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| author | Sanjoy Das <sanjoy@playingwithpointers.com> | 2016-04-22 22:45:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Sanjoy Das <sanjoy@playingwithpointers.com> | 2016-04-22 22:45:23 +0000 |
| commit | 784ec12a3c3d1de370c35ee527f7d5d57b13cd98 (patch) | |
| tree | daac04cbec061cafb9d281f95f38e3bd46273ff4 /llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | |
| parent | 580471033eb783c9f973d2cfe38c3e3fa92873d3 (diff) | |
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Add some release notes about the fix for PR26774
As suggested by Chandler on the review thread for D18634.
llvm-svn: 267239
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diff --git a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index 6564e950968..df34d2a20da 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ Changes to the LLVM IR ``llvm.masked.gather`` and ``llvm.masked.scatter`` were introduced to the LLVM IR to allow selective memory access for vector data types. +Changes to LLVM's IPO model +--------------------------- + +LLVM no longer does inter-procedural analysis and optimization (except +inlining) on functions with comdat linkage. Doing IPO over such +functions is unsound because the implementation the linker chooses at +link-time may be differently optimized than the one what was visible +during optimization, and may have arbitrarily different observable +behavior. See `PR26774 <http://llvm.org/PR26774>`_ for more details. + Changes to the ARM Backend -------------------------- |
