aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/lib/hipe/doc
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorHenrik <[email protected]>2018-03-14 09:58:15 +0100
committerHenrik <[email protected]>2018-03-14 09:58:15 +0100
commit388b24ea7327ce8c7267b48c3a464ce8c404ddd6 (patch)
treee2d32963f888c4f358e7b020db65a3d591e360ed /lib/hipe/doc
parentc5005dc4f7381bb569c8f27aa7d3d264c4e41ce0 (diff)
parenta113f6117fd696ea6f84ed754055b4ec97a7ccb2 (diff)
downloadotp-388b24ea7327ce8c7267b48c3a464ce8c404ddd6.tar.gz
otp-388b24ea7327ce8c7267b48c3a464ce8c404ddd6.tar.bz2
otp-388b24ea7327ce8c7267b48c3a464ce8c404ddd6.zip
Merge branch 'maint'
Conflicts: OTP_VERSION
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/hipe/doc')
-rw-r--r--lib/hipe/doc/src/notes.xml39
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/hipe/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/hipe/doc/src/notes.xml
index bad0c254ce..c190a89260 100644
--- a/lib/hipe/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/hipe/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,45 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to HiPE.</p>
+<section><title>Hipe 3.17.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix HiPE bug for binary constructs like
+ <c>&lt;&lt;X/utf8&gt;&gt;</c> which could in rare cases
+ cause faulty results or VM crash.</p>
+ <p>
+ This fix affects both the <c>hipe</c> compiler and
+ <c>erts</c> runtime in an <em>incompatible</em> way. Old
+ hipe compiled files need to be recompiled to load and run
+ properly as native.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14850 Aux Id: PR-1664 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The BEAM compiler chooses not to perform tailcall
+ optimisations for some calls in tail position, for
+ example to some built-in functions. However, when the
+ ErLLVM HiPE backend is used, LLVM may choose to perform
+ tailcall optimisation on these calls, breaking the
+ expected semantics.</p>
+ <p>To preserve the precise semantics exhibited by BEAM,
+ the 'notail' marker, present in LLVM since version 3.8,
+ is added to call instructions that BEAM has not turned
+ into tail calls, which inhibits LLVM from performing
+ tail-call optimisation in turn.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14886</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Hipe 3.17</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>