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Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]10<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.3 Release Notes</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]11
12<ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]13 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
14 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
Chris Lattner4b538b92004-04-30 22:17:12 +0000[diff] [blame]15 <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]16 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]17 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
18 <ul>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <li><a href="#experimental">Experimental features included in this
20 release</a>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]21 <li><a href="#core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
22 <li><a href="#c-fe">Known problems with the C Front-end</a>
23 <li><a href="#c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ Front-end</a>
24 <li><a href="#x86-be">Known problems with the X86 Back-end</a>
25 <li><a href="#sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc Back-end</a>
26 <li><a href="#c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]27 </ul></li>
28 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]29</ol>
30
Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]31<div class="doc_author">
32 <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM team</a><p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]33</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]34
35<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]36<div class="doc_section">
37 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
38</div>
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40
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]41<div class="doc_text">
42
43<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]44infrastructure, release 1.3. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]45known problems and bug fixes from the previous release. The most up-to-date
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]46version of this document can be found on the <a
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]47href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.3/">LLVM 1.3 web site</a>. If you are
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]48not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]49this document may be updated after the release.</p>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]50
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]51<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about potentially more
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]52current releases, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main
53web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
54href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]55list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]56
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]57<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS, this document applies
58to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one. To see the release notes for
59the current or previous releases, see the <a
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]60href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
61
62</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]63
64<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]65<div class="doc_section">
66 <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
67</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]68<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
69
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]70<div class="doc_text">
71
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]72<p>This is the fourth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. This
Chris Lattnerd4594dc2004-05-04 17:04:09 +0000[diff] [blame]73release primarily improves the <a href="#codequality">performance of the
Chris Lattnerceebeb62004-06-18 06:26:29 +0000[diff] [blame]74code</a> produced by all aspects of the LLVM compiler and adds many <a
75href="#newfeatures">new features</a>, and <a href="#bugfix">fixes a few
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]76bugs</a> as well.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]77
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]78<p> At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all C &amp; C++
79SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks, the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist benchmarks. It
80has also been used to compile <b>many</b> other programs. LLVM now also works
81with a broad variety of C++ programs, though it has still received less testing
82than the C front-end.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]83
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]84</div>
85
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]86<!--=========================================================================-->
87<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000[diff] [blame]88<a name="newfeatures">This release implements the following new features:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]89</div>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]90
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]91<div class="doc_text">
92
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]93<ol>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]94<li>The LLVM <a href="LangRef.html#i_select"><tt>select</tt></a> instruction is
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]95now fully implemented and supported by all transformations, native code
96generators, and the interpreter.</li>
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]97<li>Bugpoint can now narrow down code-generation bugs to a loop nest, where
98before it could only narrow them down to a function being miscompiled.</li>
Brian Gaeke43be3112004-05-04 21:22:57 +0000[diff] [blame]99<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR40">Bugpoint can now debug arbitrary
100modes of llc</a> and lli, by passing them command line flags (e.g.,
101<tt>-regalloc=linearscan</tt>, <tt>-enable-correct-eh-support</tt>, etc.) </li>
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]102<li>The Control Flow Graph in the native code generators is no longer
103constrained to be the same as the CFG for the LLVM input code.</li>
104<li>The LLVM induction variable analysis routines have been rewritten.</li>
105<li>LLVM now has new loop unrolling and loop unswitching passes.</li>
106<li>The induction variable substitution pass performs linear function test
107replacement and exit value replacement optimizations.</li>
Chris Lattner39491a72004-05-24 04:45:52 +0000[diff] [blame]108<li>LLVM now has first-class support for <a href="GarbageCollection.html">Accurate
109Garbage Collection</a>, enabling the use of aggressive copying and generational
110collectors.</li>
111<li>LLVM now includes an implementation of Andersen's interprocedural alias
112analysis algorithm.</li>
Chris Lattner14cd5392004-05-24 05:34:32 +0000[diff] [blame]113<li>Bugpoint can <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR327">extract individual
114basic blocks</a> to track down reduce miscompilation testcases.</li>
Brian Gaeke5beb8ba2004-06-01 20:02:56 +0000[diff] [blame]115<li>LLVM and the C front-end now work under Win32 using the
116<a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a> runtime libraries.
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]117This includes the JIT compiler.</li>
Chris Lattner00f19b622004-06-04 00:40:11 +0000[diff] [blame]118<li>The LLVM code generator is now being <a
119 href="CodeGenerator.html">documented</a>.</li>
Reid Spencer624c5432004-06-08 07:30:31 +0000[diff] [blame]120<li>There is a new tool, llvm-abcd, the Analysis of ByteCode Dumper (abcd).
