From ec95d6fe25dcb8b1450c4440da7c7a7e2982b6f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Renato Golin Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:29:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [ARM/AArch64] 3.8.0 release notes changes git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_38@260684 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index 6d141f70302..437c50fa5ca 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -109,10 +109,32 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing. -Changes to the ARM Backend --------------------------- - - During this release ... +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). +* 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. +* Expanded LLDB support, including watchpoints, native building, Renderscript, + LLDB-server, debugging 32-bit applications. +* Added support for the ``Exynos M1`` chip. + +During this release the ARM target has: + +* Gained massive performance improvements on embedded benchmarks due to finally + running the stride vectorizer in full form, incrementing the performance gains + that we already had in the previous releases with limited stride vectorization. +* 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. +* Added some EABI floating point comparison functions to Compiler-RT +* Added support for Windows+GNU triple, +features in -mcpu/-march options. Changes to the MIPS Target -- 2.34.1