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<p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Team</a><p>
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<h1><font color="red">THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS FOR LLVM 2.3 (currently in
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progress on SVN HEAD)</font></h1>
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<div class="doc_section">
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<a name="intro">Introduction</a>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>This is the fourteenth public release of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure.
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It includes many features and refinements from LLVM 2.2.</p>
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It includes a large number of features and refinements from LLVM 2.2.</p>
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@ -82,28 +79,9 @@ It includes many features and refinements from LLVM 2.2.</p>
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<p>LLVM 2.2 was the last LLVM release to support llvm-gcc 4.0 and llvm-upgrade.
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llvm-gcc 4.0 has been replaced with llvm-gcc 4.2. llvm-upgrade was useful for
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upgrading llvm 1.9 files to llvm 2.x syntax, but you can always use a previous
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llvm release to do this.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="frontends">llvm-gcc 4.2 and clang</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>LLVM 2.3 fully supports llvm-gcc 4.2 front-end. </p>
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<p>The <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">clang project</a> is an effort to build
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a set of new 'llvm native' front-end technologies for the LLVM optimizer
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and code generator. Currently, its C and Objective-C support is maturing
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nicely, and it has advanced source-to-source analysis and transformation
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capabilities. If you are interested in building source-level tools for C and
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Objective-C (and eventually C++), you should take a look. However, note that
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clang is not an official part of the LLVM 2.3 release. If you are interested in
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this project, please see its <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">web site</a>.</p>
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upgrading LLVM 1.9 files to LLVM 2.x syntax, but you can always use a previous
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LLVM release to do this. One nice impact of this is that the LLVM regressionn
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test suite no longer depends on llvm-upgrade, which makes it run faster.</p>
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</div>
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<p>LLVM 2.3 includes several major new capabilities:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Multiple Return Value Support</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="frontends">llvm-gcc 4.2 Improvements and Clang</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>LLVM 2.3 fully supports llvm-gcc 4.2 front-end.</p>
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<p>llvm-gcc 4.2 includes numerous fixes to better support the Objective-C
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front-end. Objective-C now works very well on Mac OS/X.</p>
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<p>llvm-gcc 4.2 includes many other fixes which improve conformance with the
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relevant parts of the GCC testsuite.</p>
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<p>The <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">clang project</a> is an effort to build
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a set of new 'llvm native' front-end technologies for the LLVM optimizer
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and code generator. Currently, its C and Objective-C support is maturing
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nicely, and it has advanced source-to-source analysis and transformation
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capabilities. If you are interested in building source-level tools for C and
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Objective-C (and eventually C++), you should take a look. However, note that
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clang is not an official part of the LLVM 2.3 release. If you are interested in
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this project, please see its <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">web site</a>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="coreimprovements">LLVM Core Improvements</a>
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<p>New features include:
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</p>
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<ul>
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Common linkage?
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Atomic operation support, Alpha, X86, PowerPC. "__sync_syncronize"
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<ul>
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</ul>
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faster:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>MemOperand in the code generator.</li>
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<li>MemOperand in the code generator: describe me!.</li>
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<li>i128 support and APInt through most of codegen.</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<ul>
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<li>Index set splitting on by default.</li>
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<li>Loop index set splitting on by default: describe me.</li>
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<li>LLVM includes a new memcpy optimization pass which optimizes out dead
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memcpy calls and unneeded copies of aggregates.</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>llvm-gcc's X86-64 ABI conformance is far improved, particularly in the
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area of passing and returning structures by value. llvm-gcc Compiled code
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now interoperates very well on X86-64 systems with other compilers.</li>
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<li>The LLVM X86 backend now supports the support SSE 4.1 instruction set, and
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the llvm-gcc 4.2 front-end supports the SSE 4.1 compiler builtins.</li>
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<li>The X86 backend now does a number of optimizations that aim to avoid
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converting numbers back and forth from SSE registers to the X87 floating
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point stack.</li>
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<li>The X86 backend now supports the "sseregparm" options in GCC, which allow
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functions to be tagged as passing floating point values in SSE
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registers.</li>
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<li>Trampolines (taking the address of a nested function) now work on
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Linux/x86-64.</li>
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</ul>
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