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Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +000010<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.3 Release Notes</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000011
12<ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000013 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
14 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
15 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
16 <li><a href="#install-instructions">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000017 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
18 <ul>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +000019 <li><a href="#experimental">Experimental features included in this
20 release</a>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000021 <li><a href="#core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
22 <li><a href="#c-fe">Known problems with the C Front-end</a>
23 <li><a href="#c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ Front-end</a>
24 <li><a href="#x86-be">Known problems with the X86 Back-end</a>
25 <li><a href="#sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc Back-end</a>
26 <li><a href="#c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000027 </ul></li>
28 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000029</ol>
30
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +000031<div class="doc_text">
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +000032 <p><b>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM team</a></b><p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000033</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000034
35<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000036<div class="doc_section">
37 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
38</div>
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40
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000041<div class="doc_text">
42
43<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +000044infrastructure, release 1.3. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +000045known problems and bug fixes from the previous release. The most up-to-date
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000046version of this document can be found on the <a
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +000047href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.3/">LLVM 1.3 web site</a>. If you are
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +000048not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000049this document may be updated after the release.</p>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +000050
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000051<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about potentially more
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +000052current releases, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main
53web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
54href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000055list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000056
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +000057<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS, this document applies
58to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one. To see the release notes for
59the current or previous releases, see the <a
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000060href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
61
62</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000063
64<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000065<div class="doc_section">
66 <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
67</div>
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69
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000070<div class="doc_text">
71
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +000072<p>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +000073This is the fourth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +000074</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000075
Chris Lattner835104c2004-03-17 03:54:41 +000076<p>
77At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all C &amp; C++ SPEC
78CPU2000 benchmarks, the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist benchmarks. It has
79also been used to compile <b>many</b> other programs. LLVM now also works with
80a broad variety of C++ programs, though it has still received less testing than
81the C front-end.
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000082</p>
83
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000084<!--=========================================================================-->
85<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +000086<a name="newfeatures">This release implements the following new features:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000087</div>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +000088
89<ol>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +000090<li>The LLVM <a href="LangRef.html#i_select"><tt>select</tt></a> instruction is
91now fully implemented and supported by all targets.</li>
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +000092</ol>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +000093
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000094
95<!--=========================================================================-->
96<div class="doc_subsubsection">
97In this release, the following missing features were implemented:
98</div>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +000099
100<ol>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000101<li></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000102</ol>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000103
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000104
105<!--=========================================================================-->
106<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000107<a name="qualityofimp">In this release, the following Quality of Implementation issues were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000108</div>
109
110<ol>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000111<li></li>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000112</ol>
113
114<!--=========================================================================-->
115<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000116In this release, the following build problems were fixed:
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000117</div>
118
119<ol>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000120<li></li>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000121</ol>
122
123<!--=========================================================================-->
124<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000125<a name="codequality">In this release, the following Code Quality issues were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000126</div>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000127
128<ol>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000129<li></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000130</ol>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000131
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000132
133<!--=========================================================================-->
134<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000135<a name="bugfix">In this release, the following bugs in the previous release were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000136</div>
137
138<p>Bugs in the LLVM Core:</p>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000139
140<ol>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000141<li></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000142</ol>
143
144
Chris Lattner56e67052004-02-09 21:22:51 +0000145
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000146<p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>
147
148<ol>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000149<li></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000150</ol>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000151
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000152</div>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000153
154<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000155<div class="doc_section">
156 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
157</div>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000158<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
159
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000160<div class="doc_text">
161
162<p>LLVM has been extensively tested on Intel and AMD machines running Red
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000163Hat Linux and FreeBSD. It has also been tested on Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.
John Criswellbb1bad52003-12-12 19:54:20 +0000164Additionally,
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000165LLVM works on Mac OS X 10.3 and above, but only with the C backend or
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000166interpreter (no native backend for the PowerPC is available yet).
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000167The core LLVM infrastructure uses "autoconf" for portability, so hopefully we
Chris Lattner3e2959e2003-11-08 05:22:09 +0000168work on more platforms than that. However, it is likely that we
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000169missed something and that minor porting is required to get LLVM to work on
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000170new platforms. We welcome portability patches and error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000171
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000172</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000173
174<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000175<div class="doc_section">
176 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
177</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000178<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
179
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000180<div class="doc_text">
181
182<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000183component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000184sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000185href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000186there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000187
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000188</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000189
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000190<!-- ======================================================================= -->
191<div class="doc_subsection">
192 <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
193</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000194
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000195<div class="doc_text">
196
197<p>
198The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to be
199broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should not
200be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be useful
201to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
202components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.
203</p>
204
205<ul>
206<li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep,
207 -ipmodref, -sortstructs, -swapstructs, -cee</tt></li>
208
209<li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that
210 it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li>
211<li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool is incomplete and probably buggy.</li>
212<li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development.</li>
213</ul>
214
215</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000216
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000217<!-- ======================================================================= -->
218<div class="doc_subsection">
219 <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
220</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000221
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000222<div class="doc_text">
223
224<ul>
225
226<li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not
227work.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000228
229<li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000230such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be
231corrupted.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000232
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000233<li>It is not possible to <tt>dlopen</tt> an LLVM bytecode file in the JIT.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000234
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000235<li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is very slow (there is no symbol
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000236table in the archive).</li>
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000237
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000238<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR82">LLVM cannot handle structures with
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000239more than 256 elements</a>.</li>
240
Chris Lattner2e6fcaf2004-02-15 23:09:07 +0000241<li>The gccld program <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR139">does not link objects/archives in the order specified on the command line.</a></li>
242
243<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR240">The lower-invoke pass does not mark
John Criswelld46c6962004-03-12 21:29:42 +0000244values live across a setjmp as volatile</a>. This missing feature only affects
Chris Lattner2e6fcaf2004-02-15 23:09:07 +0000245targets whose setjmp/longjmp libraries do not save and restore the entire
246register file.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000247</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000248</div>
249
250<!-- ======================================================================= -->
251<div class="doc_subsection">
252 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
253</div>
Chris Lattner47588f92003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000254
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000255<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000256<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000257
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000258<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000259<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000260<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
261 scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
262<pre>
263 for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) {
264 int X[n];
265 foo(X);
266 }
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000267</pre></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000268
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000269<li>
270Initialization of global union variables can only be done
271<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=162">with the largest
272union member</a>.
