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| author | David Chisnall <csdavec@swan.ac.uk> | 2018-09-04 10:40:24 +0000 |
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| committer | David Chisnall <csdavec@swan.ac.uk> | 2018-09-04 10:40:24 +0000 |
| commit | cfc313e7bb0a8952e3dddf4dde8914b8931b77ff (patch) | |
| tree | ec667d20b03d11545030c3fec03397f7a4920dd9 | |
| parent | 060dceee4a1342b9d87da8a00146395a8bf91afc (diff) | |
Add release notes for the new GNUstep Objective-C ABI.
| -rw-r--r-- | clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | 8 |
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diff --git a/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index 1523d32adee..a4b7a9c867b 100644 --- a/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -235,6 +235,14 @@ C++1z Feature Support Objective-C Language Changes in Clang ------------------------------------- +Clang now supports the GNUstep Objective-C ABI v2 on ELF platforms. This is +enabled with the `-fobjc-runtime=gnustep-2.0` flag. The new ABI is incompatible +with the older GNUstep ABIs, which were incremental changes on the old GCC ABI. +The new ABI provides richer reflection metadata and allows the linker to remove +duplicate selector and protocol definitions, giving smaller binaries. Windows +support for the new ABI is underway, but was not completed in time for the LLVM +7.0 release. + ... OpenCL C/C++ Language Changes in Clang |