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11 LLVM 1.1 Release Notes
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14<ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]15 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
16 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
17 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
18 <li><a href="#install-instructions">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
20 <ul>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]21<!-- <li><a href="#portabilityprobs">Portability Problems</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>
26 <li><a href="#sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc Back-end</a>
27 <li><a href="#c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]28 </ul></li>
29 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]30</ol>
31
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000[diff] [blame]32<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]33 <p><b>Written by <a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a></b><p>
34</div>
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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]37<div class="doc_section">
38 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
39</div>
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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]42<div class="doc_text">
43
44<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
45infrastructure, release 1.1. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
46known problems, and bug fixes from the previous release. The most up-to-date
47version of this document can be found on the <a
Chris Lattner12d90632003-10-27 01:31:14 +0000[diff] [blame]48href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.1/">LLVM 1.1 web site</a>. If you are
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]49not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there, because
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]50this document may be updated after the release.</p>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]51
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]52<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about potentially more
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]53current releases, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main
54web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
55href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]56list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]57
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]58<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS, this document applies
59to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one. To see the release notes for
60the current or previous releases, see the <a
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]61href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
62
63</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]64
65<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]66<div class="doc_section">
67 <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
68</div>
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70
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]71<div class="doc_text">
72
73<p>This is the second public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. This
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]74release is primarily a bugfix release, dramatically improving the C/C++
75front-end, and improving support for C++ in the LLVM core. This release also
Chris Lattner7fcfac02003-12-06 20:24:46 +0000[diff] [blame]76includes a few new features, such as a simple profiler, support for Mac OS/X,
Chris Lattner3b368c72003-12-12 04:45:09 +0000[diff] [blame^]77better interoperability with external source bases, a new example language
78front-end, and improves a few optimizations.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]79
Chris Lattner2d9d4e72003-12-11 23:31:21 +0000[diff] [blame]80<p>At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile the C &amp; C++ SPEC CPU2000
81benchmarks (X86 only), the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist benchmarks along
82with <b>many</b> other programs. LLVM now also works with a broad variety of
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]83C++ programs, though it has still received much less testing than the C
84front-end.
85</p>
86
87<p>
88Note that the Sparc and X86 backends do not currently support exception throwing
89or long jumping (including 253.perlbmk in SPEC). For these programs, you must
90use the C backend. Support for unwinding will be added in a future release.
91</p>
92
93
94<!--=========================================================================-->
95<div class="doc_subsubsection">
96This release implements the following new features:
97</div>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]98
99<ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]100<li><a
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000[diff] [blame]101href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2003-November/000528.html">A new
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]102LLVM profiler, similar to gprof</a> is available</li>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]103
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]104<li>LLVM and the C/C++ front-end now compile on Mac OS/X! Mac OS/X users can
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]105now explore the LLVM optimizer with the C backend and interpreter. Note that
106LLVM requires GCC 3.3 on Mac OS/X.</li>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]107
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]108<li>LLVM has been <a
Chris Lattner2a77f2d2003-11-11 23:46:35 +0000[diff] [blame]109href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2003-November/000554.html">moved
110into an 'llvm' C++ namespace</a>, for easier integration with third-party
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]111code. Note that due to lack of namespace support in GDB 5.x, you will probably
112want to upgrade to GDB 6 or better to debug LLVM code.</li>
John Criswellf2ec35b2003-11-26 20:09:49 +0000[diff] [blame]113
114<li>
115The build system now copies Makefiles dynamically from the source tree to the
116object tree as subdirectories are built. This means that:
117 <ol>
118 <li>
119 New directories can be added to the source tree, and the build will
120 automatically pick them up (i.e. no need to re-run <tt>configure</tt>).
121 </li>
122
123 <li>
124 You will need to build LLVM from the top of the object tree once to ensure
125 that all of the Makefiles are copied into the object tree subdirectories.
126 </li>
127 </ol>
128</li>
129
Chris Lattner3b368c72003-12-12 04:45:09 +0000[diff] [blame^]130<li>A front-end for "Stacker" (a simple Forth-like language) is now
131 <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR136">included in the main LLVM tree</a>.
