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authorPawel Wodnicki <pawel@32bitmicro.com>2012-12-17 21:45:48 +0000
committerPawel Wodnicki <pawel@32bitmicro.com>2012-12-17 21:45:48 +0000
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MiB, Spidey and other Externals get to be mentioned in the relase notes
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_32@170375 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -124,7 +124,10 @@
<p>The 3.2 release has the following notable changes:</p>
<ul>
- <li>...</li>
+ <li>Able to load LLVM plugins such as Polly.</li>
+ <li>Supports thread-local storage models.</li>
+ <li>Passes knowledge of variable lifetimes to the LLVM optimizers.</li>
+ <li>No longer requires GCC to be built with LTO support.</li>
</ul>
</div>
@@ -150,9 +153,8 @@
<ul>
<li><a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/tools/clang/docs/ThreadSanitizer.html">ThreadSanitizer (TSan)</a> - data race detector run-time library for C/C++ has been added.</li>
- <li>Improvemens to <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/tools/clang/docs/AddressSanitizer.html">AddressSanitizer</a> including: increasing stack size limit to 256MB,
- better portability (Android NDK), support for cmake based builds, enhanced error reporting.</li>
-
+ <li>Improvemens to <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/tools/clang/docs/AddressSanitizer.html">AddressSanitizer</a> including: better portability
+ (OSX, Android NDK), support for cmake based builds, enhanced error reporting and lots of bug fixes.</li>
<li>Added support for A6 'Swift' CPU.</li>
<li><code>divsi3</code> function has been enhanced to take advantage of a hardware unsigned divide when it is available.</li>
</ul>
@@ -313,6 +315,19 @@
</div>
+<h3>EmbToolkit</h3>
+
+<div>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.embtoolkit.org/">EmbToolkit</a> provides Linux cross-compiler
+ toolchain/SDK (GCC/binutils/C library (uclibc,eglibc,musl)), a build system for
+ package cross-compilation and optionally various root filesystems.
+ It supports ARM and MIPS. There is an ongoing effort to provide a clang+llvm
+ environment for the 3.2 releases,
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
<h3>FAUST</h3>
<div>
@@ -379,7 +394,11 @@
<p>OSL was developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks for use in its in-house
renderer used for feature film animation and visual effects, and is
- distributed as open source software with the "New BSD" license.</p>
+ distributed as open source software with the "New BSD" license.
+ It has been used for all the shading on such films as The Amazing Spider-Man,
+ Men in Black III, Hotel Transylvania, and may other films in-progress,
+ and also has been incorporated into several commercial and open source
+ rendering products such as Blender, VRay, and Autodesk Beast.</p>
</div>
@@ -614,10 +633,6 @@
infrastructure, which allows us to implement more aggressive algorithms and
make it run faster:</p>
-<ul>
- <li>...</li>
-</ul>
-
<p> We added new TableGen infrastructure to support bundling for
Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) architectures. TableGen can now
automatically generate a deterministic finite automaton from a VLIW
@@ -627,6 +642,13 @@
<p> We have added a new target independent VLIW packetizer based on the
DFA infrastructure to group machine instructions into bundles.</p>
+<p> We have added new TableGen infrastructure to support relationship maps
+ between instructions. This feature enables TableGen to automatically
+ construct a set of relation tables and query functions that can be used
+ to switch between various forms of instructions. For more information,
+ please refer to <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/HowToUseInstrMappings.html">
+ How To Use Instruction Mappings</a>.</p>
+
</div>
<h4>
@@ -864,6 +886,7 @@ to remove a dependency on Target. </p>
<li>llc and opt: added FMA formation from pairs of FADD + FMUL or FSUB + FMUL enabled by option '-enable-excess-fp-precision' or option '-enable-unsafe-fp-math',
option '-fp-contract' controls the creation by optimizations of fused FP by selecting Fast, Standard, or Strict mode.</li>
<li>llc: object file output from llc is no longer considered experimental.</li>
+<li>gold plugin: handles Position Independent Executables.</li>
</ul>
</div>