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author | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000 |
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committer | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000 |
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Clear out all of the changes. Reset version numbers to 1.3
add note about select
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 7e7b2d6..9ae492a 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -3,13 +3,11 @@ <html> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" href="llvm.css" type="text/css"> - <title>LLVM 1.2 Release Notes</title> + <title>LLVM 1.3 Release Notes</title> </head> <body> -<div class="doc_title"> - LLVM 1.2 Release Notes -</div> +<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.3 Release Notes</div> <ol> <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li> @@ -18,7 +16,8 @@ <li><a href="#install-instructions">Installation Instructions</a></li> <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a> <ul> - <li><a href="#experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a> + <li><a href="#experimental">Experimental features included in this + release</a> <li><a href="#core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a> <li><a href="#c-fe">Known problems with the C Front-end</a> <li><a href="#c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ Front-end</a> @@ -42,10 +41,10 @@ <div class="doc_text"> <p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler -infrastructure, release 1.2. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any +infrastructure, release 1.3. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any known problems and bug fixes from the previous release. The most up-to-date version of this document can be found on the <a -href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.2/">LLVM 1.2 web site</a>. If you are +href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.3/">LLVM 1.3 web site</a>. If you are not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because this document may be updated after the release.</p> @@ -71,14 +70,7 @@ href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p> <div class="doc_text"> <p> -This is the third public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. This -release incorporates several <a href="#newfeatures">new features</a> (including -exception handling support for the native code generators, the start of a -source-level debugger, and profile guided optimizer components), many <a -href="#qualityofimp">speedups</a> and <a href="#codequality">code quality</a> -improvements, documentation improvements, and a small collection of important <a -href="bugfix">bug fixes</a>. Overall, this is our highest quality release to -date, and we encourage you to upgrade if you are using LLVM 1.0 or 1.1. +This is the fourth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. </p> <p> @@ -95,45 +87,8 @@ the C front-end. </div> <ol> -<li><a href="SourceLevelDebugging.html">A new LLVM source-level debugger has been started.</a></li> -<li>LLVM 1.2 encodes bytecode files for large programs in 10-30% less space.</li> -<li>LLVM can now feed profile information back into optimizers for Profile Guided Optimization, includes a simple basic block reordering pass, and supports edge profiling as well as function and block-level profiling.</li> -<li>The LLVM JIT lazily initializes global variables, reducing startup time for programs with lots of globals (like C++ programs).</li> - -<li>The build and installation infrastructure in this release is dramatically -improved. There is now an <a -href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR105"><tt>autoconf/AutoRegen.sh</tt> script</a> -that you can run to rebuild the <tt>configure</tt> script and its associated -files as well as beta support for "<a -href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR208">make</a> <a -href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR220">install</a>" and <a -href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR203">RPM package generation</a>.</li> - -<li>The "tblgen" tool is <a href="TableGenFundamentals.html">now documented</a>.</li> -<li>The target-independent code generator got several improvements: -<ul> - <li>It can now fold spill code into instructions (on targets that support it).</li> - <li>A generic machine code spiller/rewriter was added. It provides an API for - global register allocators to eliminate virtual registers and add the - appropriate spill code.</li> - <li>The represenation of machine code basic blocks is more efficient and has - an easier to use interface.</li> -</ul> -</li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR253">LLVM now no longer depends on the boost library</a>.</li> -<li>The X86 backend now generates <b>substantially</b> better native code and is faster.</li> -<li>The C backend has been turned moved from the "llvm-dis" tool to the "llc" -tool. You can activate it with "<tt>llc -march=c foo.bc -o foo.c</tt>".</li> -<li>LLVM includes a new interprocedural optimization that marks global variables -"constant" when they are provably never written to.</li> -<li>LLVM now includes a new interprocedural optimization that converts small "by reference" arguments to "by value" arguments, which often improves the performance of C++ programs substantially.</li> -<li>Bugpoint can now do a better job reducing miscompilation problems by -reducing programs down to a particular loop nest, instead of just the function -being miscompiled.</li> -<li>The GCSE and LICM passes can now operate on side-effect-free function calls, for example hoisting calls to "<tt>strlen</tt>" and folding "<tt>cos</tt>" common subexpressions.</li> -<li>LLVM has early support for a new <a -href="LangRef.html#i_select"><tt>select</tt></a> instruction, though it is -currently only supported by the C backend.</li> +<li>The LLVM <a href="LangRef.html#i_select"><tt>select</tt></a> instruction is +now fully implemented and supported by all targets.</li> </ol> @@ -143,13 +98,7 @@ In this release, the following missing features were implemented: </div> <ol> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR16">Exception handling in the X86 -& Sparc native code generators</a> is now supported</li> -<li>The C/C++ front-end now supports the GCC <tt>__builtin_return_address</tt> and <tt>__builtin_frame_address</tt> extensions. These are also supported by the X86 backend and by the C backend.</li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR249">[X86] Missing cast from ULong -> Double, cast FP -> bool and support for -9223372036854775808</a></li> -<li>The C/C++ front-end <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR273">now supports</a> -the "<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html#Labels%20as%20Values">labels as values</a>" GCC extension, often used to build "threaded interpreters".