132 Additionally, Reid Spencer, the author, contributed a document <a href="Stacker.html">describing his experiences writing Stacker, and the language itself</a>. This document is invaluable for others writing front-ends targetting LLVM.</li>
133
Chris Lattner2d9d4e72003-12-11 23:31:21 +0000[diff] [blame]134<li>The <tt>configure</tt> script will now configure all projects placed in the
135<tt>llvm/projects</tt> directory.</li>
136
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]137<li>The <tt>-licm</tt> pass can now sink instructions out the bottom of loops
138in addition to being able to hoist them out the top.</li>
139
140
141<li>The <tt>-basicaa</tt> pass (the default alias analysis) has been upgraded
142to be <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR86">significantly more
143precise</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner2d9d4e72003-12-11 23:31:21 +0000[diff] [blame]144
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000[diff] [blame]145</ol>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]146
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]147
148<!--=========================================================================-->
149<div class="doc_subsubsection">
150In this release, the following missing features were implemented:
151</div>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]152
153<ol>
154<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR88">The interpreter does not support
155invoke or unwind</a></li>
Misha Brukmanc99037d2003-11-14 03:30:43 +0000[diff] [blame]156
157<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR99">Interpreter does not support the
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000[diff] [blame]158<tt>vaarg</tt> instruction</a></li>
Misha Brukmanc99037d2003-11-14 03:30:43 +0000[diff] [blame]159
Brian Gaekeb7508ee2003-11-16 23:49:26 +0000[diff] [blame]160<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR117">llvm-nm cannot read archive
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000[diff] [blame]161files</a></li>
Brian Gaekeb7508ee2003-11-16 23:49:26 +0000[diff] [blame]162
Brian Gaekea6ffa542003-12-11 04:40:58 +0000[diff] [blame]163<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR146">Interpreter does not handle
164setne constant expression</a></li>
165
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]166</ol>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]167
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]168
169<!--=========================================================================-->
170<div class="doc_subsubsection">
171In this release, the following Quality of Implementation issues were
172fixed:
173</div>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]174
175<ol>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]176
177<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR29">C++ front-end is not generating
178linkonce linkage type when it can</a></li>
179
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]180<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR84">C front-end generates non-type-safe code for expressions it could generate type-safe code</a></li>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]181
Chris Lattnerba46d552003-11-16 20:25:24 +0000[diff] [blame]182<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR96">Bad path to the C/C++ frontend causes
183build problems</a></li>
184
185<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR114">LLVM header files should be -Wold-style-cast clean</a></li>
186
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000[diff] [blame]187<li>The LLVM bytecode reader has been <a
188href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR127">sped up a lot</a> (up to 4x in some
189cases).</li>
190
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]191<li>In C++, methods and functions in anonymous namespaces <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR85">now get internal linkage</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner9f9d00a2003-11-22 01:14:58 +0000[diff] [blame]192
Chris Lattnerf7330732003-11-26 08:20:34 +0000[diff] [blame]193<li>Constant initializers now generate loops instead of potentially <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR75">huge amounts of straight-line code</a>.</li>
194
Chris Lattner3074b342003-11-27 09:51:54 +0000[diff] [blame]195<li>Code for running C++ destructors is now properly shared when possible. Before, the C++ front-end
196<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR11">generated N^2 amounts of duplicated cleanup code</a> in some cases.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]197</ol>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]198
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]199
200<!--=========================================================================-->
201<div class="doc_subsubsection">
202In this release, the following bugs in the previous release were fixed:
203</div>
204
205<p>Bugs in the LLVM Core:</p>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]206
207<ol>
Chris Lattnerf7100202003-10-27 05:41:39 +0000[diff] [blame]208<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR57">[inliner] Inlining invoke with PHI in unwind target is broken</a></li>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]209<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR58">[linker] linkonce globals should link successfully to external globals</a></li>
Chris Lattner32547fe2003-10-29 07:17:13 +0000[diff] [blame]210<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR64">[constmerge] Constant merging pass merges constants with external linkage</a></li>
Chris Lattner34790e52003-10-29 18:49:14 +0000[diff] [blame]211<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR66">[scalarrepl] Scalar Replacement of aggregates is decimating structures it shouldn't be</a></li>
Chris Lattner36bd5d12003-10-30 01:20:42 +0000[diff] [blame]212<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR70">[instcombine] Resolving invoke inserts cast after terminator</a></li>
Chris Lattnerf9e8a0f2003-10-30 01:43:33 +0000[diff] [blame]213<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR71">llvm-as crashes when labels are used in phi nodes</a></li>
Chris Lattner3dcc7b92003-10-30 16:20:15 +0000[diff] [blame]214<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR72">[build problem] Callgraph.cpp not pulled in from libipa.a</a></li>
Chris Lattner3af47222003-11-16 22:11:42 +0000[diff] [blame]215<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR77">Variables in scope of output setjmp
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]216calls should be volatile</a> (Note that this does not effect correctness on
217many platforms, such as X86).</li>
