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18<h1>Clang 3.0 Release Notes</h1>
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24 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
25 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in Clang 3.0?</a>
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27 <li><a href="#majorfeatures">Major New Features</a></li>
28 <li><a href="#cchanges">C Language Changes</a></li>
29 <li><a href="#cxxhanges">C++ Language Changes</a></li>
30 <li><a href="#objchanges">Objective-C Language Changes</a></li>
31 <li><a href="#apichanges">Internal API Changes</a></li>
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33 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a></li>
34 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
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38 <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM Team</a></p>
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50<h2 id="intro">Introduction</h2>
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53<p>This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C
54frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.0. Here we
55describe the status of Clang in some detail, including major improvements from
56the previous release and new feature work. For the general LLVM release notes,
57see <a href ="http;//llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">the LLVM
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61<p>For more information about Clang or LLVM, including information about the
62latest release, please check out the main please see the
63<a href="http://clang.llvm.org">Clang Web Site</a> or the
64<a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Web Site</a>.
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66<p>Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main
67Clang web page, this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the
68current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the
69<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
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72<h2 id="whatsnew">What's New in Clang 3.0?</h2>
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75<p>Some of the major new features and improvements to Clang are listed here.
76Generic improvements to Clang as a whole or two its underlying infrastructure
77are described first, followed by language-specific sections with improvements to
78Clang's support for those languages.</p>
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81<h3 id="majorfeatures">Major New Features</h3>
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Chandler Carrutha3950cc2011-11-28 08:41:06 +0000[diff] [blame]84<h4 id="notes">Unorganized Notes</h4>
85<p>These are completely random notes as I'm organizing my thoughts and reviewing
86the history. Anything still here needs to be distilled and turned into proper
87prose in a section of its own. When doing that, delete the notes.</p>
88<ul>
89 <li>Make analyzer (especially as used w/ warnings in Clang) much faster</li>
90 <li>OpenCL support -- need details from Tanya and Peter -- separate language
91 section?</li>
92 <li>Building Clang on windows -- mingw, 32 and 64 bit, native windows builds,
93 cygwin. get chapuni to flesh out details.</li>
Chandler Carruth1af40222011-11-28 09:43:30 +0000[diff] [blame]94 <li>Compiling C/C++ w/ MinGW (32/64) and Cygwin on Windows -- chapuni</li>
95 <li>C++ -- Parsing and AST support for Windows Structured Exception
96 Handling.</li>
Chandler Carrutha3950cc2011-11-28 08:41:06 +0000[diff] [blame]97 <li>C++11 -- noexcept (Sebastian Redl)</li>
98 <li>Uninitialized values Clang warning rewrite -- more accurate, faster, able
99 to differentiate between the possibility of an uninitialized use and the
100 certainty of an uninitialized use.</li>
101 <li>Enhancements to PPCallbacks
102 <ul>
103 <li>exact include paths<li>
104 </ul>
105 </li>
106 <li>Support for language specific address spaces</li>
Chandler Carruth1af40222011-11-28 09:43:30 +0000[diff] [blame]107 <li>Support for compiling on NetBSD systems -- Joerg Sonnenberger to fill
108 out</li>
Chandler Carrutha3950cc2011-11-28 08:41:06 +0000[diff] [blame]109 <li>Support for '--sysroot' based cross-compilation</li>
110 <li>Crash recovery handling for libclang clients -- Ted</li>
111 <li>Driver support for automatic preparation of reproduction steps for
112 compiler crashes -- Chad</li>
113 <li>OS Availability attribute -- r128127</li>
114 <li>GNU ObjectiveC Runtime support -- David Chisnall</li>
115 <li>C++11 -- override</li>
116 <li>Diagnostic improvements bucket?
117 <ul>
118 <li>Emitting fewer include stacks</li>
Chandler Carruth1af40222011-11-28 09:43:30 +0000[diff] [blame]119 <li>Significantly better recovery when encountering misspelled type names
120 in a declaration context. r130082</li>
Chandler Carrutha3950cc2011-11-28 08:41:06 +0000[diff] [blame]121 </ul>
122 </li>
123 <li>C++ -- supported in the static analyzer: methods, new, constructors,
124 destructors, etc.</li>
Chandler Carruth1af40222011-11-28 09:43:30 +0000[diff] [blame]125 <li>Improved AST support for partially constructed nodes and incomplete
126 information for LLDB and other clients which dynamically build AST nodes.</li>
127 <li>Largely complete MSVC-compatible parsing mode -- fpichet</li>
128 <li>C1X -- static asserts and generic selections</li>
129 <li>C++11 -- alias declarations -- zygoloid</li>
130 <li>C++11 -- range-based-for loops -- zygoloid</li>
Chandler Carruthbba72a82011-11-28 10:57:14 +0000[diff] [blame^]131 <li>C++11 -- nullptr -- zygoloid</li>
Chandler Carruth1af40222011-11-28 09:43:30 +0000[diff] [blame]132 <li>C++11 -- delegating ctors -- zygoloid/scshunt<li>
133 <li>Memory reduction -- initializers, macro expansions, source locations,
134 etc.</li>
135 <li>Full set of type traits, sufficient to support C++11 standard libraries;
136 also expression traits.</li>
Chandler Carruthbba72a82011-11-28 10:57:14 +0000[diff] [blame^]137 <li>CFI-based debug info -- nlewycky/espindola details</li>
Chandler Carrutha3950cc2011-11-28 08:41:06 +0000[diff] [blame]138</ul>
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161<h2 id="additionalinfo">Additional Information</h2>
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164<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the
165<a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">Clang web page</a>. The web page contains
166versions of the API documentation which are up-to-date with the Subversion
167version of the source code. You can access versions of these documents specific
168to this release by going into the "<tt>clang/doc/</tt>" directory in the Clang
169tree.</p>
170
171<p>If you have any questions or comments about Clang, please feel free to
172contact us via the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev">
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