llvm-6502/docs
Sean Silva 4a535629ec docs: Nuke the old release notes.
This change also removes a bunch of boilerplate and stuffing which made
it unnecessarily hard to navigate and see the comparatively miniscule
actual content that was added to this document during the 3.2
development period (or maybe even sticking around from earlier
releases...).

The new organization (a flat list) optimizes for making it easy for
people who know about changes to add them to the document.  It's
completely trivial for anyone with basic knowledge of LLVM to come in
later (such as when preparing for the actual release) and cluster any
changes into logical groups. However, I have left some comments
indicating how to add larger descriptions, if someone is feeling
adventurous ;)

Hopefully this organization will highlight how little effort is being
put into producing accurate, high-quality release notes, prompting a
corresponding improvement for the 3.3 release.

I have preserved the changes to this document that are not present
in the 3.2 release notes. There were only two... I'm pretty sure we've
been busier than that... (version control shows +213347/-173656 raw
lines just in the LLVM repo since the 3.2 release).

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_static [docs] Update HTML pages to refer to CSS in a way that works locally and with Sphinx. 2012-04-19 20:20:34 +00:00
_templates [docs] Convert docs index page into Sphinx. 2012-04-19 16:31:37 +00:00
_themes/llvm-theme Sphinx CSS: remove negative letter-spacing, it makes some fonts look really 2012-09-30 20:43:24 +00:00
CommandGuide Documentation: remove more mentions of Tcl 2013-01-19 20:35:18 +00:00
HistoricalNotes Fix a ton of comment typos found by codespell. Patch by 2011-04-15 05:18:47 +00:00
TableGen TableGen/LangRef: link bang operators into the productionlist 2013-01-09 02:20:31 +00:00
tutorial docs: Move link to the new "external tutorials" area. 2012-12-27 08:57:08 +00:00
AliasAnalysis.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
Atomics.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
BitCodeFormat.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
BranchWeightMetadata.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
Bugpoint.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
CMake.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
CodeGenerator.rst Remove PTX->NVPTX in CodeGenerator document and update its text. 2013-01-11 18:47:10 +00:00
CodingStandards.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
CommandLine.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
CompilerWriterInfo.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
conf.py Update the copyright coredits -- Happy new year 2013! 2013-01-01 10:00:19 +00:00
DebuggingJITedCode.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
DeveloperPolicy.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
doxygen.cfg.in Reapply r141657. 2011-10-31 23:46:50 +00:00
doxygen.css [docs] Update Makefile for images removal. 2012-04-20 17:27:12 +00:00
doxygen.footer Update the copyright coredits -- Happy new year 2013! 2013-01-01 10:00:19 +00:00
doxygen.header Tidy up. s/Low Level Virtual Machine/LLVM/. 2012-01-25 22:00:23 +00:00
doxygen.intro Tidy up. s/Low Level Virtual Machine/LLVM/. 2012-01-25 22:00:23 +00:00
Dummy.html Add a dummy documentation file to unbreak 'make install'. We need to find how 2012-12-13 13:37:35 +00:00
ExceptionHandling.rst Documentation: use monospaced font for intrinsics' names 2013-01-13 16:07:49 +00:00
ExtendedIntegerResults.txt Revert r103213. It broke several sections of live website. 2010-05-07 00:28:04 +00:00
ExtendingLLVM.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
FAQ.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
GarbageCollection.rst remove the rest of the "written by" lines in the documentation. It is 2013-01-10 21:24:04 +00:00
gcc-loops.png Update the gcc-loops benchmarks results with the new automatic unrolling feature. 2013-01-04 19:10:34 +00:00
GetElementPtr.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
GettingStarted.rst Documentation: remove all mentions of DejaGNU and Tcl 2013-01-18 19:27:43 +00:00
GettingStartedVS.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
GoldPlugin.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
HowToAddABuilder.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
HowToBuildOnARM.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
