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Chris Lattnerc30c5c72005-11-08 21:29:17 +0000[diff] [blame]11<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.7 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>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]20</ol>
21
Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]22<div class="doc_author">
Chris Lattnerc463b272005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]23 <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Team</a><p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]24</div>
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26<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]27<div class="doc_section">
28 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
29</div>
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31
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]32<div class="doc_text">
33
34<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
Chris Lattnerc30c5c72005-11-08 21:29:17 +0000[diff] [blame]35infrastructure, release 1.7. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
Chris Lattner8a458762005-05-15 05:44:51 +0000[diff] [blame]36known problems and major improvements from the previous release. The most
37up-to-date version of this document can be found on the <a
Chris Lattnerc30c5c72005-11-08 21:29:17 +0000[diff] [blame]38href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM releases web site</a>. If you are
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]39not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]40this document may be updated after the release.</p>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]41
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000[diff] [blame]42<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
Chris Lattnerc463b272005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]43release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.org/">main LLVM
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]44web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
45href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]46list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]47
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000[diff] [blame]48<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS or the main LLVM web page,
49this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one. To see
50the release notes for the current or previous releases, see the <a
Chris Lattnerc463b272005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]51href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]52
53</div>
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55<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]56<div class="doc_section">
57 <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
58</div>
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60
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]61<div class="doc_text">
62
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]63<p>This is the eighth public release of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure. This
64release incorporates a large number of enhancements and new features,
65including vector support (Intel SSE and Altivec), a new GCC4.0-based
66C/C++ front-end, Objective C/C++ support, inline assembly support, and many
67other big features.
68</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]69
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]70</div>
71
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]72<!--=========================================================================-->
Chris Lattner8a458762005-05-15 05:44:51 +0000[diff] [blame]73<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]74<a name="newfeatures">New Features in LLVM 1.7</a>
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]75</div>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]76
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]77<!--_________________________________________________________________________-->
78<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="llvmgcc4">GCC4.0-based llvm-gcc
79front-end</a></div>
80
81<div class="doc_text">
82
Chris Lattner657408b2006-04-19 04:21:16 +0000[diff] [blame]83<p>LLVM 1.7 includes a brand new llvm-gcc, based on GCC 4.0.1. This version
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]84of llvm-gcc solves many serious long-standing problems with llvm-gcc, including
85all of those blocked by the <a href="http://llvm.org/PR498">llvm-gcc 4 meta
86bug</a>. In addition, llvm-gcc4 implements support for many new features,
87including GCC inline assembly, generic vector support, SSE and Altivec
Chris Lattner31e0aea2006-04-20 04:01:31 +0000[diff] [blame^]88intrinsics, and several new GCC attributes. Finally, llvm-gcc4 is
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]89significantly faster than llvm-gcc3, respects -O options, its -c/-S options
Chris Lattner1c1a85c2006-04-19 04:02:47 +0000[diff] [blame]90correspond to GCC's (they emit native code), and it has debugging support well
91underway.</p>
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]92
Chris Lattner31e0aea2006-04-20 04:01:31 +0000[diff] [blame^]93<p>If you can use it, llvm-gcc4 offers significant new functionality, and we
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]94hope that it will replace llvm-gcc3 completely in a future release.
95Unfortunately, it does not currently support C++ exception handling at all, and
96it only works on Apple Mac OS/X machines with X86 or PowerPC processors.