121This tool can compute basic statistics and bytecode density statistics on a
122module or function basis and also dump out bytecode in a textual format that
123is lower level than assembly (values are not resolved from slot numbers).
124It should only be of interest to (a) those who are working to improve the
125bytecode format and (b) those who really want to understand or document the
126details of the bytecode format.</li>
127<li>The <a href="BytecodeFormat.html">LLVM Bytecode file format</a> is now
128 being documented.</li>
Chris Lattneree98bf52004-06-15 21:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]129<li>LLVM now provides an <a href="LangRef.html#i_isunordered">llvm.isunordered</a> intrinsic
Chris Lattner00cda7a2004-06-11 04:35:21 +0000[diff] [blame]130for efficient implementation of unordered floating point comparisons.</li>
Chris Lattnerceebeb62004-06-18 06:26:29 +0000[diff] [blame]131<li>The llvmgcc front-end now supports the GCC builtins for ISO C99 floating
132point comparison macros (e.g., <tt>__builtin_islessequal</tt>).</li>
Reid Spencerb06e8482004-06-23 06:33:15 +0000[diff] [blame]133<li>Now that there are more source files than can fit on a 32Kbyte command
134line (Linux's limit), there's a new utility for searching the sources. The
135llvmgrep tool in the utils directory combines an egrep and a find without
136passing filenames through the command line. This improves performance
137slightly. Simply run llvmgrep like you might egrep but leave off the file
138names.</li>
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000[diff] [blame]139</ol>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]140
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]141</div>
142
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]143
144<!--=========================================================================-->
145<div class="doc_subsubsection">
146In this release, the following missing features were implemented:
147</div>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]148
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]149<div class="doc_text">
150
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]151<ol>
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]152<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR82">LLVM cannot handle structures with
153more than 256 elements</a></li>
Misha Brukmancb003362004-04-19 03:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]154<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR38">[bugpoint] External functions used in
155non-instruction entities, such as global constant initializer</a></li>
Reid Spencer44ff57a2004-05-09 23:32:39 +0000[diff] [blame]156<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR178">Stacker does not handle targets
157with 64-bit pointers.</a></li>
Misha Brukmancb003362004-04-19 03:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]158<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR290">Bugpoint doesn't support
159uses of external fns by immediate constant exprs</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]160</ol>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]161
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]162</div>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]163
164<!--=========================================================================-->
165<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]166<a name="qualityofimp">In this release, the following Quality of Implementation
167issues were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]168</div>
169
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]170<div class="doc_text">
171
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]172<ol>
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]173<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR305">LLVM tools will happily spew
174bytecode onto your terminal</a></li>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]175<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR329">[llvmgcc] type names are not emitted
176for structure typedefs</a></li>
Chris Lattnerb9656692004-05-24 04:53:32 +0000[diff] [blame]177<li>All documentation is now conformant to the HTML 4.01 (Strict) level.</li>
Chris Lattnerea955512004-06-08 07:19:29 +0000[diff] [blame]178<li>The spurious "WARNING: Found global types that are not compatible" warning
179produced when linking C++ programs has been fixed.</li>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]180</ol>
181
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]182</div>
183
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]184<!--=========================================================================-->
185<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000[diff] [blame]186In this release, the following build problems were fixed:
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]187</div>
188
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]189<div class="doc_text">
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]190<ol>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]191<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR301">Minor configure bugs with
192-disable/enable-povray and -disable-spec</a></li>
193<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR289">shell scripts output by gccld don't
194work if you change PATH</a></li>
Chris Lattner24738a72004-06-09 01:09:16 +0000[diff] [blame]195<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR364">[llvmgcc] llvmgcc does not compile
196with gcc 3.4</a></li>
Chris Lattnerf82bba92004-06-18 17:57:29 +0000[diff] [blame]197<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR373">[llvmgcc] obstack.h relies on
198obsolete casts-as-lvalues GCC extension</a></li>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]199</ol>
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]200</div>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]201
202<!--=========================================================================-->
203<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]204<a name="codequality">This release includes the following Code Quality
205improvements:</a>
Chris Lattneraab56d42004-05-23 20:42:08 +0000[diff] [blame]206</div>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]207
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]208<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]209<ol>
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]210<li>Fixed: <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR309">[vmcore] Code quality problem
211due to long operand of getelementptr</a></li>
Chris Lattner64913402004-04-13 14:43:35 +0000[diff] [blame]212
213<li>The X86 backend now generates substantially better code for 64-bit integer
214and floating point operations.</li>
215
216<li>The -inline pass no longer inlines mutually recursive functions until it
217hits the inlining threshold.</li>
218
219<li>The -inline pass no longer misses obvious inlining opportunities just
220because the callee eventually calls into an external function.</li>
221
222<li>The -simplifycfg pass can now "if convert" simple statements into the new
223<tt>select</tt> instruction.</li>
224
225<li>The -loopsimplify pass can now break <a
226href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR35">natural loops with multiple backedges</a>
227into multiple nested loops. This enables a variety of subsequent
