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| author | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2008-06-08 23:12:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2008-06-08 23:12:47 +0000 |
| commit | 04af7cbb7d5ec6395a2b7943a9f841daf18e661c (patch) | |
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final edits from me, simplify the ia64 section.
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index c8aa59f..96c5592 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -613,7 +613,8 @@ href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev list</a>.</p> expect small issues to happen. Also, llvm-gcc cannot build mingw64 runtime currently due to <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2255">several</a> - <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2257">bugs</a> in FP stackifier + <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2257">bugs</a> due to lack of support for the + 'u' inline assembly constraint and X87 floating point inline assembly.</li> <li>The X86-64 backend does not yet support position-independent code (PIC) generation on Linux targets.</li> <li>The X86-64 backend does not yet support the LLVM IR instruction @@ -694,25 +695,9 @@ appropriate nops inserted to ensure restartability.</li> <div class="doc_text"> <ul> - -<li>C++ programs are likely to fail on IA64, as calls to <tt>setjmp</tt> are -made where the argument is not 16-byte aligned, as required on IA64. (Strictly -speaking this is not a bug in the IA64 back-end; it will also be encountered -when building C++ programs using the C back-end.)</li> - -<li>The C++ front-end does not use <a href="http://llvm.org/PR406">IA64 -ABI compliant layout of v-tables</a>. In particular, it just stores function -pointers instead of function descriptors in the vtable. This bug prevents -mixing C++ code compiled with LLVM with C++ objects compiled by other C++ -compilers.</li> - -<li>There are a few ABI violations which will lead to problems when mixing LLVM -output with code built with other compilers, particularly for floating-point -programs.</li> - -<li>Defining vararg functions is not supported (but calling them is OK).</li> - -<li>The Itanium backend has bitrotted somewhat.</li> +<li>The Itanium backend is highly experimental, and has a number of known + issues. We are looking for a maintainer for the Itanium backend. If you + are interested, please contact the llvmdev mailing list.</li> </ul> </div> @@ -741,9 +726,6 @@ programs.</li> <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc C front-end</a> </div> -<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> -<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div> - <div class="doc_text"> <p>llvm-gcc does not currently support <a href="http://llvm.org/PR869">Link-Time |