9.0.0:
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release:
* Two new extension points, namely EP_FullLinkTimeOptimizationEarly and EP_FullLinkTimeOptimizationLast are available for plugins to specialize the legacy pass manager full LTO pipeline.
* llvm-objcopy/llvm-strip got support for COFF object files/executables, supporting the most common copying/stripping options.
* The CMake parameter CLANG_ANALYZER_ENABLE_Z3_SOLVER has been replaced by LLVM_ENABLE_Z3_SOLVER.
* The RISCV target is no longer “experimental” (see Changes to the RISCV Target below for more details).
* The ORCv1 JIT API has been deprecated. Please see Transitioning from ORCv1 to ORCv2.
* Support for target-independent hardware loops in IR has been added, with PowerPC and Arm implementations.
LLVM 8.0.1 is now available! Download it now, or read the release notes.
This release contains bug-fixes for the LLVM 8.0.0 release. This
release is API and ABI compatible with 8.0.0.
The OpenMP subproject of LLVM contains the components required to build an
executable OpenMP program that are outside the compiler itself.
Here you can find the code for the runtime library against which code compiled
by clang -fopenmp must be linked before it can run.
8.0.0:
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
* The llvm-cov tool can now export lcov trace files using the -format=lcov option of the export command.
* The add_llvm_loadable_module CMake macro has been removed. The add_llvm_library macro with the MODULE argument now provides the same functionality. See Writing an LLVM Pass.
* For MinGW, references to data variables that might need to be imported from a dll are accessed via a stub, to allow the linker to convert it to a dllimport if needed.
* Added support for labels as offsets in .reloc directive.
* Support for precise identification of X86 instructions with memory operands, by using debug information. This supports profile-driven cache prefetching. It is enabled with the -x86-discriminate-memops LLVM Flag.
* Support for profile-driven software cache prefetching on X86. This is part of a larger system, consisting of: an offline cache prefetches recommender, AutoFDO tooling, and LLVM. In this system, a binary compiled with -x86-discriminate-memops is run under the observation of the recommender. The recommender identifies certain memory access instructions by their binary file address, and recommends a prefetch of a specific type (NTA, T0, etc) be performed at a specified fixed offset from such an instruction’s memory operand. Next, this information needs to be converted to the AutoFDO syntax and the resulting profile may be passed back to the compiler with the LLVM flag -prefetch-hints-file, together with the exact same set of compilation parameters used for the original binary. More information is available in the RFC.
* Windows support for libFuzzer (x86_64).
LLVM 7.0.0 Release
The release contains the work on trunk up to SVN revision 338536 plus
work on the release branch. It is the result of the community's work
over the past six months, including: function multiversioning in Clang
with the 'target' attribute for ELF-based x86/x86_64 targets, improved
PCH support in clang-cl, preliminary DWARF v5 support, basic support
for OpenMP 4.5 offloading to NVPTX, OpenCL C++ support, MSan, X-Ray
and libFuzzer support for FreeBSD, early UBSan, X-Ray and libFuzzer
support for OpenBSD, UBSan checks for implicit conversions, many
long-tail compatibility issues fixed in lld which is now production
ready for ELF, COFF and MinGW, new tools llvm-exegesis, llvm-mca and
diagtool. And as usual, many optimizations, improved diagnostics, and
bug fixes.
For more details, see the release notes:
https://llvm.org/releases/7.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.htmlhttps://llvm.org/releases/7.0.0/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.htmlhttps://llvm.org/releases/7.0.0/tools/clang/tools/extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.htmlhttps://llvm.org/releases/7.0.0/tools/lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
6.0.1:
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
Support for retpolines was added to help mitigate “branch target injection” (variant 2) of the “Spectre” speculative side channels described by Project Zero and the Spectre paper.
The Redirects argument of llvm::sys::ExecuteAndWait and llvm::sys::ExecuteNoWait was changed to an ArrayRef of optional StringRef‘s to make it safer and more convenient to use.
The backend name was added to the Target Registry to allow run-time information to be fed back into TableGen. Out-of-tree targets will need to add the name used in the def X : Target definition to the call to RegisterTarget.
The Debugify pass was added to opt to facilitate testing of debug info preservation. This pass attaches synthetic DILocations and DIVariables to the instructions in a Module. The CheckDebugify pass determines how much of the metadata is lost.
Significantly improved quality of CodeView debug info for Windows.
Preliminary support for Sanitizers and sibling features on X86(_64) NetBSD (ASan, UBsan, TSan, MSan, SafeStack, libFuzzer).
Changes to the LLVM IR
----------------------
The fast-math-flags (FMF) have been updated. Previously, the ‘fast’ flag indicated that floating-point reassociation was allowed and all other flags were set too. The ‘fast’ flag still exists, but there is a new flag called ‘reassoc’ to indicate specifically that reassociation is allowed. A new bit called ‘afn’ was also added to selectively allow approximations for common mathlib functions like square-root. The new flags provide more flexibility to enable/disable specific floating-point optimizations. Making the optimizer respond appropriately to these flags is an ongoing effort.
