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-LLVM 3.4 Release Notes
+LLVM 3.8 Release Notes
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.. contents::
:local:
.. warning::
- These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.4 release. You may
- prefer the `LLVM 3.3 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs
+ These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.8 release. You may
+ prefer the `LLVM 3.7 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/3.7.0/docs
/ReleaseNotes.html>`_.
============
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
-release 3.4. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
+release 3.8. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and
some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded
from the `LLVM releases web site <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
release, please check out the `main LLVM web site <http://llvm.org/>`_. If you
have questions or comments, the `LLVM Developer's Mailing List
-<http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev>`_ is a good place to send
+<http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev>`_ is a good place to send
them.
Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
=================================================
+* With this release, the minimum Windows version required for running LLVM is
+ Windows 7. Earlier versions, including Windows Vista and XP are no longer
+ supported.
+
+* With this release, the autoconf build system is deprecated. It will be removed
+ in the 3.9 release. Please migrate to using CMake. For more information see:
+ `Building LLVM with CMake <CMake.html>`_
.. NOTE
For small 1-3 sentence descriptions, just add an entry at the end of
functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below
for adding a new subsection.
-* Support for exception handling has been removed from the old JIT. Use MCJIT
- if you need EH support.
-
-* The R600 backend is not marked experimental anymore and is built by default.
-
-* APFloat::isNormal() was renamed to APFloat::isFiniteNonZero() and
- APFloat::isIEEENormal() was renamed to APFloat::isNormal(). This ensures that
- APFloat::isNormal() conforms to IEEE-754R-2008.
-
* ... next change ...
.. NOTE
Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
+Changes to the ARM Backend
+--------------------------
+
+ During this release ...
+
+
+Changes to the MIPS Target
+--------------------------
+
+ During this release ...
-External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.4
+
+Changes to the PowerPC Target
+-----------------------------
+
+ During this release ...
+
+
+Changes to the OCaml bindings
+-----------------------------
+
+ During this release ...
+
+
+External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.8
============================================
An exciting aspect of LLVM is that it is used as an enabling technology for
a lot of other language and tools projects. This section lists some of the
-projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.4.
+projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.8.
+
+* A project
Additional Information