From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:12:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: final edits from me, simplify the ia64 section.
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=04af7cbb7d5ec6395a2b7943a9f841daf18e661c;p=oota-llvm.git

final edits from me, simplify the ia64 section.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@52110 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
index c8aa59ffa4e..96c5592cdb7 100644
--- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
+++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
@@ -613,7 +613,8 @@ href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev list</a>.</p>
     expect small issues to happen. Also, llvm-gcc cannot build mingw64 runtime
     currently due
     to <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2255">several</a>
-    <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2257">bugs</a> in FP stackifier
+    <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2257">bugs</a> due to lack of support for the
+    'u' inline assembly constraint and X87 floating point inline assembly.</li>
   <li>The X86-64 backend does not yet support position-independent code (PIC)
       generation on Linux targets.</li>
   <li>The X86-64 backend does not yet support the LLVM IR instruction
@@ -694,25 +695,9 @@ appropriate nops inserted to ensure restartability.</li>
 <div class="doc_text">
 
 <ul>
-
-<li>C++ programs are likely to fail on IA64, as calls to <tt>setjmp</tt> are
-made where the argument is not 16-byte aligned, as required on IA64. (Strictly
-speaking this is not a bug in the IA64 back-end; it will also be encountered
-when building C++ programs using the C back-end.)</li>
-
-<li>The C++ front-end does not use <a href="http://llvm.org/PR406">IA64
-ABI compliant layout of v-tables</a>.  In particular, it just stores function
-pointers instead of function descriptors in the vtable.  This bug prevents
-mixing C++ code compiled with LLVM with C++ objects compiled by other C++
-compilers.</li>
-
-<li>There are a few ABI violations which will lead to problems when mixing LLVM
-output with code built with other compilers, particularly for floating-point
-programs.</li>
-
-<li>Defining vararg functions is not supported (but calling them is OK).</li>
-
-<li>The Itanium backend has bitrotted somewhat.</li>
+<li>The Itanium backend is highly experimental, and has a number of known
+    issues.  We are looking for a maintainer for the Itanium backend.  If you
+    are interested, please contact the llvmdev mailing list.</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
@@ -741,9 +726,6 @@ programs.</li>
   <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc C front-end</a>
 </div>
 
-<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
-
 <div class="doc_text">
 
 <p>llvm-gcc does not currently support <a href="http://llvm.org/PR869">Link-Time