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149 | 149 | <li>All LLVM tools will now respond to the
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150 | 150 | <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR413"><tt>--version</tt> option</a> which
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151 | 151 | will tell you the version of LLVM on which the tool is based.</li>
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| 152 | +<li>An experimental PowerPC backend has been added, capable of compiling several |
| 153 | +SPEC benchmarks.</li> |
152 | 154 | </ol>
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153 | 155 |
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154 | 156 | </div>
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198 | 200 | Bytecode Reader</a></li>
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199 | 201 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR392">Global Vars Have (Somewhat) Limited
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200 | 202 | Type Range</a></li>
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201 |
| -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR341">operator<< on a Value* now prints the address of the object instead of its contents.</a></li> |
| 203 | +<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR341">operator<< on a Value* now |
| 204 | +prints the address of the object instead of its contents.</a></li> |
202 | 205 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR402">Bytecode Enhancements
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| - Needed</a></li> |
204 |
| -<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR404">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify is really slow on 252.eon</a></li> |
205 |
| -<li><a href="Http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR122">[code-cleanup] SymbolTable |
206 |
| - class cleanup, Type should not derive from Value, eliminate |
207 |
| - ConstantPointerRef class</a>.</li> |
| 206 | +Needed</a></li> |
| 207 | +<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR404">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify is |
| 208 | +really slow on 252.eon</a></li> |
| 209 | +<li><a href="Http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR122">[code-cleanup] SymbolTable class |
| 210 | +cleanup, Type should not derive from Value, eliminate ConstantPointerRef |
| 211 | +class</a>.</li> |
208 | 212 | <li>The memory footprint of the LLVM IR has been reduced substantially.</li>
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209 | 213 | <li>The LLVM linker and many core classes have been sped up substantially.</li>
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210 | 214 | </ol>
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345 | 349 | <li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably
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346 | 350 | other unix-like systems).</li>
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347 | 351 | <li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>
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348 |
| -<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.3 and above (C backend and |
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| - interpreter only, no native codegen is available yet).</li> |
| 352 | +<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.2 and above.</li> |
350 | 353 | <li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries.</li>
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351 | 354 | </ul>
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352 | 355 |
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354 | 356 | <p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
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355 | 357 | <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself
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356 | 358 | to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor
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396 | 398 | components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>
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397 | 399 |
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398 | 400 | <ul>
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| 401 | +<li>The PowerPC backend is incomplete and is known to miscompile several SPEC |
| 402 | +benchmarks. The file <tt>llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README.txt</tt> has |
| 403 | +details.</li> |
399 | 404 | <li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep,
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400 | 405 | -ipmodref, -cee</tt></li>
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402 | 406 | <li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that
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403 | 407 | it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li>
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404 | 408 | <li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool is incomplete and probably buggy.</li>
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