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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index fe8e31e..f05429f 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="llvm.css" type="text/css"> <title>LLVM 1.4 Release Notes</title> </head> @@ -88,15 +89,22 @@ benchmarks, and <b>many</b> other C and C++ programs.</p> <ol> <li>The test/Programs hierarchy <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR257">has been moved out of the main LLVM tree</a> into a separate CVS repo and - tarball.</li> + tarball. This shrinks the distribution size of LLVM itself dramatically. + </li> <li>LLVM now optimizes global variables significantly more than it did before.</li> <li>LLVM now includes the new '<tt>undef</tt>' value and <a href="LangRef.html#i_unreachable"><tt>unreachable</tt></a> instruction, which give the optimizer more information about the behavior of the program.</li> - <li>The LLVM makefiles have been improved to build LLVM much faster and - includes new targets (like make dist-check).</li> + <li>The LLVM makefiles have been improved to build LLVM much faster (2x) and + includes new targets (like dist-check, uninstall). One important change is + associated with <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR456>PR456">PR456</a>. + The libraries and tools will now be built into + <tt>$builddir/Debug/{bin,lib}</tt> instead of + <tt>$builddir/tools/Debug</tt> and <tt>$builddir/lib/Debug</tt>. Similarly + for <tt>Release</tt> and <tt>Profile</tt> builds. + </li> <li>The LLVM source code is much more compatible with Microsoft Visual C++, including the JIT and runtime-code generation, though the entire system may not work with it.</li> @@ -113,8 +121,15 @@ In this release, the following missing features were implemented: <div class="doc_text"> <ol> -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR419">JIT interface should support + <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR419">JIT interface should support arbitrary calls</a></li> + <li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool was previously incomplete and didn't properly + support other ar(1) implementations. This has been corrected. <tt>llvm-ar</tt> + now fully supports all archive editing functions, table of contents listing, + extraction, and printing. It can also read BSD4.4/MacOSX and SVR4 style + archives. See <a + href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/CommandGuide/html/llvm-ar.html">llvm-ar</a> + for details.</li> </ol> </div> @@ -274,7 +289,6 @@ details.</li> -ipmodref, -cee, -branch-combine, -instloops, -paths</tt></li> <li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li> -<li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool is incomplete and probably buggy.</li> <li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development.</li> </ul> |