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Chris Lattner5c3389a2004-08-16 00:20:18 +0000[diff] [blame]11<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.4 Release Notes</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]12
13<ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]14 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
15 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
Chris Lattner4b538b92004-04-30 22:17:12 +0000[diff] [blame]16 <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]17 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]18 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
19 <ul>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]20 <li><a href="#experimental">Experimental features included in this
21 release</a>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]22 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]26 <li><a href="#sparcv9-be">Known problems with the SparcV9 Back-end</a>
Chris Lattnerf32a5f52004-11-07 01:55:32 +0000[diff] [blame]27 <li><a href="#ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC Back-end</a>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]28 <li><a href="#c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]29 </ul></li>
30 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]31</ol>
32
Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]33<div class="doc_author">
34 <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]35</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]36
37<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]38<div class="doc_section">
39 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
40</div>
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42
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]43<div class="doc_text">
44
45<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
Chris Lattner5c3389a2004-08-16 00:20:18 +0000[diff] [blame]46infrastructure, release 1.4. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]47known problems and bug fixes from the previous release. The most up-to-date
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]48version of this document can be found on the <a
Chris Lattner5c3389a2004-08-16 00:20:18 +0000[diff] [blame]49href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.4/">LLVM 1.4 web site</a>. If you are
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]50not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]51this document may be updated after the release.</p>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]52
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]53<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about potentially more
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]54current releases, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main
55web 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 +0000[diff] [blame]57list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]58
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]59<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS, this document applies
60to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one. To see the release notes for
61the current or previous releases, see the <a
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]62href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
63
64</div>
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66<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]67<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 +0000[diff] [blame]72<div class="doc_text">
73
Chris Lattner5c3389a2004-08-16 00:20:18 +0000[diff] [blame]74<p>This is the fifth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]75
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]76<p> At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all C &amp; C++
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000[diff] [blame]77SPEC CPU95 &amp; 2000 benchmarks, the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist
Chris Lattner9b3b04f2004-10-16 18:35:57 +0000[diff] [blame]78benchmarks, and <b>many</b> other C and C++ programs.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]79
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]80</div>
81
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]82<!--=========================================================================-->
83<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000[diff] [blame]84<a name="newfeatures">This release implements the following new features:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]85</div>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]86
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]87<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]88<ol>
Chris Lattnera4bcecf2004-11-27 19:24:06 +0000[diff] [blame]89 <li>LLVM now includes a JIT for the PowerPC target.</li>
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]90 <li>LLVM now optimizes global variables significantly more than it did
91 before.
Reid Spencer6454ed32004-11-18 18:38:58 +0000[diff] [blame]92 </li>
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]93 <li>LLVM now includes the new '<tt>undef</tt>' value and
94 <a href="LangRef.html#i_unreachable"><tt>unreachable</tt></a> instruction,
95 which give the optimizer more information about the behavior of the
96 program.
97 </li>
98 <li>llvmgcc and llvmg++ now emit source line number information when '-g' is
99 passed in. This information can be used with llvm-db or other tools and
100 passes.
101 </li>
102 <li>The test/Programs hierarchy <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR257">has
103 been moved out of the main LLVM tree</a> into a separate CVS repository and
104 tarball. This shrinks the distribution size of LLVM itself significantly.
105 </li>
106 <li>Bytecode compression with bzip2 has been implemented. All bytecode files
107 generated by LLVM will now be compressed by default. Compression can be
108 disabled with the <tt>-disable-compression</tt> option to the tools that can
109 generate bytecode files.
110 </li>
111 <li>A generic <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR353">compiler driver</a> and
112 an associated <a href="CommandGuide/html/llvm-ld.html">generic linker</a> have
113 been implemented. The compiler driver is generic because it can be configured
114 to pre-process, translate, optimize, assemble, and link code from any source
115 language. This aids compiler writers because all that is needed is a
116 source-to-bytecode or source-to-assembly translator and a configuration file.
117 The linker is generic because it allows dynamically loadable optimization
118 modules to be executed for link-time optimization. Language specific
119 link-time optimization modules can be created and executed automatically.
