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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 9ab3a61..45bd48e 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -85,12 +85,12 @@ of llvm-gcc solves many serious long-standing problems with llvm-gcc, including all of those blocked by the <a href="http://llvm.org/PR498">llvm-gcc 4 meta bug</a>. In addition, llvm-gcc4 implements support for many new features, including GCC inline assembly, generic vector support, SSE and Altivec -intrinsics, and several new GCC attributes. In addition, llvm-gcc4 is +intrinsics, and several new GCC attributes. Finally, llvm-gcc4 is significantly faster than llvm-gcc3, respects -O options, its -c/-S options correspond to GCC's (they emit native code), and it has debugging support well underway.</p> -<p>If you can use it, llvm-gcc4 is offers significant new functionality, and we +<p>If you can use it, llvm-gcc4 offers significant new functionality, and we hope that it will replace llvm-gcc3 completely in a future release. Unfortunately, it does not currently support C++ exception handling at all, and it only works on Apple Mac OS/X machines with X86 or PowerPC processors. @@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ SPARC V8 and SPARC V9 subtargets (controlling whether V9 features can be used), and targets the 32-bit SPARC ABI.</p> <p>The LLVM 1.7 release is the last release that will include the LLVM "SparcV9" -backend, which was the very first LLVM native code generator. In 1.8, it will -be removed, replaced with the new SPARC backend.</p> +backend, which was the very first LLVM native code generator. It will +be removed in LLVM 1.8, being replaced with the new SPARC backend.</p> </div> @@ -226,7 +226,8 @@ Improvements</a></div> <div class="doc_text"> <ul> -<li>The Mac OS/X PowerPC and X86 backends now have initial support Darwin DWARF +<li>The Mac OS/X PowerPC and X86 backends now have initial support for + Darwin DWARF debugging information, however, debug info generation has been disabled for the 1.7 release in llvmgcc4.</li> <li>LLVM includes the new <a href="docs/CommandGuide/html/llvm-config.html"> |