Local Storage mode + is added. When ``-femultated-tls`` flag is used, all accesses to TLS + variables are converted to calls to ``__emutls_get_address`` in the runtime + library. + .. 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 @@ -115,7 +132,7 @@ Changes to the ARM Backends During this release the AArch64 target has: * Added support for more sanitizers (MSAN, TSAN) and made them compatible with - all VMA kernel configurations (kurrently tested on 39 and 42 bits). + all VMA kernel configurations (currently tested on 39 and 42 bits). * Gained initial LLD support in the new ELF back-end * Extended the Load/Store optimiser and cleaned up some of the bad decisions made earlier. @@ -131,8 +148,10 @@ During this release the ARM target has: * Expanded LLDB support, including watchpoints, unwind tables * Extended the Load/Store optimiser and cleaned up some of the bad decisions made earlier. -* Gained some code size improvements, though there's still a long road ahead, - especially for older cores. +* Simplified code generation for global variable addresses in ELF, resulting in + a significant (4% in Chromium) reduction in code size. +* Gained some additional code size improvements, though there's still a long road + ahead, especially for older cores. * Added some EABI floating point comparison functions to Compiler-RT * Added support for Windows+GNU triple, +features in -mcpu/-march options. @@ -216,9 +235,16 @@ Changes to the X86 Target * More efficient code for wide integer compares. (E.g. 64-bit compares on 32-bit targets.) -* Tail call support for ``thiscall``, ``stdcall`, ``vectorcall``, and +* Tail call support for ``thiscall``, ``stdcall``, ``vectorcall``, and ``fastcall`` functions. +Changes to the Hexagon Target +----------------------------- + +In addition to general code size and performance improvements, Hexagon target +now has basic support for Hexagon V60 architecture and Hexagon Vector +Extensions (HVX). + Changes to the AVR Target -------------------------