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ReleaseNotes.html updated: 1.348 -> 1.349 --- Log message: Add some more notes, many still missing --- Diffs of the changes: (+31 -2) ReleaseNotes.html | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html diff -u llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.348 llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.349 --- llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.348 Tue Apr 18 01:18:36 2006 +++ llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Tue Apr 18 01:32:08 2006 @@ -171,13 +171,42 @@ </div> +<!--_________________________________________________________________________--> +<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="othernew">Optimizer +Improvements</a></div> + +<div class="doc_text"> +<ul> +<li>The Loop Unswitching pass (<tt>-loop-unswitch</tt>) has had several bugs + fixed, has several new features, and is enabled by default in llvmgcc3 + now.</li> +<li>The Loop Strength Reduction pass (<tt>-loop-reduce</tt>) is now enabled for + the X86 backend.</li> +<li>The Instruction Combining pass (<tt>-instcombine</tt>) now includes a + framework and implementation for simplifying code based on whether computed + bits are demanded or not.</li> +<li>The Scalar Replacement of Aggregates pass (<tt>-scalarrepl</tt>) can now + promote simple unions to registers.</li> +<li>Several LLVM passes are <a href="http://llvm.org/PR681";>significantly +faster</a>.</li> +</ul> +</div> + <!--_________________________________________________________________________--> <div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="othernew">Other New Features</a></div> <div class="doc_text"> <ul> -<li>foo</li> +<li>LLVM now supports first class global ctor/dtor initialization lists, no + longer forcing targets to use "__main".</li> +<li>LLVM supports assigning globals and functions to a particular section + in the result executable using the GCC section attribute.</li> +<li><a href="ExtendingLLVM.html">Adding intrinsics to LLVM</a> is now +significantly easier.</li> +<li>llvmgcc4 now fully supports C99 Variable Length Arrays, including dynamic + stack deallocation.</li> + </ul> </div> @@ -701,7 +730,7 @@ src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401"; alt="Valid HTML 4.01!" /></a> <a href="http://llvm.org/";>The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br> - Last modified: $Date: 2006/04/18 06:18:36 $ + Last modified: $Date: 2006/04/18 06:32:08 $ </address> </body> _______________________________________________ llvm-commits mailing list llvm-commits@cs.uiuc.edu http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvm-commits
