From: Gabor Greif Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:50:25 +0000 (+0000) Subject: another bunch of s X-Git-Url: http://plrg.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ae7972f1dc450d315ddebfe78d4fe66f931a252;p=oota-llvm.git another bunch of s git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@83860 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html index c330ad00b2a..89b48522a55 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html @@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ branched.

  • New - PrettyStackTrace classes allows crashes of llvm tools (and applications + PrettyStackTrace class allows crashes of llvm tools (and applications that integrate them) to provide more detailed indication of what the compiler was doing at the time of the crash (e.g. running a pass). At the top level for each LLVM tool, it includes the command line arguments. @@ -804,8 +804,8 @@ branched.

  • New StringRef and Twine classes make operations on character ranges and - string concatenation to be more efficient. StringRef is just a const - char* with a length, Twine is a light-weight rope.
  • + string concatenation to be more efficient. StringRef is just a const + char* with a length, Twine is a light-weight rope.
  • LLVM has new WeakVH, AssertingVH and CallbackVH classes, which make it easier to write LLVM IR transformations. WeakVH is automatically drops to null when the referenced Value is deleted, @@ -889,12 +889,12 @@ from the previous release.

  • The Itanium (IA64) backend has been removed. It was not actively supported and had bitrotted.
  • The BigBlock register allocator has been removed, it had also bitrotted.
  • -
  • The C Backend (-march=c) is no longer considered part of the LLVM release +
  • The C Backend (-march=c) is no longer considered part of the LLVM release criteria. We still want it to work, but no one is maintaining it and it lacks support for arbitrary precision integers and other important IR features.
  • All LLVM tools now default to overwriting their output file, behaving more - like standard unix tools. Previously, this only happened with the '-f' + like standard unix tools. Previously, this only happened with the '-f' option.
  • LLVM build now builds all libraries as .a files instead of some libraries as relinked .o files. This requires some APIs like @@ -907,11 +907,11 @@ support for arbitrary precision integers and other important IR features.
  • API changes are:

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    • All uses of hash_set and hash_map have been removed from the LLVM tree and - the wrapper headers have been removed.
    • +
    • All uses of hash_set and hash_map have been removed from + the LLVM tree and the wrapper headers have been removed.
    • The llvm/Streams.h and DOUT member of Debug.h have been removed. The llvm::Ostream class has been completely removed and replaced with - uses of raw_ostream.
    • + uses of raw_ostream.
    • LLVM's global uniquing tables for Types and Constants have been privatized into members of an LLVMContext. A number of APIs now take an LLVMContext as a parameter. To smooth the transition