Packaged in pkgsrc-wip by myself and Kamil.
Remove stale pkgsrc/SunOS bread crumbs that were difficult to merge
following the build framework switch. Needs to be redone. (Sorry!)
Summary of significant changes in LLVM:
- switch build framework from autoconf to CMake
- llvm-ar now supports thin archives.
- llvm doesn t produce .data.rel.ro.local or .data.rel sections anymore.
- opional support for linking clang and the LLVM tools with a single
libLLVM shared library
pkgsrc note: we have this library in lang/libLLVM, but we don't currently
use it. We may do so in the future if/when the API matures.
- The optimization to move the prologue and epilogue of functions in colder
code path (shrink-wrapping) is now enabled by default
- new target-independent gcc-compatible emulated Thread Local Storage mode
- various target specific optimizations
Summary of significant changes in Clang:
- new compiler flags for tuning what DWARF information is included
- better strict alignment handling
- better support for __builtin_object_size
All backends have been changed to use the MC asm printer and support for the non MC one has been removed.
Clang can now successfully self-host itself on Linux/Sparc64 and on FreeBSD/Sparc64.
LLVM now assumes the assembler supports .loc for generating debug line numbers. The old support for printing the debug line info directly was only used by llc and has been removed.
All inline assembly is parsed by the integrated assembler when it is enabled. Previously this was only the case for object-file output. It is now the case for assembly output as well. The integrated assembler can be disabled with the -no-integrated-as option.
llvm-ar now handles IR files like regular object files. In particular, a regular symbol table is created for symbols defined in IR files, including those in file scope inline assembly.
LLVM now always uses cfi directives for producing most stack unwinding information.
The prefix for loop vectorizer hint metadata has been changed from llvm.vectorizer to llvm.loop.vectorize. In addition, llvm.vectorizer.unroll metadata has been renamed llvm.loop.interleave.count.
Some backends previously implemented Atomic NAND(x,y) as x & ~y. Now all backends implement it as ~(x & y), matching the semantics of GCC 4.4 and later.
