[commit: ghc] master: add more information about the nature of support of prefetch primops on none x86/AMD64 -fasm platforms (and -fvia) to the 7.8 release notes (27fe128)
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commit 27fe12856a34488ea94291990238c37e5353d1a3
Author: Carter Tazio Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jan 30 12:27:35 2014 -0500
add more information about the nature of support of prefetch primops on none x86/AMD64 -fasm platforms (and -fvia)
to the 7.8 release notes
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
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27fe12856a34488ea94291990238c37e5353d1a3
docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
index c60bacf..7568246 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
@@ -554,8 +554,12 @@
guide the processor's caching decisions.
</para>
<para>
- Currently, these are only supported with the LLVM
- backend and x86/amd64 backends.
+ Currently, the primops get translated into
+ the associated hardware supported prefetch
+ instructions only with the LLVM backend and
+ x86/amd64 backends. On all other backends,
+ the prefetch primops are currently erased
+ at code generation time.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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