From f80447fa55c8e91dc94a5a0dab69a57dcf3fd95d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mehdi Amini Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:01:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 3.7 Release Note mentionning the non-optionality of the DataLayout From: Mehdi Amini git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@232677 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index c977ebb6a49..c0d2ea18981 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -44,10 +44,14 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release * The minimum required Visual Studio version for building LLVM is now 2013 Update 4. -* A new documentation page, :doc:`Frontend/PerformanceTips`, contains a - collection of tips for frontend authors on how to generate IR which LLVM is +* 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. * ... next change ... -- 2.34.1