Chris Lattner2fb1ef82003-11-03 20:08:08 +0000[diff] [blame]218<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR83">[X86] Emission of global bool initializers broken</a></li>
Chris Lattnerde3bb572003-11-05 06:30:04 +0000[diff] [blame]219<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR91">[gccld] The -r (relinking) option does not work correctly</a></li>
Chris Lattner5b3fb032003-11-07 04:46:56 +0000[diff] [blame]220<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR92">[bcreader] Cannot read shift constant expressions from bytecode file</a></li>
221<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR93">[lowersetjmp] Lowersetjmp pass breaks dominance properties!</a></li>
Chris Lattner11dde852003-11-09 19:44:07 +0000[diff] [blame]222<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR95">SymbolTable::getUniqueName is very inefficient</a></li>
Brian Gaekea6ffa542003-12-11 04:40:58 +0000[diff] [blame]223<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR97">bugpoint must not pass -R&lt;directory&gt; to Mach-O linker</a></li>
Chris Lattner5b3fb032003-11-07 04:46:56 +0000[diff] [blame]224<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR98">[buildscripts] Building into objdir with .o in it fails</a></li>
Chris Lattner7af4d5e2003-11-08 05:18:50 +0000[diff] [blame]225<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR101">[setjmp/longjmp] Linking C programs which use setjmp/longjmp sometimes fail with references to the C++ runtime library!</a></li>
Chris Lattner9b29bde2003-11-12 04:42:37 +0000[diff] [blame]226<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR107">AsmParser Misses Symbol Redefinition Error</a></li>
Brian Gaeke78792062003-11-11 21:52:34 +0000[diff] [blame]227<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR108">gccld -Lfoo -lfoo fails to find ./foo/libfoo.a</a></li>
Chris Lattner6e4046f2003-11-14 06:42:01 +0000[diff] [blame]228<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR110">[bcreader] Incorrect cast causes misread forward constant references</a></li>
Chris Lattner5edc1bb2003-11-16 21:42:48 +0000[diff] [blame]229<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR116">[adce] ADCE considers blocks without postdominators to be unreachable</a></li>
Chris Lattner43a54cc2003-11-18 23:04:02 +0000[diff] [blame]230<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR123">[X86] div and rem constant exprs invalidate iterators!</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]231<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR130">[vmcore] Symbol table doesn't rename colliding variables during type resolution</a></li>
Brian Gaekea6ffa542003-12-11 04:40:58 +0000[diff] [blame]232<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR138">Archive reader does not understand 4.4BSD/Mac OS X long filenames</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]233<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR140">gccld produces a runner script that includes command-line options to load the necessary shared objects</a></li>
234</ol>
235
236
237<p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>
238
239<ol>
240<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR59">C++ frontend can crash when compiling virtual base classes</a></li>
241<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR62">C backend fails on constant cast expr to ptr-to-anonymous struct</a></li>
242<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR63">#ident is not recognized by C frontend</a></li>
243<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR65">C front-end miscompiles the builtin_expect intrinsic!</a></li>
244<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR67">1.0 precompiled libstdc++ does not include wchar_t support</a></li>
245<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR68">llvmgcc asserts when compiling functions renamed with asm's</a></li>
246<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR69">C frontend crashes on some programs with lots of types.</a></li>
247<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR79">llvm-gcc crashes compiling global union initializer</a></li>
248<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR80">C front-end crash on empty structure</a></li>
249<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR81">CFrontend crashes when compiling C99 compound expressions</a></li>
250<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR87">llvm-gcc infinite loops on "case MAXINT:"</a></li>
251<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR89">[C++] Catch blocks make unparsable labels</a></li>
252<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR90">[C++] Initializing array with constructable objects fail</a></li>
253<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR94">llvm-gcc tries to add bools</a></li>
254<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR104">[c++] C++ Frontend lays out superclasses like anonymous bitfields!</a></li>
255<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR54">C front-end miscompiles unsigned enums whose LLVM types are signed</a></li>
256<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR112">Casting a string constant to void crashes llvm-gcc</a></li>
Chris Lattner43a54cc2003-11-18 23:04:02 +0000[diff] [blame]257<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR125">[llvmg++] Enum types are incorrectly shrunk to smaller than 'int' size</a></li>
258<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR128">[llvmg++] Cannot use pointer to member to initialize global</a></li>
Chris Lattner6ff1a922003-11-19 01:08:24 +0000[diff] [blame]259<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR131">[llvm-gcc] ?: operator as lvalue not implemented</a></li>
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000[diff] [blame]260<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR133">[C/C++] Bogus warning about taking the address of 'register' variable</a></li>
Chris Lattner18c4d852003-11-20 01:07:41 +0000[diff] [blame]261<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR113">crash assigning into an array in a struct which contains a bitfield</a>.</li>
262<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR6">Oversized integer bitfields cause crash</a></li>
Chris Lattnerf7330732003-11-26 08:20:34 +0000[diff] [blame]263<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR141">[llvm-gcc] Bitfields &amp; large array don't mix well</a></li>
Chris Lattner6c024c4b2003-11-20 19:30:17 +0000[diff] [blame]264<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR132">[llvm-gcc] Complex division is not supported</a></li>
Chris Lattner5f36ebe2003-11-20 20:59:57 +0000[diff] [blame]265<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR143">[llvm-gcc] Illegal union field reference</a></li>
Chris Lattner38eeb152003-11-25 08:49:12 +0000[diff] [blame]266<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR148">[llvmg++] Front-end attempts to return structure by value</a></li>
