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-LLVM 3.7 Release Notes
+LLVM 3.8 Release Notes
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.. warning::
- These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.7 release. You may
+ These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.8 release. You may
prefer the `LLVM 3.6 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/3.6.0/docs
/ReleaseNotes.html>`_.
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This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
-release 3.7. 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/>`_.
functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below
for adding a new subsection.
-* The minimum required Visual Studio version for building LLVM is now 2013
- Update 4.
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-* A new documentation page, :doc:`Frontend/PerformanceTips`, contains a
- collection of tips for frontend authors on how to generate IR which LLVM is
- able to effectively optimize.
-
-* The DataLayout is no longer optional. All the IR level optimizations expects
- it to be present and the API has been changed to use a reference instead of
- a pointer to make it explicit. The Module owns the datalayout and it has to
- match the one attached to the TargetMachine for generating code.
-
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.. NOTE
During this release ...
-External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.7
+External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.8
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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 3.7.
+projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.8.
* A project