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    <title>HiPE Release Notes</title>
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  </header>
  <p>This document describes the changes made to HiPE.</p>

<section><title>Hipe 3.7.5</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p>The documentation is now possible to build in an open
	    source environment after a number of bugs are fixed and
	    some features are added in the documentation build
	    process. </p>
	    <p>- The arity calculation is updated.</p>
	    <p>- The module prefix used in the function names for
	    bif's are removed in the generated links so the links
	    will look like
	    "http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#append_element-2"
	    instead of
	    "http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#erlang:append_element-2".</p>
	    <p>- Enhanced the menu positioning in the html
	    documentation when a new page is loaded.</p>
	    <p>- A number of corrections in the generation of man
	    pages (thanks to Sergei Golovan)</p>
	    <p>- The legal notice is taken from the xml book file so
	    OTP's build process can be used for non OTP
	    applications.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8343</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Hipe 3.7.4</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    The documentation is now built with open source tools
	    (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One
	    visible change is that the frames are removed.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8201</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Misc updates.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8301</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Hipe 3.7.3</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Various small bugs (one involving the handling of large
	    binaries) were corrected and some additions to its
	    functionality and/or code cleanups were done.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8189</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Hipe 3.7.2</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Miscellanous updates.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8038</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Hipe 3.7.1</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Minor updates and bug fixes.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7958</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>


<section><title>Hipe 3.7</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Miscellaneous updates.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7877</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Hipe 3.6.9</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p>The <c>--disable-hipe</c> option for the
	    <c>configure</c> will now completely disable the hipe
	    run-time in the emulator, as is the expected
	    behaviour.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7631</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Hipe 3.6.8</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Minor updates.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7522</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>


<section><title>Hipe 3.6.7</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Minor changes.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7388</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Hipe 3.6.6</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p>A fix for an #include problem which caused the FP
	    exception test to fail unnecessarily on
	    debian/glibc-2.7/x86 systems.</p>
	    <p>Added SIGFPE loop detection to the FP exception test.
	    This prevents the test from looping indefinitely, which
	    could happen when the CPU is supported (so we can enable
	    FP exceptions on it) but the OS isn't (so we can't write
	    a proper SIGFPE handler). x86 on an unsupported OS is
	    known to have had this problem.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7254</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    HiPE now also supports little-endian ARM processors.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7255</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Hipe 3.6.5</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    HIPE: Corrected the choice of interface to the send/3 and
	    setnode/3 BIFs for native-compiled code. Using the
	    incorrect interface could, in unusual circumstances, lead
	    to random runtime errors.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7067</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    The HiPE compiler's SPARC backend has been rewritten,
	    improving its correctness and long-term maintainability.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7133</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

  <section>
    <title>Hipe 3.6.3</title>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Minor Makefile changes.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6689</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>Miscellanous updates.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6738</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Hipe 3.6.2</title>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Miscellanous improvements.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6577</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Hipe 3.6.1.1</title>

    <section>
      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Dialyzer could fail to analyze certain beam files that
            used try/catch.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6449 Aux Id: seq10563 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Hipe 3.6.1</title>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>HiPE runtime system:</p>
          <p>* added notes about supported systems to README</p>
          <p>* support 32-bit x86 on FreeBSD</p>
          <p>* autoenable HiPE on FreeBSD (32-bit x86) and Solaris
            (64-bit x86)</p>
          <p>* updated x86 runtime system to support glibc-2.5</p>
          <p>* work around probable gcc-4.1.1 bug affecting the x86
            runtime system</p>
          <p>HiPE compiler:</p>
          <p>* improved performance of integer multiplications on
            all platforms</p>
          <p>* corrected a code optimisation error in R11B-2 that
            broke some bsl/bsr operations on all platforms</p>
          <p>* corrected a type error in the ARM backend which
            could cause the compiler to crash</p>
          <p>* corrected an error in the SPARC backend's naive
            register allocator which could throw the compiler into an
            infinite loop</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6423</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Hipe 3.6.0</title>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Support for native code on Solaris 10/AMD64.</p>
          <p>Support for native code on FreeBSD/AMD64.</p>
          <p>Native code now handles external funs (<c><![CDATA[fun M:F/A]]></c>). Native code can now also apply so-called
            tuple-funs (<c><![CDATA[{M,F}]]></c>). (Tuple funs are NOT
            recommended for new code; they are deprecated and will be
            removed in some future release.)</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6305</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Hipe 3.5.6</title>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Improved compilation of receives for the SMP runtime
            system.</p>
          <p>Improved code quality in HiPE compiler on ARM.</p>
          <p>Fix bug in handling of re-raised exceptions in
            try-catch.</p>
          <p>(HiPE loader) When native code is incompatible with
            the current runtime system, fall back to loading the BEAM
            code.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6127</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>
</chapter>