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Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000011<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.5 Release Notes</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000012
13<ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000014 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
15 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
Chris Lattner4b538b92004-04-30 22:17:12 +000016 <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000017 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000018 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
19 <ul>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +000020 <li><a href="#experimental">Experimental features included in this
21 release</a>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000022 <li><a href="#core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
23 <li><a href="#c-fe">Known problems with the C Front-end</a>
24 <li><a href="#c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ Front-end</a>
25 <li><a href="#x86-be">Known problems with the X86 Back-end</a>
Misha Brukmanadb1c392004-07-12 16:55:41 +000026 <li><a href="#sparcv9-be">Known problems with the SparcV9 Back-end</a>
Chris Lattnerf32a5f52004-11-07 01:55:32 +000027 <li><a href="#ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC Back-end</a>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000028 <li><a href="#c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000029 </ul></li>
30 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000031</ol>
32
Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +000033<div class="doc_author">
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000034 <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Team</a><p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000035</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000036
37<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000038<div class="doc_section">
39 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
40</div>
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42
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000043<div class="doc_text">
44
45<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000046infrastructure, release 1.5. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +000047known problems and improvements from the previous release. The most up-to-date
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000048version of this document can be found on the <a
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000049href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.5/">LLVM 1.5 web site</a>. If you are
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +000050not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000051this document may be updated after the release.</p>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +000052
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +000053<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
54release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main LLVM
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +000055web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
56href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000057list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000058
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000059<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS or the main LLVM web page,
60this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one. To see
61the release notes for the current or previous releases, see the <a
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000062href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
63
64</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000065
66<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000067<div class="doc_section">
68 <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
69</div>
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71
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000072<div class="doc_text">
73
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000074<p>This is the sixth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000075
Chris Lattner0bce6ac2004-12-10 16:27:34 +000076<p> At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile a broad range of C and
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000077C++ programs, including the SPEC CPU95 &amp; 2000 suite. TODO. It also includes
78bug fixes for those problems found since the 1.4 release.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000079
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +000080</div>
81
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000082<!--=========================================================================-->
83<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +000084<a name="newfeatures">This release implements the following new features:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000085</div>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +000086
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +000087<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +000088<ol>
Chris Lattner74d74cd2004-12-11 06:10:52 +000089 <li>LLVM now includes an <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR415">
90 Inter-Procedural Sparse Conditional Constant Propagation</a> pass, named
91 -ipsccp, which is run by default at link-time.</li>
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +000092</ol>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +000093
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +000094</div>
95
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000096
97<!--=========================================================================-->
98<div class="doc_subsubsection">
99In this release, the following missing features were implemented:
100</div>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000101
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000102<div class="doc_text">
103
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000104<ol>
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000105 <li></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000106</ol>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000107
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000108</div>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000109
110<!--=========================================================================-->
111<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000112<a name="qualityofimp">In this release, the following Quality of Implementation
113issues were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000114</div>
115
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000116<div class="doc_text">
117
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000118<ol>
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000119 <li></li>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000120</ol>
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000121</div>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000122
123<!--=========================================================================-->
124<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000125<a name="codequality">This release includes the following Code Quality
126improvements:</a>
Chris Lattneraab56d42004-05-23 20:42:08 +0000127</div>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000128
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000129<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000130<ol>
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000131 <li></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000132</ol>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000133</div>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000134
135<!--=========================================================================-->
136<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000137<a name="bugfix">In this release, the following bugs in the previous release
138were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000139</div>
140
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000141<div class="doc_text">
142
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000143<p>Bugs fixed in the LLVM Core:</p>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000144
145<ol>
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000146 <li></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000147</ol>
148
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000149<p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>
150
151<ol>
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000152 <li></li>
Brian Gaekee77c8e72004-08-24 07:43:48 +0000153</ol>
154
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000155</div>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000156
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000157<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000158<div class="doc_section">
159 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
160</div>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000161<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
162
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000163<div class="doc_text">
164
John Criswell0b5b5e92004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000165<p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000166
167<ul>
168<li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably
169 other unix-like systems).</li>
170<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000171<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries (limited
172 support is available for native builds with Visual C++).</li>
173<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X systems, running 10.2 and above.</li>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000174</ul>
175
Brian Gaekeb0fd7612004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000176<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
177<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself
178to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor
179porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your
180portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000181
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000182</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000183
184<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000185<div class="doc_section">
186 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
187</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000188<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
189
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000190<div class="doc_text">
191
192<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000193component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000194sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000195href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000196there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000197
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000198</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000199
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000200<!-- ======================================================================= -->
201<div class="doc_subsection">
202 <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
203</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000204
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000205<div class="doc_text">
206
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000207<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
208be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should
209not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
210useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
211components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000212
213<ul>
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000214<li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy, and may be removed in future
215 releases: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep, -ipmodref, -cee, -branch-combine,
216 -instloops, -paths, -pre</tt></li>
217<li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development, but can
218 be used to step through programs and inspect the stack.</li>
Chris Lattner0da7f492004-12-02 17:20:17 +0000219<li>The "iterative scan" register allocator (enabled with -regalloc=iterativescan)
220 is not stable.</li>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000221</ul>
222
223</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000224
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000225<!-- ======================================================================= -->
226<div class="doc_subsection">
227 <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
228</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000229
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000230<div class="doc_text">
231
232<ul>
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000233 <li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not work.
234 </li>
235 <li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
236 such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be
237 corrupted.
238 </li>
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000239 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR240">The lower-invoke pass does not
240 mark values live across a setjmp as volatile</a>. This missing feature
241 only affects targets whose setjmp/longjmp libraries do not save and restore
242 the entire register file.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000243</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000244</div>
245
246<!-- ======================================================================= -->
247<div class="doc_subsection">
248 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
249</div>
Chris Lattner47588f92003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000250
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000251<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000252<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000253
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000254<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000255<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000256<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
257 scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
258<pre>
259 for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) {
260 int X[n];
261 foo(X);
262 }
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000263</pre></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000264
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000265<li>Initialization of global union variables can only be done <a
Misha Brukman43ee2932004-12-04 00:45:09 +0000266href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR162">with the largest union member</a>.</li>
Chris Lattnerf580cdc2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000267
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000268</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000269</div>
270
271<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
272<div class="doc_subsubsection">
273 Notes
274</div>
275
276<div class="doc_text">
277
278<ul>
279
280<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000281
282<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000283support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
284bits.</li>
285
286<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
287work:
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000288 <ol>
289 <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
290 appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
291 <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
292 <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
293 - These functions have not been tested.
294 </ol></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000295
296<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
297 the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
298 <ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000299 <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 +0000300 <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>
301 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li>
302 <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 +0000303 <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 +0000304 <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>
305 <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 +0000306 <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>
307 <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 +0000308 <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 +0000309 <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 +0000310 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000311
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000312 <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000313 attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
314 but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000315 ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000316 the program.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000317
318 <ol>
319 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
320 Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000321 Supported, but allocated stack space is not freed until the function returns (noted above).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000322
323 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes">Function Attributes</a>:
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000324
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000325 Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000326 return.<br>
327
328 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
John Criswell0b5b5e92004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000329 <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>,
330 <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000331 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
332
John Criswell0b5b5e92004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000333 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noinline</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000334 <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
335 <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
336
337 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>,
338 <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
339 <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000340
341 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
342 Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
343 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
344 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
345 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000346
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000347 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
348 <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
349 <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000350 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000351
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000352 <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 +0000353 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000354 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000355
356 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
357 all target specific attributes.</li>
358
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000359 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
360 Other built-in functions.<br>
361 We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
362 <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
363 <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
Chris Lattnerceebeb62004-06-18 06:26:29 +0000364 <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt>
365 (currently ignored). We also support builtins for ISO C99 floating
366 point comparison macros (e.g., <tt>__builtin_islessequal</tt>).</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000367 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000368