228optimizations.</li>
229
230<li>The -adce pass can now eliminate calls to functions that do not not write to
231memory.</li>
232
233<li>The link-time optimizer now runs the -prune-eh pass (to remove unused
Chris Lattnerd4594dc2004-05-04 17:04:09 +0000[diff] [blame]234exception handlers).</li>
Chris Lattner64913402004-04-13 14:43:35 +0000[diff] [blame]235
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]236<li>The -simplifycfg pass can now eliminate simple correlated branches (such as
237"<tt>if (A &lt; B &amp;&amp; A &lt; B)</tt>", and can turn short-circuiting
238operators into the strict versions when useful (such as "<tt>if (A &lt; B || A
239&gt; C)</tt>" into "<tt>if (A &lt; B | A &gt; C)</tt>"</li>
240
Chris Lattnerd4594dc2004-05-04 17:04:09 +0000[diff] [blame]241<li>LLVM now has infrastructure for (simple and sparse conditional) constant
242propagation of function calls. It currently supports a few math library
243functions like sqrt/sin/cos/etc.</li>
Chris Lattner3bff8f52004-06-03 22:35:13 +0000[diff] [blame]244
245<li>The C backend now emits <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR334">Syntactic
246loops</a> in the code to help C compilers whose optimizers do not recognize
247loops formed from gotos (like GCC).</li>
Brian Gaeke11074e32004-06-11 02:15:39 +0000[diff] [blame]248
249<li>Fixed: <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR368">[sparcv9] null
250often spilled to constant pool</a>.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]251</ol>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000[diff] [blame]252</div>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]253
254<!--=========================================================================-->
255<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]256<a name="bugfix">In this release, the following bugs in the previous release
257were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]258</div>
259
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]260<div class="doc_text">
261
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]262<p>Bugs in the LLVM Core:</p>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]263
264<ol>
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]265<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR306">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify
266incorrectly updates dominator information</a></li>
267<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR310">[tailduplicate] DemoteRegToStack
268breaks SSA form</a></li>
269<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR313">[X86] JIT miscompiles unsigned short
270to floating point cast</a></li>
Reid Spencer7b000962004-06-29 23:39:24 +0000[diff] [blame]271<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR315">[jit] abort, don't warn, when
272missing external functions encountered</a></li>
273<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR330">[vmcore] Linker causes erroneous
274asssertion</a></li>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]275<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR332">[adce] Crash handling unreachable
276code that unwinds</a></li>
277<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR333">[sparc] LLC can't emit 2 functions
278of the same name, both having constant pools</a></li>
279<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR337">[livevar] Live variables missed
280physical register use of aliased definition</a></li>
Reid Spencer7b000962004-06-29 23:39:24 +0000[diff] [blame]281<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR340">Verifier misses malformed switch
282instruction</a></li>
283<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR365">[asmwriter] Asm writer aborts if
284an instruction is not embedded into a function</a></li>
285<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR369">[X86] stackifier crash on floating
286point setcc X, X</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]287</ol>
288
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]289<p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>
290
291<ol>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]292<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR298">[llvmgcc] Variable length array
293indexing miscompiled</a></li>
Reid Spencer7b000962004-06-29 23:39:24 +0000[diff] [blame]294<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR326">[llvmgcc] Crash on use of undeclared
295enum type</a></li>
Chris Lattner19019602004-06-19 01:11:02 +0000[diff] [blame]296<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR355">[llvmgcc] Errors handling function
297prototypes that take opaque structs by-value</a></li>
298<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR374">[llvmgcc] Crash compiling variable
299length array of structures</a></li>
Reid Spencer7b000962004-06-29 23:39:24 +0000[diff] [blame]300<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR377">[llvmgcc] miscompilation of staticly
301initialized unsigned bitfields</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]302</ol>
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]303</div>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000[diff] [blame]304
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]305<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]306<div class="doc_section">
307 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
308</div>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]309<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
310
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]311<div class="doc_text">
312
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]313<p>LLVM is known to work in the following platforms:</p>
314
315<ul>
316<li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably
317 other unix-like systems).</li>
318<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>
319<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.3 and above (C backend and
320 interpreter only, no native codegen is available yet).</li>
321<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries.</li>
322</ul>
323
Brian Gaekeb0fd7612004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000[diff] [blame]324
325<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
326<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself
327to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor
328porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your
329portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]330
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]331<p>Note that the LLVM build system does not currently support directories with
332spaces on them when running on Win32/cygwin. We strongly recommend running
333LLVM and the C frontend out of a top-level directory without spaces (e.g.,
Chris Lattner74032a52004-06-01 19:41:30 +0000[diff] [blame]334<tt>/cygdrive/c/llvm</tt>). Also, make sure to install <b>all</b> of the
335cygwin packages. By default, many important tools are not installed that
336are needed by the LLVM build process or test suite (e.g., /bin/time).</p>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]337
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]338</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]339
Brian Gaeke21a710a2004-04-20 18:18:46 +0000[diff] [blame]340<!--=========================================================================-->
