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author | Pavel Iliin <Pavel.Iliin@arm.com> | 2021-02-25 22:51:09 +0000 |
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committer | Pavel Iliin <Pavel.Iliin@arm.com> | 2021-03-01 17:36:24 +0000 |
commit | 98f06b16a313ece593f5711778d7da9037f3a2ef (patch) | |
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parent | ReleaseNotes: add lld/ELF notes (diff) | |
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[AArch64][Docs] Release notes 12.x on outline atomics
Description for AArch64 -moutline-atomics, -mno-outline-atomics
options added to release notes.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97510
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diff --git a/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index a43cc33988ab..64f737ff488f 100644 --- a/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -73,6 +73,15 @@ New Compiler Flags - ... +- AArch64 options ``-moutline-atomics``, ``-mno-outline-atomics`` to enable + and disable calls to helper functions implementing atomic operations. These + out-of-line helpers like '__aarch64_cas8_relax' will detect at runtime + AArch64 Large System Extensions (LSE) availability and either use their + atomic instructions, or falls back to LL/SC loop. These options do not apply + if the compilation target supports LSE. Atomic instructions are used directly + in that case. The option's behaviour mirrors GCC, the helpers are implemented + both in compiler-rt and libgcc. + - -fpch-codegen and -fpch-debuginfo generate shared code and/or debuginfo for contents of a precompiled header in a separate object file. This object file needs to be linked in, but its contents do not need to be generated |