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Bill Wendling70d39e62013-11-20 10:10:50 +00002LLVM 3.5 Release Notes
Dmitri Gribenko38782b82012-12-09 23:14:26 +00003======================
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Sean Silva1eab30d2013-01-20 03:29:50 +00008.. warning::
Rafael Espindolabd334e22014-08-22 21:57:38 +00009 These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.6 release. You may
Nico Webercf914aa2014-09-04 15:26:10 +000010 prefer the `LLVM 3.5 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/3.5.0/docs
Sean Silva1eab30d2013-01-20 03:29:50 +000011 /ReleaseNotes.html>`_.
Dmitri Gribenko38782b82012-12-09 23:14:26 +000012
Dmitri Gribenko38782b82012-12-09 23:14:26 +000013
14Introduction
15============
16
17This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
Rafael Espindolabd334e22014-08-22 21:57:38 +000018release 3.6. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
Dmitri Gribenko38782b82012-12-09 23:14:26 +000019from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and
20some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded
21from the `LLVM releases web site <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
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23For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
24release, please check out the `main LLVM web site <http://llvm.org/>`_. If you
25have questions or comments, the `LLVM Developer's Mailing List
26<http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev>`_ is a good place to send
27them.
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29Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main
30LLVM web page, this document applies to the *next* release, not the current
31one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the `releases
32page <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
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Sean Silva1eab30d2013-01-20 03:29:50 +000034Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
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Sean Silva1eab30d2013-01-20 03:29:50 +000037.. NOTE
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41 functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below
42 for adding a new subsection.
Dmitri Gribenko38782b82012-12-09 23:14:26 +000043
Rafael Espindola0e893f52014-09-02 19:49:39 +000044* Support for AuroraUX has been removed.
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Sean Silva1eab30d2013-01-20 03:29:50 +000046* ... next change ...
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Sean Silva1eab30d2013-01-20 03:29:50 +000048.. NOTE
49 If you would like to document a larger change, then you can add a
50 subsection about it right here. You can copy the following boilerplate
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Dmitri Gribenko38782b82012-12-09 23:14:26 +000052
Sean Silva1eab30d2013-01-20 03:29:50 +000053 Special New Feature
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Dmitri Gribenko38782b82012-12-09 23:14:26 +000055
Sean Silva1eab30d2013-01-20 03:29:50 +000056 Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
Dmitri Gribenko38782b82012-12-09 23:14:26 +000057
Renato Golin7c9d0502014-03-18 10:16:15 +000058Changes to the ARM Backend
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Rafael Espindolabd334e22014-08-22 21:57:38 +000061 During this release ...
Renato Golin7c9d0502014-03-18 10:16:15 +000062
Renato Golin7c9d0502014-03-18 10:16:15 +000063
Daniel Sandersa4d18fc2014-07-23 12:59:26 +000064Changes to the MIPS Target
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Rafael Espindolabd334e22014-08-22 21:57:38 +000067During this release ...
Daniel Sandersa4d18fc2014-07-23 12:59:26 +000068
Bill Schmidt40049892014-07-31 14:38:17 +000069Changes to the PowerPC Target
Bill Schmidt08616c72014-07-31 15:20:30 +000070-----------------------------
Bill Schmidt40049892014-07-31 14:38:17 +000071
Rafael Espindolabd334e22014-08-22 21:57:38 +000072During this release ...
Bill Schmidt40049892014-07-31 14:38:17 +000073
Rafael Espindolabd334e22014-08-22 21:57:38 +000074External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.6
Pekka Jaaskelainenb531a112013-05-03 07:37:04 +000075============================================
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77An exciting aspect of LLVM is that it is used as an enabling technology for
78a lot of other language and tools projects. This section lists some of the
Rafael Espindolabd334e22014-08-22 21:57:38 +000079projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.6.
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81* A project
Kai Nackeec6e3922013-11-14 05:57:40 +000082
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Dmitri Gribenko38782b82012-12-09 23:14:26 +000084Additional Information
85======================
86
87A wide variety of additional information is available on the `LLVM web page
88<http://llvm.org/>`_, in particular in the `documentation
89<http://llvm.org/docs/>`_ section. The web page also contains versions of the
90API documentation which is up-to-date with the Subversion version of the source
91code. You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by
92going into the ``llvm/docs/`` directory in the LLVM tree.
93
94If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
95us via the `mailing lists <http://llvm.org/docs/#maillist>`_.
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