Commit 467ea6be authored by Misha Brukman's avatar Misha Brukman
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* Mention PowerPC as new feature, and experimental feature 

* Wrap long lines to 80 cols

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@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ tablegen description of the target (before they were hand coded).</li> 
<li>All LLVM tools will now respond to the 

<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR413"><tt>--version</tt> option</a> which 

will tell you the version of LLVM on which the tool is based.</li>

<li>An experimental PowerPC backend has been added, capable of compiling several

SPEC benchmarks.</li>

</ol>



</div>
@@ -198,13 +200,15 @@ produced when linking C++ programs has been fixed.</li> 
Bytecode Reader</a></li>

<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR392">Global Vars Have (Somewhat) Limited 

  Type Range</a></li>

<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR341">operator&lt;&lt; on a Value* now prints the address of the object instead of its contents.</a></li>

<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR341">operator&lt;&lt; on a Value* now

prints the address of the object instead of its contents.</a></li>

<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR402">Bytecode Enhancements

Needed</a></li>

<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR404">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify is really slow on 252.eon</a></li>

<li><a href="Http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR122">[code-cleanup] SymbolTable 

    class cleanup, Type should not derive from Value, eliminate 

    ConstantPointerRef class</a>.</li>

<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR404">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify is

really slow on 252.eon</a></li>

<li><a href="Http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR122">[code-cleanup] SymbolTable class

cleanup, Type should not derive from Value, eliminate ConstantPointerRef

class</a>.</li>

<li>The memory footprint of the LLVM IR has been reduced substantially.</li>

<li>The LLVM linker and many core classes have been sped up substantially.</li>

</ol>
@@ -345,12 +349,10 @@ initialized unsigned bitfields</a></li> 
<li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably 

    other unix-like systems).</li>

<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>

<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.3 and above (C backend and 

    interpreter only, no native codegen is available yet).</li>

<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.2 and above.</li>

<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries.</li>

</ul>





<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses

<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself

to the machine and operating system on which it is built.  However, minor
@@ -396,9 +398,11 @@ useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these 
components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>



<ul>

<li>The PowerPC backend is incomplete and is known to miscompile several SPEC

benchmarks. The file <tt>llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt</tt> has

details.</li>

<li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep,

    -ipmodref, -cee</tt></li>



<li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that

    it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li>

<li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool is incomplete and probably buggy.</li>