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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/clang
From: Adam Ciarcinski
Date: 2011-12-02 15:42:12
Message id: 20111202144212.9A91C175DD@cvs.netbsd.org
Log Message:
LLVM 3.0 includes several major changes and big features:
* llvm-gcc is no longer supported, and not included in the release. We recommend
switching to Clang or DragonEgg.
* The linear scan register allocator has been replaced with a new "greedy"
register allocator, enabling live range splitting and many other optimizations \
that lead to better code quality. Please see its blog post or its talk at the
Developer Meeting for more information.
* LLVM IR now includes full support for atomics memory operations intended to
support the C++'11 and C'1x memory models. This includes atomic load and
store, compare and exchange, and read/modify/write instructions as well as
a full set of memory ordering constraints. Please see the Atomics Guide for
more information.
* The LLVM IR exception handling representation has been redesigned and
reimplemented, making it more elegant, fixing a huge number of bugs, and
enabling inlining and other optimizations. Please see its blog post and the
Exception Handling documentation for more information.
* The LLVM IR Type system has been redesigned and reimplemented, making it
faster and solving some long-standing problems. Please see its blog post for
more information.
* The MIPS backend has made major leaps in this release, going from an
experimental target to being virtually production quality and supporting
a wide variety of MIPS subtargets. See the MIPS section below for more
information.
* The optimizer and code generator now supports gprof and gcov-style coverage
and profiling information, and includes a new llvm-cov tool (but also works
with gcov). Clang exposes coverage and profiling through GCC-compatible
command line options.
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