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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2007-05-18 06:38:51 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2007-05-18 06:38:51 +0000
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@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ series.</li>
into MSIL (".net") bytecode. This is still fairly early development
with a number of limitations.</li>
+<li>A new <a href="CommandGuide/html/llvm-upgrade.html">llvm-upgrade</a> tool
+ exists to migrates LLVM 1.9 .ll files to LLVM 2.0 syntax.</li>
</ul>
</div>
@@ -378,15 +380,11 @@ Improvements</a></div>
<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="other">Other Improvements</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
-<p>This release includes many other improvements, including
-performance work, specifically designed to tune datastructure
-usage. This makes several critical components faster.</p>
-
<p>More specific changes include:</p>
<ul>
<li>LLVM no longer relies on static destructors to shut itself down. Instead,
- it lazily initializes itself and shuts down when llvm_shutdown() is
+ it lazily initializes itself and shuts down when <tt>llvm_shutdown()</tt> is
explicitly called.</li>
<li>LLVM now has significantly fewer static constructors, reducing startup time.
@@ -397,16 +395,11 @@ usage. This makes several critical components faster.</p>
<li>Construction of intrinsic function declarations has been simplified.</li>
-<li>The llvm-upgrade tool now exists. This migrates LLVM 1.9 .ll files to
- LLVM 2.0 syntax.</li>
-
-<li>The gccas/gccld tools have been removed.</li>
+<li>The gccas/gccld tools have been replaced with small shell scripts.</li>
<li>Support has been added to llvm-test for running on low-memory
or slow machines (make SMALL_PROBLEM_SIZE=1).</li>
-<li>llvm-test is now more portable and should build with MS Visual Studio.</li>
-
</ul>
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