97</p>
98
99</div>
100
101<!--_________________________________________________________________________-->
102<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="inlineasm">Inline Assembly
103Support</a></div>
104
105<div class="doc_text">
106
107<p>The LLVM IR and llvm-gcc4 front-end now fully support arbitrary GCC <a
108href="LangRef.html#inlineasm">inline assembly</a>. The LLVM X86 and PowerPC
109code generators have initial support for it,
110being able to compile basic statements, but are missing some features. Please
111report any inline asm statements that crash the compiler or that are miscompiled
112as bugs.</p>
113
114</div>
115
116<!--_________________________________________________________________________-->
117<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="newsparc">New SPARC backend</a></div>
118
119<div class="doc_text">
120
121<p>LLVM 1.7 includes a new, fully functional, SPARC backend built in the
122target-independent code generator. This SPARC backend includes support for
123SPARC V8 and SPARC V9 subtargets (controlling whether V9 features can be used),
124and targets the 32-bit SPARC ABI.</p>
125
126<p>The LLVM 1.7 release is the last release that will include the LLVM "SparcV9"
Chris Lattner31e0aea2006-04-20 04:01:31 +0000[diff] [blame^]127backend, which was the very first LLVM native code generator. It will
128be removed in LLVM 1.8, being replaced with the new SPARC backend.</p>
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]129
130</div>
131
132<!--_________________________________________________________________________-->
133<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="genvector">Generic Vector Support
134</a></div>
135
136<div class="doc_text">
137
138<p>LLVM now includes significantly extended support for SIMD vectors in its
139core instruction set. It now includes three new instructions for manipulating
140vectors: <a href="LangRef.html#i_extractelement"><tt>extractelement</tt></a>,
141<a href="LangRef.html#i_insertelement"><tt>insertelement</tt></a>, and
142<a href="LangRef.html#i_shufflevector"><tt>shufflevector</tt></a>. Further,
143many bugs in vector handling have been fixed, and vectors are now supported by
144the target-independent code generator. For example, if a vector operation is
145not supported by a particular target, it will be correctly broken down and
146executed as scalar operations.</p>
147
148<p>Because llvm-gcc3 does not support GCC generic vectors or vector intrinsics,
Chris Lattnerf4b575b2006-04-19 04:21:57 +0000[diff] [blame]149llvm-gcc4 must be used.</p>
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]150</div>
151
152
153<!--_________________________________________________________________________-->
154<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="ssealtivec">Intel SSE and PowerPC
155Altivec support
156</a></div>
157
158<div class="doc_text">
159
160<p>The LLVM X86 backend now supports Intel SSE 1, 2, and 3, and now uses scalar
161SSE operations to implement scalar floating point math when the target supports
162SSE1 (for floats) or SSE2 (for doubles). Vector SSE instructions are generated
163by llvm-gcc4 when the generic vector mechanism or specific SSE intrinsics are
164used.
165</p>
166
167<p>The LLVM PowerPC backend now supports the Altivec instruction set, including
168both GCC -maltivec and -faltivec modes. Altivec instructions are generated
169by llvm-gcc4 when the generic vector mechanism or specific Altivec intrinsics
170are used.
171</p>
172
173</div>
174
Chris Lattner738bd302006-04-18 06:32:08 +0000[diff] [blame]175<!--_________________________________________________________________________-->
Chris Lattner1c1a85c2006-04-19 04:02:47 +0000[diff] [blame]176<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="optimizernew">Optimizer
Chris Lattner738bd302006-04-18 06:32:08 +0000[diff] [blame]177Improvements</a></div>
178
179<div class="doc_text">
180<ul>
181<li>The Loop Unswitching pass (<tt>-loop-unswitch</tt>) has had several bugs
182 fixed, has several new features, and is enabled by default in llvmgcc3
183 now.</li>
184<li>The Loop Strength Reduction pass (<tt>-loop-reduce</tt>) is now enabled for
Chris Lattner0c760dc2006-04-19 17:20:48 +0000[diff] [blame]185 the X86 and Alpha backends.</li>
Chris Lattner738bd302006-04-18 06:32:08 +0000[diff] [blame]186<li>The Instruction Combining pass (<tt>-instcombine</tt>) now includes a
187 framework and implementation for simplifying code based on whether computed
188 bits are demanded or not.</li>
189<li>The Scalar Replacement of Aggregates pass (<tt>-scalarrepl</tt>) can now
190 promote simple unions to registers.</li>
Chris Lattner1c1a85c2006-04-19 04:02:47 +0000[diff] [blame]191<li>The Reassociation pass (<tt>-reassociate</tt>) can now
192 factor expressions, e.g. turning "A*A+A*B" into "A*(A+B)".</li>
Chris Lattner738bd302006-04-18 06:32:08 +0000[diff] [blame]193<li>Several LLVM passes are <a href="http://llvm.org/PR681">significantly
194faster</a>.</li>
195</ul>
196</div>
197
Chris Lattner1c1a85c2006-04-19 04:02:47 +0000[diff] [blame]198<!--_________________________________________________________________________-->
199<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="codgennew">Code Generator
200Improvements</a></div>
201
202<div class="doc_text">
203<ul>
204<li>LLVM has a new prepass (before register allocation) list scheduler, which
205 supports bottom-up and top-down scheduling, pluggable priority functions and