341<div class="doc_subsection">
342In this release, the following portability problems were fixed:
343</div>
344
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]345<div class="doc_text">
346
Brian Gaeke21a710a2004-04-20 18:18:46 +0000[diff] [blame]347<ol>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]348<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR304">warnings compiling Stacker compiler
349on Mac OS X</a></li>
350<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR308">Archive file reader doesn't
351understand abbreviated names in headers</a></li>
Brian Gaeke21a710a2004-04-20 18:18:46 +0000[diff] [blame]352</ol>
353
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]354</div>
355
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]356<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]357<div class="doc_section">
358 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
359</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]360<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
361
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]362<div class="doc_text">
363
364<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]365component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]366sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]367href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]368there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]369
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]370</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]371
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]372<!-- ======================================================================= -->
373<div class="doc_subsection">
374 <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
375</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]376
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]377<div class="doc_text">
378
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]379<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
380be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should
381not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
382useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
383components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]384
385<ul>
386<li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep,
Chris Lattnercbabe702004-06-28 00:44:45 +0000[diff] [blame]387 -ipmodref, -cee</tt></li>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]388
389<li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that
390 it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li>
391<li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool is incomplete and probably buggy.</li>
392<li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development.</li>
393</ul>
394
395</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]396
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]397<!-- ======================================================================= -->
398<div class="doc_subsection">
399 <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
400</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]401
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]402<div class="doc_text">
403
404<ul>
405
406<li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not
407work.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]408
409<li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]410such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be
411corrupted.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]412
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]413<li>It is not possible to <tt>dlopen</tt> an LLVM bytecode file in the JIT.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]414
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]415<li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is very slow (there is no symbol
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]416table in the archive).</li>
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]417
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]418<li>The gccld program <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR139">does not link
419objects/archives in the order specified on the command line.</a></li>
Chris Lattner2e6fcaf2004-02-15 23:09:07 +0000[diff] [blame]420
421<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR240">The lower-invoke pass does not mark
John Criswelld46c6962004-03-12 21:29:42 +0000[diff] [blame]422values live across a setjmp as volatile</a>. This missing feature only affects
Chris Lattner2e6fcaf2004-02-15 23:09:07 +0000[diff] [blame]423targets whose setjmp/longjmp libraries do not save and restore the entire
424register file.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]425</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]426</div>
427
428<!-- ======================================================================= -->
429<div class="doc_subsection">
430 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
431</div>
Chris Lattner47588f92003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000[diff] [blame]432
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]433<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]434<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]435
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]436<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]437<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]438<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
439 scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
440<pre>
441 for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) {
442 int X[n];
443 foo(X);
444 }
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]445</pre></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]446
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]447<li>Initialization of global union variables can only be done <a
448href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=162">with the largest union
449member</a>.</li>
Chris Lattnerf580cdc2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000[diff] [blame]450
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]451<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR244">[llvm-gcc] Error when an implicitly
452external function is re-declared as static</a></li>
Chris Lattnerf580cdc2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000[diff] [blame]453
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]454</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]455</div>
456
457<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
458<div class="doc_subsubsection">
459 Notes
460</div>
461
462<div class="doc_text">
463
464<ul>
465
466<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]467
468<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]469support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
470bits.</li>
471
472<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
473work:
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000[diff] [blame]474 <ol>
475 <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
476 appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
477 <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
478 <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
479 - These functions have not been tested.
