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author | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2011-11-27 19:26:30 +0000 |
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committer | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2011-11-27 19:26:30 +0000 |
commit | 4f0fe43fa0754c40a40dea6add206f171b3f6d1f (patch) | |
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move the detailed information about the EH rewrite to a comment, Bill is
blog'izing it.
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 247a74b..ca00a45 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -348,9 +348,8 @@ be used to verify some algorithms. <p>Since version 0.96 it has <a href="http://vrt-sourcefire.blogspot.com/2010/09/introduction-to-clamavs-low-level.html">bytecode - signatures</a> that allow writing detections for complex malware.</p> - -<p>It uses LLVM's JIT to speed up the execution of bytecode on X86, X86-64, + signatures</a> that allow writing detections for complex malware. + It uses LLVM's JIT to speed up the execution of bytecode on X86, X86-64, PPC32/64, falling back to its own interpreter otherwise. The git version was updated to work with LLVM 3.0.</p> @@ -388,8 +387,8 @@ be used to verify some algorithms. <div> <p><a href="http://cern.ch/cling">Cling</a> is an interactive compiler interface - (aka C++ interpreter). It uses LLVM's JIT and clang; it currently supports - C++ and C. It has a prompt interface, runs source files, calls into shared + (aka C++ interpreter). It supports C++ and C, and uses LLVM's JIT and the + Clang parser. It has a prompt interface, runs source files, calls into shared libraries, prints the value of expressions, even does runtime lookup of identifiers (dynamic scopes). And it just behaves like one would expect from an interpreter.</p> @@ -562,8 +561,8 @@ be used to verify some algorithms. binary compatible with Microsoft.NET. Has an optional, dynamically-loaded LLVM code generation backend in Mini, the JIT compiler.</p> -<p>Note that we use a Git mirror of LLVM with some patches. See: - https://github.com/mono/llvm</p> +<p>Note that we use a Git mirror of LLVM <a + href="https://github.com/mono/llvm">with some patches</a>.</p> </div> @@ -827,15 +826,12 @@ be used to verify some algorithms. </div> <!--=========================================================================--> -<h3> -<a name="coreimprovements">LLVM IR and Core Improvements</a> -</h3> -<div> - -<p>LLVM IR has several new features for better support of new targets and that - expose new optimization opportunities:</p> +<!-- EH details: to be moved to a blog post: + + + <p>One of the biggest changes is that 3.0 has a new exception handling system. The old system used LLVM intrinsics to convey the exception handling information to the code generator. It worked in most cases, but not @@ -947,6 +943,23 @@ Builder.CreateResume(UnwindData); </pre> </div> + + + + --> + +<!--=========================================================================--> +<h3> +<a name="coreimprovements">LLVM IR and Core Improvements</a> +</h3> + +<div> + +<p>LLVM IR has several new features for better support of new targets and that + expose new optimization opportunities:</p> + + + </div> <!--=========================================================================--> |