From: Hans Wennborg Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:50:22 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Clear the release notes for 5.0.0 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=50082b152d3d27b696a4a5b9419cb4a99280eaba;p=llvm Clear the release notes for 5.0.0 git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@291836 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index 81db8828915..cebc59001b2 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ ======================== -LLVM 4.0.0 Release Notes +LLVM 5.0.0 Release Notes ======================== .. contents:: :local: .. warning:: - These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 4.0.0 release. You may - prefer the `LLVM 3.9 Release Notes `_. @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Introduction ============ This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, -release 4.0.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements +release 5.0.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the `LLVM releases web site `_. @@ -33,13 +33,6 @@ page `_. Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release ================================================= -* The C API functions LLVMAddFunctionAttr, LLVMGetFunctionAttr, - LLVMRemoveFunctionAttr, LLVMAddAttribute, LLVMRemoveAttribute, - LLVMGetAttribute, LLVMAddInstrAttribute and - LLVMRemoveInstrAttribute have been removed. - -* The C API enum LLVMAttribute has been deleted. - .. NOTE For small 1-3 sentence descriptions, just add an entry at the end of this list. If your description won't fit comfortably in one bullet @@ -47,16 +40,6 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below for adding a new subsection. -* The definition and uses of LLVM_ATRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT in the LLVM source - were replaced with LLVM_NODISCARD, which matches the C++17 [[nodiscard]] - semantics rather than gcc's __attribute__((warn_unused_result)). - -* Minimum compiler version to build has been raised to GCC 4.8 and VS 2015. - -* The Timer related APIs now expect a Name and Description. When upgrading code - the previously used names should become descriptions and a short name in the - style of a programming language identifier should be added. - * ... next change ... .. NOTE @@ -102,19 +85,16 @@ Changes to the AMDGPU Target Changes to the AVR Target ----------------------------- -* The entire backend has been merged in-tree with all tests passing. All of - the instruction selection code and the machine code backend has landed - recently and is fully usable. + During this release ... Changes to the OCaml bindings ----------------------------- -* The attribute API was completely overhauled, following the changes - to the C API. + During this release ... -External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 4.0.0 -============================================== +External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 5 +========================================== * A project...