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2LLVM 3.9 Release Notes
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8.. warning::
9   These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.9 release.  You may
10   prefer the `LLVM 3.7 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/3.7.0/docs
11   /ReleaseNotes.html>`_.
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14Introduction
15============
16
17This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
18release 3.9.  Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
19from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and
20some of the current users of the code.  All LLVM releases may be downloaded
21from the `LLVM releases web site <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
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23For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
24release, please check out the `main LLVM web site <http://llvm.org/>`_.  If you
25have questions or comments, the `LLVM Developer's Mailing List
26<http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev>`_ is a good place to send
27them.
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29Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main
30LLVM web page, this document applies to the *next* release, not the current
31one.  To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the `releases
32page <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
33
34Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
35=================================================
36* .. note about autoconf build having been removed.
37
38* .. note about C API functions LLVMLinkModules, LLVMParseBitcode,
39   LLVMParseBitcodeInContext, LLVMGetBitcodeModuleInContext and
40   LLVMGetBitcodeModule having been removed.
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42.. NOTE
43   For small 1-3 sentence descriptions, just add an entry at the end of
44   this list. If your description won't fit comfortably in one bullet
45   point (e.g. maybe you would like to give an example of the
46   functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below
47   for adding a new subsection.
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49* ... next change ...
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51.. NOTE
52   If you would like to document a larger change, then you can add a
53   subsection about it right here. You can copy the following boilerplate
54   and un-indent it (the indentation causes it to be inside this comment).
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56   Special New Feature
57   -------------------
58
59   Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
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61Changes to the ARM Backend
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64 During this release ...
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67Changes to the MIPS Target
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70 During this release ...
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73Changes to the PowerPC Target
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76 During this release ...
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79Changes to the X86 Target
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82 During this release ...
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84Changes to the AMDGPU Target
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87 * Mesa 11.0.x is no longer supported
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90Changes to the OCaml bindings
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93 During this release ...
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96External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.9
97============================================
98
99An exciting aspect of LLVM is that it is used as an enabling technology for
100a lot of other language and tools projects. This section lists some of the
101projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.9.
102
103* A project
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105
106Additional Information
107======================
108
109A wide variety of additional information is available on the `LLVM web page
110<http://llvm.org/>`_, in particular in the `documentation
111<http://llvm.org/docs/>`_ section.  The web page also contains versions of the
112API documentation which is up-to-date with the Subversion version of the source
113code.  You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by
114going into the ``llvm/docs/`` directory in the LLVM tree.
115
116If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
117us via the `mailing lists <http://llvm.org/docs/#maillist>`_.
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