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

[libfirm] / NEWS

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-====== Libfirm 1.13.0 (XXXX-XX-XX) ======
+====== 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 1.16.0 (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
+* improved asm support
+* PIC support for Mac OS X
+* New register pressure minimizing scheduler
+* 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) ======
 
+* VanDrunen's GVN-PRE fixed
 * operator strength reduce fixed and improved
-* fixed 64bit code generation for some rary compare cases
+* fixed 64bit code generation for some rare compare cases
 * better tailrecursion optimization: handles x * func() and x + func()
-* improved inliner: better heuristic for inlining, can now inline recursive calls
+* improved inliner: better heuristics for inlining, can now inline recursive calls
+* improved spiller
 * lowering of CopyB nodes
 * better memory disambiguator
 * float->64bit conversion fixed for x87
-* removed old verbosity level based debugging: all modules ese the new debug facility
+* removed old verbosity level based debugging: all modules use the new debug facility
 * Improved Confirm based optimization and conditional evaluation (using Confirm nodes)
 * BugFixes: tail recursion, load/store optimization, lowering of structure return, conditional
-  evaluation
+  evaluation, removal of unused methods
 * reduced numer of indirections for backend operation
 * ia32 Backend: supports more CPU architectures
 * ARM Backend: fixed frame access
+* support for special segments (like constructors, destructors)
 
-====== Libfirm 1.12.1 (2008-02-18) ======
+====== libFirm 1.12.1 (2008-02-18) ======
 
 * bugfixes for new style initializers with bitfield types
 * make lowerer look at constant initializers too
 
-====== Libfirm 1.12.0 (2008-02-14) ======
+====== libFirm 1.12.0 (2008-02-14) ======
 
 * dependency on libcore and libobstack dropped
 * there's an alternative easier to use way to construct compound initializers
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 * speed improvements
 * optimisation of known libc functions
 
-====== Libfirm 1.11.0 (2008-11-05) ======
+====== libFirm 1.11.0 (2008-11-05) ======
 
 * Lots of bugfixes
 * Compilation speed improved