120 </li>
121 <li>The <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR263">dependent libraries</a>
122 feature has been implemented. This allows front end compilers to indicate in
123 the bytecode which libraries the bytecode needs to be linked with. Both the
124 C/C++ front end and Stacker support generating the required libraries. The
125 Linker now supports using this information to ensure required libaries are
126 linked into the module. This minimizes the need to use the <tt>-l</tt> option
127 when using <a href="CommandGuide/html/llvmc.html"><tt>llvmc</tt></a>
128 </li>
129 <li>The LLVM makefiles have been improved to build LLVM faster (2x) and
130 includes new targets (like dist-check, uninstall). One important change is
131 associated with <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR456">PR456</a>. The
132 libraries and tools will now be built into <tt>$builddir/Debug/{bin,lib}</tt>
133 instead of <tt>$builddir/tools/Debug</tt> and <tt>$builddir/lib/Debug</tt>.
134 Similarly for <tt>Release</tt> and <tt>Profile</tt> builds.
Reid Spencer6454ed32004-11-18 18:38:58 +0000[diff] [blame]135 </li>
Chris Lattner7c8dd7f2004-11-17 18:19:32 +0000[diff] [blame]136 <li>The LLVM source code is much more compatible with Microsoft Visual C++,
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]137 including the JIT and runtime-code generation, though the entire system
138 may not work with it.
139 </li>
Chris Lattnere55cb542004-11-22 22:09:58 +0000[diff] [blame]140 <li>The target-to-JIT interfaces <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR283">are
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]141 now much simpler</a> and more powerful.
142 </li>
Chris Lattnera4bcecf2004-11-27 19:24:06 +0000[diff] [blame]143 <li>zlib and libpng are <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR417">no longer
144 included in the main LLVM tarball</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner748e58b2004-11-27 19:50:58 +0000[diff] [blame]145 <li>The LLVM code generator now generates asm writers for the target from
146 an abstract target description, instead of requiring them to be hand
147 written.</li>
Chris Lattnerb7c00752004-11-27 21:29:43 +0000[diff] [blame]148 <li>LLVM regression and feature tests can now be run with DejaGNU.</li>
Chris Lattnerd92017a2004-12-01 17:10:36 +0000[diff] [blame]149 <li>llvmgcc and llvmg++ now emit source-level line number information, making
150 it possible to map from LLVM code back to source. This is currently used
151 by llvm-db.</li>
Chris Lattner06a60f52004-12-02 18:21:45 +0000[diff] [blame]152 <li>Floating point intensive programs on X86 systems run much faster
153 with the LLC code generator and JIT than in 1.3.</li>
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000[diff] [blame]154</ol>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]155
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]156</div>
157
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]158
159<!--=========================================================================-->
160<div class="doc_subsubsection">
161In this release, the following missing features were implemented:
162</div>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]163
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]164<div class="doc_text">
165
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]166<ol>
Reid Spencer6454ed32004-11-18 18:38:58 +0000[diff] [blame]167 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR419">JIT interface should support
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]168 arbitrary calls</a>
169 </li>
Reid Spencer6454ed32004-11-18 18:38:58 +0000[diff] [blame]170 <li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool was previously incomplete and didn't properly
171 support other ar(1) implementations. This has been corrected. <tt>llvm-ar</tt>
172 now fully supports all archive editing functions, table of contents listing,
173 extraction, and printing. It can also read BSD4.4/MacOSX and SVR4 style
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]174 archives. See <a href="CommandGuide/html/llvm-ar.html">llvm-ar</a> for
175 details.
176 </li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]177</ol>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]178
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]179</div>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]180
181<!--=========================================================================-->
182<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]183<a name="qualityofimp">In this release, the following Quality of Implementation
184issues were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]185</div>
186
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]187<div class="doc_text">
188
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]189<ol>
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]190 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR426">[llvmg++] Tons of warnings
191 are spewed when linking to libstdc++</a>
192 </li>
193 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR352">include/{Support,Config} ->
194 include/llvm/{Support,Config}</a>
195 </li>
Reid Spencerccbc9cf2004-11-22 18:40:51 +0000[diff] [blame]196 <li>The names of the libraries generated by compiling LLVM source have been
197 changed to ensure they do not conflict with other packages upon installation.
198 Each LLVM library is now prefixed with LLVM and uses mixed clase. For example,
199 the library <tt>libasmparser.a</tt> in 1.3 has become
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]200 <tt>libLLVMAsmParser.a</tt> in release 1.4.