Chris Lattner676c2552003-11-26 01:18:49 +0000[diff] [blame]267<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR152">[llvmg++] Pointer to member initializers not supported in constructors</a></li>
268<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR155">[llvm-gcc] crash on union initialization</a></li>
Chris Lattner5b266582003-11-26 02:48:00 +0000[diff] [blame]269<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR124">[llvm-g++] ?: expressions do not run correct number of destructors!</a></li>
Chris Lattnerf7330732003-11-26 08:20:34 +0000[diff] [blame]270<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR157">[llvm-gcc] Pointer & constant results in invalid shift</a></li>
Chris Lattner296b2e62003-12-08 06:33:19 +0000[diff] [blame]271<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR165">[llvmg++] call through array of pointers to member functions causes assertion</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]272</ol>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]273
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]274</div>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]275
276<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]277<div class="doc_section">
278 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
279</div>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]280<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
281
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]282<div class="doc_text">
283
284<p>LLVM has been extensively tested on Intel and AMD machines running Red
Chris Lattner3e2959e2003-11-08 05:22:09 +0000[diff] [blame]285Hat Linux, and Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8. Additionally,
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]286LLVM works on Mac OS/X 10.3 and above, but only with the C backend or
287interpreter (no native backend for the PowerPC is available yet).
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]288The core LLVM infrastructure uses "autoconf" for portability, so hopefully we
Chris Lattner3e2959e2003-11-08 05:22:09 +0000[diff] [blame]289work on more platforms than that. However, it is likely that we
290missed something, and that minor porting is required to get LLVM to work on
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]291new platforms. We welcome portability patches and error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]292
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]293</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]294
295<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]296<div class="doc_section">
297 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
298</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]299<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
300
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]301<div class="doc_text">
302
303<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]304component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]305sections.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]306
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]307</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]308
309<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]310<!--
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]311</ul><h4><a name="portability"><hr size=0>Portability Problems</h4><ul>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]312-->
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]313
314
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]315<!-- ======================================================================= -->
316<div class="doc_subsection">
317 <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
318</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]319
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]320<div class="doc_text">
321
322<ul>
323
324<li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not
325work.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]326
327<li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]328such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be
329corrupted.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]330
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]331<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]332
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]333<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]334table in the archive).</li>
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]335
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]336<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR82">LLVM cannot handle structures with
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]337more than 256 elements</a>.</li>
338
339</ul>
340
341</div>
342
343<!-- ======================================================================= -->
344<div class="doc_subsection">
345 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
346</div>
Chris Lattner47588f92003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000[diff] [blame]347
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]348<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]349<div class="doc_subsubsection">
350 Bugs
351</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]352
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]353<div class="doc_text">
354
355<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]356
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]357<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
358 scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
359<pre>
360 for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) {
361 int X[n];
362 foo(X);
363 }
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]364</pre></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]365
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]366</ul>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]367
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]368</div>
369
370<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
371<div class="doc_subsubsection">
372 Notes
373</div>
374
375<div class="doc_text">
376
377<ul>
378
379<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]380
381<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]382support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
383bits.</li>
384
385<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
386work:
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000[diff] [blame]387 <ol>
388 <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
389 appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
390 <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
391 <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
392 - These functions have not been tested.
