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2 LLVM 7.0.0 Release Notes
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9 These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 7 release.
10 Release notes for previous releases can be found on
11 `the Download Page <http://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_.
17 This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
18 release 7.0.0. 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
21 from the `LLVM releases web site <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
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34 Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
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43 * Libraries have been renamed from 7.0 to 7. This change also impacts
44 downstream libraries like lldb.
46 * The LoopInstSimplify pass (-loop-instsimplify) has been removed.
48 * Symbols starting with ``?`` are no longer mangled by LLVM when using the
49 Windows ``x`` or ``w`` IR mangling schemes.
51 * A new tool named :doc:`llvm-exegesis <CommandGuide/llvm-exegesis>` has been
52 added. :program:`llvm-exegesis` automatically measures instruction scheduling
53 properties (latency/uops) and provides a principled way to edit scheduling
56 * A new tool named :doc:`llvm-mca <CommandGuide/llvm-mca>` has been added.
57 :program:`llvm-mca` is a static performance analysis tool that uses
58 information available in LLVM to statically predict the performance of
59 machine code for a specific CPU.
61 * The optimization flag to merge constants (-fmerge-all-constants) is no longer
64 * Optimization of floating-point casts is improved. This may cause surprising
65 results for code that is relying on the undefined behavior of overflowing
66 casts. The optimization can be disabled by specifying a function attribute:
67 "strict-float-cast-overflow"="false". This attribute may be created by the
68 clang option :option:`-fno-strict-float-cast-overflow`.
69 Code sanitizers can be used to detect affected patterns. The option for
70 detecting this problem alone is "-fsanitize=float-cast-overflow":
75 float x = 4294967296.0f;
77 printf("junk in the ftrunc: %f\n", x);
83 clang -O1 ftrunc.c -fsanitize=float-cast-overflow ; ./a.out
84 ftrunc.c:5:15: runtime error: 4.29497e+09 is outside the range of representable values of type 'int'
85 junk in the ftrunc: 0.000000
87 * ``LLVM_ON_WIN32`` is no longer set by ``llvm/Config/config.h`` and
88 ``llvm/Config/llvm-config.h``. If you used this macro, use the compiler-set
89 ``_WIN32`` instead which is set exactly when ``LLVM_ON_WIN32`` used to be set.
94 If you would like to document a larger change, then you can add a
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101 Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
103 Changes to the LLVM IR
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106 * The signatures for the builtins @llvm.memcpy, @llvm.memmove, and @llvm.memset
107 have changed. Alignment is no longer an argument, and are instead conveyed as
108 parameter attributes.
110 * invariant.group.barrier has been renamed to launder.invariant.group.
112 * invariant.group metadata can now refer only empty metadata nodes.
114 Changes to the ARM Backend
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120 Changes to the MIPS Target
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126 Changes to the PowerPC Target
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131 Changes to the X86 Target
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136 Changes to the AMDGPU Target
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141 Changes to the AVR Target
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146 Changes to the OCaml bindings
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149 * Remove ``add_bb_vectorize``.
155 * Remove ``LLVMAddBBVectorizePass``. The implementation was removed and the C
156 interface was made a deprecated no-op in LLVM 5. Use
157 ``LLVMAddSLPVectorizePass`` instead to get the supported SLP vectorizer.
160 External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 7
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166 Additional Information
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169 A wide variety of additional information is available on the `LLVM web page
170 <http://llvm.org/>`_, in particular in the `documentation
171 <http://llvm.org/docs/>`_ section. The web page also contains versions of the
172 API documentation which is up-to-date with the Subversion version of the source
173 code. You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by
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