Commit 604cd3c8 authored by John Criswell's avatar John Criswell
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Fixed some minor typos. 

Moved the new gccld feature to be in the list of enhancements.
Re-worded information on SPEC 2000 and Sparc support to try to make them
more accurate and precise.

llvm-svn: 10434
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llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

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@@ -75,11 +75,12 @@ release is primarily a bugfix release, dramatically improving the C/C++ 
front-end, and improving support for C++ in the LLVM core.  This release also

includes a few new features, such as a simple profiler, support for Mac OS/X,

better interoperability with external source bases, a new example language

front-end, and improves a few optimizations.</p>

front-end, and improvements in a few optimizations.</p>



<p>At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile the C &amp; C++ SPEC CPU2000

benchmarks (X86 only), the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist benchmarks along

with <b>many</b> other programs.  LLVM now also works with a broad variety of

benchmarks with the C backend (X86 only), the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist

benchmarks.  It has also been used to compile

<b>many</b> other programs.  LLVM now also works with a broad variety of

C++ programs, though it has still received much less testing than the C

front-end.

</p>
@@ -147,6 +148,8 @@ precise</a>.</li> 
<li>LLVM 1.1 implements a simple size optimization for LLVM bytecode files.  

    This means that the 1.1 files are smaller than 1.0, but that 1.0 won't 

    read 1.1 bytecode files.</li>



<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR140">The gccld program produces a runner script that includes command-line options to load the necessary shared objects.</a></li>

</ol>
@@ -167,7 +170,6 @@ files</a></li> 


<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR146">Interpreter does not handle

setne constant expression</a></li>



</ol>
@@ -246,7 +248,6 @@ many platforms, such as X86).</li> 
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR123">[X86] div and rem constant exprs invalidate iterators!</a></li>

<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR130">[vmcore] Symbol table doesn't rename colliding variables during type resolution</a></li>

<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR138">Archive reader does not understand 4.4BSD/Mac OS X long filenames</a></li>

<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR140">gccld produces a runner script that includes command-line options to load the necessary shared objects</a></li>

</ol>
@@ -298,7 +299,8 @@ many platforms, such as X86).</li> 
<div class="doc_text">



<p>LLVM has been extensively tested on Intel and AMD machines running Red

Hat Linux, and Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.  Additionally, 

Hat Linux and has been tested on Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.

Additionally, 

LLVM works on Mac OS/X 10.3 and above, but only with the C backend or 

interpreter (no native backend for the PowerPC is available yet).

The core LLVM infrastructure uses "autoconf" for portability, so hopefully we