206 pluggable hazard recognizers. The X86 backend uses this to reduce register
207 pressure and RISC targets schedule based on operation latency.</li>
208<li>The tblgen-based target description framework introduced in LLVM 1.6 has
209 several new features, useful for targets that can fold loads and stores into
210 operations, and features that make the .td files more expressive.</li>
211<li>The instruction selector is significantly faster in 1.7 than in 1.6.</li>
212<li>The X86, Alpha and Itanium backends use new DAG-DAG instruction selectors,
213 making them easier to maintain and generate slightly better code.</li>
214<li>The X86 backend now supports generation of Scalar SSE code for scalar FP
215 expressions. LLVM provides significantly better performance with Scalar SSE
216 instructions than it does with the Intel floating point stack
217 instructions.</li>
218<li>The Itanium backend now has a bundling pass, which improves performance
219 by ~10% and reduces code size (previously it unconditionally inserted a stop
220 bit after every instruction).</li>
221</ul>
222</div>
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224<!--_________________________________________________________________________-->
225<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="othernew">Other New Features</a></div>
226
Chris Lattner58504a62006-02-05 06:39:36 +0000[diff] [blame]227<div class="doc_text">
228<ul>
Chris Lattner31e0aea2006-04-20 04:01:31 +0000[diff] [blame^]229<li>The Mac OS/X PowerPC and X86 backends now have initial support for
230 Darwin DWARF
Chris Lattner1c1a85c2006-04-19 04:02:47 +0000[diff] [blame]231 debugging information, however, debug info generation has been disabled for
232 the 1.7 release in llvmgcc4.</li>
233<li>LLVM includes the new <a href="docs/CommandGuide/html/llvm-config.html">
234 llvm-config</a> utility, which makes it easier to build and link programs
235 against the LLVM libraries when not using the LLVM makefiles.</li>
Chris Lattner738bd302006-04-18 06:32:08 +0000[diff] [blame]236<li>LLVM now supports first class global ctor/dtor initialization lists, no
237 longer forcing targets to use "__main".</li>
238<li>LLVM supports assigning globals and functions to a particular section
239 in the result executable using the GCC section attribute.</li>
240<li><a href="ExtendingLLVM.html">Adding intrinsics to LLVM</a> is now
Chris Lattner1c1a85c2006-04-19 04:02:47 +0000[diff] [blame]241 significantly easier.</li>
Chris Lattner738bd302006-04-18 06:32:08 +0000[diff] [blame]242<li>llvmgcc4 now fully supports C99 Variable Length Arrays, including dynamic
243 stack deallocation.</li>
244
Chris Lattner58504a62006-02-05 06:39:36 +0000[diff] [blame]245</ul>
246</div>
John Criswelle531ec52005-06-29 16:22:34 +0000[diff] [blame]247
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]248
Chris Lattnerc5d658a2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000[diff] [blame]249<!--=========================================================================-->
250<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]251<a name="changes">Significant Changes in LLVM 1.7</a>
Chris Lattnerc5d658a2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000[diff] [blame]252</div>
253
254<div class="doc_text">
255<ul>
Chris Lattner1c1a85c2006-04-19 04:02:47 +0000[diff] [blame]256<li>The official LLVM URL is now <a href="http://llvm.org/">
257 http://llvm.org/</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]258<li>The LLVM intrinsics used to be overloaded based on type: for example,
259 <a href="LangRef.html#int_ctpop"><tt>llvm.ctpop</tt></a> could work with any
260 integer datatype. They are now separated into different intrinsics with
261 suffixes to denote their argument type (e.g. <tt>llvm.ctpop.i32</tt>)). Old
262 LLVM .ll and .bc files that use these intrinsics will continue to work with
263 new LLVM versions (they are transparently upgraded by the parsers), but will
264 cause a warning to be emitted.</li>
265<li>The <tt>llvm.readport</tt>, <tt>llvm.writeport</tt>, <tt>llvm.readio</tt>,
266 and <tt>llvm.writeio</tt> intrinsics have been removed. The first two
267 were ever only supported by the X86 backend, the last two were never
268 correctly supported by any target, and none were accessible through the
269 C front-end. Inline assembly support can now be used to
270 implement these operations.</li>
271<li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool had basic support for stepping through code, which
272 used the JIT. This code has been removed, and DWARF emission support added
273 instead. <tt>llvm-db</tt> still exists in CVS if someone wanted to write a
274 <tt>ptrace</tt> backend for it.</li>
Chris Lattnerc5d658a2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000[diff] [blame]275</ul>
276</div>
277
278
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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]280<div class="doc_section">
281 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
282</div>
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284
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]285<div class="doc_text">
286
John Criswell0b5b5e92004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000[diff] [blame]287<p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]288
289<ul>
Reid Spencer00812e22005-05-17 02:47:27 +0000[diff] [blame]290 <li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core and FreeBSD
