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Chris Lattner824b9a62003-10-02 05:09:46 +0000[diff] [blame]10 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]11 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]12 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]13 <li><a href="#install-instructions">Installation Instructions</a>
14 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
15 <ul>
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Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]17 <li><a href="#core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
18 <li><a href="#c-fe">Known problems with the C Front-end</a>
19 <li><a href="#c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ Front-end</a>
20 <li><a href="#x86-be">Known problems with the X86 Back-end</a>
21 <li><a href="#sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc Back-end</a>
22 <li><a href="#c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
23 </ul>
24 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
25 </ul>
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27 <p><b>Written by <a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a></b><p>
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34<a name="intro">Introduction
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38This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler infrastructure,
Chris Lattner12d90632003-10-27 01:31:14 +0000[diff] [blame]39release 1.1. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any known problems,
40and bug fixes from the previous release. The most up-to-date version of this
41document can be found on the <a
42href="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]43not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there, because
44this document may be updated after the release.<p>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]45
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]46For more information about LLVM, including information about potentially more
47current releases, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main
48web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
49href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
50list</a> is a good place to send them.<p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]51
Chris Lattner12d90632003-10-27 01:31:14 +0000[diff] [blame]52Note that if you are reading this file from CVS, that this document applies to
53the <i>next</i> release, not the previous one. To see the release notes for the
54previous release, see the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases
55page</a>.<p>
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59<tr><td align=center><font color="#EEEEFF" size=+2 face="Georgia,Palatino"><b>
60<a name="whatsnew">What's New?
61</b></font></td></tr></table><ul>
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Chris Lattner12d90632003-10-27 01:31:14 +0000[diff] [blame]64This is the second public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. This
65release implements the following new features:<p>
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67<ol>
Chris Lattner12d90632003-10-27 01:31:14 +0000[diff] [blame]68<li>temp</li>
69<li>temp</li>
70<li>temp</li>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]71</ol><p>
72
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]73In this release, the following Quality of Implementation issues were fixed:<p>
74
75<ol>
76<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR29">C++ front-end is not generating linkonce linkage type when it can</a></li>
77</ol><p>
78
Chris Lattnerf7100202003-10-27 05:41:39 +0000[diff] [blame]79In this release, the following bugs in the previous release were fixed:<p>
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81<ol>
Chris Lattnerf7100202003-10-27 05:41:39 +0000[diff] [blame]82<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]83<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR58">[linker] linkonce globals should link successfully to external globals</a></li>
Chris Lattner4ad4b3a2003-10-27 17:58:57 +0000[diff] [blame]84<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR59">C++ frontend can crash when compiling virtual base classes</a></li>
Chris Lattner2c17a892003-10-28 23:13:03 +0000[diff] [blame]85<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR62">C backend fails on constant cast expr to ptr-to-anonymous struct</a></li>
Chris Lattner287b6212003-10-29 01:26:07 +0000[diff] [blame]86<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR63">#ident is not recognized by C frontend</a></li>
Chris Lattner32547fe2003-10-29 07:17:13 +0000[diff] [blame^]87<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR64">[constmerge] Constant merging pass merges constants with external linkage</a></li>
88<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR65">C front-end miscompiles the builtin_expect intrinsic!</a></li>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]89</ol><p>
90
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]91At this time, LLVM is known to work properly with SPEC CPU 2000, the Olden
92benchmarks, and the Ptrdist benchmarks among many other programs. Note however
93that the Sparc and X86 backends do not currently support exception throwing or
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]94long jumping (including 253.perlbmk in SPEC). For these programs you must use
95the C backend.<p>
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101<a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms
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Brian Gaeke15a2a252003-10-22 18:19:08 +0000[diff] [blame]105LLVM has only been extensively tested on Intel and AMD machines running Red
106Hat Linux, and Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]107The core LLVM infrastructure uses "autoconf" for portability, so hopefully we
108work on more platforms than that. However, it is extremely likely that we
109missed something. We welcome portability patches and error messages.<p>
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119This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
120component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
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131</ul><h4><a name="core"><hr size=0>Known problems with the LLVM Core</h4><ul>
132
133<li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not work.<p>
134
135<li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
136 such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to
137 be corrupted.<p>
138
139<li>It is not possible to <tt>dlopen</tt> an LLVM bytecode file in the JIT.<p>
140
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]141<li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is very slow (there is no symbol
142table in the archive).
Chris Lattner47588f92003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000[diff] [blame]143
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]144<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
145</ul><h4><a name="c-fe"><hr size=0>Known problems with the C front-end</h4><ul>
146
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]147</ul><b>Bugs:</b><ul><p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]148
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]149<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR6">Oversized integer bitfields cause crash</a>.<p>
150
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]151<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
152 scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
153<pre>
154 for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) {
155 int X[n];
156 foo(X);
157 }
158</pre><p>
159
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]160</ul><b>Notes:</b><ul><p>
161
162<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.<p>
163
164<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
165 support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64 bits.
166 <p>
167
Chris Lattner824b9a62003-10-02 05:09:46 +0000[diff] [blame]168<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not work:
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]169<ol>
170 <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
John Criswell97745952003-10-27 17:41:53 +0000[diff] [blame]171 appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
172 <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]173 <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
174 - These functions have not been tested.
