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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]10<div class="doc_title">
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]11 LLVM 1.2 Release Notes
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]12</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]13
14<ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]15 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
16 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
17 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
18 <li><a href="#install-instructions">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
20 <ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]21 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]27 </ul></li>
28 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]29</ol>
30
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000[diff] [blame]31<div class="doc_text">
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]32 <p><b>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM team</a></b><p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]33</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]34
35<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]36<div class="doc_section">
37 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
38</div>
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40
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]41<div class="doc_text">
42
43<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]44infrastructure, release 1.2. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]45known problems and bug fixes from the previous release. The most up-to-date
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]46version of this document can be found on the <a
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]47href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.2/">LLVM 1.2 web site</a>. If you are
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]48not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]49this document may be updated after the release.</p>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]50
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]51<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about potentially more
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]52current 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 +0000[diff] [blame]55list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]56
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]57<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 +0000[diff] [blame]60href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
61
62</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]63
64<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]65<div class="doc_section">
66 <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
67</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]68<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
69
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]70<div class="doc_text">
71
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]72<p>This is the third public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]73</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]74
Chris Lattnerde4afdc2004-02-08 22:23:33 +0000[diff] [blame]75<p>At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all C
Chris Lattner1124e2c2003-12-12 21:33:08 +0000[diff] [blame]76&amp; C++ SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks, the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist
77benchmarks. It has also been used to compile <b>many</b> other programs. LLVM
78now also works with a broad variety of C++ programs, though it has still
Chris Lattnerde4afdc2004-02-08 22:23:33 +0000[diff] [blame]79received less testing than the C front-end.
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]80</p>
81
82
83<!--=========================================================================-->
84<div class="doc_subsubsection">
85This release implements the following new features:
86</div>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]87
88<ol>
Chris Lattner95778a02004-02-08 21:20:42 +0000[diff] [blame]89<li><a href="SourceLevelDebugging.html">A new LLVM source-level debugger has been started.</a></li>
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]90<li></li>
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000[diff] [blame]91</ol>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]92
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]93
94<!--=========================================================================-->
95<div class="doc_subsubsection">
96In this release, the following missing features were implemented:
97</div>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]98
99<ol>
Chris Lattner127215e2004-02-08 19:59:05 +0000[diff] [blame]100<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR16">Exception handling support in the X86
101&amp; Sparc native code generators</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]102</ol>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]103
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]104
105<!--=========================================================================-->
106<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]107In this release, the following Quality of Implementation issues were fixed:
108</div>
109
110<ol>
111
112<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR135">JIT should lazily initialize global variables</a></li>
Chris Lattneref56a192003-12-20 10:29:02 +0000[diff] [blame]113<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR192">[X86] X86 Backend never releases memory for machine code structures</a></li>
Chris Lattner71f0a822003-12-23 23:50:31 +0000[diff] [blame]114<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR196">[vmcore] OpaqueType objects memory leak</a></li>
Chris Lattner1abc87e2004-01-08 17:20:50 +0000[diff] [blame]115<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR182">[llvmgcc] C front-end does not compile "extern inline" into linkonce</a></li>
Chris Lattner23632f12004-01-15 17:59:29 +0000[diff] [blame]116<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR73">Bytecode format inconsistent</a></li>
Chris Lattner913a9342004-02-05 17:31:37 +0000[diff] [blame]117<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR209">[loadvn/inline/scalarrepl] Slow optimizations with extremely large basic blocks</a></li>
Chris Lattnera50c4ba2004-02-09 21:16:16 +0000[diff] [blame]118<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR224">[asmparser] Really slow parsing of types with complex upreferences</a></li>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]119</ol>
120
121<!--=========================================================================-->
122<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Brian Gaeke33613862004-02-10 05:22:23 +0000[diff] [blame]123LLVM gained several improvements to its build and installation
124infrastructure in this release. There is now
125a <tt>autoconf/AutoRegen.sh</tt> script that you can run to rebuild the
126<tt>configure</tt> script and its associated files
127(<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR105">Bug 105</a>) as well as beta support
128for "make install" (<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR208">Bug 208</a> and
129<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR220">Bug 220</a>) and RPM package generation
130(<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR203">Bug 203</a>).
