rename popcnt to popcount; avoid inline assembly in favor of gcc builtin functions

[libfirm] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,21 @@
-====== libFirm 1.15 (2008-12-01) ======
+====== libFirm 1.17.0 (2009-05-15) ======
 * bugfixes
+* advanced load/store optimisation which hoists loads out of loops
+* Internal restruturing: Alot of node structures are automatically generated
+   from a specification file now.
+* Add support for multiple calling conventions
+* New experimental support for reading and writing programgraphs to disk
+* Support and optimisations for trampolines
+* fix PIC support
 
-====== libFirm 1.14 (2008-11-22) ======
+====== libFirm 1.16.0 (2009-01-28) ======
+* bugfixes
+* support for builtin nodes
+
+====== libFirm 1.15.0 (2008-12-01) ======
+* bugfixes
+
+====== libFirm 1.14.0 (2008-11-22) ======
 * Implementation of Clicks Combined Analysis/Optimisations
 * New switch lowering code
 * support for global asm statements
@@ -11,6 +25,7 @@
 * Improvements to spill algorithm
 * fix endless loop problems
 * further improve inlining heuristics
+* improve peephole optimisations for x86
 * bugfixes
 
 ====== libFirm 1.13.0 (2008-07-31) ======