201 </li>
Chris Lattnerc33bf812004-11-27 21:33:28 +0000[diff] [blame]202 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR459">[llvmg++] C++ frontend is expanding
203 lots of unused inline functions</a></li>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]204</ol>
205
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]206</div>
207
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]208<!--=========================================================================-->
209<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000[diff] [blame]210In this release, the following build problems were fixed:
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]211</div>
212
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]213<div class="doc_text">
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]214<ol>
Reid Spencer7409d1c2004-11-25 06:07:42 +0000[diff] [blame]215 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR256">[autoconf] further standardizing
216 autoconf usage</a>. Various improvements in the configure.ac script were
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]217 made as well as the makefile system.
218 </li>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]219</ol>
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]220</div>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]221
222<!--=========================================================================-->
223<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]224<a name="codequality">This release includes the following Code Quality
225improvements:</a>
Chris Lattneraab56d42004-05-23 20:42:08 +0000[diff] [blame]226</div>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]227
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]228<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]229<ol>
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]230 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR362">Ugly code generated for
231 std::min/std::max</a>
232 </li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]233</ol>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000[diff] [blame]234</div>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]235
236<!--=========================================================================-->
237<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]238<a name="bugfix">In this release, the following bugs in the previous release
239were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]240</div>
241
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]242<div class="doc_text">
243
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000[diff] [blame]244<p>Bugs fixed in the LLVM Core:</p>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]245
246<ol>
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]247 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR420">[licm] LICM invalidates alias
248 analysis info and uses broken information</a> (optimizer crash)</li>
249 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR422">[asmwriter] Asmwriter is really
250 slow for functions with lots of values</a></li>
251 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR423">[anders-aa] Andersen's AA is
252 completely broken in LLVM 1.3</a></li>
253 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR430">[bcwriter] Empty compaction
254 tables defined</a></li>
255 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR227">[X86] llc output for functions
256 w/certain names tickles GNU 'as' bugs</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]257</ol>
258
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]259<p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>
260
261<ol>
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]262 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR445">[llvmg++] not enough templates are
263 instantiated</a></li>
264 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR450">[llvmg++] Extern const globals
265 cannot be marked 'constant' if they have nontrivial ctors or dtors</a></li>
266 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR461">[llvmgcc] Crash compiling unnamed
Chris Lattner4df69b82004-11-25 06:31:42 +0000[diff] [blame]267 bitfield which does not increase struct size</a></li>
Chris Lattner748e58b2004-11-27 19:50:58 +0000[diff] [blame]268 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR424">[llvmgcc] llvmgcc emits invalid
269 constant exprs</a></li>
Chris Lattner0db649c2004-11-27 22:47:08 +0000[diff] [blame]270 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR421">[llvmg++] Crash in initializing
271 array with constructors in hard EH situations</a></li>
Chris Lattnereeeff012004-11-27 23:27:26 +0000[diff] [blame]272 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR397">[llvm-gcc] Inline function
273 redefinitions error due to 'asm' function rename</a></li>
Chris Lattner87c74b72004-11-28 00:43:59 +0000[diff] [blame]274 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR244">[llvm-gcc] Error when an
Chris Lattner9b5d3952004-11-28 00:09:38 +0000[diff] [blame]275 implicitly external function is re-declared as static</a></li>
Chris Lattner87c74b72004-11-28 00:43:59 +0000[diff] [blame]276 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR360">[llvmgcc] Structure field with
277 non-constant offset crashes llvmgcc</a></li>
Chris Lattner04cf0c22004-11-28 01:25:20 +0000[diff] [blame]278 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR447">[llvmg++] Crash compiling
279 friend with default argument</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]280</ol>
Brian Gaekee77c8e72004-08-24 07:43:48 +0000[diff] [blame]281
282<p>Bugs fixed in the Sparc V9 back-end:</p>
283
284<ol>
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]285 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR428">[sparcv9] regalloc assertion
Brian Gaekee77c8e72004-08-24 07:43:48 +0000[diff] [blame]286 failure with certain indirect calls</a></li>
287</ol>
288
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]289</div>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000[diff] [blame]290
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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]292<div class="doc_section">
293 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
294</div>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]295<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
296
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]297<div class="doc_text">
298
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]299<p>LLVM is known to work in the following platforms:</p>
300
301<ul>
302<li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably
303 other unix-like systems).</li>
304<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]305<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries.</li>
Chris Lattner4f7ac4c2004-11-25 06:33:10 +0000[diff] [blame]306<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.2 and above.</li>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]307</ul>
308
Brian Gaekeb0fd7612004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000[diff] [blame]309<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
310<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself
311to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor
312porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your
313portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]314
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]315<p>Note that the LLVM build system does not currently support directories with
