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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 09446c9..e903080 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="_static/llvm.css" type="text/css"> - <title>LLVM 3.1 Release Notes</title> + <title>LLVM 3.2 Release Notes</title> </head> <body> -<h1>LLVM 3.1 Release Notes</h1> +<h1>LLVM 3.2 Release Notes</h1> <div> <img style="float:right" src="http://llvm.org/img/DragonSmall.png" @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ <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 3.1</a></li> + <li><a href="#externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 3.2</a></li> <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in LLVM?</a></li> <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li> <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a></li> @@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ <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 3.1 +<h1 style="color:red">These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.2 release.<br> You may prefer the -<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">LLVM 3.0 +<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.1/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">LLVM 3.1 Release Notes</a>.</h1> <!-- *********************************************************************** --> @@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> <div> <p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler - Infrastructure, release 3.1. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including + Infrastructure, release 3.2. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various - subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. - All LLVM releases may be downloaded from - the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM releases web site</a>.</p> + subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM + releases may be downloaded from the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM + releases web site</a>.</p> <p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.org/">main LLVM web @@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> <div> -<p>The LLVM 3.1 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM - repository (which roughly includes the LLVM optimizers, code generators and - supporting tools), and the Clang repository. In addition to this code, the - LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in development. Here we +<p>The LLVM 3.2 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM + repository, which roughly includes the LLVM optimizers, code generators and + supporting tools, and the Clang repository. In addition to this code, the + LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in development. Here we include updates on these subprojects.</p> <!--=========================================================================--> @@ -94,20 +94,13 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> production-quality compiler for C, Objective-C, C++ and Objective-C++ on x86 (32- and 64-bit), and for Darwin/ARM targets.</p> -<p>In the LLVM 3.1 time-frame, the Clang team has made many improvements. +<p>In the LLVM 3.2 time-frame, the Clang team has made many improvements. Highlights include:</p> <ul> - <li>Greatly expanded <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html">C++11 - support</a> including lambdas, initializer lists, constexpr, user-defined - literals, and atomics.</li> - <li>A new <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Tooling.html">tooling</a> - library to ease building of clang-based standalone tools.</li> - <li>Extended support for - <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html">literals in - Objective C</a>.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> -<p>For more details about the changes to Clang since the 3.0 release, see the +<p>For more details about the changes to Clang since the 3.1 release, see the <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">Clang release notes.</a></p> @@ -133,23 +126,10 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> Linux and OpenBSD platforms. It fully supports Ada, C, C++ and Fortran. It has partial support for Go, Java, Obj-C and Obj-C++.</p> -<p>The 3.1 release has the following notable changes:</p> +<p>The 3.2 release has the following notable changes:</p> <ul> - <li>Partial support for gcc-4.7. Ada support is poor, but other languages work - fairly well.</li> - - <li>Support for ARM processors. Some essential gcc headers that are needed to - build DragonEgg for ARM are not installed by gcc. To work around this, - copy the missing headers from the gcc source tree.</li> - - <li>Better optimization for Fortran by exploiting the fact that Fortran scalar - arguments have 'restrict' semantics.</li> - - <li>Better optimization for all languages by passing information about type - aliasing and type ranges to the LLVM optimizers.</li> - - <li>A regression test-suite was added.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> </div> @@ -166,13 +146,15 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> target-specific hooks required by code generation and other runtime components. For example, when compiling for a 32-bit target, converting a double to a 64-bit unsigned integer is compiled into a runtime call to the - "__fixunsdfdi" function. The compiler-rt library provides highly optimized - implementations of this and other low-level routines (some are 3x faster than - the equivalent libgcc routines).