480 </ol></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]481
482<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
483 the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
484 <ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]485 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]486 <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>
487 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li>
488 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]489 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]490 <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>
491 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]492 <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>
493 <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>
494 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
495 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]496 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]497
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]498 <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]499 attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
500 but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]501 ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]502 the program.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]503
504 <ol>
505 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
506 Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]507 Supported, but allocated stack space is not freed until the function returns (noted above).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]508
509 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes">Function Attributes</a>:
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]510
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]511 Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]512 return.<br>
513
514 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
515 <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
516 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
517
518 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>,
519 <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
520 <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
521
522 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>,
523 <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
524 <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]525
526 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
527 Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
528 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
529 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
530 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]531
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]532 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
533 <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
534 <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]535 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]536
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]537 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]538 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]539 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]540
541 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
542 all target specific attributes.</li>
543
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]544 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
545 Other built-in functions.<br>
546 We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
547 <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
548 <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
Chris Lattnerceebeb62004-06-18 06:26:29 +0000[diff] [blame]549 <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt>
550 (currently ignored). We also support builtins for ISO C99 floating
551 point comparison macros (e.g., <tt>__builtin_islessequal</tt>).</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]552 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]553
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]554 <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
555
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]556 <ol>
Chris Lattner7fe97dd2004-03-16 08:54:07 +0000[diff] [blame]557 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]558 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li>
559 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]560 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]561 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li>
562 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li>
563 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li>
564 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li>
565 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li>
566 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li>
567 <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>
568 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li>
569 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]570 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]571 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]572 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions,
573or arrays as values.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]574 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]575 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]576 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li>
577 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li>
578 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li>
579 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li>
580 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li>
581 <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>
582 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li>
583 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li>
584 <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>
585 <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>
586 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]587 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]588 <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>
589 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]590 </ol></li>
591
592</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]593
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]594<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
595lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]596
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]597</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]598
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]599<!-- ======================================================================= -->
600<div class="doc_subsection">
601 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
602</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]603
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]604<div class="doc_text">
605
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]606<p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully functional but
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]607has not been tested as thoroughly as the C front-end. It has been tested and
608works for a number of non-trivial programs, but there may be lurking bugs.
609Please report any bugs or problems.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]610
611</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]612
613<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner3a51be12004-02-14 04:12:41 +0000[diff] [blame]614<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]615
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]616<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]617
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]618<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]619<li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]620 front-end</a>.</li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]621</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]622</div>
623
624<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
625<div class="doc_subsubsection">
626 Notes
627</div>
628
629<div class="doc_text">
630
631<ul>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]632
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]633<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
634parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
635versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]636href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]637
638<li>Destructors for local objects are not always run when a <tt>longjmp</tt> is
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]639 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]640 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]641 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]642 better than most compilers).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]643
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]644<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
645 href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
646 This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
647 mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
648 representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
649 compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
650 Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
651 <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
652 different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]653 interact correctly</b>. </li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]654
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]655</ul>
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]656
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]657</div>
658
659<!-- ======================================================================= -->
660<div class="doc_subsection">
661 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
662</div>
663
664<div class="doc_text">
665
666<ul>
Reid Spencerc08bc9a2004-06-19 18:24:05 +0000[diff] [blame]667 <li>Optimized (Release) versions of LLVM built with GCC 3.3.2 or 3.3.3 will
668 produce an llc tool that always enters an infinite loop due to what
669 appears to be an optimization bug (-O2 and -O3) in those versions of GCC.
670 This problem does not happen in GCC 3.3.1 nor GCC 3.4.0 nor does it happen if
671 you build a Debug version of LLVM. You are cautioned not to use GCC 3.3.2 or
672 GCC 3.3.3 to build Optimized versions of LLVM. It is unclear whether this problem
673 affects other backends but it is unlikely.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]674</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]675
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]676</div>
677
678<!-- ======================================================================= -->
679<div class="doc_subsection">
680 <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc back-end</a>
681</div>
682
683<div class="doc_text">
684
685<ul>
Chris Lattner6a39aa52004-03-19 19:22:28 +0000[diff] [blame]686<li>There are several programs in the LLVM testsuite that the Sparc code generator is known to miscompile.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]687</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]688
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]689</div>
690
691<!-- ======================================================================= -->
692<div class="doc_subsection">
693 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
694</div>
695
696<div class="doc_text">
697
698<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]699
700<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
701Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
702(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]703problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]704
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]705<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]706cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or
707Infinity.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]708
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]709<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]710supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]711frontends.</li>
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]712
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]713</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]714
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]715</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]716
717<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]718<div class="doc_section">
719 <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
720</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]721<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
722
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]723<div class="doc_text">
724
725<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page,
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]726including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]727implemented in LLVM. The web page also contains versions of the API
728documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code. You
729can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]730the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]731
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]732<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]733us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing
734lists</a>.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]735
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]736</div>
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