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Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]10<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.3 Release Notes</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]11
12<ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]13 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
14 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
Chris Lattner4b538b92004-04-30 22:17:12 +0000[diff] [blame]15 <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]16 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]17 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
18 <ul>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <li><a href="#experimental">Experimental features included in this
20 release</a>
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
Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]31<div class="doc_author">
32 <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM team</a><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 Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]44infrastructure, release 1.3. 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 Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]47href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.3/">LLVM 1.3 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
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]72<p>This is the fourth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. This
Chris Lattnerd4594dc2004-05-04 17:04:09 +0000[diff] [blame]73release primarily improves the <a href="#codequality">performance of the
74code</a> produced by all aspects of the LLVM compiler and adds some <a
75href="#newfeatures">new features</a>, though it does <a href="#bugfix">fix a few
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]76bugs</a> as well.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]77
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]78<p> At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all C &amp; C++
79SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks, the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist benchmarks. It
80has also been used to compile <b>many</b> other programs. LLVM now also works
81with a broad variety of C++ programs, though it has still received less testing
82than the C front-end.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]83
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]84<!--=========================================================================-->
85<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000[diff] [blame]86<a name="newfeatures">This release implements the following new features:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]87</div>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]88
89<ol>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]90<li>The LLVM <a href="LangRef.html#i_select"><tt>select</tt></a> instruction is
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]91now fully implemented and supported by all transformations, native code
92generators, and the interpreter.</li>
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]93<li>Bugpoint can now narrow down code-generation bugs to a loop nest, where
94before it could only narrow them down to a function being miscompiled.</li>
Brian Gaeke43be3112004-05-04 21:22:57 +0000[diff] [blame]95<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR40">Bugpoint can now debug arbitrary
96modes of llc</a> and lli, by passing them command line flags (e.g.,
97<tt>-regalloc=linearscan</tt>, <tt>-enable-correct-eh-support</tt>, etc.) </li>
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]98<li>The Control Flow Graph in the native code generators is no longer
99constrained to be the same as the CFG for the LLVM input code.</li>
100<li>The LLVM induction variable analysis routines have been rewritten.</li>
101<li>LLVM now has new loop unrolling and loop unswitching passes.</li>
102<li>The induction variable substitution pass performs linear function test
103replacement and exit value replacement optimizations.</li>
Chris Lattner39491a72004-05-24 04:45:52 +0000[diff] [blame^]104<li>LLVM now has first-class support for <a href="GarbageCollection.html">Accurate
105Garbage Collection</a>, enabling the use of aggressive copying and generational
106collectors.</li>
107<li>LLVM now includes an implementation of Andersen's interprocedural alias
108analysis algorithm.</li>
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000[diff] [blame]109</ol>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]110
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]111
112<!--=========================================================================-->
113<div class="doc_subsubsection">
114In this release, the following missing features were implemented:
115</div>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]116
117<ol>
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]118<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR82">LLVM cannot handle structures with
119more than 256 elements</a></li>
Misha Brukmancb003362004-04-19 03:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]120<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR38">[bugpoint] External functions used in
121non-instruction entities, such as global constant initializer</a></li>
Reid Spencer44ff57a2004-05-09 23:32:39 +0000[diff] [blame]122<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR178">Stacker does not handle targets
123with 64-bit pointers.</a></li>
Misha Brukmancb003362004-04-19 03:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]124<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR290">Bugpoint doesn't support
125uses of external fns by immediate constant exprs</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]126</ol>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]127
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]128
129<!--=========================================================================-->
130<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]131<a name="qualityofimp">In this release, the following Quality of Implementation
132issues were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]133</div>
134
135<ol>
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]136<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR305">LLVM tools will happily spew
137bytecode onto your terminal</a></li>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]138<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR329">[llvmgcc] type names are not emitted
139for structure typedefs</a></li>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]140</ol>
141
142<!--=========================================================================-->
143<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000[diff] [blame]144In this release, the following build problems were fixed:
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]145</div>
146
147<ol>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]148<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR301">Minor configure bugs with
