Author: pingbak Date: Mon Feb 11 15:05:47 2008 New Revision: 46968 URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=46968&view=rev Log: Added blurb for CellSPU progress
Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html?rev=46968&r1=46967&r2=46968&view=diff ============================================================================== --- llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html (original) +++ llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Mon Feb 11 15:05:47 2008 @@ -124,8 +124,13 @@ <p>LLVM 2.2 includes several major new capabilities:</p> <ul> -<li>Scott Michel contributed an SPU backend, which generates code for the -vector coprocessors on the Cell processor. (Status?)</li> +<li>A research team led by Scott Michel in the Computer Systems Research +Department at The Aerospace Corporation contributed the CellSPU backend, which +generates code for the vector coprocessors on the Sony/Toshiba/IBM Cell BE +processor. llvm-gcc 4.2 supports CellSPU as a 'configure' target and progress +is being made so that libgcc.a compiles cleanly. Notable pieces still in +development include full 64-bit integer and full double precision floating +point support.</li> <li>Anton and Duncan significantly improved llvm-gcc 4.2 support for the GCC Ada (GNAT) and Fortran (gfortran) front-ends. These front-ends should still be considered _______________________________________________ llvm-commits mailing list llvm-commits@cs.uiuc.edu http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvm-commits