Author: theraven
Date: Tue Sep 4 03:40:24 2018
New Revision: 341355
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=341355&view=rev
Log:
Add release notes for the new GNUstep Objective-C ABI.
Modified:
cfe/branches/release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
Modified: cfe/branches/release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
URL:
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/branches/release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?rev=341355&r1=341354&r2=341355&view=diff
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--- cfe/branches/release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst (original)
+++ cfe/branches/release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Tue Sep 4 03:40:24 2018
@@ -235,6 +235,14 @@ C++1z Feature Support
Objective-C Language Changes in Clang
-------------------------------------
+Clang now supports the GNUstep Objective-C ABI v2 on ELF platforms. This is
+enabled with the `-fobjc-runtime=gnustep-2.0` flag. The new ABI is
incompatible
+with the older GNUstep ABIs, which were incremental changes on the old GCC ABI.
+The new ABI provides richer reflection metadata and allows the linker to remove
+duplicate selector and protocol definitions, giving smaller binaries. Windows
+support for the new ABI is underway, but was not completed in time for the LLVM
+7.0 release.
+
...
OpenCL C/C++ Language Changes in Clang
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