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2 LLVM 3.4 Release Notes
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3 ======================
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5 .. contents::
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8 .. warning::
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9 These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.4 release. You may
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10 prefer the `LLVM 3.3 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs
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11 /ReleaseNotes.html>`_.
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14 Introduction
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15 ============
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17 This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
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18 release 3.4. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
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19 from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and
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20 some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded
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21 from the `LLVM releases web site <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
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23 For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
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24 release, please check out the `main LLVM web site <http://llvm.org/>`_. If you
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25 have questions or comments, the `LLVM Developer's Mailing List
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26 <http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev>`_ is a good place to send
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29 Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main
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30 LLVM web page, this document applies to the *next* release, not the current
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31 one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the `releases
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34 Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
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37 .. NOTE
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38 For small 1-3 sentence descriptions, just add an entry at the end of
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39 this list. If your description won't fit comfortably in one bullet
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40 point (e.g. maybe you would like to give an example of the
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41 functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below
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44 * Support for exception handling has been removed from the old JIT. Use MCJIT
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45 if you need EH support.
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50 If you would like to document a larger change, then you can add a
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51 subsection about it right here. You can copy the following boilerplate
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52 and un-indent it (the indentation causes it to be inside this comment).
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57 Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
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60 External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.4
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64 a lot of other language and tools projects. This section lists some of the
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73 <http://llvm.org/docs/>`_ section. The web page also contains versions of the
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74 API documentation which is up-to-date with the Subversion version of the source
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75 code. You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by
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76 going into the ``llvm/docs/`` directory in the LLVM tree.
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79 us via the `mailing lists <http://llvm.org/docs/#maillist>`_.
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