avoid new_NoMem in favor or get_irg_no_mem

[libfirm] / NEWS

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-====== Libfirm 1.13.0 (XXXX-XX-XX) ======
+====== libFirm 1.18.1 (1010-05-05) ======
+* Fix bug where stackframe was not always setup for -fno-omit-frame-pointer
+* bugfixes in Asm handling
 
+====== libFirm 1.18.0 (2010-04-15) ======
+* Includes "Preference Guided Register Assignment" algorithm
+* Experimental Value Range Propagation
+* Loop Inversion and experimental Loop Unrolling code
+* Simplified construction interface. Most node constructors don't need graph/block arguments anymore.
+* Reworked type interface. Type names are optional now. Support for additional linkage types that among others support C++ 'linkonce' semantics now.
+* Small changes in constructors and node getters/setters (mostly adding 'const' to some getters)
+* code cleanup, smaller improvements in API specification
+* bugfixes
+
+====== 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
-* better tailrecursion optimization: handlöes x * func() and x + func()
-* inlining can now handle recursive calls
+* fixed 64bit code generation for some rare compare cases
+* better tailrecursion optimization: handles x * func() and x + func()
+* 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 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, 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