149-disable/enable-povray and -disable-spec</a></li>
150<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR289">shell scripts output by gccld don't
151work if you change PATH</a></li>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]152</ol>
153
154<!--=========================================================================-->
155<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]156<a name="codequality">This release includes the following Code Quality
157improvements:</a>
Chris Lattneraab56d42004-05-23 20:42:08 +0000[diff] [blame]158</div>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]159
160<ol>
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]161<li>Fixed: <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR309">[vmcore] Code quality problem
162due to long operand of getelementptr</a></li>
Chris Lattner64913402004-04-13 14:43:35 +0000[diff] [blame]163
164<li>The X86 backend now generates substantially better code for 64-bit integer
165and floating point operations.</li>
166
167<li>The -inline pass no longer inlines mutually recursive functions until it
168hits the inlining threshold.</li>
169
170<li>The -inline pass no longer misses obvious inlining opportunities just
171because the callee eventually calls into an external function.</li>
172
173<li>The -simplifycfg pass can now "if convert" simple statements into the new
174<tt>select</tt> instruction.</li>
175
176<li>The -loopsimplify pass can now break <a
177href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR35">natural loops with multiple backedges</a>
178into multiple nested loops. This enables a variety of subsequent
179optimizations.</li>
180
181<li>The -adce pass can now eliminate calls to functions that do not not write to
182memory.</li>
183
184<li>The link-time optimizer now runs the -prune-eh pass (to remove unused
Chris Lattnerd4594dc2004-05-04 17:04:09 +0000[diff] [blame]185exception handlers).</li>
Chris Lattner64913402004-04-13 14:43:35 +0000[diff] [blame]186
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]187<li>The -simplifycfg pass can now eliminate simple correlated branches (such as
188"<tt>if (A &lt; B &amp;&amp; A &lt; B)</tt>", and can turn short-circuiting
189operators into the strict versions when useful (such as "<tt>if (A &lt; B || A
190&gt; C)</tt>" into "<tt>if (A &lt; B | A &gt; C)</tt>"</li>
191
Chris Lattnerd4594dc2004-05-04 17:04:09 +0000[diff] [blame]192<li>LLVM now has infrastructure for (simple and sparse conditional) constant
193propagation of function calls. It currently supports a few math library
194functions like sqrt/sin/cos/etc.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]195</ol>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]196
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000[diff] [blame]197</div>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]198
199<!--=========================================================================-->
200<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]201<a name="bugfix">In this release, the following bugs in the previous release
202were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]203</div>
204
205<p>Bugs in the LLVM Core:</p>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]206
207<ol>
John Criswell4d8d49f2004-05-06 22:23:24 +0000[diff] [blame]208<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR330">[vmcore] Linker causes erroneous
209asssertion</a></li>
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]210<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR306">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify
211incorrectly updates dominator information</a></li>
212<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR310">[tailduplicate] DemoteRegToStack
213breaks SSA form</a></li>
214<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR313">[X86] JIT miscompiles unsigned short
215to floating point cast</a></li>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]216<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR332">[adce] Crash handling unreachable
217code that unwinds</a></li>
218<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR333">[sparc] LLC can't emit 2 functions
219of the same name, both having constant pools</a></li>
220<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR337">[livevar] Live variables missed
221physical register use of aliased definition</a></li>
Chris Lattnere5ad10a2004-05-21 16:48:20 +0000[diff] [blame]222<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR340">Verifier misses malformed switch instruction</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]223</ol>
224
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]225<p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>
226
227<ol>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]228<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR326">[llvmgcc] Crash on use of undeclared
229enum type</a></li>
230<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR298">[llvmgcc] Variable length array
231indexing miscompiled</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]232</ol>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]233
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000[diff] [blame]234
235<!--=========================================================================-->
236<div class="doc_subsubsection">
237<a name="misc">This release includes the following miscellaneous
238improvements:</a>
Chris Lattneraab56d42004-05-23 20:42:08 +0000[diff] [blame]239</div>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000[diff] [blame]240
241<p>Documentation Improvements</p>
242<ol>
243<li><a href="BytecodeFormat.html">Documentation of the LLVM Bytecode file format
244was added.</a></li>
245<li>All documentation was brought up to HTML 4.01 (Strict) level.</li>
246</ol>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000[diff] [blame]247
248
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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]250<div class="doc_section">
251 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
252</div>
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254
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]255<div class="doc_text">
256
Brian Gaekeb0fd7612004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000[diff] [blame]257<p>LLVM has been extensively tested on Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat
258Linux. It has also been tested under FreeBSD, and on Sun UltraSPARC
259workstations running Solaris 8. Additionally, LLVM works on Mac OS X 10.3 and
260above, but only with the C backend and interpreter; no native machine-code
261generator for the PowerPC is available yet.</p>
262
263<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
264<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself
265to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor
266porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your
267portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]268