131Additionally, in this release, the following build problems were fixed:
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]132</div>
133
134<ol>
135<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR210">[build] Makefiles break if C frontend target string has unexpected value</a></li>
John Criswell6b153402004-01-26 21:03:54 +0000[diff] [blame]136<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR214">[build] hard-wired assumption that shared-library extension is ".so"</a></li>
Chris Lattner3e0bd312004-02-03 22:59:56 +0000[diff] [blame]137<li><A href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR222">make tools-only doesn't make lib/Support</a></li>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]138</ol>
139
140<!--=========================================================================-->
141<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]142In this release, the following Code Quality issues were fixed:
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]143</div>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]144
145<ol>
Chris Lattner9e259062003-12-19 06:31:56 +0000[diff] [blame]146<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR187">[loopsimplify] Many pointless phi nodes are created</a></li>
Chris Lattner02babb82004-02-02 19:40:06 +0000[diff] [blame]147<li>The X86 backend didn't generate <tt>fchs</tt> to negate floating point numbers</li>
Chris Lattner3bc65792004-02-12 21:21:17 +0000[diff] [blame^]148<li>The X86 backend didn't expand memcpy() into the <tt>rep movs</tt> instruction</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]149</ol>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]150
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]151
152<!--=========================================================================-->
153<div class="doc_subsubsection">
154In this release, the following bugs in the previous release were fixed:
155</div>
156
157<p>Bugs in the LLVM Core:</p>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]158
159<ol>
Misha Brukmanad643852003-12-15 22:48:12 +0000[diff] [blame]160<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR179">[licm] LICM promotes volatile memory
161locations to registers</a></li>
Chris Lattner5b7142a2003-12-18 08:16:25 +0000[diff] [blame]162<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR191">[licm] Memory read after free causes
163infrequent crash</a></li>
Chris Lattner5de946f2003-12-22 04:06:24 +0000[diff] [blame]164<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR194">[indvars] Induction variable
165canonicalization always makes 32-bit indvars</a></li>
Chris Lattner0cbdd972003-12-22 23:56:37 +0000[diff] [blame]166<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR193">[constantmerge] Merging globals can
167cause use of invalid pointers!</a></li>
Chris Lattnerae3664b2004-01-20 19:16:50 +0000[diff] [blame]168<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR212">[bcreader] Bytecode reader misreads 'long -9223372036854775808'!</a></li>
Chris Lattner56e67052004-02-09 21:22:51 +0000[diff] [blame]169<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=174">Tail duplication does not update SSA form correctly.</a></li>
Chris Lattnerc8a35812004-02-01 22:52:12 +0000[diff] [blame]170<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR218">VMCore mishandles double -0.0</a></li>
Chris Lattner02babb82004-02-02 19:40:06 +0000[diff] [blame]171<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR219">[X86] X86 backend code generates -0.0 as +0.0</a></li>
Chris Lattner741f6b42004-02-05 21:16:42 +0000[diff] [blame]172<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR223">[loopsimplify] Loopsimplify incorrectly updates dominator information</a></li>
Chris Lattner95778a02004-02-08 21:20:42 +0000[diff] [blame]173<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR225">[pruneeh] -pruneeh pass removes invoke instructions it shouldn't</a></li>
Chris Lattner964b0d82004-02-10 05:19:54 +0000[diff] [blame]174<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR228">[sparc] Boolean constants are emitted as true and false</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]175</ol>
176
177
Chris Lattner56e67052004-02-09 21:22:51 +0000[diff] [blame]178
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]179<p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>
180
181<ol>
Misha Brukmanad643852003-12-15 22:48:12 +0000[diff] [blame]182<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR186">Need weak linkage on memory
183management functions in libc runtime to allow them to be overriden</a></li>
Chris Lattner1abc87e2004-01-08 17:20:50 +0000[diff] [blame]184<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR202">[llvm-gcc] asserts when an extern inline function is redefined</a></li>
Chris Lattnerc43f91f2004-01-12 05:15:04 +0000[diff] [blame]185<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR204">[llvmg++] Dynamically initialized constants cannot be marked 'constant'</a></li>
Chris Lattner55d14de2004-02-02 17:48:56 +0000[diff] [blame]186<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR216">[llvmgcc] floating-point unary minus is incorrect for +0.0</a></li>
Chris Lattneracc00bc2004-02-03 08:03:41 +0000[diff] [blame]187<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR221">[llvm-gcc] miscompilation of 'X = Y = Z' with aggregate values</a></li>
Chris Lattner3bc65792004-02-12 21:21:17 +0000[diff] [blame^]188<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR233">[llvmgcc] Structure copies result in a LOT of code</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]189</ol>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]190
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]191</div>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]192
193<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
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195 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
196</div>
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198
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]199<div class="doc_text">
200
201<p>LLVM has been extensively tested on Intel and AMD machines running Red
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]202Hat Linux and FreeBSD. It has also been tested on Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.
John Criswellbb1bad52003-12-12 19:54:20 +0000[diff] [blame]203Additionally,
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]204LLVM works on Mac OS X 10.3 and above, but only with the C backend or
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]205interpreter (no native backend for the PowerPC is available yet).
