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2 LLVM 10.0.0 Release Notes
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9 These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 10 release.
10 Release notes for previous releases can be found on
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17 This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
18 release 10.0.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
19 from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and
20 some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded
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34 Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
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43 * The ISD::FP_ROUND_INREG opcode and related code was removed from SelectionDAG.
44 * Enabled MemorySSA as a loop dependency.
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54 Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
56 Changes to the LLVM IR
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59 * Unnamed function arguments now get printed with their automatically
60 generated name (e.g. "i32 %0") in definitions. This may require front-ends
61 to update their tests; if so there is a script utils/add_argument_names.py
62 that correctly converted 80-90% of Clang tests. Some manual work will almost
63 certainly still be needed.
66 Changes to building LLVM
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69 Changes to the ARM Backend
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72 During this release ...
75 Changes to the MIPS Target
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78 During this release ...
81 Changes to the PowerPC Target
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84 During this release ...
86 Changes to the X86 Target
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89 During this release ...
91 * Less than 128 bit vector types, v2i32, v4i16, v2i16, v8i8, v4i8, and v2i8, are
92 now stored in the lower bits of an xmm register and the upper bits are
93 undefined. Previously the elements were spread apart with undefined bits in
95 * v32i8 and v64i8 vectors with AVX512F enabled, but AVX512BW disabled will now
96 be passed in ZMM registers for calls and returns. Previously they were passed
97 in two YMM registers. Old behavior can be enabled by passing
98 -x86-enable-old-knl-abi
99 * -mprefer-vector-width=256 is now the default behavior skylake-avx512 and later
100 Intel CPUs. This tries to limit the use of 512-bit registers which can cause a
101 decrease in CPU frequency on these CPUs. This can be re-enabled by passing
102 -mprefer-vector-width=512 to clang or passing -mattr=-prefer-256-bit to llc.
104 Changes to the AMDGPU Target
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107 Changes to the AVR Target
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110 During this release ...
112 * Deprecated the mpx feature flag for the Intel MPX instructions. There were no
113 intrinsics for this feature. This change only this effects the results
114 returned by getHostCPUFeatures on CPUs that implement the MPX instructions.
116 Changes to the WebAssembly Target
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119 During this release ...
122 Changes to the OCaml bindings
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131 Changes to the DAG infrastructure
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137 External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 10
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143 Additional Information
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148 <https://llvm.org/docs/>`_ section. The web page also contains versions of the
149 API documentation which is up-to-date with the Subversion version of the source
150 code. You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by
151 going into the ``llvm/docs/`` directory in the LLVM tree.
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