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<li>The test/Programs hierarchy <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR257">has
been moved out of the main LLVM tree</a> into a separate CVS repo and
- tarball.</li>
+ tarball. This shrinks the distribution size of LLVM itself dramatically.
+ </li>
<li>LLVM now optimizes global variables significantly more than it did
before.</li>
<li>LLVM now includes the new '<tt>undef</tt>' value and <a
href="LangRef.html#i_unreachable"><tt>unreachable</tt></a> instruction,
which give the optimizer more information about the behavior of the
program.</li>
- <li>The LLVM makefiles have been improved to build LLVM much faster and
- includes new targets (like make dist-check).</li>
+ <li>The LLVM makefiles have been improved to build LLVM much faster (2x) and
+ includes new targets (like dist-check, uninstall). One important change is
+ associated with <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR456>PR456">PR456</a>.
+ The libraries and tools will now be built into
+ <tt>$builddir/Debug/{bin,lib}</tt> instead of
+ <tt>$builddir/tools/Debug</tt> and <tt>$builddir/lib/Debug</tt>. Similarly
+ for <tt>Release</tt> and <tt>Profile</tt> builds.
+ </li>
<li>The LLVM source code is much more compatible with Microsoft Visual C++,
including the JIT and runtime-code generation, though the entire system
may not work with it.</li>
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-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR419">JIT interface should support
+
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR419">JIT interface should support
arbitrary calls</a></li>
+ <li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool was previously incomplete and didn't properly
+ support other ar(1) implementations. This has been corrected. <tt>llvm-ar</tt>
+ now fully supports all archive editing functions, table of contents listing,
+ extraction, and printing. It can also read BSD4.4/MacOSX and SVR4 style
+ archives. See <a
+ href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/CommandGuide/html/llvm-ar.html">llvm-ar</a>
+ for details.</li>
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-ipmodref, -cee, -branch-combine, -instloops, -paths</tt></li>
<li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that
it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li>
-<li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool is incomplete and probably buggy.</li>
<li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development.</li>
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