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Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000011<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.5 Release Notes</div>
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13<ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000014 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
15 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
Chris Lattner4b538b92004-04-30 22:17:12 +000016 <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000017 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000018 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
19 <ul>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +000020 <li><a href="#experimental">Experimental features included in this
21 release</a>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000022 <li><a href="#core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
23 <li><a href="#c-fe">Known problems with the C Front-end</a>
24 <li><a href="#c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ Front-end</a>
25 <li><a href="#x86-be">Known problems with the X86 Back-end</a>
Misha Brukmanadb1c392004-07-12 16:55:41 +000026 <li><a href="#sparcv9-be">Known problems with the SparcV9 Back-end</a>
Chris Lattnerf32a5f52004-11-07 01:55:32 +000027 <li><a href="#ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC Back-end</a>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000028 <li><a href="#c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000029 </ul></li>
30 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000031</ol>
32
Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +000033<div class="doc_author">
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000034 <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Team</a><p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000035</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000036
37<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000038<div class="doc_section">
39 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
40</div>
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42
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000043<div class="doc_text">
44
45<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000046infrastructure, release 1.5. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +000047known problems and improvements from the previous release. The most up-to-date
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000048version of this document can be found on the <a
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000049href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.5/">LLVM 1.5 web site</a>. If you are
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +000050not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000051this document may be updated after the release.</p>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +000052
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +000053<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
54release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main LLVM
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +000055web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
56href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000057list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000058
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000059<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS or the main LLVM web page,
60this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one. To see
61the release notes for the current or previous releases, see the <a
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000062href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
63
64</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000065
66<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000067<div class="doc_section">
68 <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
69</div>
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71
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000072<div class="doc_text">
73
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000074<p>This is the sixth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000075
Chris Lattner0bce6ac2004-12-10 16:27:34 +000076<p> At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile a broad range of C and
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000077C++ programs, including the SPEC CPU95 &amp; 2000 suite. TODO. It also includes
78bug fixes for those problems found since the 1.4 release.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000079
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +000080</div>
81
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000082<!--=========================================================================-->
83<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +000084<a name="newfeatures">This release implements the following new features:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000085</div>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +000086
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +000087<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +000088<ol>
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000089 <li></li>
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +000090</ol>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +000091
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +000092</div>
93
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000094
95<!--=========================================================================-->
96<div class="doc_subsubsection">
97In this release, the following missing features were implemented:
98</div>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +000099
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000100<div class="doc_text">
101
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000102<ol>
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000103 <li></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000104</ol>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000105
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000106</div>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000107
108<!--=========================================================================-->
109<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000110<a name="qualityofimp">In this release, the following Quality of Implementation
111issues were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000112</div>
113
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000114<div class="doc_text">
115
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000116<ol>
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000117 <li></li>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000118</ol>
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000119</div>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000120
121<!--=========================================================================-->
122<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000123<a name="codequality">This release includes the following Code Quality
124improvements:</a>
Chris Lattneraab56d42004-05-23 20:42:08 +0000125</div>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000126
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000127<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000128<ol>
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000129 <li></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000130</ol>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000131</div>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000132
133<!--=========================================================================-->
134<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000135<a name="bugfix">In this release, the following bugs in the previous release
136were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000137</div>
138
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000139<div class="doc_text">
140
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000141<p>Bugs fixed in the LLVM Core:</p>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000142
143<ol>
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000144 <li></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000145</ol>
146
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000147<p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>
148
149<ol>
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000150 <li></li>
Brian Gaekee77c8e72004-08-24 07:43:48 +0000151</ol>
152
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000153</div>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000154
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000155<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000156<div class="doc_section">
157 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
158</div>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000159<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
160
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000161<div class="doc_text">
162
John Criswell0b5b5e92004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000163<p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000164
165<ul>
166<li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably
167 other unix-like systems).</li>
168<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000169<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries (limited
170 support is available for native builds with Visual C++).</li>
171<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X systems, running 10.2 and above.</li>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000172</ul>
173
Brian Gaekeb0fd7612004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000174<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
175<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself
176to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor
177porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your
178portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000179
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000180</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000181
182<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000183<div class="doc_section">
184 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
185</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000186<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
187
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000188<div class="doc_text">
189
190<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000191component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000192sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000193href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000194there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000195
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000196</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000197
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000198<!-- ======================================================================= -->
199<div class="doc_subsection">
200 <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
201</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000202
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000203<div class="doc_text">
204
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000205<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
206be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should
207not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
208useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
209components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000210
211<ul>
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000212<li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy, and may be removed in future
213 releases: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep, -ipmodref, -cee, -branch-combine,
214 -instloops, -paths, -pre</tt></li>
215<li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development, but can
216 be used to step through programs and inspect the stack.</li>
Chris Lattner0da7f492004-12-02 17:20:17 +0000217<li>The "iterative scan" register allocator (enabled with -regalloc=iterativescan)
218 is not stable.</li>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000219</ul>
220
221</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000222
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000223<!-- ======================================================================= -->
224<div class="doc_subsection">
225 <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
226</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000227
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000228<div class="doc_text">
229
230<ul>
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000231 <li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not work.