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]206The core LLVM infrastructure uses "autoconf" for portability, so hopefully we
Chris Lattner3e2959e2003-11-08 05:22:09 +0000[diff] [blame]207work on more platforms than that. However, it is likely that we
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]208missed something and that minor porting is required to get LLVM to work on
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]209new platforms. We welcome portability patches and error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]210
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]211</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]212
213<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]214<div class="doc_section">
215 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
216</div>
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218
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]219<div class="doc_text">
220
221<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]222component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]223sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]224href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]225there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]226
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]227</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]228
229<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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234
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236<div class="doc_subsection">
237 <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
238</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]239
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]240<div class="doc_text">
241
242<ul>
243
244<li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not
245work.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]246
247<li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]248such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be
249corrupted.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]250
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]251<li>It is not possible to <tt>dlopen</tt> an LLVM bytecode file in the JIT.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]252
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]253<li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is very slow (there is no symbol
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]254table in the archive).</li>
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]255
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]256<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR82">LLVM cannot handle structures with
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]257more than 256 elements</a>.</li>
258
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]259<li>
260The gccld program
261<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=139">
262does not link objects/archives in the order specified on the command line.
263</a>
264</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]265</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]266</div>
267
268<!-- ======================================================================= -->
269<div class="doc_subsection">
270 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
271</div>
Chris Lattner47588f92003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000[diff] [blame]272
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]273<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]274<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]275
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]276<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]277<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]278<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
279 scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
280<pre>
281 for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) {
282 int X[n];
283 foo(X);
284 }
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]285</pre></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]286
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]287<li>
288Initialization of global union variables can only be done
289<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=162">with the largest
290union member</a>.
291</li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]292</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]293</div>
294
295<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
296<div class="doc_subsubsection">
297 Notes
298</div>
299
300<div class="doc_text">
301
302<ul>
303
304<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]305
306<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]307support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
308bits.</li>
309
310<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
311work:
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000[diff] [blame]312 <ol>
313 <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
314 appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
315 <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
316 <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
317 - These functions have not been tested.
318 </ol></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]319
320<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
321 the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
322 <ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]323 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Labels.html#Local%20Labels">Local Labels</a>: Labels local to a block.</li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]324 <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]325 <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>
326 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li>
327 <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]328 <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]329 <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>
330 <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>
331 <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>
332 <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>
333 <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>
334 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
335 <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]336 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]337
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]338 <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]339 attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
340 but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]341 ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]342 the program.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]343
344 <ol>
345 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
346 Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]347 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]348
349 <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]350
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]351 Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]352 return.<br>
353
354 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
355 <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
356 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
357
358 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>,
359 <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
360 <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
361
362 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>,
363 <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
364 <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]365
366 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
367 Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
368 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
369 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
370 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]371
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]372 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
373 <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
374 <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]375 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]376
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]377 <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]378 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]379 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]380
381 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
382 all target specific attributes.</li>
383
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]384 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
385 Other built-in functions.<br>
386 We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
387 <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
388 <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]389 <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt> (ignored).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]390
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]391 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]392
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]393 <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
394
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]395 <ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]396 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li>
397 <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>
398 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li>
399 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li>
400 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li>
401 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li>
402 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li>
403 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li>
404 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li>
405 <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>
406 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li>
407 <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]408 <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]409 <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]410 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions,
411or arrays as values.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]412 <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]413 <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]414 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li>
415 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li>
416 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li>
417 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li>
418 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li>
419 <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>
420 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li>
421 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li>
422 <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>
423 <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>
424 <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>
425 <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>
426 <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]427 </ol></li>
428
429</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]430
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]431<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
432lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]433
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]434</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]435
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]436<!-- ======================================================================= -->
437<div class="doc_subsection">
438 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
439</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]440
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]441<div class="doc_text">
442
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]443<p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully functional but
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]444has not been tested as thoroughly as the C front-end. It has been tested and
445works for a number of non-trivial programs, but there may be lurking bugs.
446Please report any bugs or problems.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]447
448</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]449
450<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]451<div class="doc_subsubsection">
452 Bugs
453</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]454
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]455<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]456
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]457<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]458<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]459 front-end</a>.</li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]460</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]461</div>
462
463<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
464<div class="doc_subsubsection">
465 Notes
466</div>
467
468<div class="doc_text">
469
470<ul>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]471
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]472<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
473parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
474versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]475href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]476
477<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]478 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]479 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]480 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]481 better than most compilers).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]482
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]483<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
484 href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
485 This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
486 mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
487 representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
488 compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
489 Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
490 <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
491 different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]492 interact correctly</b>. </li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]493
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]494</ul>
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]495
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]496</div>
497
498<!-- ======================================================================= -->
499<div class="doc_subsection">
500 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
501</div>
502
503<div class="doc_text">
504
505<ul>
Chris Lattnerde4afdc2004-02-08 22:23:33 +0000[diff] [blame]506<li>None so far.
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]507</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]508
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]509</div>
510
511<!-- ======================================================================= -->
512<div class="doc_subsection">
513 <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc back-end</a>
514</div>
515
516<div class="doc_text">
517
518<ul>
Chris Lattnerde4afdc2004-02-08 22:23:33 +0000[diff] [blame]519<li>None so far.
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]520</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]521
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]522</div>
523
524<!-- ======================================================================= -->
525<div class="doc_subsection">
526 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
527</div>
528
529<div class="doc_text">
530
531<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]532
533<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
534Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
535(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]536problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]537
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]538<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]539cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or
540Infinity.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]541
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