291 (and probably other unix-like systems).</li>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]292<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000[diff] [blame]293<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries (limited
294 support is available for native builds with Visual C++).</li>
Chris Lattnerfeaf9602005-10-29 05:14:01 +0000[diff] [blame]295<li>PowerPC and X86-based Mac OS X systems, running 10.2 and above.</li>
John Criswell9321fa82005-05-13 20:28:15 +0000[diff] [blame]296<li>Alpha-based machines running Debian GNU/Linux.</li>
297<li>Itanium-based machines running Linux and HP-UX.</li>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]298</ul>
299
Brian Gaekeb0fd7612004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000[diff] [blame]300<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
301<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself
302to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor
303porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your
304portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]305
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]306</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]307
308<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]309<div class="doc_section">
310 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
311</div>
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313
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]314<div class="doc_text">
315
316<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]317component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]318sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
Chris Lattnerc463b272005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]319href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]320there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]321
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]322</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]323
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]324<!-- ======================================================================= -->
325<div class="doc_subsection">
326 <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
327</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]328
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]329<div class="doc_text">
330
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]331<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
332be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should
333not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
334useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
335components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]336
337<ul>
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]338<li>The <tt>-cee</tt> pass is known to be buggy, and may be removed in in a
339 future release.</li>
Chris Lattner58504a62006-02-05 06:39:36 +0000[diff] [blame]340<li>The IA64 code generator is experimental.</li>
Chris Lattnerc463b272005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]341<li>The Alpha JIT is experimental.</li>
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]342<li>"<tt>-filetype=asm</tt>" (the default) is the only supported value for the
343 <tt>-filetype</tt> llc option.</li>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]344</ul>
345
346</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]347
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]348<!-- ======================================================================= -->
349<div class="doc_subsection">
John Criswellc0c186d2005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000[diff] [blame]350 <a name="build">Known problems with the Build System</a>
351</div>
352
353<div class="doc_text">
354
355<ul>
356 <li>The <a href="http://llvm.org/PR656">configure script sometimes fails on Solaris/Sparc</a>. A work around is documented in <a href="http://llvm.org/PR656">PR656.</a></li>
357</ul>
358</div>
359
360
361<!-- ======================================================================= -->
362<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]363 <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
364</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]365
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]366<div class="doc_text">
367
368<ul>
Misha Brukman109d9e82005-03-30 19:14:24 +0000[diff] [blame]369 <li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym()</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not
370 work.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]371</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]372</div>
373
374<!-- ======================================================================= -->
375<div class="doc_subsection">
376 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
377</div>
Chris Lattner47588f92003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000[diff] [blame]378
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]379<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]380<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]381
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]382<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattnerc5d658a2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000[diff] [blame]383
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]384<p>
385llvm-gcc3 has many significant problems that are fixed by llvm-gcc4. See
386 those blocked on the <a href="http://llvm.org/PR498">llvm-gcc4 meta bug</a>.