</p> + <code>__fixunsdfdi</code> function. The compiler-rt library provides highly + optimized implementations of this and other low-level routines (some are 3x + faster than the equivalent libgcc routines).</p> + +<p>The 3.2 release has the following notable changes:</p> -<p>As of 3.1, compiler-rt includes the helper functions for atomic operations, - allowing atomic operations on arbitrary-sized quantities to work. These - functions follow the specification defined by gcc and are used by clang.</p> +<ul> + <li>...</li> +</ul> </div> @@ -189,6 +171,12 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> expression parsing (particularly for C++) and uses the LLVM JIT for target support.</p> +<p>The 3.2 release has the following notable changes:</p> + +<ul> + <li>...</li> +</ul> + </div> <!--=========================================================================--> @@ -202,15 +190,10 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> licensed</a> under the MIT and UIUC license, allowing it to be used more permissively.</p> -<p>Within the LLVM 3.1 time-frame there were the following highlights:</p> +<p>Within the LLVM 3.2 time-frame there were the following highlights:</p> <ul> - <li>The <code><atomic></code> header is now passing all tests, when - compiling with clang and linking against the support code from - compiler-rt.</li> - <li>FreeBSD now includes libc++ as part of the base system.</li> - <li>libc++ has been ported to Solaris and, in combination with libcxxrt and - clang, is working with a large body of existing code.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> </div> @@ -226,8 +209,11 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> of a Java Virtual Machine (Java VM or JVM) that uses LLVM for static and just-in-time compilation.</p> -<p>In the LLVM 3.1 time-frame, VMKit has had significant improvements on both - runtime and startup performance.</p> +<p>The 3.2 release has the following notable changes:</p> + +<ul> + <li>...</li> +</ul> </div> @@ -245,16 +231,10 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> Work in the area of automatic SIMD and accelerator code generation was started.</p> -<p>Within the LLVM 3.1 time-frame there were the following highlights:</p> +<p>Within the LLVM 3.2 time-frame there were the following highlights:</p> <ul> - <li>Polly became an official LLVM project</li> - <li>Polly can be loaded directly into clang (enabled by '-O3 -mllvm -polly')</li> - <li>An automatic scheduling optimizer (derived - from <a href="http://pluto-compiler.sourceforge.net/">Pluto</a>) was - integrated. It performs loop transformations to optimize for data-locality - and parallelism. The transformations include, but are not limited to - interchange, fusion, fission, skewing and tiling.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> </div> @@ -263,15 +243,15 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> <!-- *********************************************************************** --> <h2> - <a name="externalproj">External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.1</a> + <a name="externalproj">External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.2</a> </h2> <!-- *********************************************************************** --> <div> <p>An exciting aspect of LLVM is that it is used as an enabling technology for - a lot of other language and tools projects. This section lists some of the - projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.1.</p> + a lot of other language and tools projects. This section lists some of the + projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.2.</p> <h3>Crack</h3> @@ -415,14 +395,14 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> <!-- *********************************************************************** --> <h2> - <a name="whatsnew">What's New in LLVM 3.1?</a> + <a name="whatsnew">What's New in LLVM 3.2?</a> </h2> <!-- *********************************************************************** --> <div> <p>This release includes a huge number of bug fixes, performance tweaks and - minor improvements. Some of the major improvements and new features are + minor improvements. Some of the major improvements and new features are listed in this section.</p> <!--=========================================================================--> @@ -432,13 +412,13 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> <div> - <!-- Features that need text if they're finished for 3.1: + <!-- Features that need text if they're finished for 3.2: ARM EHABI combiner-aa? strong phi elim loop dependence analysis CorrelatedValuePropagation - lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp => consider for 3.1. + lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp => consider for 3.2. Integrated assembler on by default for arm/thumb? --> @@ -449,17 +429,10 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> llvm/lib/Archive - replace with lib object? --> -<p>LLVM 3.1 includes several major changes and big features:</p> +<p>LLVM 3.2 includes several major changes and big features:</p> <ul> - <li><a href="../tools/clang/docs/AddressSanitizer.html">AddressSanitizer</a>, - a fast memory error detector.