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Strip out 2.3 info, make space for 2.4 info. I'd appreciate it if
various component owners could look through and update their areas in the known-problems section. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@57376 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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<title>LLVM 2.3 Release Notes</title>
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<div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.3 Release Notes</div>
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<div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.4 Release Notes</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
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infrastructure, release 2.3. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including
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infrastructure, release 2.4. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including
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major improvements from the previous release and any known problems. All LLVM
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releases may be downloaded from the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM
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releases web site</a>.</p>
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@ -62,12 +61,12 @@ current one. To see the release notes for a specific releases, please see the
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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 a large number of features and refinements from LLVM 2.2.</p>
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<p>This is the fifteenth public release of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure.
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It includes a large number of features and refinements from LLVM 2.3.</p>
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</div>
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<!-- Unfinished features in 2.3:
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Machine LICM
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Machine Sinking
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LegalizeDAGTypes
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="changes">Major Changes in LLVM 2.3</a>
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<a name="changes">Major Changes in LLVM 2.4</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>LLVM 2.3 no longer supports llvm-gcc 4.0, it has been replaced with
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llvm-gcc 4.2.</p>
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<p>LLVM 2.3 no longer includes the <tt>llvm-upgrade</tt> tool. It was useful
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for upgrading LLVM 1.9 files to LLVM 2.x syntax, but you can always use a
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previous LLVM release to do this. One nice impact of this is that the LLVM
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regression test suite no longer depends on llvm-upgrade, which makes it run
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faster.</p>
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<p>The <tt>llvm2cpp</tt> tool has been folded into llc, use
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<tt>llc -march=cpp</tt> instead of <tt>llvm2cpp</tt>.</p>
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<p>....</p>
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<p>LLVM API Changes:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Several core LLVM IR classes have migrated to use the
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'<tt>FOOCLASS::Create(...)</tt>' pattern instead of '<tt>new
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FOOCLASS(...)</tt>' (e.g. where FOOCLASS=<tt>BasicBlock</tt>). We hope to
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standardize on <tt>FOOCLASS::Create</tt> for all IR classes in the future,
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but not all of them have been moved over yet.</li>
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<li>LLVM 2.3 renames the LLVMBuilder and LLVMFoldingBuilder classes to
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<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1IRBuilder.html">IRBuilder</a>.
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</li>
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<li>MRegisterInfo was renamed to
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<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1TargetRegisterInfo.html">
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TargetRegisterInfo</a>.</li>
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<li>The MappedFile class is gone, please use
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<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1MemoryBuffer.html">
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MemoryBuffer</a> instead.</li>
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<li>The '<tt>-enable-eh</tt>' flag to llc has been removed. Now code should
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encode whether it is safe to omit unwind information for a function by
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tagging the Function object with the '<tt>nounwind</tt>' attribute.</li>
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<li>The ConstantFP::get method that uses APFloat now takes one argument
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instead of two. The type argument has been removed, and the type is
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now inferred from the size of the given APFloat value.</li>
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<li>....</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>
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The core LLVM 2.3 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM
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The core LLVM 2.4 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM
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repository (which roughly contains the LLVM optimizer, code generators and
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supporting tools) and the llvm-gcc repository. In addition to this code, the
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LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in development. The two which
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are the most actively developed are the new <a href="#vmkit">vmkit Project</a>
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and the <a href="#clang">Clang Project</a>.
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are the most actively developed are the <a href="#clang">Clang Project</a> and
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<a href="#vmkit">vmkit Project</a>.
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</p>
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</div>
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@ -142,28 +111,11 @@ and the <a href="#clang">Clang Project</a>.
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>
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The "vmkit" project is a new addition to the LLVM family. It is an
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implementation of a JVM and a CLI Virtual Machines (Microsoft .NET is an
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The <a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/">"vmkit" project</a> is an implementation of
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a JVM and a CLI Virtual Machines (Microsoft .NET is an
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implementation of the CLI) using the Just-In-Time compiler of LLVM.</p>
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<p>The JVM, called JnJVM, executes real-world applications such as Apache
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projects (e.g. Felix and Tomcat) and the SpecJVM98 benchmark. It uses the GNU
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Classpath project for the base classes. The CLI implementation, called N3, is
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its in early stages but can execute simple applications and the "pnetmark"
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benchmark. It uses the pnetlib project as its core library.</p>
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<p>The 'vmkit' VMs compare in performance with industrial and top open-source
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VMs on scientific applications. Besides the JIT, the VMs use many features of
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the LLVM framework, including the standard set of optimizations, atomic
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operations, custom function provider and memory manager for JITed methods, and
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specific virtual machine optimizations. vmkit is not an official part of LLVM
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2.3 release. It is publicly available under the LLVM license and can be
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downloaded from:
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</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/vmkit/trunk vmkit</pre>
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</div>
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<p>...</p>
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</div>
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@ -182,12 +134,12 @@ generation support is far enough along to build many C applications. While not
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yet production quality, it is progressing very nicely. In addition, C++
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front-end work has started to make significant progress.</p>
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<p>At this point, Clang is most useful if you are interested in source-to-source
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transformations (such as refactoring) and other source-level tools for C and
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Objective-C. Clang now also includes tools for turning C code into pretty HTML,
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and includes a new <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/StaticAnalysis.html">static
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analysis tool</a> in development. This tool focuses on automatically finding
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bugs in C and Objective-C code.</p>
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<p>Codegen progress/state
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</p>
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<p>
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<a href="http://clang.llvm.org/StaticAnalysis.html">static analysis tool</a>
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>LLVM 2.3 includes a huge number of bug fixes, performance tweaks and minor
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<p>LLVM 2.4 includes a huge number of bug fixes, performance tweaks and minor
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improvements. Some of the major improvements and new features are listed in
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this section.