Chris Lattnercf797e92006-04-19 04:12:01 +0000[diff] [blame]387Two major ones include:</p>
Chris Lattnerc5d658a2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000[diff] [blame]388
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]389<ul>
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]390<li>With llvm-gcc3,
391 C99 variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]392 scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
393<pre>
394 for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) {
395 int X[n];
396 foo(X);
397 }
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]398</pre></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]399
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]400<li>With llvm-gcc3, Initialization of global union variables can only be done <a
Chris Lattnerc463b272005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]401href="http://llvm.org/PR162">with the largest union member</a>.</li>
Chris Lattnerf580cdc2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000[diff] [blame]402
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]403</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]404</div>
405
406<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
407<div class="doc_subsubsection">
408 Notes
409</div>
410
411<div class="doc_text">
412
413<ul>
414
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]415<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]416support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
417bits.</li>
418
419<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
420work:
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000[diff] [blame]421 <ol>
422 <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
423 appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
424 <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
425 <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
426 - These functions have not been tested.
427 </ol></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]428
429<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
430 the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
431 <ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]432 <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]433 <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>
434 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li>
435 <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]436 <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]437 <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>
438 <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]439 <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>
440 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Target-Builtins.html#Target%20Builtins">Target Builtins</a>: Built-in functions specific to particular targets.</li>
Tanya Lattner014e5f52004-12-08 18:25:34 +0000[diff] [blame]441 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread_002dLocal.html">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]442 <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]443 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]444
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]445 <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]446 attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
447 but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]448 ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]449 the program.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]450
451 <ol>
452 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
453 Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]454 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]455
456 <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]457
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]458 Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]459 return.<br>
460
461 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
John Criswell0b5b5e92004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000[diff] [blame]462 <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>,
Chris Lattneraef8c642005-12-05 05:23:06 +0000[diff] [blame]463 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>used</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]464 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
465
John Criswell0b5b5e92004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000[diff] [blame]466 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noinline</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]467 <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
468 <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
469
Chris Lattneraef8c642005-12-05 05:23:06 +0000[diff] [blame]470 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]471 <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
472 <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]473
474 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
475 Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
476 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
477 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
Chris Lattneraef8c642005-12-05 05:23:06 +0000[diff] [blame]478 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>used</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]479
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]480 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
481 <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
482 <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]483 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]484
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]485 <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]486 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]487 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]488
489 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
490 all target specific attributes.</li>
491
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]492 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
493 Other built-in functions.<br>
494 We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
495 <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
496 <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
Chris Lattnerceebeb62004-06-18 06:26:29 +0000[diff] [blame]497 <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt>
498 (currently ignored). We also support builtins for ISO C99 floating
Chris Lattner7939b782005-05-07 02:21:21 +0000[diff] [blame]499 point comparison macros (e.g., <tt>__builtin_islessequal</tt>),
500 <tt>__builtin_prefetch</tt>, <tt>__builtin_popcount[ll]</tt>,