393 </ol></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]394
395<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
396 the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
397 <ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]398 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Labels.html#Local%20Labels">Local Labels</a>: Labels local to a block.</li>
399 <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>
400 <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>
401 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li>
402 <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>
403 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constraints.html#Constraints">Constraints</a>: Constraints for asm operands</li>
404 <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>
405 <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>
406 <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>
407 <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>
408 <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>
409 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
410 <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]411 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]412
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]413 <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]414 attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
415 but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
416 ignored by the LLVM compiler, which will cause a different interpretation of
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]417 the program.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]418
419 <ol>
420 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
421 Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]422 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]423
424 <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]425
426 Declaring that functions have no side effects, or that they can never
427 return.<br>
428
429 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
430 <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
431 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
432
433 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>,
434 <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
435 <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
436
437 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>,
438 <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
439 <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]440
441 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
442 Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
443 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
444 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
445 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]446
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]447 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
448 <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
449 <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]450 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]451
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]452 <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]453 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]454 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]455
456 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
457 all target specific attributes.</li>
458
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]459 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
460 Other built-in functions.<br>
461 We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
462 <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
463 <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]464 <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt> (ignored).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]465
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]466 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]467
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]468 <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
469
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]470 <ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]471 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li>
472 <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>
473 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li>
474 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li>
475 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li>
476 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li>
477 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li>
478 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li>
479 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li>
480 <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>
481 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li>
482 <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]483 <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]484 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Initializers.html#Initializers">Initializers</a>: Non-constant initializers.</li>
485 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions or arrays as values.</li>
486 <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]487 <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]488 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li>
489 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li>
490 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li>
491 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li>
492 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li>
493 <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>
494 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li>
495 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li>
496 <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>
497 <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>
498 <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>
499 <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>
500 <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]501 </ol></li>
502
503</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]504
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]505<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
506lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]507
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]508</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]509
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]510<!-- ======================================================================= -->
511<div class="doc_subsection">
512 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
513</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]514
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]515<div class="doc_text">
516
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]517<p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully functional, but
518has not been tested as thoroughly as the C front-end. It has been tested and
519works for a number of non-trivial programs, but there may be lurking bugs.
520Please report any bugs or problems.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]521
522</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]523
524<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]525<div class="doc_subsubsection">
526 Bugs
527</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]528
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]529<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]530
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]531<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]532<li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]533 front-end</a></li>
534</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]535
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]536</div>
537
538<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
539<div class="doc_subsubsection">
540 Notes
541</div>
542
543<div class="doc_text">
544
545<ul>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]546
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]547<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
548parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
549versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]550href="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]551
552<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]553 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]554 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
555 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed however (which is
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]556 better than most compilers).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]557
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]558<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
559 href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
560 This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
561 mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
562 representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
563 compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
564 Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
565 <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
566 different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]567 interact correctly</b>. </li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]568
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]569</ul>
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]570
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]571</div>
572
573<!-- ======================================================================= -->
574<div class="doc_subsection">
575 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
576</div>
577
578<div class="doc_text">
579
580<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]581
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]582<li>The X86 code generator <a
Chris Lattner0d4379a2003-10-08 06:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]583href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR16">does not currently
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]584support the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction</a>, so code that throws a C++ exception
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]585or calls the C <tt>longjmp</tt> function will abort.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]586
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]587</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]588
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]589</div>
590
591<!-- ======================================================================= -->
592<div class="doc_subsection">
593 <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc back-end</a>
594</div>
595
596<div class="doc_text">
597
598<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]599
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]600<li>The Sparc code generator <a
Chris Lattner0d4379a2003-10-08 06:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]601href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR15">does not currently
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]602support the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction</a>, so code that throws a C++ exception
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]603or calls the C <tt>longjmp</tt> function will abort.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]604
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]605</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]606
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]607</div>
608
609<!-- ======================================================================= -->
610<div class="doc_subsection">
611 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
612</div>
613
614<div class="doc_text">
615
616<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]617
618<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
619Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
620(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]621problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]622
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]623<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]624cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or
625Infinity.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]626
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]627<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]628supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]629frontends.</li>
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]630
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]631</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]632
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]633</div>
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642
643<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page,
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]644including mailing lists publications describing algorithms and components
645implemented in LLVM. The web page also contains versions of the API
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647can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into
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Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]649
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