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authorChandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>2017-06-30 07:09:08 +0000
committerChandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>2017-06-30 07:09:08 +0000
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Remove the BBVectorize pass.
It served us well, helped kick-start much of the vectorization efforts in LLVM, etc. Its time has come and past. Back in 2014: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2014-November/079091.html Time to actually let go and move forward. =] I've updated the release notes both about the removal and the deprecation of the corresponding C API. llvm-svn: 306797
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@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
its nature as a general purpose PDB manipulation / diagnostics tool that does
more than just dumping contents.
-
-* ... next change ...
+* 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.
.. NOTE
If you would like to document a larger change, then you can add a
@@ -111,7 +112,11 @@ Changes to the OCaml bindings
Changes to the C API
--------------------
- During this release ...
+* Deprecated the ``LLVMAddBBVectorizePass`` interface since the ``BBVectorize``
+ pass has been removed. It is now a no-op and will be removed in the next
+ release. Use ``LLVMAddSLPVectorizePass`` instead to get the supported SLP
+ vectorizer.
+
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