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</p>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>LLVM 2.3 includes several major new capabilities:</p>
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<p>LLVM 2.4 includes several major new capabilities:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><p>The biggest change in LLVM 2.3 is Multiple Return Value (MRV) support.
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MRVs allow LLVM IR to directly represent functions that return multiple
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values without having to pass them "by reference" in the LLVM IR. This
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allows a front-end to generate more efficient code, as MRVs are generally
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returned in registers if a target supports them. See the <a
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href="LangRef.html#i_getresult">LLVM IR Reference</a> for more details.</p>
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<li>
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<p>MRVs got generalized to FCAs.</p>
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</li>
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<li><p>fast isel, -O0 compile times</p></li>
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<p>MRVs are fully supported in the LLVM IR, but are not yet fully supported in
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on all targets. However, it is generally safe to return up to 2 values from
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a function: most targets should be able to handle at least that. MRV
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support is a critical requirement for X86-64 ABI support, as X86-64 requires
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the ability to return multiple registers from functions, and we use MRVs to
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accomplish this in a direct way.</p></li>
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<li><p>Attrs changes?</p></li>
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<li><p>LLVM 2.3 includes a complete reimplementation of the "<tt>llvmc</tt>"
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tool. It is designed to overcome several problems with the original
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<tt>llvmc</tt> and to provide a superset of the features of the
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'<tt>gcc</tt>' driver.</p>
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<p>The main features of <tt>llvmc2</tt> are:
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<ul>
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<li>Extended handling of command line options and smart rules for
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dispatching them to different tools.</li>
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<li>Flexible (and extensible) rules for defining different tools.</li>
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<li>The different intermediate steps performed by tools are represented
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as edges in the abstract graph.</li>
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<li>The 'language' for driver behavior definition is tablegen and thus
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it's relatively easy to add new features.</li>
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<li>The definition of driver is transformed into set of C++ classes, thus
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no runtime interpretation is needed.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><p>LLVM 2.3 includes a completely rewritten interface for <a
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href="LinkTimeOptimization.html">Link Time Optimization</a>. This interface
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is written in C, which allows for easier integration with C code bases, and
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incorporates improvements we learned about from the first incarnation of the
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interface.</p></li>
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<li><p>The <a href="tutorial/LangImpl1.html">Kaleidoscope tutorial</a> now
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includes a "port" of the tutorial that <a
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href="tutorial/OCamlLangImpl1.html">uses the Ocaml bindings</a> to implement
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the Kaleidoscope language.</p></li>
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<li><p>...</p></li>
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<p>LLVM 2.3 fully supports the llvm-gcc 4.2 front-end, and includes support
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<p>LLVM 2.4 fully supports the llvm-gcc 4.2 front-end, and includes support
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for the C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, and Fortran front-ends.</p>
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<p>
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<ul>
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<li>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.</li>
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<li>Fortran <tt>EQUIVALENCE</tt>s are now supported by the gfortran
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front-end.</li>
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<li>llvm-gcc 4.2 includes many other fixes which improve conformance with the
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relevant parts of the GCC testsuite.</li>
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<li>...</li>
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<li>LLVM IR now directly represents "common" linkage, instead of representing it
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as a form of weak linkage.</li>
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<li>LLVM IR now has support for atomic operations, and this functionality can be
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accessed through the llvm-gcc "<tt>__sync_synchronize</tt>",
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"<tt>__sync_val_compare_and_swap</tt>", and related builtins. Support for
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atomics are available in the Alpha, X86, X86-64, and PowerPC backends.</li>
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<li>The C and Ocaml bindings have extended to cover pass managers, several
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transformation passes, iteration over the LLVM IR, target data, and parameter
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attribute lists.</li>
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<p>In addition to a huge array of bug fixes and minor performance tweaks, the
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LLVM 2.3 optimizers support a few major enhancements:</p>
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LLVM 2.4 optimizers support a few major enhancements:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><p>Loop index set splitting on by default.