HowToReleaseLLVM.rst Documentation: remove all mentions of DejaGNU and Tcl 2013-01-18 19:27:43 +00:00
HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
HowToSubmitABug.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
HowToUseInstrMappings.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
index.rst docs: Use proper markup. 2013-01-20 02:19:42 +00:00
LangRef.rst Documentation: replace some non-ASCII characters by equivalent markup 2013-01-19 20:34:20 +00:00
Lexicon.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
LinkTimeOptimization.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
linpack-pc.png Add linpack-pc bench 2013-01-04 19:00:42 +00:00
LLVMBuild.rst docs: Sphinxify LLVMBuild documentation. 2012-11-20 03:13:53 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt LLVMBuild: Remove trailing newline, which irked me. 2011-12-12 19:48:00 +00:00
make.bat [docs] Stub out structure for Sphinx-based docs. 2012-04-19 16:31:19 +00:00
Makefile [docs] Remove POD based man page docs (and build system support). 2012-05-08 17:48:21 +00:00
Makefile.sphinx Makefile.sphinx: reST conversion is complete! 2012-12-12 21:35:43 +00:00
MakefileGuide.rst Documentation: remove all mentions of DejaGNU and Tcl 2013-01-18 19:27:43 +00:00
MarkedUpDisassembly.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
Packaging.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
Passes.rst Documentation: convert Passes.html to reST. 2012-12-11 15:29:37 +00:00
Phabricator.rst docs: use code font for console commands in phabricator manual 2012-11-06 15:04:37 +00:00
ProgrammersManual.rst Documentation: replace some non-ASCII characters by equivalent markup 2013-01-19 20:34:20 +00:00
Projects.rst Documentation: remove all mentions of DejaGNU and Tcl 2013-01-18 19:27:43 +00:00
re_format.7 Revert r103213. It broke several sections of live website. 2010-05-07 00:28:04 +00:00
README.txt docs: update docs/README.txt and make it useful. 2013-01-02 02:31:51 +00:00
ReleaseNotes.rst docs: Nuke the old release notes. 2013-01-20 03:29:50 +00:00
SegmentedStacks.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
SourceLevelDebugging.rst remove the rest of the "written by" lines in the documentation. It is 2013-01-10 21:24:04 +00:00
SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst remove the rest of the "written by" lines in the documentation. It is 2013-01-10 21:24:04 +00:00
SystemLibrary.rst remove the rest of the "written by" lines in the documentation. It is 2013-01-10 21:24:04 +00:00
TableGenFundamentals.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
TestingGuide.rst Streamline the mentions of grep and FileCheck in TestingGuide.rst 2013-01-18 19:01:34 +00:00
TestSuiteMakefileGuide.rst remove the rest of the "written by" lines in the documentation. It is 2013-01-10 21:24:04 +00:00
Vectorizers.rst Docs: mention that we support float reductions when -ffast-math is used. 2013-01-08 17:46:30 +00:00
WritingAnLLVMBackend.rst remove the rest of the "written by" lines in the documentation. It is 2013-01-10 21:24:04 +00:00
WritingAnLLVMPass.rst remove the rest of the "written by" lines in the documentation. It is 2013-01-10 21:24:04 +00:00
yaml2obj.rst docs: Fix long standing linking antipattern. 2013-01-11 02:28:08 +00:00
YamlIO.rst Documentation: replace some non-ASCII characters by equivalent markup 2013-01-19 20:34:20 +00:00

LLVM Documentation
==================

LLVM's documentation is written in reStructuredText, a lightweight
plaintext markup language (file extension `.rst`). While the
reStructuredText documentation should be quite readable in source form, it
is meant to be processed by the Sphinx documentation generation system to
create HTML pages which are hosted on <http://llvm.org/docs/> and updated
after every commit.

If you instead would like to generate and view the HTML locally, install
Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/> and then do:

    cd docs/
    make -f Makefile.sphinx
    $BROWSER _build/html/index.html

The mapping between reStructuredText files and generated documentation is
`docs/Foo.rst` <-> `_build/html/Foo.html` <-> `http://llvm.org/docs/Foo.html`.

If you are interested in writing new documentation, you will want to read
`SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst` which will get you writing documentation
very fast and includes examples of the most important reStructuredText
markup syntax.