273</li>
Chris Lattnerf580cdc2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000274
275<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR244">[llvm-gcc] Error when an implicitly external function is re-declared as static</a></li>
276
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000277</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000278</div>
279
280<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
281<div class="doc_subsubsection">
282 Notes
283</div>
284
285<div class="doc_text">
286
287<ul>
288
289<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000290
291<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000292support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
293bits.</li>
294
295<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
296work:
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000297 <ol>
298 <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
299 appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
300 <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
301 <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
302 - These functions have not been tested.
303 </ol></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000304
305<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
306 the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
307 <ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000308 <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 +0000309 <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>
310 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li>
311 <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 +0000312 <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 +0000313 <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>
314 <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 +0000315 <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>
316 <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>
317 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
318 <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 +0000319 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000320
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000321 <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000322 attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
323 but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000324 ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000325 the program.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000326
327 <ol>
328 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
329 Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000330 Supported, but allocated stack space is not freed until the function returns (noted above).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000331
332 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes">Function Attributes</a>:
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000333
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000334 Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000335 return.<br>
336
337 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
338 <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
339 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
340
341 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>,
342 <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
343 <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
344
345 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>,
346 <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
347 <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000348
349 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
350 Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
351 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
352 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
353 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000354
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000355 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
356 <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
357 <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000358 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000359
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000360 <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 +0000361 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000362 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000363
364 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
365 all target specific attributes.</li>
366
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000367 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
368 Other built-in functions.<br>
369 We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
370 <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
371 <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000372 <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt> (ignored).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000373
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000374 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000375
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000376 <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
377
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000378 <ol>
Chris Lattner7fe97dd2004-03-16 08:54:07 +0000379 <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 +0000380 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li>
381 <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>
382 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li>
383 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li>
384 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li>
385 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li>
386 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li>
387 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li>
388 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li>
389 <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>
390 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li>
391 <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 +0000392 <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 +0000393 <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 +0000394 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions,
395or arrays as values.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000396 <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 +0000397 <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 +0000398 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li>
399 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li>
400 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li>
401 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li>
402 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li>
403 <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>
404 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li>
405 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li>
406 <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>
407 <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>
408 <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 +0000409 <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 +0000410 <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>
411 <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 +0000412 </ol></li>
413
414</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000415
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000416<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
417lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000418
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000419</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000420
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000421<!-- ======================================================================= -->
422<div class="doc_subsection">
423 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
424</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000425
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000426<div class="doc_text">
427
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000428<p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully functional but
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000429has not been tested as thoroughly as the C front-end. It has been tested and
430works for a number of non-trivial programs, but there may be lurking bugs.
431Please report any bugs or problems.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000432
433</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000434
435<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner3a51be12004-02-14 04:12:41 +0000436<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000437
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000438<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000439
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000440<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000441<li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000442 front-end</a>.</li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000443</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000444</div>
445
446<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
447<div class="doc_subsubsection">
448 Notes
449</div>
450
451<div class="doc_text">
452
453<ul>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000454
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000455<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
456parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
457versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000458href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000459
460<li>Destructors for local objects are not always run when a <tt>longjmp</tt> is
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000461 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000462 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000463 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000464 better than most compilers).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000465
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000466<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
467 href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
468 This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
469 mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
470 representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
471 compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
472 Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
473 <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
474 different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000475 interact correctly</b>. </li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000476
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000477</ul>
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000478
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000479</div>
480
481<!-- ======================================================================= -->
482<div class="doc_subsection">
483 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
484</div>
485
486<div class="doc_text">
487
488<ul>
Chris Lattnerde4afdc2004-02-08 22:23:33 +0000489<li>None so far.
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000490</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000491
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000492</div>
493
494<!-- ======================================================================= -->
495<div class="doc_subsection">
496 <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc back-end</a>
497</div>
498
499<div class="doc_text">
500
501<ul>
Chris Lattner6a39aa52004-03-19 19:22:28 +0000502<li>There are several programs in the LLVM testsuite that the Sparc code generator is known to miscompile.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000503</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000504
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000505</div>
506
507<!-- ======================================================================= -->
508<div class="doc_subsection">
509 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
510</div>
511
512<div class="doc_text">
513
514<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000515
516<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
517Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
518(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000519problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000520
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000521<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000522cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or
523Infinity.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000524
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000525<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000526supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000527frontends.</li>
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000528
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000529</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000530
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000531</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000532
533<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000534<div class="doc_section">
535 <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
536</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000537<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
538
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000539<div class="doc_text">
540
541<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page,
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000542including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000543implemented in LLVM. The web page also contains versions of the API
544documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code. You
545can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000546the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000547
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000548<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000549us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing
550lists</a>.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000551
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