ReleaseNotes: start off a 'Changes to X86' section
authorHans Wennborg <hans@hanshq.net>
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 02:29:33 +0000 (02:29 +0000)
committerHans Wennborg <hans@hanshq.net>
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 02:29:33 +0000 (02:29 +0000)
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_38@260648 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

docs/ReleaseNotes.rst

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@@ -108,6 +108,18 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
 
    Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
 
 
    Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
 
+Changes to the X86 and X86-64 Targets
+-------------------------------------
+
+* Smaller code for materializing 32-bit 1 and -1 constants at ``-Os``.
+
+* More efficient code for wide integer compares. (E.g. 64-bit compares
+  on 32-bit targets.)
+
+* Tail call support for ``thiscall``, ``stdcall`, ``vectorcall``, and
+  ``fastcall`` functions.
+
+
 Changes to the ARM Backend
 --------------------------
 
 Changes to the ARM Backend
 --------------------------