501 <tt>__builtin_clz[ll]</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_ctz[ll]</tt>.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]502 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]503
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]504 <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
505
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]506 <ol>
Chris Lattner7fe97dd2004-03-16 08:54:07 +0000[diff] [blame]507 <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]508 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li>
509 <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]510 <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]511 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li>
512 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li>
513 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li>
514 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li>
515 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li>
516 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li>
517 <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>
518 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li>
519 <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]520 <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]521 <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]522 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions,
523or arrays as values.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]524 <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]525 <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]526 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li>
527 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li>
528 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li>
Tanya Lattner78537e42004-12-08 18:29:38 +0000[diff] [blame]529 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Comments.html#C_002b_002b-Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]530 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li>
531 <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>
532 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li>
533 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li>
534 <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>
535 <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>
536 <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]537 <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]538 <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>
539 <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]540 </ol></li>
541
542</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]543
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]544<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
545lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]546
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]547</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]548
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]549<!-- ======================================================================= -->
550<div class="doc_subsection">
551 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
552</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]553
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]554<div class="doc_text">
555
Reid Spencere09ca642004-12-07 08:39:08 +0000[diff] [blame]556<p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000[diff] [blame]557tested and works for a number of non-trivial programs, including LLVM
558itself.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]559
560</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]561
562<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner3a51be12004-02-14 04:12:41 +0000[diff] [blame]563<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]564
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]565<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]566
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]567<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]568<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]569 front-end</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner7962f712004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000[diff] [blame]570
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000[diff] [blame]571</ul>
572
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]573</div>
574
575<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
576<div class="doc_subsubsection">
577 Notes
578</div>
579
580<div class="doc_text">
581
582<ul>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]583
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]584<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]585 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]586 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]587 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]588 better than most compilers).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]589
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]590<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
591 href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
592 This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
593 mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
594 representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
595 compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
596 Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
597 <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
598 different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]599 interact correctly</b>. </li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]600
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]601</ul>
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]602
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]603</div>
604
605<!-- ======================================================================= -->
606<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]607 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
608</div>
609
610<div class="doc_text">
611
612<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]613
614<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
615Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
616(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]617problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]618
Chris Lattnerc463b272005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]619<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]620supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]621frontends.</li>