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]269</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]270
Brian Gaeke21a710a2004-04-20 18:18:46 +0000[diff] [blame]271<!--=========================================================================-->
272<div class="doc_subsection">
273In this release, the following portability problems were fixed:
274</div>
275
276<ol>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]277<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR304">warnings compiling Stacker compiler
278on Mac OS X</a></li>
279<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR308">Archive file reader doesn't
280understand abbreviated names in headers</a></li>
Brian Gaeke21a710a2004-04-20 18:18:46 +0000[diff] [blame]281</ol>
282
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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]284<div class="doc_section">
285 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
286</div>
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288
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]289<div class="doc_text">
290
291<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]292component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]293sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]294href="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]295there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]296
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]297</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]298
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]299<!-- ======================================================================= -->
300<div class="doc_subsection">
301 <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
302</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]303
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]304<div class="doc_text">
305
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]306<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
307be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should
308not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
309useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
310components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]311
312<ul>
313<li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep,
314 -ipmodref, -sortstructs, -swapstructs, -cee</tt></li>
315
316<li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that
317 it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li>
318<li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool is incomplete and probably buggy.</li>
319<li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development.</li>
320</ul>
321
322</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]323
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]324<!-- ======================================================================= -->
325<div class="doc_subsection">
326 <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
327</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]328
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]329<div class="doc_text">
330
331<ul>
332
333<li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not
334work.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]335
336<li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]337such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be
338corrupted.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]339
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]340<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]341
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]342<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]343table in the archive).</li>
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]344
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]345<li>The gccld program <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR139">does not link
346objects/archives in the order specified on the command line.</a></li>
Chris Lattner2e6fcaf2004-02-15 23:09:07 +0000[diff] [blame]347
348<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR240">The lower-invoke pass does not mark
John Criswelld46c6962004-03-12 21:29:42 +0000[diff] [blame]349values live across a setjmp as volatile</a>. This missing feature only affects
Chris Lattner2e6fcaf2004-02-15 23:09:07 +0000[diff] [blame]350targets whose setjmp/longjmp libraries do not save and restore the entire
351register file.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]352</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]353</div>
354
355<!-- ======================================================================= -->
356<div class="doc_subsection">
357 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
358</div>
Chris Lattner47588f92003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000[diff] [blame]359
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]360<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]361<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]362
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]363<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]364<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]365<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
366 scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
367<pre>
368 for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) {
369 int X[n];
370 foo(X);
371 }
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]372</pre></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]373
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]374<li>Initialization of global union variables can only be done <a
375href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=162">with the largest union
376member</a>.</li>
Chris Lattnerf580cdc2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000[diff] [blame]377
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]378<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR244">[llvm-gcc] Error when an implicitly
379external function is re-declared as static</a></li>
Chris Lattnerf580cdc2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000[diff] [blame]380
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]381</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]382</div>
383
384<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
385<div class="doc_subsubsection">
386 Notes
387</div>
388
389<div class="doc_text">
390
391<ul>
392
393<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]394
395<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]396support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
397bits.</li>
398
399<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
400work:
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000[diff] [blame]401 <ol>
402 <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
403 appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
404 <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
405 <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
406 - These functions have not been tested.