Changes to the AArch64 Target
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Enabled the new GlobalISel instruction selection framework by default at -O0.
Changes to the ARM Target
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Support for enabling SjLj exception handling on platforms where it isn’t the default.
Changes to the Hexagon Target
-----------------------------
The Hexagon backend now supports V65 ISA.
The -mhvx option now takes an optional value that specifies the ISA version of the HVX coprocessor. The available values are v60, v62 and v65. By default, the value is set to be the same as the CPU version.
The compiler option -mhvx-double is deprecated and will be removed in the next release of the compiler. Programmers should use the -mhvx-length option to specify the desired vector length: -mhvx-length=64b for 64-byte vectors and -mhvx-length=128b for 128-byte vectors. While the current default vector length is 64 bytes, users should always specify the length explicitly, since the default value may change in the future.
The target feature hvx-double is deprecated and will be removed in the next release. LLVM IR generators should use target features hvx-length64b and hvx-length128b to indicate the vector length. The length should always be specified when HVX code generation is enabled.
Changes to the MIPS Target
--------------------------
Fixed numerous bugs:
fpowi on MIPS64 giving incorrect results when used with a negative integer.
Usage of the asm ‘c’ constraint with the wrong datatype causing an assert/crash.
Fixed a conversion bug when using the DSP ASE.
Fixed an inconsistency where objects were not marked as using the microMIPS as when the micromips function attribute or the ”.set micromips” directive was used.
Reordered the MIPSR6 specific hazard scheduler pass to after the delay slot filler, fixing a class of rare edge case bugs where the delay slot filler would violate ISA restrictions.
Fixed a crash when using a type of unknown size with gp relative addressing.
Corrected the j macro for microMIPS.
Corrected the encoding of movep for microMIPS32r6.
Fixed an issue with the usage of insert instructions having an invalid set of operands.
Fixed an issue where TLS symbols were not marked as such.
Enabled the usage of register scavenging with MSA, due to its shorter offsets for loads and stores.
Corrected the ELF headers when using the DSP ASE.
New features:
The long branch pass now generates some R6 specific instructions when targeting MIPSR6.
The delay slot filler now performs more branch conversions if delay slots cannot be filled.
The MIPS MT ASE is now fully supported.
Added support for the lapc pseudo instruction.
Improved the selection of multiple instructions (dext, nmadd, nmsub).
Further improved microMIPS codesize reduction.
Deprecation notices:
microMIPS64R6 support was been deprecated since 5.0, and has now been completely removed.
Changes to the SystemZ Target
-----------------------------
During this release the SystemZ target has:
Added support for 128-bit atomic operations.
Added support for the “o” constraint for inline asm statements.
Changes to the X86 Target
-------------------------
During this release the X86 target has:
Added support for enabling SjLj exception handling on platforms where it isn’t the default.
Added intrinsics for Intel Extensions: VAES, GFNI, VPCLMULQDQ, AVX512VBMI2, AVX512BITALG, AVX512VNNI.
Added support for Intel Icelake CPU.
Fixed some X87 codegen bugs.
Added instruction scheduling information for Intel Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, and Skylake CPUs.
Improved scheduler model for AMD Jaguar CPUs.
Improved llvm-mc’s disassembler for some EVEX encoded instructions.
Add support for i8 and i16 vector signed/unsigned min/max horizontal reductions.
Improved codegen for memory comparisons
Improved codegen for i32 vector multiplies
Improved codegen for scalar integer absolute values
Improved codegen for vector integer rotations (XOP and AVX512)
Improved codegen of data being transferred between GPRs and K-registers.
Improved codegen for vector truncations.
Improved folding of address computations into gather/scatter instructions.
Gained initial support recognizing variable shuffles from vector element extracts and inserts.
Improved documentation for SSE/AVX intrinsics in intrin.h header files.
Gained support for emitting retpolines, including automatic insertion of the necessary thunks or using external thunks.
Previously a special override header was used via an additional include path,
but this extra include path was not exported to llvm-config so while llvm was
ok, dependencies wouldn't find the header and fail.
Instead just pull the changes directly inline into DataTypes.h so that they
are available everywhere. Fixes the clang build on SunOS. Bump PKGREVISION.
The actual fix as been done by "pkglint -F */*/buildlink3.mk", and was
reviewed manually.
There are some .include lines that still are indented with zero spaces
although the surrounding .if is indented. This is existing practice.
5.0.0:
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
* LLVM’s WeakVH has been renamed to WeakTrackingVH and a new WeakVH has been introduced. The new WeakVH nulls itself out on deletion, but does not track values across RAUW.
