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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000
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<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler infrastructure,
-release 1.0. The most up-to-date version of this document can be found on the
-<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.0/ReleaseNotes.html">LLVM 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>
+release 1.0. Here we describe how to install LLVM, as well as any known
+problems. The most up-to-date version of this document can be found on the <a
+href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.0/">LLVM 1.0 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>
-FIXME: What is this document? Where do I find other documents?<p>
+For more information about LLVM, including information about potentially more
+current releases, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main
+web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
+href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
+list</a> is a good place to send them.<p>
<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
@@ -56,6 +61,46 @@ it is all new! In particular, we are providing a stable C compiler, beta C++
compiler, a C back-end, stable X86 and Sparc V9 static and JIT code generators,
as well as a large suite of scalar and interprocedural optimizations.<p>
+The default optimizer sequence used by the C/C++ front-ends is:<p>
+
+<ol>
+<li>Interprocedural dead code elimination (-globaldce)
+<li>Exception handling pruning (-prune-eh)
+<li>Function inlining (-inline)
+<li>Instruction combining (-instcombine)
+<li>Cast elimination (-raise)
+<li>Tail duplication (-tailduplicate)
+<li>CFG simplification (-simplifycfg)
+<li>Scalar replacement of aggregates (-scalarrepl)
+<li>Tail call elimination (-tailcallelim)
+<li>Instruction combining (-instcombine)
+<li>Reassociation (-reassociate)
+<li>Instruction combining (-instcombine)
+<li>CFG simplification (-simplifycfg)
+<li>Loop canonnicalization (-preheaders)
+<li>Loop invariant code motion, with scalar promotion (-licm)
+<li>Global common subexpression elimination, with load elimination (-gcse)
+<li>Sparse conditional constant propagation (-sccp)
+<li>Instruction combining (-instcombine)
+<li>Induction variable canonicalization (-indvars)
+<li>Aggressive dead code elimination (-adce)
+<li>CFG simplication (-simplifycfg)
+<li>Dead type elimination (-deadtypeelim)
+<li>Global constant merging (-constmerge)
+</ol><p>
+
+At link-time, the following optimizations are run:<p>
+
+<ol>
+<li>Global constant merging (-constmerge)
+<li>[optional] Internalization [which marks most functions and global variables static] (-internalize)
+<li>Interprocedural dead argument elimination (-deadargelim)
+<li>Instruction combining (-instcombine)
+<li>CFG simplification (-simplifycfg)
+<li>Interprocedural dead code elimination (-globaldce)
+</ol><p>
+
+
TODO: Works on: SPEC CPU 2000<p>
TODO: Works on: Olden/Ptrdist benchmarks<p>
@@ -342,9 +387,9 @@ via the mailing lists.<p>
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-<address>By: <a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a></address>
+Maintained By: <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/">The LLVM Team</a><br>
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-Last modified: Sun Oct 5 14:01:10 CDT 2003
+Last modified: Tue Oct 7 16:32:37 CDT 2003
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