407 </ol></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]408
409<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
410 the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
411 <ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]412 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Labels.html#Local%20Labels">Local Labels</a>: Labels local to a block.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]413 <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>
414 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li>
415 <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]416 <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]417 <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>
418 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Explicit-Reg-Vars.html#Explicit%20Reg%20Vars">Explicit Reg Vars</a>: Defining variables residing in specified registers.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]419 <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>
420 <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>
421 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
422 <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]423 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]424
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]425 <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]426 attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
427 but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]428 ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]429 the program.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]430
431 <ol>
432 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
433 Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]434 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]435
436 <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]437
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]438 Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]439 return.<br>
440
441 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
442 <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
443 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
444
445 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>,
446 <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
447 <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
448
449 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>,
450 <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
451 <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]452
453 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
454 Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
455 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
456 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
457 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]458
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]459 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
460 <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
461 <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]462 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]463
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]464 <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]465 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]466 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]467
468 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
469 all target specific attributes.</li>
470
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]471 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
472 Other built-in functions.<br>
473 We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
474 <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
475 <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]476 <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt> (ignored).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]477
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]478 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]479
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]480 <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
481
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]482 <ol>
Chris Lattner7fe97dd2004-03-16 08:54:07 +0000[diff] [blame]483 <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]484 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li>
485 <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>
486 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li>
487 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li>
488 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li>
489 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li>
490 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li>
491 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li>
492 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li>
493 <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>
494 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li>
495 <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]496 <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]497 <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]498 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions,
499or arrays as values.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]500 <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]501 <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]502 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li>
503 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li>
504 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li>
505 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li>
506 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li>
507 <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>
508 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li>
509 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li>
510 <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>
511 <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>
512 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Names.html#Function%20Names">Function Names</a>: Printable strings which are the name of the current function.</li>
Chris Lattner25795bc2004-02-14 04:08:29 +0000[diff] [blame]513 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Return-Address.html#Return%20Address">Return Address</a>: Getting the return or frame address of a function.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]514 <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>
515 <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]516 </ol></li>
517
518</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]519
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]520<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
521lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]522
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]523</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]524
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]525<!-- ======================================================================= -->
526<div class="doc_subsection">
527 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
528</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]529
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]530<div class="doc_text">
531
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]532<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]533has not been tested as thoroughly as the C front-end. It has been tested and
534works for a number of non-trivial programs, but there may be lurking bugs.
535Please report any bugs or problems.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]536
537</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]538
539<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner3a51be12004-02-14 04:12:41 +0000[diff] [blame]540<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]541
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]542<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]543
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]544<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]545<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]546 front-end</a>.</li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]547</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]548</div>
549
550<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
551<div class="doc_subsubsection">
552 Notes
553</div>
554
555<div class="doc_text">
556
557<ul>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]558
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]559<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
560parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
561versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]562href="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]563
564<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]565 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]566 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]567 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]568 better than most compilers).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]569
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]570<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
571 href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
572 This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
573 mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
574 representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
575 compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
576 Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
577 <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
578 different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]579 interact correctly</b>. </li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]580
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]581</ul>
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]582
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]583</div>
584
585<!-- ======================================================================= -->
586<div class="doc_subsection">
587 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
588</div>
589
590<div class="doc_text">
591
592<ul>
Chris Lattnerde4afdc2004-02-08 22:23:33 +0000[diff] [blame]593<li>None so far.
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]594</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]595
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]596</div>
597
598<!-- ======================================================================= -->
599<div class="doc_subsection">
600 <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc back-end</a>
601</div>
602
603<div class="doc_text">
604
605<ul>
Chris Lattner6a39aa52004-03-19 19:22:28 +0000[diff] [blame]606<li>There are several programs in the LLVM testsuite that the Sparc code generator is known to miscompile.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]607</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]608
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]609</div>
610
611<!-- ======================================================================= -->
612<div class="doc_subsection">
613 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
614</div>
615
616<div class="doc_text">
617
618<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]619
620<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
621Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
622(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]623problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]624
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]625<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]626cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or
627Infinity.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]628
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]629<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]630supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]631frontends.</li>
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]632
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]633</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]634
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]635</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]636
637<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
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639 <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
640</div>
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642
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]643<div class="doc_text">
644
645<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page,
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]646including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]647implemented in LLVM. The web page also contains versions of the API
648documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code. You
649can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]650the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]651
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]652<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]653us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing
654lists</a>.</p>
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