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<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler
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Infrastructure, release 3.2. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including
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subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM
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sub-projects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM
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releases may be downloaded from the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM
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code generators and supporting tools, as well as Clang, DragonEgg and
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compiler-rt sub-project repositories. In addition to this code, the LLVM
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experience through expressive diagnostics, a high level of conformance to
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language standards, fast compilation, and low memory use. Like LLVM, Clang
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provides a modular, library-based architecture that makes it suitable for
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creating or integrating with other development tools. Clang is considered a
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production-quality compiler for C, Objective-C, C++ and Objective-C++ on x86
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creating or integrating with other development tools.</p>
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<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">Clang 3.2 release
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<li><a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/tools/clang/docs/ThreadSanitizer.html">ThreadSanitizer (TSan)</a> - data race detector run-time library for C/C++ has been added.</li>
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<li>Improvemens to <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/tools/clang/docs/AddressSanitizer.html">AddressSanitizer</a> including: increasing stack size limit to 256M,
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better portability (iOS6,Windows,Android NDK), support for cmake based builds, enhanced error reporting.</li>
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<li>Improvemens to <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/tools/clang/docs/AddressSanitizer.html">AddressSanitizer</a> including: increasing stack size limit to 256MB,
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<p><a href="http://polly.llvm.org/">Polly</a> is an <em>experimental</em>
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loop optimizations and automatic parallelisation (using the OpenMP run time).
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loop optimizations and automatic parallelization (using the OpenMP run time).
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<li>isl, the integer set library used by Polly, was relicensed under the MIT license.</li>
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<li>isl based code generation.</li>
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<li>Fine grained option handling (separation of core and border computations, control overhead vs. code size).</li>
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<li>Added experimental support for MIPS32 DSP intrinsics.</li>
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