llvm dev - Mar 2011 - [LLVMdev] LLVM 2.9 release notes + "Projects using LLVM" + API changes

Hi All,

With 2.9 starting to make its way out into the world, it is time to start poking
at the release notes.  I plan to make a pass through llvm-commits to cull some
of the major changes into bullets, but am already behind and insanely busy with
other stuff over the next week.

If you have commit access, I'd really appreciate it if you could take a pass
through llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html to fill in notes about things that are new
in the release (particularly for clang, mc, dragonegg and other subprojects) and
important API changes for external clients.  Feel free to directly commit to the
release notes, I will fill in more details when I get bandwidth and will
generally tidy it up and edit it, so don't worry about it all fitting
together well at this point.

If you have an external project that works with LLVM 2.9, please send me a blurb
offlist and I'll include it in the release notes.  We've been doing this
over the last couple of releases and I think it adds a lot of value to show the
different ways that LLVM gets used.  Please send me a blurb along the lines of
the examples from 2.8:
http://llvm.org/releases/2.8/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#externalproj

Note that I've zapped *all* of the existing blurbs from the 2.8 release
notes, so if you want to be included in the 2.9 notes, please send me updated
text.

Thanks all, this is going to be a great release!

-Chris

On 2011-03-10 08:54, Chris Lattner wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> With 2.9 starting to make its way out into the world, it is time to start
poking at the release notes.  I plan to make a pass through llvm-commits to cull
some of the major changes into bullets, but am already behind and insanely busy
with other stuff over the next week.
>
> If you have commit access, I'd really appreciate it if you could take a
pass through llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html to fill in notes about things that are
new in the release (particularly for clang, mc, dragonegg and other subprojects)
and important API changes for external clients.  Feel free to directly commit to
the release notes, I will fill in more details when I get bandwidth and will
generally tidy it up and edit it, so don't worry about it all fitting
together well at this point.
>
> If you have an external project that works with LLVM 2.9, please send me a
blurb offlist and I'll include it in the release notes.  We've been
doing this over the last couple of releases and I think it adds a lot of value
to show the different ways that LLVM gets used.  Please send me a blurb along
the lines of the examples from 2.8:
http://llvm.org/releases/2.8/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#externalproj
>
> Note that I've zapped *all* of the existing blurbs from the 2.8 release
notes, so if you want to be included in the 2.9 notes, please send me updated
text.
>
> Thanks all, this is going to be a great release!
>
> -Chris  
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Hi Chris!
Here are an IcedTea ReleaseNotes.html#externalproj Docs section for LLVM 2.9

Cheers
Xerxes

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<p>
<a
href="http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page">IcedTea</a>
provides a
harness to build OpenJDK using only free software build tools and to provide
replacements for the not-yet free parts of OpenJDK.  One of the extensions that
IcedTea provides is a new JIT compiler named <a
href="http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/ZeroSharkFaq">Shark</a>
which uses LLVM
to provide native code generation without introducing processor-dependent
code.
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<p> OpenJDK 7 b112, IcedTea6 1.9 and IcedTea7 1.13 and later have been
tested
and are known to work with LLVM 2.9
(and continue to work with older LLVM releases >= 2.6 as well).</p>

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