316spaces on them when running on Win32/cygwin. We strongly recommend running
317LLVM and the C frontend out of a top-level directory without spaces (e.g.,
Chris Lattner74032a52004-06-01 19:41:30 +0000[diff] [blame]318<tt>/cygdrive/c/llvm</tt>). Also, make sure to install <b>all</b> of the
319cygwin packages. By default, many important tools are not installed that
Chris Lattner5aff3552004-08-16 20:20:46 +0000[diff] [blame]320are needed by the LLVM build process or test suite (e.g., /bin/time). Finally,
321please make sure that there are no directories with spaces in them in your
322PATH environment variable.</p>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]323
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]324</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]325
326<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]327<div class="doc_section">
328 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
329</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]330<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
331
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]332<div class="doc_text">
333
334<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]335component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]336sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]337href="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]338there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]339
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]340</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]341
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]342<!-- ======================================================================= -->
343<div class="doc_subsection">
344 <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
345</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]346
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]347<div class="doc_text">
348
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]349<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
350be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should
351not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
352useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
353components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]354
355<ul>
356<li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep,
Chris Lattner9934f972004-09-14 16:43:13 +0000[diff] [blame]357 -ipmodref, -cee, -branch-combine, -instloops, -paths</tt></li>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]358<li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that
359 it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]360<li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development.</li>
Chris Lattner0da7f492004-12-02 17:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]361<li>The "iterative scan" register allocator (enabled with -regalloc=iterativescan)
362 is not stable.</li>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]363</ul>
364
365</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]366
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]367<!-- ======================================================================= -->
368<div class="doc_subsection">
369 <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
370</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]371
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]372<div class="doc_text">
373
374<ul>
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000[diff] [blame]375 <li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not work.
376 </li>
377 <li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
378 such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be
379 corrupted.
380 </li>
381 <li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is slow by default because
382 there is no symbol table in the archive. To remedy this, run
383 <a href="CommandGuide/html/llvm-ranlib.html"><tt>llvm-ranlib</tt></a> on the
384 archive to add an LLVM symbol table.
385 </li>
386 <li>The gccld program <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR139">does not link
387 objects/archives in the order specified on the command line.</a>
388 </li>
389 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR240">The lower-invoke pass does not
390 mark values live across a setjmp as volatile</a>. This missing feature
391 only affects targets whose setjmp/longjmp libraries do not save and restore
392 the entire register file.</li>
Reid Spencer043e4b12004-11-25 22:43:58 +0000[diff] [blame]393 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR427">[bytecode] Assertion on V1
394 Bytecode Files</a>. This bug won't be fixed because V1 bytecode had its own
395 problems, no one is using V1 bytecode any more, and the fix is non-trivial.
396 </li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]397</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]398</div>
399
400<!-- ======================================================================= -->
401<div class="doc_subsection">
402 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
403</div>
Chris Lattner47588f92003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000[diff] [blame]404
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]405<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]406<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]407
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]408<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]409<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]410<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
411 scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
412<pre>
413 for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) {
414 int X[n];
415 foo(X);
416 }
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]417</pre></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]418
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]419<li>Initialization of global union variables can only be done <a
420href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=162">with the largest union
421member</a>.</li>
Chris Lattnerf580cdc2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000[diff] [blame]422
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]423<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR244">[llvm-gcc] Error when an implicitly
424external function is re-declared as static</a></li>
Chris Lattnerf580cdc2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000[diff] [blame]425
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]426</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]427</div>
428
429<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
430<div class="doc_subsubsection">
431 Notes
432</div>
433
434<div class="doc_text">
435
436<ul>
437
438<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]439
440<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]441support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
442bits.</li>
443
444<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
445work:
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000[diff] [blame]446 <ol>
447 <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
448 appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
449 <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
450 <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
451 - These functions have not been tested.
