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ReleaseNotes: final touch-ups
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@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
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* Added support for MSVC's ``__vectorcall`` calling convention as
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``x86_vectorcallcc``.
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* ... next change ...
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.. NOTE
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If you would like to document a larger change, then you can add a
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subsection about it right here. You can copy the following boilerplate
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@@ -302,6 +300,7 @@ object::Binary doesn't own the file buffer
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It is now just a wrapper, which simplifies using object::Binary with other
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users of the underlying file.
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IR in object files is now supported
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-----------------------------------
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@@ -321,7 +320,7 @@ The new implementation is also lazier and has a ``save-temps`` option.
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Change in the representation of lazy loaded funcs
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-------------------------------------------------
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Lazy loaded functions are now represented is a way that ``isDeclaration``
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Lazy loaded functions are now represented in a way that ``isDeclaration``
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returns the correct answer even before reading the body.
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@@ -336,10 +335,11 @@ Python 2.7 is now required
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This was done to simplify compatibility with python 3.
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The leak detector has been removed
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----------------------------------
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In practice tools like asan and valgrind were finding way more bugs than
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In practice, tools like asan and valgrind were finding way more bugs than
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the old leak detector, so it was removed.
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@@ -354,9 +354,10 @@ The syntax of comdats was changed to
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@g = global i32 0, comdat($c)
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@c = global i32 0, comdat
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The version without the parentheses is a syntatic sugar for a comdat with
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The version without the parentheses is a syntactic sugar for a comdat with
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the same name as the global.
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Added support for Win64 unwind information
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------------------------------------------
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@@ -369,6 +370,7 @@ to unwind the stack using a standard frame pointer walk on Win64. Instead,
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users should call ``CaptureStackBackTrace``, or implement equivalent
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functionality by consulting the unwind tables present in the binary.
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Diagnostic infrastructure used by lib/Linker and lib/Bitcode
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------------------------------------------------------------
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@@ -401,12 +403,6 @@ We are expecting to migrate away from gc.root in the 3.8 time frame,
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but both mechanisms will be supported in 3.7.
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Changes to the ARM Backend
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--------------------------
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During this release ...
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Changes to the MIPS Target
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--------------------------
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@@ -417,6 +413,7 @@ compile the Linux kernel for 32-bit targets. Additionally, LLD now supports
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microMIPS for the O32 ABI on little endian targets, and code generation for
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microMIPS is almost completely passing the test-suite.
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ABI
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^^^
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@@ -449,6 +446,7 @@ few notable ones:
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has been fixed when the fastcc calling convention is used with 64-bit FPU's
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and -mno-odd-spreg.
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LLVMLinux
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^^^^^^^^^
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@@ -465,6 +463,7 @@ number of kernel patches. See the `LLVMLinux project
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* Added support for a number of directives used by Linux to the Integrated
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Assembler.
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Miscellaneous
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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@@ -481,6 +480,7 @@ Miscellaneous
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is in use and will be removed in LLVM 3.7. These names have never been
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supported by the GNU Assembler for these ABI's.
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Changes to the PowerPC Target
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-----------------------------
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@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ There are numerous improvements to the PowerPC target in this release:
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* LLVM now has a POWER8 instruction scheduling description.
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* Address Sanitizer (ASAN) support is now fully functional.
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* AddressSanitizer (ASan) support is now fully functional.
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* Performance of simple atomic accesses has been greatly improved.
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@@ -506,6 +506,7 @@ There are numerous improvements to the PowerPC target in this release:
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* There have been many smaller bug fixes and performance improvements.
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Changes to the OCaml bindings
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@@ -532,12 +533,14 @@ Changes to the OCaml bindings
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* As usual, many more functions have been exposed to OCaml.
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Go bindings
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-----------
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* A set of Go bindings based on `gollvm <https://github.com/go-llvm/llvm>`_
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was introduced in this release.
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External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.6
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============================================
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@@ -545,6 +548,7 @@ An exciting aspect of LLVM is that it is used as an enabling technology for
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a lot of other language and tools projects. This section lists some of the
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projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.6.
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Portable Computing Language (pocl)
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----------------------------------
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@@ -557,6 +561,7 @@ statically parallelize multiple work-items with the kernel compiler, even in
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the presence of work-group barriers. This enables static parallelization of
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the fine-grained static concurrency in the work groups in multiple ways.
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TTA-based Co-design Environment (TCE)
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-------------------------------------
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@@ -575,11 +580,12 @@ new LLVM-based code generators "on the fly" for the designed processors and
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loads them in to the compiler backend as runtime libraries to avoid
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per-target recompilation of larger parts of the compiler chain.
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Likely
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------
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`Likely <http://www.liblikely.org>`_ is an embeddable just-in-time Lisp for
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image recognition and heterogenous computing. Algorithms are just-in-time
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image recognition and heterogeneous computing. Algorithms are just-in-time
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compiled using LLVM's MCJIT infrastructure to execute on single or
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multi-threaded CPUs and potentially OpenCL SPIR or CUDA enabled GPUs.
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Likely seeks to explore new optimizations for statistical learning
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@@ -587,6 +593,7 @@ algorithms by moving them from an offline model generation step to the
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compile-time evaluation of a function (the learning algorithm) with constant
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arguments (the training data).
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LDC - the LLVM-based D compiler
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-------------------------------
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@@ -602,6 +609,7 @@ x86/x86_64 systems like Linux, OS X, FreeBSD and Windows and also Linux on
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PowerPC (32/64 bit). Ports to other architectures like ARM, AArch64 and MIPS64
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are underway.
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LLVMSharp & ClangSharp
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