</a></li> - +<li></li> </ol> @@ -159,18 +108,7 @@ the "<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html#Labels%20a </div> <ol> - -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR135">JIT should lazily initialize global variables</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR192">[X86] X86 Backend never releases memory for machine code structures</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR196">[vmcore] OpaqueType objects memory leak</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR182">[llvmgcc] C front-end does not compile "extern inline" into linkonce</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR73">Bytecode format inconsistent</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR209">[loadvn/inline/scalarrepl] Slow optimizations with extremely large basic blocks</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR224">[asmparser] Really slow parsing of types with complex upreferences</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR205">[llvmgcc] C front-end does not emit 'zeroinitializer' when possible</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR233">[llvmgcc] Structure copies result in a LOT of code</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR239">LLVM is now much more memory efficient when handling large zero initialized arrays</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR275">[llvmgcc] Local array initializers are expanded into large amounts of code</a></li> +<li></li> </ol> <!--=========================================================================--> @@ -179,9 +117,7 @@ In this release, the following build problems were fixed: </div> <ol> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR210">[build] Makefiles break if C frontend target string has unexpected value</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR214">[build] hard-wired assumption that shared-library extension is ".so"</a></li> -<li><A href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR222">make tools-only doesn't make lib/Support</a></li> +<li></li> </ol> <!--=========================================================================--> @@ -190,12 +126,7 @@ In this release, the following build problems were fixed: </div> <ol> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR187">[loopsimplify] Many pointless phi nodes are created</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR237">[x86] wierd stack/frame pointer manipulation</a></li> - -<li>The X86 backend now generate <tt>fchs</tt> to negate floating point numbers, -compiles memcpy() into the <tt>rep movs</tt> instruction, and makes much better -use of powerful addressing modes and instructions.</li> +<li></li> </ol> @@ -207,31 +138,7 @@ use of powerful addressing modes and instructions.</li> <p>Bugs in the LLVM Core:</p> <ol> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR179">[licm] LICM promotes volatile memory -locations to registers</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR191">[licm] Memory read after free causes -infrequent crash</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR194">[indvars] Induction variable -canonicalization always makes 32-bit indvars</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR193">[constantmerge] Merging globals can -cause use of invalid pointers!</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR212">[bcreader] Bytecode reader misreads 'long -9223372036854775808'!</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=174">Tail duplication does not update SSA form correctly.</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR218">VMCore mishandles double -0.0</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR219">[X86] X86 backend code generates -0.0 as +0.0</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR223">[loopsimplify] Loopsimplify incorrectly updates dominator information</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR225">[pruneeh] -pruneeh pass removes invoke instructions it shouldn't</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR228">[sparc] Boolean constants are emitted as true and false</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR234">[interpreter] va_list values silently corrupted by function calls</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR235">Tablegen aborts on errors</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR236">[inliner] Error inlining intrinsic calls into invoke instructions</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR245">Linking weak and strong global variables is dependent on link order</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR258">Variables used to define non-printable FP constants are externally visible</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR259">CBE gives linkonce functions wrong linkage semantics</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR274">[JIT] Programs cannot resolve the fstat function</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR284">[indvars] Induction variable analysis violates LLVM invariants</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR296">[execution engines] Unhandled cast constant expression</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR299">[Sparc] Code generator asserts on alloca of zero size type</a></li> +<li></li> </ol> @@ -239,17 +146,7 @@ cause use of invalid pointers!</a></li> <p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p> <ol> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR186">Need weak linkage on memory -management functions in libc runtime to allow them to be overriden</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR202">[llvm-gcc] asserts when an extern inline function is redefined</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR204">[llvmg++] Dynamically initialized constants cannot be marked 'constant'</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR216">[llvmgcc] floating-point unary minus is incorrect for +0.0</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR221">[llvm-gcc] miscompilation of 'X = Y = Z' with aggregate values</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR272">[llvmgcc] Invalid code created for complex division operation</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR268">[llvmgcc] Incorrect code generation for pointer subtraction</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR261">[llvmg++] Crash assigning pointers-to-members with casted types</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR291">[llvm-g++] Cleanups and gotos don't mix properly</a></li> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR297">[llvmgcc] Crash on auto register variable with specific register specified</a></li> +<li></li> </ol> </div> |