-ipsccp, which is run by default at link-time.</li>
<li>LLVM 1.5 is now about 15% faster than LLVM 1.4 and its core data structures
use about 30% less memory.</li>
- <li>LLVM includes new experimental native code generators for SparcV8 and
- Alpha.</li>
+ <li>LLVM includes new experimental native code generators for SparcV8,
+ Alpha, and IA64.</li>
<li>Support for Microsoft Visual Studio is improved, and <a
- href="GettingStartedVS.html">not documented</a>.</li>
+ href="GettingStartedVS.html">now documented</a>.</li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
<ol>
- <li></li>
+ <li>LLVM can now create native shared libraries with '<tt>llvm-gcc ...
+ -shared -Wl,-native</tt>' (or with <tt>-Wl,-native-cbe</tt>).</li>
+ <li>LLVM now supports a new "<a href="LangRef.html#i_prefetch">llvm.prefetch
+ </a>" intrinsic, and llvm-gcc now supports __builtin_prefetch.
</ol>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
+
<p>Bugs fixed in the LLVM Core:</p>
+<ol>
+ <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR491">[dse] DSE deletes stores that
+ are partially overwritten by smaller stores</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR548">[instcombine] miscompilation of
+ setcc or setcc in one case</a></li>
+</ol>
+<p>Code Generator Bugs:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR490">[cbackend] Logical constant
expressions (and/or/xor) not implemented</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR491">[dse] DSE deletes stores that
- are partially overwritten by smaller stores</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR511">[cbackend] C backend does not
+ respect 'volatile'</a></li>
</ol>
<p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>
-
<ol>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR487">[llvmgcc] llvm-gcc incorrectly
rejects some constant initializers involving the addresses of array
elements</a></li>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR501">[llvm-g++] Crash compiling
anonymous union</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR509">[llvm-g++] Do not use dynamic
+ initialization where static init will do</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR510">[llvmgcc] Field offset
+ miscalculated for some structure fields following bit fields</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR513">[llvm-g++] Temporary lifetimes
+ incorrect for short circuit logical operations</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR517">[llvm-gcc] Crash compiling
+ bitfield <-> aggregate assignment</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR520">[llvm-g++] Error compiling
+ virtual function thunk with an unnamed argument</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR522">[llvm-gcc] Crash on certain
+ C99 complex number routines</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR529">[llvm-g++] Crash using placement
+ new on an array type</a></li>
</ol>
</div>
releases: <tt>-cee, -branch-combine, -instloops, -paths, -pre</tt></li>
<li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development, but can
be used to step through programs and inspect the stack.</li>
-<li>The "iterative scan" register allocator (enabled with -regalloc=iterativescan)
- is not stable.</li>
-<li>The SparcV8 and Alpha ports are experimental.</li>
+<li>The "iterative scan" register allocator (enabled with
+ <tt>-regalloc=iterativescan</tt>) is not stable.</li>
+<li>The SparcV8, Alpha, and IA64 ports are experimental.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
<ul>
- <li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not work.
- </li>
+ <li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym()</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not
+ work.</li>
<li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be
corrupted.
<tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
<tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt>
(currently ignored). We also support builtins for ISO C99 floating
- point comparison macros (e.g., <tt>__builtin_islessequal</tt>).</li>
+ point comparison macros (e.g., <tt>__builtin_islessequal</tt>), and
+ <tt>__builtin_prefetch</tt>.</li>
</ol>
<p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
<div class="doc_text">
<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page,
-including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components
-implemented in LLVM. The web page also contains versions of the API
-documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code. You
-can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into
-the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
+including <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/#maillist">mailing lists</a> and
+<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/pubs/">publications describing algorithms and
+components implemented in LLVM</a>. The web page also contains versions of the
+API documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code.
+You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going
+into the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing
projects / oota-llvm.git / blobdiff