From f26b4150e80d4cc0af2502f6ac818b2834fb25e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Kramer
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 12:01:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ReleaseNotes: Add a blurb about llvm-mc -g and move inliner
changes into the optimizer sections. Verbosify some bullets.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@156739 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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docs/ReleaseNotes.html | 17 +++++++++++------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
index 4e953f6b241..0fd23d0ea76 100644
--- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
+++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
@@ -448,15 +448,14 @@ Release Notes.
expose new optimization opportunities:
- - IR support for half float
- - IR support for vectors of pointers, including vector GEPs.
+ - A new type representing 16 bit half floating point values has
+ been added.
+ - IR now supports vectors of pointers, including vector GEPs.
- Module flags have been introduced. They convey information about the
- module as a whole to LLVM subsystems.
+ module as a whole to LLVM subsystems. This is currently used to encode
+ Objective C ABI information.
- Loads can now have range metadata attached to them to describe the
possible values being loaded.
- - Inline cost heuristics have been completely overhauled and now closely
- model constant propagation through call sites, disregard trivially dead
- code costs, and can model C++ STL iterator patterns.
- ....
@@ -481,6 +480,9 @@ Release Notes.
post-vectorization cleanup passes. For more information, see the EuroLLVM
2012 slides:
Autovectorization with LLVM.
+ Inline cost heuristics have been completely overhauled and now closely
+ model constant propagation through call sites, disregard trivially dead
+ code costs, and can model C++ STL iterator patterns.
....
@@ -501,6 +503,9 @@ Release Notes.
to the LLVM MC Project Blog Post.
+ - The integrated assembler can optionally emit debug information when
+ assembling a .s file. It can be enabled by passing the
+ -g option to llvm-mc.
- ....