Author: kparzysz Date: Tue Aug 14 12:40:56 2018 New Revision: 339717 URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=339717&view=rev Log: [ReleaseNotes] Add release notes for Hexagon
Modified: llvm/branches/release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Modified: llvm/branches/release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?rev=339717&r1=339716&r2=339717&view=diff ============================================================================== --- llvm/branches/release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst (original) +++ llvm/branches/release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Tue Aug 14 12:40:56 2018 @@ -172,6 +172,18 @@ Changes to the ARM Target deduce the instruction size, without having to specify it with e.g. ``.inst.w`` as before. +Changes to the Hexagon Target +----------------------------- + +* Hexagon now supports auto-vectorization for HVX. It is disabled by default + and can be turned on with ``-fvectorize``. For auto-vectorization to take + effect, code genration for HVX needs to be enabled with ``-mhvx``. + The complete set of options should include ``-fvectorize``, ``-mhvx``, + and ``-mhvx-length={64b|128b}``. + +* The support for Hexagon ISA V4 is deprecated and will be removed in the + next release. + Changes to the MIPS Target -------------------------- _______________________________________________ llvm-branch-commits mailing list llvm-branch-commits@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-branch-commits