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author | Gabor Greif <ggreif@gmail.com> | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 |
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committer | Gabor Greif <ggreif@gmail.com> | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 |
commit | 5e75e65a523c0cfe040f3020a23e62a9468f6ec0 (patch) | |
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fix typos, tweak stuff, make it to validate
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 3599eb8..03a74b9 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ It includes a large number of features and refinements from LLVM 2.2.</p> <p>LLVM 2.2 was the last LLVM release to support llvm-gcc 4.0 and llvm-upgrade. llvm-gcc 4.0 has been replaced with llvm-gcc 4.2. llvm-upgrade was useful for upgrading LLVM 1.9 files to LLVM 2.x syntax, but you can always use a previous -LLVM release to do this. One nice impact of this is that the LLVM regressionn +LLVM release to do this. One nice impact of this is that the LLVM regression test suite no longer depends on llvm-upgrade, which makes it run faster.</p> <p>LLVM 2.3 renames the LLVMBuilder and LLVMFoldingBuilder classes to @@ -113,15 +113,15 @@ superset of the features as the 'gcc' driver.</p> dispatching them to different tools.</li> <li>Flexible (and extensible) rules for defining different tools.</li> <li>The different intermediate steps performed by tools are represented -as edged in the abstract graph.</li> -</l>The 'language' for driver behaviour definition is tablegen and thus +as edges in the abstract graph.</li> +<li>The 'language' for driver behaviour definition is tablegen and thus it's relatively easy to add new features.</li> <li>The definition of driver is transformed into set of C++ classes, thus no runtime interpretation is needed.</li> </ul> - </li> + <li>Reimplemented <a href="LinkTimeOptimization.html">LTO interface</a> in C.</li> @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ faster:</p> <ul> <li>MemOperand in the code generator: describe me!.</li> <li>Target-independent codegen infastructure now uses LLVM's APInt class for - handling integer values, which allow it to support integer types larger + handling integer values, which allows it to support integer types larger than 64 bits. Note that support for such types is also dependent on target-specific support. Use of APInt is also a step toward support for non-power-of-2 integer sizes.</li> @@ -220,12 +220,12 @@ LLVM 2.3 optimizers support a few major enhancements:</p> <ul> <li>Loop index set splitting on by default: describe me.</li> -<li>LLVM includes a new memcpy optimization pass which optimizes out dead -memcpy calls, unneeded copies of aggregates, and handles the return slot +<li>LLVM includes a new <tt>memcpy</tt> optimization pass which optimizes out dead +<tt>memcpy</tt> calls, unneeded copies of aggregates, and handles the return slot optimization. The LLVM optimizer now notices long sequences of consequtive -stores and merges them into memcpy's where profitable.</li> -<li>Alignment detection for vector memory references and for memcpy and -memset is now more aggressive.</li> +stores and merges them into <tt>memcpy</tt>s where profitable.</li> +<li>Alignment detection for vector memory references and for <tt>memcpy</tt> and +<tt>memset</tt> is now more aggressive.</li> </ul> </div> @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ memset is now more aggressive.</li> <ul> <li>llvm-gcc's X86-64 ABI conformance is far improved, particularly in the - area of passing and returning structures by value. llvm-gcc Compiled code + area of passing and returning structures by value. llvm-gcc compiled code now interoperates very well on X86-64 systems with other compilers.</li> <li>The LLVM X86 backend now supports the support SSE 4.1 instruction set, and @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ memset is now more aggressive.</li> </p> <ul> -<li>The LLVM C backend now supports vectors code.</li> +<li>The LLVM C backend now supports vector code.</li> </ul> @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ memset is now more aggressive.</li> <ul> <li>LLVM now builds with GCC 4.3.</li> -<li>llvm2cpp tool was moved into llc, use llc -march=cpp</li> +<li>llvm2cpp tool has been folded into llc, use <tt>llc -march=cpp</tt></li> </ul> </div> @@ -317,16 +317,16 @@ memset is now more aggressive.</li> <p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p> <ul> -<li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core and FreeBSD +<li>Intel and AMD machines (IA32) running Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core and FreeBSD (and probably other unix-like systems).</li> <li>PowerPC and X86-based Mac OS X systems, running 10.3 and above in 32-bit and 64-bit modes.</li> <li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 using MinGW libraries (native).</li> <li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries (limited support is available for native builds with Visual C++).</li> -<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li> +<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 10.</li> <li>Alpha-based machines running Debian GNU/Linux.</li> -<li>Itanium-based machines running Linux and HP-UX.</li> +<li>Itanium-based (IA64) machines running Linux and HP-UX.</li> </ul> <p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses GNU autoconf to adapt itself @@ -573,11 +573,11 @@ crashing if an exception is raised. Workaround: do not use -E.</li> or finish at a non-byte offset</a> in a record. Workaround: do not pack records or use representation clauses that result in a field of a non-discrete type starting or finishing in the middle of a byte.</li> -<li>The lli interpreter <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2009">considers 'main' +<li>The <tt>lli</tt> interpreter <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2009">considers 'main' as generated by the Ada binder to be invalid</a>. -Workaround: hand edit the file to use pointers for argv and envp rather than +Workaround: hand edit the file to use pointers for <tt>argv</tt> and <tt>envp</tt> rather than integers.</li> -<li>The -fstack-check option <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2008">is ignored</a>.</li> +<li>The <tt>-fstack-check</tt> option <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2008">is ignored</a>.</li> </ul> </div> @@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ integers.</li> <ul> <li>The llvm-gcc 4.2 gfortran front-end supports a broad range of Fortran code, but does -<a href="http://llvm.org/PR1971">not support EQUIVALENCE yet</a>.</li> +<a href="http://llvm.org/PR1971">not support <tt>EQUIVALENCE</tt> yet</a>.</li> </ul> </div> |