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@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ it run faster:</p>
<div class="doc_text">
<p>If you're already an LLVM user or developer with out-of-tree changes based
-on LLVM 2.4, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading
+on LLVM 2.5, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading
from the previous release.</p>
<ul>
@@ -433,6 +433,13 @@ from the previous release.</p>
API changes are:</p>
<ul>
+<li>LLVM's global uniquing tables for <tt>Type</tt>s and <tt>Constant</tt>s have
+ been privatized into members of an <tt>LLVMContext</tt>. A number of APIs
+ now take an <tt>LLVMContext</tt> as a parameter. To smooth the transition
+ for clients that will only ever use a single context, the new
+ <tt>getGlobalContext()</tt> API can be used to access a default global
+ context which can be passed in any and all cases where a context is
+ required.
<li>The <tt>getABITypeSize</tt> methods are now called <tt>getAllocSize</tt>.</li>
</ul>
@@ -770,7 +777,7 @@ lists</a>.</p>
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<a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
- Last modified: $Date: 2009-06-24 23:26:42 +0200 (Wed, 24 Jun 2009) $
+ Last modified: $Date: 2009-07-02 18:48:38 +0200 (Thu, 02 Jul 2009) $
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