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Chris Lattner 1afcace3a3 Land the long talked about "type system rewrite" patch. This
patch brings numerous advantages to LLVM.  One way to look at it
is through diffstat:
 109 files changed, 3005 insertions(+), 5906 deletions(-)

Removing almost 3K lines of code is a good thing.  Other advantages
include:

1. Value::getType() is a simple load that can be CSE'd, not a mutating
   union-find operation.
2. Types a uniqued and never move once created, defining away PATypeHolder.
3. Structs can be "named" now, and their name is part of the identity that
   uniques them.  This means that the compiler doesn't merge them structurally
   which makes the IR much less confusing.
4. Now that there is no way to get a cycle in a type graph without a named
   struct type, "upreferences" go away.
5. Type refinement is completely gone, which should make LTO much MUCH faster
   in some common cases with C++ code.
6. Types are now generally immutable, so we can use "Type *" instead 
   "const Type *" everywhere.

Downsides of this patch are that it removes some functions from the C API,
so people using those will have to upgrade to (not yet added) new API.  
"LLVM 3.0" is the right time to do this.

There are still some cleanups pending after this, this patch is large enough
as-is.




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CommandGuide
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AliasAnalysis.html
BitCodeFormat.html
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Bugpoint.html
CFEBuildInstrs.html
CMake.html
CodeGenerator.html
CodingStandards.html
CommandLine.html
CompilerDriver.html
CompilerDriverTutorial.html
CompilerWriterInfo.html
DebuggingJITedCode.html
DeveloperPolicy.html
doxygen.cfg.in
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doxygen.footer
doxygen.header
doxygen.intro
ExceptionHandling.html
ExtendedIntegerResults.txt
ExtendingLLVM.html The enum was moved to ISDOpcodes.h. 2011-06-30 06:37:07 +00:00
FAQ.html
GarbageCollection.html
GCCFEBuildInstrs.html
GetElementPtr.html
GettingStarted.html
GettingStartedVS.html
GoldPlugin.html
HowToReleaseLLVM.html
HowToSubmitABug.html
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LangRef.html Land the long talked about "type system rewrite" patch. This 2011-07-09 17:41:24 +00:00
Lexicon.html
LinkTimeOptimization.html
llvm.css
Makefile
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Packaging.html
Passes.html
ProgrammersManual.html Land the long talked about "type system rewrite" patch. This 2011-07-09 17:41:24 +00:00
Projects.html
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ReleaseNotes.html
SourceLevelDebugging.html
SystemLibrary.html
TableGenFundamentals.html
TestingGuide.html
UsingLibraries.html
WritingAnLLVMBackend.html Use set operations instead of plain lists to enumerate register classes. 2011-06-15 23:28:14 +00:00
WritingAnLLVMPass.html