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authorJuneyoung Lee <aqjune@gmail.com>2020-02-27 14:14:40 +0900
committerJuneyoung Lee <aqjune@gmail.com>2020-02-27 21:41:48 +0900
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[ReleaseNotes] Mention freeze instruction
Reviewers: hans, nlopes, regehr Subscribers: llvm-commits Tags: #llvm Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75226
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@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
* Windows Control Flow Guard: the ``-cfguard`` option now emits CFG checks on
- indirect function calls. The previous behavior is still available with the
- ``-cfguard-nochecks`` option. Note that this feature should always be used
+ indirect function calls. The previous behavior is still available with the
+ ``-cfguard-nochecks`` option. Note that this feature should always be used
with optimizations enabled.
* ``Callbacks`` have been added to ``CommandLine Options``. These can
@@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ Changes to the LLVM IR
that correctly converted 80-90% of Clang tests. Some manual work will almost
certainly still be needed.
+* A new `freeze` instruction is added. The `freeze` instruction is used to stop
+ IR-level propagation of undef and poison values. Currently its support is
+ preliminary; a freeze-equivalent operation for SelDag/MIR needs to be added.
+
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