ReleaseNotes.rst

LLVM 5.0.0 Release Notes

• Introduction
• Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
  • Changes to the LLVM IR
  • Changes to the ARM Backend
  • Changes to the MIPS Target
  • Changes to the PowerPC Target
  • Changes to the X86 Target
  • Changes to the AMDGPU Target
  • Changes to the AVR Target
  • Changes to the OCaml bindings
• External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 5
• Additional Information

Warning

These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 5 release. Release notes for previous releases can be found on the Download Page.

Introduction

This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 5.0.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the LLVM releases web site.

For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest release, please check out the main LLVM web site. If you have questions or comments, the LLVM Developer's Mailing List is a good place to send them.

Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main LLVM web page, this document applies to the next release, not the current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the releases page.

Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release

• LLVM's WeakVH has been renamed to WeakTrackingVH and a new WeakVH has been introduced. The new WeakVH nulls itself out on deletion, but does not track values across RAUW.
• A new library named BinaryFormat has been created which holds a collection of code which previously lived in Support. This includes the file_magic structure and identify_magic functions, as well as all the structure and type definitions for DWARF, ELF, COFF, WASM, and MachO file formats.
• The tool llvm-pdbdump has been renamed llvm-pdbutil to better reflect its nature as a general purpose PDB manipulation / diagnostics tool that does more than just dumping contents.
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Changes to the LLVM IR

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External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 5

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Additional Information

A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page, in particular in the documentation section. The web page also contains versions of the API documentation which is up-to-date with the Subversion version of the source code. You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into the llvm/docs/ directory in the LLVM tree.

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