</li> - <li><a href="CodeGenerator.html#machineinstrbundle">MachineInstr Bundles</a>, - Support to model instruction bundling / packing.</li> - <li><a href="#armintegratedassembler">ARM Integrated Assembler</a>, - A full featured assembler and direct-to-object support for ARM.</li> - <li><a href="#blockplacement">Basic Block Placement</a> - Probability driven basic block placement.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> </div> @@ -476,19 +449,7 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> expose new optimization opportunities:</p> <ul> - <li>A new type representing 16 bit <i>half</i> floating point values has - been added.</li> - <li>IR now supports vectors of pointers, including vector GEPs.</li> - <li>Module flags have been introduced. They convey information about the - module as a whole to LLVM subsystems. This is currently used to encode - Objective C ABI information.</li> - <li>Loads can now have range metadata attached to them to describe the - possible values being loaded.</li> - <li>The <tt>llvm.ctlz</tt> and <tt>llvm.cttz</tt> intrinsics now have an - additional argument which indicates whether the behavior of the intrinsic - is undefined on a zero input. This can be used to generate more efficient - code on platforms that only have instructions which don't return the type - size when counting bits in 0.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> </div> @@ -500,22 +461,11 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> <div> -<p>In addition to many minor performance tweaks and bug fixes, this - release includes a few major enhancements and additions to the - optimizers:</p> +<p>In addition to many minor performance tweaks and bug fixes, this release + includes a few major enhancements and additions to the optimizers:</p> <ul> - <li>The loop unroll pass now is able to unroll loops with run-time trip counts. - This feature is turned off by default, and is enabled with the - <code>-unroll-runtime</code> flag.</li> - <li>A new basic-block autovectorization pass is available. Pass - <code>-vectorize</code> to run this pass along with some associated - post-vectorization cleanup passes. For more information, see the EuroLLVM - 2012 slides: <a href="http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-04-12/Slides/Hal_Finkel.pdf"> - Autovectorization with LLVM</a>.</li> - <li>Inline cost heuristics have been completely overhauled and now closely - model constant propagation through call sites, disregard trivially dead - code costs, and can model C++ STL iterator patterns.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> </div> @@ -530,14 +480,12 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> <p>The LLVM Machine Code (aka MC) subsystem was created to solve a number of problems in the realm of assembly, disassembly, object file format handling, and a number of other related areas that CPU instruction-set level tools work - in. For more information, please see - the <a href="http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html">Intro - to the LLVM MC Project Blog Post</a>.</p> + in. For more information, please see the + <a href="http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html">Intro + to the LLVM MC Project Blog Post</a>.</p> <ul> - <li>The integrated assembler can optionally emit debug information when - assembling a </tt>.s</tt> file. It can be enabled by passing the - <tt>-g</tt> option to <tt>llvm-mc</tt>.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> </div> @@ -562,21 +510,7 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> make it run faster:</p> <ul> - <li>TableGen can now synthesize register classes that are only needed to - represent combinations of constraints from instructions and sub-registers. - The synthetic register classes inherit most of their properties form their - closest user-defined super-class.</li> - <li><code>MachineRegisterInfo</code> now allows the reserved registers to be - frozen when register allocation starts. Target hooks should use the - <code>MRI->canReserveReg(FramePtr)</code> method to avoid accidentally - disabling frame pointer elimination during register allocation.</li> - <li>A new kind of <code>MachineOperand</code> provides a compact - representation of large clobber lists on call instructions. The register - mask operand references a bit mask of preserved registers. Everything else - is clobbered.</li> - <li>The DWARF debug info writer gained support for emitting data for the - <a href="SourceLevelDebugging.html#acceltable">name accelerator tables - DWARF extension</a>. It is used by LLDB to speed up name lookup.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> <p> We added new TableGen infrastructure to support bundling for @@ -593,11 +527,14 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1> <h4> <a name="blockplacement">Basic Block Placement</a> </h4> + <div> + <p>A probability based block placement and code layout algorithm was added to -LLVM's code generator. This layout pass supports probabilities derived from -static heuristics as well as source code annotations such as -<code>__builtin_expect</code>.</p> + LLVM's code generator. This layout pass supports probabilities derived from + static heuristics as well as source code annotations such as + <code>__builtin_expect</code>.</p> + </div> <!