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| <h1>Clang 3.1 Release Notes</h1> |
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| <ul> |
| <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in Clang 3.1?</a> |
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| <li><a href="#majorfeatures">Major New Features</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#cchanges">C Language Changes</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#cxxchanges">C++ Language Changes</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#objcchanges">Objective-C Language Changes</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#apichanges">Internal API Changes</a></li> |
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| <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li> |
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| <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM Team</a></p> |
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| <h1 style="color:red">These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Clang 3.1 |
| release.<br> |
| You may prefer the |
| <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.0/docs/ClangReleaseNotes.html">Clang 3.0 |
| Release Notes</a>.</h1> |
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| <h2 id="intro">Introduction</h2> |
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| <p>This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C |
| frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.1. Here we |
| describe the status of Clang in some detail, including major improvements from |
| the previous release and new feature work. For the general LLVM release notes, |
| see <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">the LLVM |
| documentation</a>. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the |
| <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM releases web site</a>.</p> |
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| <p>For more information about Clang or LLVM, including information about the |
| latest release, please check out the main please see the |
| <a href="http://clang.llvm.org">Clang Web Site</a> or the |
| <a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Web Site</a>. |
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| <p>Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main |
| Clang web page, this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the |
| current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the |
| <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p> |
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| <h2 id="whatsnew">What's New in Clang 3.1?</h2> |
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| <p>Some of the major new features and improvements to Clang are listed here. |
| Generic improvements to Clang as a whole or two its underlying infrastructure |
| are described first, followed by language-specific sections with improvements to |
| Clang's support for those languages.</p> |
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| <h3 id="majorfeatures">Major New Features</h3> |
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| <h4 id="majorfeature1">Feature 1</h4> |
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| <h4 id="diagnostics">New and better diagnostics</h4> |
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| <p>New: <code>-Wdangling-else</code>, <code>-Wstrncat-size</code>, ...</p> |
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| <p>Improved: <code>-Wformat</code>, <code>-Wempty-body</code>, |
| <code>-Wliteral-conversion</code>, ...</p> |
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| <h4 id="tooling">Tooling</h4> |
| <!-- FIXME: add a link to the tooling documentation once that's written. --> |
| <p>Added an API to enable clang-based standalone tools, including initial build |
| system integration.</p> |
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| <h3 id="cchanges">C Language Changes in Clang</h3> |
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| <h4 id="c11changes">C11 Feature Support</h4> |
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| <p>Clang 3.1 adds support for anonymous structs and anonymous unions, added in |
| the latest ISO C standard. Use <code>-std=c11</code> or <code>-std=gnu11</code> |
| to enable support for the new language standard. The new C11 features are |
| backwards-compatible and are available as an extension in all language |
| modes.</p> |
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| <p>All warning and language selection flags which previously accepted |
| <code>c1x</code> have been updated to accept <code>c11</code>. The old |
| <code>c1x</code> forms have been removed. |
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| <h3 id="cxxchanges">C++ Language Changes in Clang</h3> |
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| <h4 id="cxx11changes">C++11 Feature Support</h4> |
| <p>Clang 3.1 adds support for |
| <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html#cxx11">more of the language |
| features</a> added in the latest ISO C++ standard, |
| <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=50372">C++ 2011</a>. |
| Use <code>-std=c++11</code> or <code>-std=gnu++11</code> to enable support for |
| these features. In addition to the features supported by Clang 3.0, the |
| following are now considered to be of production quality: |
| <ul> |
| <li>Generalized constant expressions</li> |
| <li>Lambda expressions</li> |
| <li>Generalized initializers</li> |
| <li>Unrestricted unions</li> |
| <li>User-defined literals</li> |
| <li>Forward-declared enumerations</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h3 id="objcchanges">Objective-C Language Changes in Clang</h3> |
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| Clang 3.1 introduces several new Objective-C language features and improvements. |
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| <h4 id="objcwformat">Format string checking for NSString literals</h4> |
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| <code>-Wformat</code> now checks <code>@"nsstring literals"</code>. |
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| <h3 id="apichanges">Internal API Changes</h3> |
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| These are major API changes that have happened since the 3.0 release of Clang. |
| If upgrading an external codebase that uses Clang as a library, this section |
| should help get you past the largest hurdles of upgrading. |
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| <h4 id="api1">API change 1</h4> |
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| <h2 id="knownproblems">Significant Known Problems</h2> |
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| <h2 id="additionalinfo">Additional Information</h2> |
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| <p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the |
| <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">Clang web page</a>. The web page contains |
| versions of the API documentation which are up-to-date with the Subversion |
| version of the source code. You can access versions of these documents specific |
| to this release by going into the "<tt>clang/doc/</tt>" directory in the Clang |
| tree.</p> |
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| <p>If you have any questions or comments about Clang, please feel free to |
| contact us via the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev"> |
| mailing list</a>.</p> |
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