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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2006</year><year>2016</year>
+ <year>2006</year><year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -31,6 +31,206 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to HiPE.</p>
+<section><title>Hipe 3.16</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix hipe compiler flags <c>o0</c> and <c>o1</c> that have
+ previously been ignored by mistake.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13862 Aux Id: PR-1154 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix LLVM backend to not convert all remote calls to own
+ module, like <c>?MODULE:foo()</c>, into local calls.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13983</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Hipe optional LLVM backend does require LLVM version 3.9
+ or later as older versions forced strong dependencies on
+ erts internals structures.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14238</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix a bug that has been seen causing failed loading of
+ hipe compiled modules on NetBSD due to unaligned data
+ pointers.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14302 Aux Id: ERL-376, PR-1386 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix miscompilation bug in hipe that could cause wrong
+ function clause to be called from non-tail calls, where
+ the return value is unused, if the right function clause
+ is only reachable from those non-tail calls.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14306 Aux Id: ERL-278, PR-1392 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Improve hipe compilation time for large functions.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13810 Aux Id: PR-1124 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Replaced usage of deprecated symbolic <seealso
+ marker="erts:erlang#type-time_unit"><c>time
+ unit</c></seealso> representations.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13831 Aux Id: OTP-13735 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Speed up hipe compile time register allocation for larger
+ function.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13879</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Various code generation improvements.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14261 Aux Id: PR-1360 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Improve hipe compiler to generate code with better CPU
+ register utilization at runtime by the use of 'Live Range
+ Splitting' techniques.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14293 Aux Id: PR-1380 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Allow HiPE to run on VM built with
+ <c>--enable-m32-build</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14330 Aux Id: PR-1397 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Hipe 3.15.4</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p> Fix a bug concerning parameterized opaque types. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14130</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed xml issues in old release notes</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14269</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Hipe 3.15.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix flow control bug in hipe compiler that may cause
+ compile time crash.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13965 Aux Id: PR-1253 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug in native compilation of bitstring pattern
+ matching causing erroneous runtime matching result. The
+ bug only affects code containing constant-valued segments
+ whose size is expressed in bits; it is triggered when the
+ pattern matching against these segments fails (i.e., when
+ the next clause needs to be tried).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14005</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Workaround in HiPE LLVM backend for a bug in LLVM 3.9.
+ The bug could cause LLVM-compiled modules to be rejected
+ during loading with a badarg exception in
+ hipe_bifs:enter_sdecs/1, but also cause corruption or
+ segmentation faults i runtime.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14027 Aux Id: ERL-292, PR-1237 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix a bug in HiPE LLVM backend involving incorrect type
+ tests of atoms sometimes causing incorrect behaviour or
+ even segfaults.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14028 Aux Id: PR-1237 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Hipe 3.15.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed various hipe compiler backend bugs affecting mostly
+ ARM and SPARC.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13846 Aux Id: PR-1146 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed some Dialyzer warnings and code cleanup for the
+ Sparc compiler backend.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13861 Aux Id: PR-1148 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p> Fix erl_bif_types opaque bug. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13878 Aux Id: PR-1161, ERL-249 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix erl_types opaque match order</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13876</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Hipe 3.15.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
@@ -45,12 +245,12 @@
</item>
<item>
<p>
- Various fixes and improvements to the HiPE LLVM backend.
+ Various fixes and improvements to the HiPE LLVM backend.</p>
<list> <item>Add support for LLVM 3.7 and 3.8 in the
HiPE/LLVM x86_64 backend</item> <item>Reinstate support
for the LLVM backend on x86 (works OK for LLVM 3.5 to 3.7
-- LLVM 3.8 has a bug that prevents it from generating
- correct native code on x86)</item> </list></p>
+ correct native code on x86)</item> </list>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13626</p>
</item>
@@ -106,7 +306,7 @@
<item>
<p>
Fix various binary construction inconsistencies for hipe
- compiled code. <list> <item>Passing bad field sizes to
+ compiled code.</p> <list> <item>Passing bad field sizes to
binary constructions would throw <c>badarith</c> rather
than <c>badarg</c>. Worse, in guards, when the unit size
of the field was 1, the exception would leak rather than
@@ -126,7 +326,7 @@
missing check for unit size match when inserting a
binary. For example, a faulty expression like
<c>&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;1:7&gt;&gt;/binary&gt;&gt;</c> would
- succeed.</item> </list></p>
+ succeed.</item> </list>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-13272</p>
</item>
@@ -1212,7 +1412,7 @@
<list>
<item>
<p>
- Miscellanous updates.</p>
+ Miscellaneous updates.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8038</p>
</item>