--=========================================================================--> @@ -610,14 +547,7 @@ static heuristics as well as source code annotations such as <p>New features and major changes in the X86 target include:</p> <ul> - <li>Greatly improved support for AVX2.</li> - <li>Lots of bug fixes and improvements for AVX1.</li> - <li>Support for the FMA4 and XOP instruction set extensions.</li> - <li>Call instructions use the new register mask operands for faster compile - times and better support for different calling conventions. The old WINCALL - instructions are no longer needed.</li> - <li>DW2 Exception Handling is enabled on Cygwin and MinGW.</li> - <li>Support for implicit TLS model used with MSVC runtime.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> </div> @@ -632,65 +562,45 @@ static heuristics as well as source code annotations such as <p>New features of the ARM target include:</p> <ul> - <li>The constant island pass now supports basic block and constant pool entry - alignments greater than 4 bytes.</li> - <li>On Darwin, the ARM target now has a full-featured integrated assembler. - </li> + <li>...</li> </ul> +<!--_________________________________________________________________________--> + <h4> <a name="armintegratedassembler">ARM Integrated Assembler</a> </h4> + <div> + <p>The ARM target now includes a full featured macro assembler, including -direct-to-object module support for clang. The assembler is currently enabled -by default for Darwin only pending testing and any additional necessary -platform specific support for Linux.</p> + direct-to-object module support for clang. The assembler is currently enabled + by default for Darwin only pending testing and any additional necessary + platform specific support for Linux.</p> <p>Full support is included for Thumb1, Thumb2 and ARM modes, along with -subtarget and CPU specific extensions for VFP2, VFP3 and NEON.</p> + subtarget and CPU specific extensions for VFP2, VFP3 and NEON.</p> <p>The assembler is Unified Syntax only (see ARM Architecural Reference Manual -for details). While there is some, and growing, support for pre-unfied (divided) -syntax, there are still significant gaps in that support.</p> -</div> + for details). While there is some, and growing, support for pre-unfied + (divided) syntax, there are still significant gaps in that support.</p> </div> -<!--=========================================================================--> -<h3> -<a name="MIPS">MIPS Target Improvements</a> -</h3> -<div> -New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p> - -<ul> - <li>MIPS32 little-endian direct object code emission is functional.</li> - <li>MIPS64 little-endian code generation is largely functional for N64 ABI in assembly printing mode with the exception of handling of long double (f128) type.</li> - <li>Support for new instructions has been added, which includes swap-bytes - instructions (WSBH and DSBH), floating point multiply-add/subtract and - negative multiply-add/subtract instructions, and floating - point load/store instructions with reg+reg addressing (LWXC1, etc.)</li> - <li>Various fixes to improve performance have been implemented.</li> - <li>Post-RA scheduling is now enabled at -O3.</li> - <li>Support for soft-float code generation has been added.</li> - <li>clang driver's support for MIPS 64-bits targets.</li> - <li>Support for MIPS floating point ABI option in clang driver.</li> -</ul> </div> <!--=========================================================================--> <h3> -<a name="PTX">PTX Target Improvements</a> +<a name="MIPS">MIPS Target Improvements</a> </h3> <div> -<p>An outstanding conditional inversion bug was fixed in this release.</p> +<p>New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p> -<p><b>NOTE</b>: LLVM 3.1 marks the last release of the PTX back-end, in its - current form. The back-end is currently being replaced by the NVPTX - back-end, currently in SVN ToT.</p> +<ul> + <li>...</li> +</ul> </div> @@ -702,7 +612,7 @@ New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p> <div> <ul> - <li>Support for Qualcomm's Hexagon VLIW processor has been added.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> </div> @@ -715,25 +625,11 @@ New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p> <div> <p>If you're already an LLVM user or developer with out-of-tree changes based on - LLVM 3.1, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading + LLVM 3.2, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading from the previous release.</p> <ul> - <li>LLVM's build system now requires a python 2 interpreter to be present at - build time. A perl interpreter is no longer required.</li> - <li>The C backend has been removed. It had numerous problems, to the point of - not being able to compile any nontrivial program.</li> - <li>The Alpha, Blackfin and SystemZ targets have been removed due to lack of - maintenance.</li> - <li>LLVM 3.1 removes support for reading LLVM 2.9 bitcode files. Going - forward, we aim for all future versions of LLVM to read bitcode files and - <tt>.ll</tt> files produced by LLVM 3.0 and later.</li> - <li>The <tt>unwind</tt> instruction is now gone. With the introduction of the - new exception handling system in LLVM 3.0, the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction - became obsolete.