Add release notes about vectorcall support and Win64 unwind info

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Reid Kleckner committed 2015-02-19 17:51:19 +00:00
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@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
* Added support for a `native object file-based bitcode wrapper format
<BitCodeFormat.html#native-object-file>`_.
* Added support for MSVC's ``__vectorcall`` calling convention as
``x86_vectorcallcc``.
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.. NOTE
@@ -354,9 +357,20 @@ The syntax of comdats was changed to
The version without the parentheses is a syntatic sugar for a comdat with
the same name as the global.
Added support for Win64 unwind information
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Diagnotic infrastructure used by lib/Linker and lib/Bitcode
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LLVM now obeys the `Win64 prologue and epilogue conventions
<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tawsa7cb.aspx>`_ documented by
Microsoft. Unwind information is also emitted into the .xdata section.
As a result of the ABI-required prologue changes, it is now no longer possible
to unwind the stack using a standard frame pointer walk on Win64. Instead,
users should call ``CaptureStackBackTrace``, or implement equivalent
functionality by consulting the unwind tables present in the binary.
Diagnostic infrastructure used by lib/Linker and lib/Bitcode
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These libraries now use the diagnostic handler to print errors and warnings.
This provides better error messages and simpler error handling.