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]622
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]623<li>The C backend does not correctly implement the <a
624href="LangRef.html#i_stacksave"><tt>llvm.stacksave</tt></a> or
625<a href="LangRef.html#i_stackrestore"><tt>llvm.stackrestore</tt></a>
626intrinsics. This means that some code compiled by it can run out of stack
627space if they depend on these (e.g. C99 varargs).</li>
628
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]629</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]630
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]631</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]632
Andrew Lenharth30a1f8f2005-05-03 16:59:09 +0000[diff] [blame]633<!-- ======================================================================= -->
634<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattnerf9b1f462005-05-16 17:06:29 +0000[diff] [blame]635 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
636</div>
637
638<div class="doc_text">
639
640<ul>
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]641<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR736">Indirect calls crash JIT on
642Darwin/x86</a>.</li>
Chris Lattnerf9b1f462005-05-16 17:06:29 +0000[diff] [blame]643</ul>
644
645</div>
646
647<!-- ======================================================================= -->
648<div class="doc_subsection">
649 <a name="ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC back-end</a>
650</div>
651
652<div class="doc_text">
653
654<ul>
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]655<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR642">PowerPC backend does not correctly
656implement ordered FP comparisons</a>.</li>
Chris Lattnerf9b1f462005-05-16 17:06:29 +0000[diff] [blame]657</ul>
658
659</div>
660
661<!-- ======================================================================= -->
662<div class="doc_subsection">
Andrew Lenharth30a1f8f2005-05-03 16:59:09 +0000[diff] [blame]663 <a name="alpha-be">Known problems with the Alpha back-end</a>
664</div>
665
666<div class="doc_text">
667
668<ul>
669
Chris Lattnerf9b1f462005-05-16 17:06:29 +0000[diff] [blame]670<li>On 21164s, some rare FP arithmetic sequences which may trap do not have the
671appropriate nops inserted to ensure restartability.</li>
Andrew Lenharth30a1f8f2005-05-03 16:59:09 +0000[diff] [blame]672
Andrew Lenharth30a1f8f2005-05-03 16:59:09 +0000[diff] [blame]673</ul>
674
675</div>
676
Duraid Madina2e36d6e2005-05-14 05:48:13 +0000[diff] [blame]677<!-- ======================================================================= -->
678<div class="doc_subsection">
679 <a name="ia64-be">Known problems with the IA64 back-end</a>
680</div>
681
682<div class="doc_text">
683
684<ul>
685
686<li>C++ programs are likely to fail on IA64, as calls to <tt>setjmp</tt> are
687made where the argument is not 16-byte aligned, as required on IA64. (Strictly
688speaking this is not a bug in the IA64 back-end; it will also be encountered
689when building C++ programs using the C back-end.)</li>
690
Chris Lattnerc463b272005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]691<li>The C++ front-end does not use <a href="http://llvm.org/PR406">IA64
Chris Lattnerf9b1f462005-05-16 17:06:29 +0000[diff] [blame]692ABI compliant layout of v-tables</a>. In particular, it just stores function
693pointers instead of function descriptors in the vtable. This bug prevents
694mixing C++ code compiled with LLVM with C++ objects compiled by other C++
695compilers.</li>
Duraid Madina2e36d6e2005-05-14 05:48:13 +0000[diff] [blame]696
Chris Lattnerf9b1f462005-05-16 17:06:29 +0000[diff] [blame]697<li>There are a few ABI violations which will lead to problems when mixing LLVM
698output with code built with other compilers, particularly for floating-point
699programs.</li>
700
701<li>Defining vararg functions is not supported (but calling them is ok).</li>
Duraid Madina2e36d6e2005-05-14 05:48:13 +0000[diff] [blame]702
703</ul>
704
705</div>
706
Chris Lattner98a493c2005-05-15 16:01:20 +0000[diff] [blame]707<!-- ======================================================================= -->
708<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]709 <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the SPARC back-end</a>
Chris Lattner98a493c2005-05-15 16:01:20 +0000[diff] [blame]710</div>
711
712<div class="doc_text">
713
714<ul>
Chris Lattnerc71173a2006-04-19 04:05:21 +0000[diff] [blame]715<li>The SPARC backend only supports the 32-bit SPARC ABI (-m32), it does not
716 support the 64-bit SPARC ABI (-m64).</li>
Chris Lattner98a493c2005-05-15 16:01:20 +0000[diff] [blame]717</ul>
Chris Lattner44c933e2006-04-18 06:18:36 +0000[diff] [blame]718
719</div>
720
721
722<!-- ======================================================================= -->
723<div class="doc_subsection">
724 <a name="sparcv9-be">Known problems with the SparcV9 back-end</a>
725</div>
726
727<div class="doc_text">
728
729<ul>
730<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR60">[sparcv9] SparcV9 backend miscompiles
731several programs in the LLVM test suite</a></li>
732<li>The SparcV9 backend is slated to be removed before the LLVM 1.8
733 release.</li>
734</ul>
735
Chris Lattner98a493c2005-05-15 16:01:20 +0000[diff] [blame]736</div>
737
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740 <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
741</div>
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743
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]744<div class="doc_text">
745
Chris Lattner416db102005-05-16 17:13:10 +0000[diff] [blame]746<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the <a
Chris Lattnerc463b272005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]747href="http://llvm.org">LLVM web page</a>, including <a
748href="http://llvm.org/docs/">documentation</a> and <a
749href="http://llvm.org/pubs/">publications describing algorithms and
Misha Brukman109d9e82005-03-30 19:14:24 +0000[diff] [blame]750components implemented in LLVM</a>. The web page also contains versions of the
751API documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code.
752You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going
753into the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]754
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]755<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
Chris Lattnerc463b272005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]756us via the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/#maillist"> mailing
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]757lists</a>.</p>
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