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authorDan Gohman <gohman@apple.com>2010-05-03 23:51:05 +0000
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Minimally update ReleaseNotes.html for 2.8 development; uncomment and
update the big red warning at the top. Most of the old content remains and awaits revision. Clear out the API changes section, and start it up again with a mention of the add->fadd transition. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@102977 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="llvm.css" type="text/css">
- <title>LLVM 2.7 Release Notes</title>
+ <title>LLVM 2.8 Release Notes</title>
</head>
<body>
-<div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.7 Release Notes</div>
+<div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.8 Release Notes</div>
<img align=right src="http://llvm.org/img/DragonSmall.png"
width="136" height="136" alt="LLVM Dragon Logo">
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
<ol>
<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#subproj">Sub-project Status Update</a></li>
- <li><a href="#externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 2.7</a></li>
- <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in LLVM 2.7?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 2.8</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in LLVM 2.8?</a></li>
<li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
<li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
<li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a></li>
@@ -28,12 +28,11 @@
<p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Team</a></p>
</div>
-<!--
<h1 style="color:red">These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 2.8
release.<br>
You may prefer the
-<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/2.6/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">LLVM 2.7
-Release Notes</a>.</h1>-->
+<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/2.7/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">LLVM 2.7
+Release Notes</a>.</h1>
<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
<div class="doc_section">
@@ -74,7 +73,7 @@ Almost dead code.
-->
-<!-- Features that need text if they're finished for 2.7:
+<!-- Features that need text if they're finished for 2.8:
combiner-aa?
strong phi elim
llvm.dbg.value: variable debug info for optimized code
@@ -94,7 +93,7 @@ Almost dead code.
<div class="doc_text">
<p>
-The LLVM 2.7 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM
+The LLVM 2.8 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM
repository (which roughly includes the LLVM optimizers, code generators
and supporting tools), the Clang repository and the llvm-gcc repository. In
addition to this code, the LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in
@@ -925,50 +924,11 @@ configure with <tt>--enable-libffi</tt>.</li>
API changes are:</p>
<ul>
-<li>Just about everything has been converted to use <tt>raw_ostream</tt> instead of
- <tt>std::ostream</tt>.</li>
-<li><tt>llvm/ADT/iterator.h</tt> has been removed, just use <tt>&lt;iterator&gt;</tt>
- instead.</li>
-<li>The <tt>Streams.h</tt> file and <tt>DOUT</tt> got removed, use <tt>DEBUG(errs() &lt;&lt; ...);</tt>
- instead.</li>
-<li>The <tt>TargetAsmInfo</tt> interface was renamed to <tt>MCAsmInfo</tt>.</li>
-<li><tt>ModuleProvider</tt> has been <a
-href="http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&amp;revision=94686">removed</a>
-and its methods moved to <tt>Module</tt> and <tt>GlobalValue</tt>.
-Most clients can remove uses of <tt>ExistingModuleProvider</tt>,
-replace <tt>getBitcodeModuleProvider</tt> with
-<tt>getLazyBitcodeModule</tt>, and pass their <tt>Module</tt> to
-functions that used to accept <tt>ModuleProvider</tt>. Clients who
-wrote their own <tt>ModuleProvider</tt>s will need to derive from
-<tt>GVMaterializer</tt> instead and use
-<tt>Module::setMaterializer</tt> to attach it to a
-<tt>Module</tt>.</li>
-
-<li><tt>GhostLinkage</tt> has given up the ghost.
-<tt>GlobalValue</tt>s that have not yet been read from their backing
-storage have the same linkage they will have after being read in.
-Clients must replace calls to
-<tt>GlobalValue::hasNotBeenReadFromBitcode</tt> with
-<tt>GlobalValue::isMaterializable</tt>.</li>
-
-<li>The <tt>isInteger</tt>, <tt>isIntOrIntVector</tt>, <tt>isFloatingPoint</tt>,
-<tt>isFPOrFPVector</tt> and <tt>isFPOrFPVector</tt> methods have been renamed
-<tt>isIntegerTy</tt>, <tt>isIntOrIntVectorTy</tt>, <tt>isFloatingPointTy</tt>,
-<tt>isFPOrFPVectorTy</tt> and <tt>isFPOrFPVectorTy</tt> respectively.</li>
-
-<li><tt>llvm::Instruction::clone()</tt> no longer takes argument.</li>
-<li><tt>raw_fd_ostream</tt>'s constructor now takes a flag argument, not individual
- booleans (see <tt>include/llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h</tt> for details).</li>
-<li>Some header files have been renamed:
-<ul>
- <li><tt>llvm/Support/AIXDataTypesFix.h</tt> to
- <tt>llvm/System/AIXDataTypesFix.h</tt></li>
- <li><tt>llvm/Support/DataTypes.h</tt> to <tt>llvm/System/DataTypes.h</tt></li>
- <li><tt>llvm/Transforms/Utils/InlineCost.h</tt> to
- <tt>llvm/Analysis/InlineCost.h</tt></li>
- <li><tt>llvm/Support/Mangler.h</tt> to <tt>llvm/Target/Mangler.h</tt></li>
- <li><tt>llvm/Analysis/Passes.h</tt> to <tt>llvm/CodeGen/Passes.h</tt></li>
-</ul></li>
+
+<li>The <tt>add</tt>, <tt>sub</tt>, and <tt>mul</tt> instructions no longer
+support floating-point operands. The <tt>fadd</tt>, <tt>fsub</tt>, and
+<tt>fmul</tt> instructions should be used for this purpose instead.</li>
+
</ul>
</div>