Author: kbarton
Date: Fri Feb 26 14:31:15 2016
New Revision: 262059
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=262059&view=rev
Log:
Added release notes for PowerPC
Modified:
llvm/tags/RELEASE_380/rc3/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
Modified: llvm/tags/RELEASE_380/rc3/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
URL:
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/tags/RELEASE_380/rc3/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?rev=262059&r1=262058&r2=262059&view=diff
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--- llvm/tags/RELEASE_380/rc3/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst (original)
+++ llvm/tags/RELEASE_380/rc3/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Fri Feb 26 14:31:15 2016
@@ -227,7 +227,26 @@ If you would like to try the integrated
Changes to the PowerPC Target
-----------------------------
- During this release ...
+There are numerous improvements to the PowerPC target in this release:
+
+* Shrink wrapping optimization has been enabled for PowerPC Little Endian
+
+* Direct move instructions are used when converting scalars to vectors
+
+* Thread Sanitizer (TSAN) is now supported for PowerPC
+
+* New MI peephole pass to clean up redundand XXPERMDI instructions
+
+* Add branch hints to highly biased branch instructions (code reaching
+ unreachable terminators and exceptional control flow consructs)
+
+* Promote boolean return values to integer to prevent excessive usage of
+ condition registers
+
+* Additional vector APIs for vector comparisons and vector merges have been
+ added to altivec.h
+
+* Many bugs have been identified and fixed
Changes to the X86 Target
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