232 </li>
233 <li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
234 such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be
235 corrupted.
236 </li>
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000237 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR240">The lower-invoke pass does not
238 mark values live across a setjmp as volatile</a>. This missing feature
239 only affects targets whose setjmp/longjmp libraries do not save and restore
240 the entire register file.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000241</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000242</div>
243
244<!-- ======================================================================= -->
245<div class="doc_subsection">
246 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
247</div>
Chris Lattner47588f92003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000248
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000249<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000250<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000251
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000252<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000253<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000254<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
255 scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
256<pre>
257 for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) {
258 int X[n];
259 foo(X);
260 }
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000261</pre></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000262
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000263<li>Initialization of global union variables can only be done <a
Misha Brukman43ee2932004-12-04 00:45:09 +0000264href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR162">with the largest union member</a>.</li>
Chris Lattnerf580cdc2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000265
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000266</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000267</div>
268
269<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
270<div class="doc_subsubsection">
271 Notes
272</div>
273
274<div class="doc_text">
275
276<ul>
277
278<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000279
280<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000281support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
282bits.</li>
283
284<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
285work:
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000286 <ol>
287 <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
288 appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
289 <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
290 <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
291 - These functions have not been tested.
292 </ol></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000293
294<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
295 the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
296 <ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000297 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Labels.html#Local%20Labels">Local Labels</a>: Labels local to a block.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000298 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Nested-Functions.html#Nested%20Functions">Nested Functions</a>: As in Algol and Pascal, lexical scoping of functions.</li>
299 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li>
300 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#Extended%20Asm">Extended Asm</a>: Assembler instructions with C expressions as operands.</li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000301 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constraints.html#Constraints">Constraints</a>: Constraints for asm operands.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000302 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Asm-Labels.html#Asm%20Labels">Asm Labels</a>: Specifying the assembler name to use for a C symbol.</li>
303 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Explicit-Reg-Vars.html#Explicit%20Reg%20Vars">Explicit Reg Vars</a>: Defining variables residing in specified registers.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000304 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html#Vector%20Extensions">Vector Extensions</a>: Using vector instructions through built-in functions.</li>
305 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Target-Builtins.html#Target%20Builtins">Target Builtins</a>: Built-in functions specific to particular targets.</li>
Tanya Lattner014e5f52004-12-08 18:25:34 +0000306 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread_002dLocal.html">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000307 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pragmas.html#Pragmas">Pragmas</a>: Pragmas accepted by GCC.</li>
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000308 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000309
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000310 <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000311 attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
312 but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000313 ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000314 the program.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000315
316 <ol>
317 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
318 Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000319 Supported, but allocated stack space is not freed until the function returns (noted above).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000320
321 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes">Function Attributes</a>:
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000322
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000323 Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000324 return.<br>
325
326 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
John Criswell0b5b5e92004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000327 <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>,
328 <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000329 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
330
John Criswell0b5b5e92004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000331 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noinline</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000332 <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
333 <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
334
335 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>,
336 <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
337 <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000338
339 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
340 Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
341 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
342 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
343 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000344
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000345 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
346 <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
347 <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000348 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000349
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000350 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Type-Attributes.html#Type%20Attributes">Type Attributes</a>: Specifying attributes of types.<br>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000351 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000352 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000353
354 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
355 all target specific attributes.</li>
356
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000357 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
358 Other built-in functions.<br>
359 We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
360 <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
361 <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
Chris Lattnerceebeb62004-06-18 06:26:29 +0000362 <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt>
363 (currently ignored). We also support builtins for ISO C99 floating
364 point comparison macros (e.g., <tt>__builtin_islessequal</tt>).</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000365 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000366
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000367 <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
368
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000369 <ol>
Chris Lattner7fe97dd2004-03-16 08:54:07 +0000370 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html#Labels%20as%20Values">Labels as Values</a>: Getting pointers to labels and computed gotos.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000371 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li>
372 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Typeof.html#Typeof">Typeof</a>: <code>typeof</code>: referring to the type of an expression.</li>
Tanya Lattnerca26c3e2004-06-22 03:48:17 +0000373 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.0/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000374 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li>
375 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li>
376 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li>
377 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li>
378 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li>
379 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li>
380 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variadic-Macros.html#Variadic%20Macros">Variadic Macros</a>: Macros with a variable number of arguments.</li>
381 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li>
382 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Subscripting.html#Subscripting">Subscripting</a>: Any array can be subscripted, even if not an lvalue.</li>
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000383 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pointer-Arith.html#Pointer%20Arith">Pointer Arith</a>: Arithmetic on <code>void</code>-pointers and function pointers.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000384 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Initializers.html#Initializers">Initializers</a>: Non-constant initializers.</li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000385 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions,