452 </ol></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]453
454<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
455 the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
456 <ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]457 <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]458 <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>
459 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li>
460 <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]461 <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]462 <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>
463 <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]464 <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>
465 <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>
466 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
467 <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]468 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]469
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]470 <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]471 attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
472 but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]473 ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]474 the program.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]475
476 <ol>
477 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
478 Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]479 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]480
481 <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]482
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]483 Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]484 return.<br>
485
486 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
487 <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
488 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
489
490 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>,
491 <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
492 <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
493
494 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>,
495 <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
496 <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]497
498 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
499 Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
500 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
501 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
502 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]503
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]504 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
505 <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
506 <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]507 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]508
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]509 <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]510 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]511 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]512
513 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
514 all target specific attributes.</li>
515
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]516 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
517 Other built-in functions.<br>
518 We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
519 <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
520 <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
Chris Lattnerceebeb62004-06-18 06:26:29 +0000[diff] [blame]521 <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt>
522 (currently ignored). We also support builtins for ISO C99 floating
523 point comparison macros (e.g., <tt>__builtin_islessequal</tt>).</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]524 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]525
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]526 <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
527
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]528 <ol>
Chris Lattner7fe97dd2004-03-16 08:54:07 +0000[diff] [blame]529 <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]530 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li>
531 <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]532 <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]533 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li>
534 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li>
535 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li>
536 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li>
537 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li>
538 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li>
539 <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>
540 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li>
541 <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]542 <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]543 <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]544 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions,
545or arrays as values.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]546 <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]547 <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]548 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li>
549 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li>
550 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li>
551 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li>
552 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li>
553 <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>
554 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li>
555 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li>
556 <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>
557 <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>
558 <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]559 <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]560 <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>
561 <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]562 </ol></li>
563
564</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]565
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]566<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
567lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]568
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]569</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]570
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]571<!-- ======================================================================= -->
572<div class="doc_subsection">
573 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
574</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]575
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]576<div class="doc_text">
577
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]578<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]579has not been tested as thoroughly as the C front-end. It has been tested and
580works for a number of non-trivial programs, but there may be lurking bugs.
581Please report any bugs or problems.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]582
583</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]584
585<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner3a51be12004-02-14 04:12:41 +0000[diff] [blame]586<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]587
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]588<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]589
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]590<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]591<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]592 front-end</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner7962f712004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000[diff] [blame]593
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000[diff] [blame]594<li><b>IA-64 specific</b>: The C++ front-end does not use <a
595href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR406">IA64 ABI compliant layout of v-tables</a>.
Chris Lattner7962f712004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000[diff] [blame]596In particular, it just stores function pointers instead of function
597descriptors in the vtable. This bug prevents mixing C++ code compiled with
Chris Lattner04db8082004-08-02 20:29:51 +0000[diff] [blame]598LLVM with C++ objects compiled by other C++ compilers.</li>
Chris Lattner7962f712004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000[diff] [blame]599
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000[diff] [blame]600</ul>
601
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]602</div>
603
604<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
605<div class="doc_subsubsection">
606 Notes
607</div>
608
609<div class="doc_text">
610
611<ul>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]612
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]613<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
614parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
615versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]616href="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]617
618<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]619 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]620 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]621 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]622 better than most compilers).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]623
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]624<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
625 href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
626 This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
627 mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
628 representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
629 compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
630 Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
631 <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
632 different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]633 interact correctly</b>. </li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]634
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]635</ul>
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]636
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]637</div>
638
639<!-- ======================================================================= -->
640<div class="doc_subsection">
641 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
642</div>
643
644<div class="doc_text">
645
646<ul>
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000[diff] [blame]647 <li>none yet</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]648</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]649
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]650</div>
651
652<!-- ======================================================================= -->
653<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukmanadb1c392004-07-12 16:55:41 +0000[diff] [blame]654 <a name="sparcv9-be">Known problems with the SparcV9 back-end</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]655</div>
656
657<div class="doc_text">
658
659<ul>
Misha Brukmanadb1c392004-07-12 16:55:41 +0000[diff] [blame]660<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR60">[sparcv9] SparcV9 backend miscompiles
661several programs in the LLVM test suite</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]662</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]663
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]664</div>
665
666<!-- ======================================================================= -->
667<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattnerf32a5f52004-11-07 01:55:32 +0000[diff] [blame]668 <a name="ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC back-end</a>
669</div>
670
671<div class="doc_text">
672
673<ul>
674<li>none yet</li>
675</ul>
676
677</div>
678
679<!-- ======================================================================= -->
680<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]681 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
682</div>
683
684<div class="doc_text">
685
686<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]687
688<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
689Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
690(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]691problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]692
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]693<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]694cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or
695Infinity.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]696
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]697<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]698supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]699frontends.</li>
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]700
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]701</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]702
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]703</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]704
705<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]706<div class="doc_section">
707 <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
708</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]709<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
710
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]711<div class="doc_text">
712
713<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page,
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]714including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]715implemented in LLVM. The web page also contains versions of the API
716documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code. You
717can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]718the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]719
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]720<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]721us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing
722lists</a>.</p>
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