* A new library named BinaryFormat has been created which holds a collection of code which previously lived in Support. This includes the file_magic structure and identify_magic functions, as well as all the structure and type definitions for DWARF, ELF, COFF, WASM, and MachO file formats.
* The tool llvm-pdbdump has been renamed llvm-pdbutil to better reflect its nature as a general purpose PDB manipulation / diagnostics tool that does more than just dumping contents.
* The BBVectorize pass has been removed. It was fully replaced and no longer used back in 2014 but we didn’t get around to removing it. Now it is gone. The SLP vectorizer is the suggested non-loop vectorization pass.
* A new tool opt-viewer.py has been added to visualize optimization remarks in HTML. The tool processes the YAML files produced by clang with the -fsave-optimization-record option.
* A new CMake macro LLVM_REVERSE_ITERATION has been added. If enabled, all supported unordered LLVM containers would be iterated in reverse order. This is useful for uncovering non-determinism caused by iteration of unordered containers. Currently, it supports reverse iteration of SmallPtrSet and DenseMap.
* A new tool llvm-dlltool has been added to create short import libraries from GNU style definition files. The tool utilizes the PE COFF SPEC Import Library Format and PE COFF Auxiliary Weak Externals Format to achieve compatibility with LLD and MSVC LINK.
under NetBSD. Bump PKGREVISION
Rust language 1.20.0 uses these options and Rust build system uses it
as '-l tinfo' and our wrapper does not handle this.
The minimum compiler version required for building LLVM has been raised to 4.8 for GCC and 2015 for Visual Studio.
The C API functions LLVMAddFunctionAttr, LLVMGetFunctionAttr, LLVMRemoveFunctionAttr, LLVMAddAttribute, LLVMRemoveAttribute, LLVMGetAttribute, LLVMAddInstrAttribute and LLVMRemoveInstrAttribute have been removed.
The C API enum LLVMAttribute has been deleted.
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)).
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.
LLVM now handles invariant.group across different basic blocks, which makes it possible to devirtualize virtual calls inside loops.
The aggressive dead code elimination phase (“adce”) now removes branches which do not effect program behavior. Loops are retained by default since they may be infinite but these can also be removed with LLVM option -adce-remove-loops when the loop body otherwise has no live operations.
The llvm-cov tool can now export coverage data as json. Its html output mode has also improved.
The previous commit ended up with two different specifications for libtool
on Darwin. One was the OS-specific version of CMAKE_ARGS introduced in the
previous commit; the other was inside a conditional to detect Darwin introduced in the commit prior. The former seems cleaner so it has been left.
The LLVMContext gains a new runtime check (see LLVMContext::discardValueNames()) that can be set to discard Value names (other than GlobalValue). This is intended to be used in release builds by clients that are interested in saving CPU/memory as much as possible.
There is no longer a “global context” available in LLVM, except for the C API.
The autoconf build system has been removed in favor of CMake. LLVM 3.9 requires CMake 3.4.3 or later to build. For information about using CMake please see the documentation on Building LLVM with CMake. For information about the CMake language there is also a CMake Primer document available.
C API functions LLVMParseBitcode, LLVMParseBitcodeInContext, LLVMGetBitcodeModuleInContext and LLVMGetBitcodeModule having been removed. LLVMGetTargetMachineData has been removed (use LLVMGetDataLayout instead).
The C API function LLVMLinkModules has been removed.
The C API function LLVMAddTargetData has been removed.
The C API function LLVMGetDataLayout is deprecated in favor of LLVMGetDataLayoutStr.
The C API enum LLVMAttribute and associated API is deprecated in favor of the new LLVMAttributeRef API. The deprecated functions are LLVMAddFunctionAttr, LLVMAddTargetDependentFunctionAttr, LLVMRemoveFunctionAttr, LLVMGetFunctionAttr, LLVMAddAttribute, LLVMRemoveAttribute, LLVMGetAttribute, LLVMAddInstrAttribute, LLVMRemoveInstrAttribute and LLVMSetInstrParamAlignment.
TargetFrameLowering::eliminateCallFramePseudoInstr now returns an iterator to the next instruction instead of void. Targets that previously did MBB.erase(I); return; now probably want return MBB.erase(I);.
SelectionDAGISel::Select now returns void. Out-of-tree targets will need to be updated to replace the argument node and remove any dead nodes in cases where they currently return an SDNode * from this interface.
Added the MemorySSA analysis, which hopes to replace MemoryDependenceAnalysis. It should provide higher-quality results than MemDep, and be algorithmically faster than MemDep. Currently, GVNHoist (which is off by default) makes use of MemorySSA.
The minimum density for lowering switches with jump tables has been reduced from 40% to 10% for functions which are not marked optsize (that is, compiled with -Os).