386or arrays as values.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000387 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html#Designated%20Inits">Designated Inits</a>: Labeling elements of initializers.</li>
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000388 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Cast-to-Union.html#Cast%20to%20Union">Cast to Union</a>: Casting to union type from any member of the union.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000389 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li>
390 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li>
391 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li>
Tanya Lattner78537e42004-12-08 18:29:38 +0000392 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Comments.html#C_002b_002b-Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000393 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li>
394 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Character-Escapes.html#Character%20Escapes">Character Escapes</a>: <code>\e</code> stands for the character &lt;ESC&gt;.</li>
395 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li>
396 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li>
397 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alternate-Keywords.html#Alternate%20Keywords">Alternate Keywords</a>:<code>__const__</code>, <code>__asm__</code>, etc., for header files.</li>
398 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Incomplete-Enums.html#Incomplete%20Enums">Incomplete Enums</a>: <code>enum foo;</code>, with details to follow.</li>
399 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Names.html#Function%20Names">Function Names</a>: Printable strings which are the name of the current function.</li>
Chris Lattner25795bc2004-02-14 04:08:29 +0000400 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Return-Address.html#Return%20Address">Return Address</a>: Getting the return or frame address of a function.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000401 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Unnamed-Fields.html#Unnamed%20Fields">Unnamed Fields</a>: Unnamed struct/union fields within structs/unions.</li>
402 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Attribute-Syntax.html#Attribute%20Syntax">Attribute Syntax</a>: Formal syntax for attributes.</li>
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000403 </ol></li>
404
405</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000406
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000407<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
408lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000409
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000410</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000411
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000412<!-- ======================================================================= -->
413<div class="doc_subsection">
414 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
415</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000416
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000417<div class="doc_text">
418
Reid Spencere09ca642004-12-07 08:39:08 +0000419<p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000420tested and works for a number of non-trivial programs, including LLVM
421itself.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000422
423</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000424
425<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner3a51be12004-02-14 04:12:41 +0000426<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000427
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000428<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000429
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000430<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000431<li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000432 front-end</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner7962f712004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000433
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000434<li><b>IA-64 specific</b>: The C++ front-end does not use <a
435href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR406">IA64 ABI compliant layout of v-tables</a>.
Chris Lattner7962f712004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000436In particular, it just stores function pointers instead of function
437descriptors in the vtable. This bug prevents mixing C++ code compiled with
Chris Lattner04db8082004-08-02 20:29:51 +0000438LLVM with C++ objects compiled by other C++ compilers.</li>
Chris Lattner7962f712004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000439
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000440</ul>
441
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000442</div>
443
444<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
445<div class="doc_subsubsection">
446 Notes
447</div>
448
449<div class="doc_text">
450
451<ul>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000452
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000453<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
454parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
455versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000456href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000457
458<li>Destructors for local objects are not always run when a <tt>longjmp</tt> is
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000459 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000460 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000461 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000462 better than most compilers).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000463
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000464<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
465 href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
466 This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
467 mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
468 representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
469 compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
470 Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
471 <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
472 different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000473 interact correctly</b>. </li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000474
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000475</ul>
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000476
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000477</div>
478
479<!-- ======================================================================= -->
480<div class="doc_subsection">
481 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
482</div>
483
484<div class="doc_text">
485
486<ul>
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000487 <li>none yet</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000488</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000489
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000490</div>
491
492<!-- ======================================================================= -->
493<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukmanadb1c392004-07-12 16:55:41 +0000494 <a name="sparcv9-be">Known problems with the SparcV9 back-end</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000495</div>
496
497<div class="doc_text">
498
499<ul>
Misha Brukmanadb1c392004-07-12 16:55:41 +0000500<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR60">[sparcv9] SparcV9 backend miscompiles
501several programs in the LLVM test suite</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000502</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000503
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000504</div>
505
506<!-- ======================================================================= -->
507<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattnerf32a5f52004-11-07 01:55:32 +0000508 <a name="ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC back-end</a>
509</div>
510
511<div class="doc_text">
512
513<ul>
514<li>none yet</li>
515</ul>
516
517</div>
518
519<!-- ======================================================================= -->
520<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000521 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
522</div>
523
524<div class="doc_text">
525
526<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000527
528<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
529Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
530(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000531problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000532
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000533<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000534supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000535frontends.</li>
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000536
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000537</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000538
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000539</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000540
541<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000542<div class="doc_section">
543 <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
544</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000545<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
546
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000547<div class="doc_text">
548
549<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page,
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000550including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000551implemented in LLVM. The web page also contains versions of the API
552documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code. You
553can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000554the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000555
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000556<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000557us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing
558lists</a>.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000559
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Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000561
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