175</ol><p>
176
177<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
178 the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
179 <ol>
180 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Labels.html#Local%20Labels">Local Labels</a>: Labels local to a block.
181 <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.
182 <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.
183 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.
184 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#Extended%20Asm">Extended Asm</a>: Assembler instructions with C expressions as operands.
185 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constraints.html#Constraints">Constraints</a>: Constraints for asm operands
186 <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.
187 <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.
188 <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.
189 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html#Vector%20Extensions">Vector Extensions</a>: Using vector instructions through built-in functions.
190 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Target-Builtins.html#Target%20Builtins">Target Builtins</a>: Built-in functions specific to particular targets.
191 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.
192 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pragmas.html#Pragmas">Pragmas</a>: Pragmas accepted by GCC.
193 </ol><p>
194
195 The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
196 attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
197 but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
198 ignored by the LLVM compiler, which will cause a different interpretation of
199 the program.<p>
200
201 <ol>
202 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
203 Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
204 Supported, but allocated stack space is not freed until the function returns (noted above).
205
206 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes">Function Attributes</a>:
207 Declaring that functions have no side effects, or that they can never return.<br>
208 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>, <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>deprecated</tt>,
209 <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
210 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>, <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>, <tt>malloc</tt>
211 <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
212 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>, <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
213 <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes
214
215 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
216 Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
217 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
218 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
219 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
220 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
221 <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
222 <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
223 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.<br>
224
225 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Type-Attributes.html#Type%20Attributes">Type Attributes</a>: Specifying attributes of types.
226 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
227 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt>
228 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>
229 all target specific attributes.<br>
230 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
231 Other built-in functions.<br>
232 We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
233 <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
234 <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
235 <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt> (ignored).
236 </ol><p>
237
238
239 The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:
240 <ol>
241 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.
242 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Typeof.html#Typeof">Typeof</a>: <code>typeof</code>: referring to the type of an expression.
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]243 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]244 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.
245 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.
246 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.
247 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.
248 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.
249 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.
250 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variadic-Macros.html#Variadic%20Macros">Variadic Macros</a>: Macros with a variable number of arguments.
251 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.
252 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Subscripting.html#Subscripting">Subscripting</a>: Any array can be subscripted, even if not an lvalue.
253 <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.
254 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Initializers.html#Initializers">Initializers</a>: Non-constant initializers.
255 <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.
256 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html#Designated%20Inits">Designated Inits</a>: Labeling elements of initializers.
257
258 <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.
259 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.
260 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.
261
262 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.
263 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.
264 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.
265 <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;.
266 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.
267 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).
268 <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.
269 <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.
270 <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.
271 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Unnamed-Fields.html#Unnamed%20Fields">Unnamed Fields</a>: Unnamed struct/union fields within structs/unions.
272 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Attribute-Syntax.html#Attribute%20Syntax">Attribute Syntax</a>: Formal syntax for attributes.
273 </ol><p>
274
275 If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
276 lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).
277
278
279<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
280</ul><h4><a name="c++-fe"><hr size=0>Known problems with the C++ front-end</h4><ul>
281
John Criswell97745952003-10-27 17:41:53 +0000[diff] [blame]282For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully functional but
283of <b>beta</b> quality. It has been tested and works for a number of simple programs that collectively exercise most of the language. Nevertheless, it has not been in use as long as the C front-end. Please report any bugs or problems.<p>
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Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]285</ul><b>Bugs</b>:<ul><p>
286
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]287<li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C
288 front-end</a><p>
289
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]290</ul><b>Notes</b>:<ul><p>
291
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]292<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
293parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
294versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
295href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.<p>
296
297<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]298 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]299 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
300 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed however (which is
301 better than most compilers).<p>
302
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]303<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
304 href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
305 This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
306 mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
307 representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
308 compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
309 Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
310 <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
311 different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
312 interact correctly</b> .
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]313
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]314<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR11">Code for executing destructors when
315 unwinding is not shared</a> (this is a quality of implementation problem,
316 which does not effect functionality).<p>
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]317
318
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]319<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
320</ul><h4><a name="x86-be"><hr size=0>Known problems with the X86 back-end</h4><ul>
321
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]322<li>The X86 code generator <a
Chris Lattner0d4379a2003-10-08 06:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]323href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR16">does not currently
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]324support the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction</a>, so code that throws a C++ exception
325or calls the C <tt>longjmp</tt> function will abort.<p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]326
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]327
328<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
329</ul><h4><a name="sparc-be"><hr size=0>Known problems with the Sparc back-end</h4><ul>
330
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]331<li>The Sparc code generator <a
Chris Lattner0d4379a2003-10-08 06:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]332href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR15">does not currently
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]333support the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction</a>, so code that throws a C++ exception
334or calls the C <tt>longjmp</tt> function will abort.<p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]335
336
337<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
338</ul><h4><a name="c-be"><hr size=0>Known problems with the C back-end</h4><ul>
339
340<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
341Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
342(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
343problem probably cannot be fixed.<p>
344
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]345<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a>
346cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or Infinity.<p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]347
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]348<li><a href="http://zion.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
349supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
350frontends.<p>
351
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]352<li>The code produces by the C back-end has only been tested with the Sun CC and
353GCC compilers. It is possible that it will have to be adjusted to support other
354C compilers.<p>
355
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