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This transformation hoists conditions from loop bodies and reduces a loop's
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iteration space to improve performance. For example,</p>
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</p>
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<li>LLVM now includes a new <tt>memcpy</tt> optimization pass which removes
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dead <tt>memcpy</tt> calls, unneeded copies of aggregates, and performs
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return slot optimization. The LLVM optimizer now notices long sequences of
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consecutive stores and merges them into <tt>memcpy</tt>'s where profitable.</li>
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<li>Alignment detection for vector memory references and for <tt>memcpy</tt> and
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<tt>memset</tt> is now more aggressive.</li>
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<li>The Aggressive Dead Code Elimination (ADCE) optimization has been rewritten
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to make it both faster and safer in the presence of code containing infinite
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loops. Some of its prior functionality has been factored out into the loop
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deletion pass, which <em>is</em> safe for infinite loops. The new ADCE pass is
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no longer based on control dependence, making it run faster.</li>
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<li>The 'SimplifyLibCalls' pass, which optimizes calls to libc and libm
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functions for C-based languages, has been rewritten to be a FunctionPass
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instead a ModulePass. This allows it to be run more often and to be
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included at -O1 in llvm-gcc. It was also extended to include more
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optimizations and several corner case bugs were fixed.</li>
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<li>LLVM now includes a simple 'Jump Threading' pass, which attempts to simplify
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conditional branches using information about predecessor blocks, simplifying
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the control flow graph. This pass is pretty basic at this point, but
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catches some important cases and provides a foundation to build on.</li>
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<li>Several corner case bugs which could lead to deleting volatile memory
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accesses have been fixed.</li>
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<li>Several optimizations have been sped up, leading to faster code generation
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with the same code quality.</li>
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<li>.</li>
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faster:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The code generator now has support for carrying information about memory
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references throughout the entire code generation process, via the
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<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1MachineMemOperand.html">
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MachineMemOperand</a> class. In the future this will be used to improve
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both pre-pass and post-pass scheduling, and to improve compiler-debugging
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output.</li>
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<li>Selection dag speedups</li>
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<li>...</li>
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<li>The target-independent code generator infrastructure now uses LLVM's
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<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1APInt.html">APInt</a>
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class to handle integer values, which allows it to support integer types
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larger than 64 bits (for example i128). Note that support for such types is
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also dependent on target-specific support. Use of APInt is also a step
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toward support for non-power-of-2 integer sizes.</li>
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<li>LLVM 2.3 includes several compile time speedups for code with large basic
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blocks, particularly in the instruction selection phase, register
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allocation, scheduling, and tail merging/jump threading.</li>
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<li>LLVM 2.3 includes several improvements which make llc's
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<tt>--view-sunit-dags</tt> visualization of scheduling dependency graphs
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easier to understand.</li>
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<li>The code generator allows targets to write patterns that generate subreg
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references directly in .td files now.</li>
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<li><tt>memcpy</tt> lowering in the backend is more aggressive, particularly for
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<tt>memcpy</tt> calls introduced by the code generator when handling
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pass-by-value structure argument copies.</li>
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<li>Inline assembly with multiple register results now returns those results
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directly in the appropriate registers, rather than going through memory.
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Inline assembly that uses constraints like "ir" with immediates now use the
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'i' form when possible instead of always loading the value in a register.
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This saves an instruction and reduces register use.</li>
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<li>Added support for PIC/GOT style <a
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href="CodeGenerator.html#tailcallopt">tail calls</a> on X86/32 and initial
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support for tail calls on PowerPC 32 (it may also work on PowerPC 64 but is
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not thoroughly tested).</li>
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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>Support for Win64 was added. This includes code generation itself, JIT
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support, and necessary changes to llvm-gcc.</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. Various
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generic vector operations (insert/extract/shuffle) are much more efficient
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when SSE 4.1 is enabled. The JIT automatically takes advantage of these
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instructions, but llvm-gcc must be explicitly told to use them, e.g. with
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<tt>-march=penryn</tt>.</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. This is important because most X86 ABIs require return values
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to be on the X87 Floating Point stack, but most CPUs prefer computation in
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the SSE units.</li>
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<li>The X86 backend supports stack realignment, which is particularly useful for
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vector code on OS's without 16-byte aligned stacks, such as Linux and
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Windows.</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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<li><tt>__builtin_prefetch</tt> is now compiled into the appropriate prefetch
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instructions instead of being ignored.</li>
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<li>128-bit integers are now supported on X86-64 targets. This can be used
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through <tt>__attribute__((TImode))</tt> in llvm-gcc.</li>
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<li>The register allocator can now rematerialize PIC-base computations, which is
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an important optimization for register use.</li>
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<li>The "t" and "f" inline assembly constraints for the X87 floating point stack
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now work. However, the "u" constraint is still not fully supported.</li>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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@ -510,9 +281,7 @@ faster:</p>
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The LLVM C backend now supports vector code.</li>
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<li>The Cell SPU backend includes a number of improvements. It generates better
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code and its stability/completeness is improving.</li>
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<li>....</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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@ -529,10 +298,7 @@ faster:</p>
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>LLVM now builds with GCC 4.3.</li>
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<li>Bugpoint now supports running custom scripts (with the <tt>-run-custom</tt>
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option) to determine how to execute the command and whether it is making
|
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forward process.</li>
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<li>...</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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