</li> - <li>LLVM 3.0 and earlier automatically added the returns_twice fo functions - like setjmp based on the name. This functionality was removed in 3.1. - This affects Clang users, if -ffreestanding is used.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> </div> @@ -749,40 +645,7 @@ New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p> LLVM API changes are:</p> <ul> - <li>Target specific options have been moved from global variables to members - on the new <code>TargetOptions</code> class, which is local to each - <code>TargetMachine</code>. As a consequence, the associated flags will - no longer be accepted by <tt>clang -mllvm</tt>. This includes: -<ul> -<li><code>llvm::PrintMachineCode</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::NoFramePointerElim</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::NoFramePointerElimNonLeaf</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::DisableFramePointerElim(const MachineFunction &)</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::LessPreciseFPMADOption</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::LessPrecideFPMAD()</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::NoExcessFPPrecision</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::UnsafeFPMath</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::NoInfsFPMath</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::NoNaNsFPMath</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::HonorSignDependentRoundingFPMathOption</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::HonorSignDependentRoundingFPMath()</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::UseSoftFloat</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::FloatABIType</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::NoZerosInBSS</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::JITExceptionHandling</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::JITEmitDebugInfo</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::JITEmitDebugInfoToDisk</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::GuaranteedTailCallOpt</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::StackAlignmentOverride</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::RealignStack</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::DisableJumpTables</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::EnableFastISel</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::getTrapFunctionName()</code></li> -<li><code>llvm::EnableSegmentedStacks</code></li> -</ul></li> - - <li>The <code>MDBuilder</code> class has been added to simplify the creation - of metadata.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> </div> @@ -797,13 +660,8 @@ New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p> <p>In addition, some tools have changed in this release. Some of the changes are:</p> - <ul> - <li><tt>llvm-stress</tt> is a command line tool for generating random - <tt>.ll</tt> files to fuzz different LLVM components. </li> - <li>The <tt>llvm-ld</tt> tool has been removed. The clang driver provides a - more reliable solution for turning a set of bitcode files into a binary. - To merge bitcode files <tt>llvm-link</tt> can be used instead.</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> </div> @@ -817,19 +675,12 @@ New features and major changes in the MIPS target include:</p> <div> <p>Officially supported Python bindings have been added! Feature support is far -from complete. The current bindings support interfaces to:</p> + from complete. The current bindings support interfaces to:</p> + <ul> - <li>Object File Interface</li> - <li>Disassembler</li> + <li>...</li> </ul> -<p>Using the Object File Interface, it is possible to inspect binary object files. -Think of it as a Python version of readelf or llvm-objdump.</p> - -<p>Support for additional features is currently being developed by community -contributors. If you are interested in shaping the direction of the Python -bindings, please express your intent on IRC or the developers list.</p> - </div> </div> @@ -845,11 +696,11 @@ bindings, please express your intent on IRC or the developers list.</p> <p>LLVM is generally a production quality compiler, and is used by a broad range of applications and shipping in many products. That said, not every subsystem is as mature as the aggregate, particularly the more obscure - targets. If you run into a problem, please check the <a - href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if - there isn't already one or ask on the <a - href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev - list</a>.</p> + targets. If you run into a problem, please check + the <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if + there isn't already one or ask on + the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev + list</a>.</p> <p>Known problem areas include:</p> @@ -857,7 +708,7 @@ bindings, please express your intent on IRC or the developers list.</p> <li>The CellSPU, MSP430, PTX and XCore backends are experimental.</li> <li>The integrated assembler, disassembler, and JIT is not supported by - several targets. If an integrated assembler is not supported, then a + several targets. If an integrated assembler is not supported, then a system assembler is required. For more details, see the <a href="CodeGenerator.html#targetfeatures">Target Features Matrix</a>. </li> |