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000369 <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
370
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000371 <ol>
Chris Lattner7fe97dd2004-03-16 08:54:07 +0000372 <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 +0000373 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li>
374 <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 +0000375 <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 +0000376 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li>
377 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li>
378 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li>
379 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li>
380 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li>
381 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li>
382 <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>
383 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li>
384 <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 +0000385 <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 +0000386 <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 +0000387 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions,
388or arrays as values.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000389 <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 +0000390 <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 +0000391 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li>
392 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li>
393 <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 +0000394 <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 +0000395 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li>
396 <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>
397 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li>
398 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li>
399 <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>
400 <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>
401 <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 +0000402 <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 +0000403 <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>
404 <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 +0000405 </ol></li>
406
407</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000408
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000409<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
410lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000411
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000412</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000413
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000414<!-- ======================================================================= -->
415<div class="doc_subsection">
416 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
417</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000418
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000419<div class="doc_text">
420
Reid Spencere09ca642004-12-07 08:39:08 +0000421<p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000422tested and works for a number of non-trivial programs, including LLVM
423itself.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000424
425</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000426
427<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner3a51be12004-02-14 04:12:41 +0000428<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000429
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000430<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000431
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000432<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000433<li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000434 front-end</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner7962f712004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000435
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000436<li><b>IA-64 specific</b>: The C++ front-end does not use <a
437href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR406">IA64 ABI compliant layout of v-tables</a>.
Chris Lattner7962f712004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000438In particular, it just stores function pointers instead of function
439descriptors in the vtable. This bug prevents mixing C++ code compiled with
Chris Lattner04db8082004-08-02 20:29:51 +0000440LLVM with C++ objects compiled by other C++ compilers.</li>
Chris Lattner7962f712004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000441
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000442</ul>
443
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000444</div>
445
446<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
447<div class="doc_subsubsection">
448 Notes
449</div>
450
451<div class="doc_text">
452
453<ul>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000454
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000455<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
456parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
457versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000458href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000459
460<li>Destructors for local objects are not always run when a <tt>longjmp</tt> is
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000461 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000462 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000463 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000464 better than most compilers).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000465
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000466<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
467 href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
468 This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
469 mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
470 representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
471 compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
472 Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
473 <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
474 different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000475 interact correctly</b>. </li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000476
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000477</ul>
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000478
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000479</div>
480
481<!-- ======================================================================= -->
482<div class="doc_subsection">
483 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
484</div>
485
486<div class="doc_text">
487
488<ul>
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000489 <li>none yet</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000490</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000491
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000492</div>
493
494<!-- ======================================================================= -->
495<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukmanadb1c392004-07-12 16:55:41 +0000496 <a name="sparcv9-be">Known problems with the SparcV9 back-end</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000497</div>
498
499<div class="doc_text">
500
501<ul>
Misha Brukmanadb1c392004-07-12 16:55:41 +0000502<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR60">[sparcv9] SparcV9 backend miscompiles
503several programs in the LLVM test suite</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000504</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000505
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000506</div>
507
508<!-- ======================================================================= -->
509<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattnerf32a5f52004-11-07 01:55:32 +0000510 <a name="ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC back-end</a>
511</div>
512
513<div class="doc_text">
514
515<ul>
516<li>none yet</li>
517</ul>
518
519</div>
520
521<!-- ======================================================================= -->
522<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000523 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
524</div>
525
526<div class="doc_text">
527
528<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000529
530<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
531Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
532(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000533problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000534
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000535<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000536supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000537frontends.</li>
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000538
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000539</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000540
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000541</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000542
543<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000544<div class="doc_section">
545 <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
546</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000547<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
548
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000549<div class="doc_text">
550
551<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page,
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000552including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000553implemented in LLVM. The web page also contains versions of the API
554documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code. You
555can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000556the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000557
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000558<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000559us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing
560lists</a>.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000561
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