Author: Hans Wennborg Date: 2020-09-16T17:03:14+02:00 New Revision: 339a0e2d114ecd15eb7289425851e356af7bb8a7
URL: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/339a0e2d114ecd15eb7289425851e356af7bb8a7 DIFF: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/339a0e2d114ecd15eb7289425851e356af7bb8a7.diff LOG: llvm release notes: drop in-progress warnings; minor cleanups Added: Modified: llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Removed: ################################################################################ diff --git a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index 977ba26f9e23..2af813fda1aa 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -5,12 +5,6 @@ LLVM 11.0.0 Release Notes .. contents:: :local: -.. warning:: - These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 11 release. - Release notes for previous releases can be found on - `the Download Page <https://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_. - - Introduction ============ @@ -26,48 +20,16 @@ have questions or comments, the `LLVM Developer's Mailing List <https://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev>`_ is a good place to send them. -Note that if you are reading this file from a Git checkout or the main -LLVM web page, this document applies to the *next* release, not the current -one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the `releases -page <https://llvm.org/releases/>`_. - Deprecated and Removed Features/APIs ================================================= * BG/Q support, including QPX, will be removed in the 12.0.0 release. Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release ================================================= -.. NOTE - For small 1-3 sentence descriptions, just add an entry at the end of - this list. If your description won't fit comfortably in one bullet - point (e.g. maybe you would like to give an example of the - functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below - for adding a new subsection. - -* The LLVM project has started the migration towards Python 3, and the build - system now prefers Python 3 whenever available. If the Python 3 interpreter - (or libraries) are not found, the build system will, for the time being, fall - back to Python 2. It is recommended that downstream projects migrate to - Python 3 as Python 2 has been end-of-life'd by the Python Software - Foundation. * The llgo frontend has been removed for now, but may be resurrected in the future. -* ... - - -.. NOTE - If you would like to document a larger change, then you can add a - subsection about it right here. You can copy the following boilerplate - and un-indent it (the indentation causes it to be inside this comment). - - Special New Feature - ------------------- - - Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing. - - Changes to the LLVM IR ---------------------- @@ -116,6 +78,13 @@ Changes to the LLVM IR Changes to building LLVM ------------------------ +* The LLVM project has started the migration towards Python 3, and the build + system now prefers Python 3 whenever available. If the Python 3 interpreter + (or libraries) are not found, the build system will, for the time being, fall + back to Python 2. It is recommended that downstream projects migrate to + Python 3 as Python 2 has been end-of-life'd by the Python Software + Foundation. + Changes to the AArch64 Backend ------------------------------ @@ -134,6 +103,7 @@ Changes to the AArch64 Backend * Added support for Armv8.6-A: Assembly support for the following extensions: + - Enhanced Counter Virtualization (ARMv8.6-ECV). - Fine Grained Traps (ARMv8.6-FGT). - Activity Monitors virtualization (ARMv8.6-AMU). @@ -179,11 +149,6 @@ Changes to the ARM Backend * Added support for Cortex-M55, Cortex-A77, Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 cores. -Changes to the MIPS Target --------------------------- - -During this release ... - Changes to the PowerPC Target ----------------------------- @@ -228,6 +193,7 @@ Changes to the RISC-V Target ---------------------------- New features: + * After consultation through an RFC, the RISC-V backend now accepts patches for proposed instruction set extensions that have not yet been ratified. For these experimental extensions, there is no expectation of ongoing support - the @@ -244,6 +210,7 @@ New features: * llvm-objdump will now print branch targets as part of disassembly. Improvements: + * If an immediate can be generated using a pair of `addi` instructions, that pair will be selected rather than materialising the immediate into a separate register with an `lui` and `addi` pair. @@ -265,6 +232,7 @@ Improvements: * The `jump` pseudo instruction is now supported. Bug fixes: + * A failure to insert indirect branches in position independent code was fixed. * The calculated expanded size of atomic pseudo operations was fixed, avoiding @@ -277,9 +245,6 @@ Bug fixes: Changes to the X86 Target ------------------------- -During this release ... - - * Functions with the probe-stack attribute set to "inline-asm" are now protected against stack clash without the need of a third-party probing function and with limited impact on performance. @@ -335,18 +300,6 @@ Changes to the Windows Target * Produce COFF weak external symbols for IR level weak symbols without a comdat (e.g. for `__attribute__((weak))` in C) -Changes to the OCaml bindings ------------------------------ - - - -Changes to the C API --------------------- - - -Changes to the Go bindings --------------------------- - Changes to the DAG infrastructure --------------------------------- @@ -357,7 +310,7 @@ Changes to the DAG infrastructure MachineIR. Changes to the Debug Info ---------------------------------- +------------------------- * LLVM now supports the debug entry values (DW_OP_entry_value) production for the x86, ARM, and AArch64 targets by default. Other targets can use @@ -389,14 +342,6 @@ Changes to the LLVM tools * llvm-lib supports adding import library objects in addition to regular object files -Changes to LLDB -=============== - -External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 11 -=========================================== - -* A project... - Additional Information ====================== _______________________________________________ llvm-branch-commits mailing list llvm-branch-commits@lists.llvm.org https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-branch-commits
