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Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]11<h1>LLVM 3.1 Release Notes</h1>
Mikhail Glushenkovea65d7d2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000[diff] [blame]12
Jakub Staszakf8de54f2011-12-06 23:33:07 +0000[diff] [blame]13<div>
14<img style="float:right" src="http://llvm.org/img/DragonSmall.png"
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Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]18<ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]20 <li><a href="#subproj">Sub-project Status Update</a></li>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]21 <li><a href="#externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 3.1</a></li>
22 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in LLVM?</a></li>
Chris Lattner4b538b92004-04-30 22:17:12 +0000[diff] [blame]23 <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Dan Gohman44aa9212008-10-14 16:23:02 +0000[diff] [blame]24 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]25 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]26</ol>
27
Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]28<div class="doc_author">
NAKAMURA Takumib9a33632011-04-09 02:13:37 +0000[diff] [blame]29 <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM Team</a></p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]30</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]31
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]32<h1 style="color:red">These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.1
Jeffrey Yasskinbec48772010-01-28 01:14:43 +0000[diff] [blame]33release.<br>
34You may prefer the
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]35<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">LLVM 3.0
Dan Gohmanb44f6c62010-05-03 23:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]36Release Notes</a>.</h1>
Jeffrey Yasskinbec48772010-01-28 01:14:43 +0000[diff] [blame]37
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]38<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]39<h2>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]40 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]41</h2>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]42<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
43
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]44<div>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]45
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]46<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]47 Infrastructure, release 3.1. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including
Chris Lattner1ab8ce92011-11-27 18:47:37 +0000[diff] [blame]48 major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various
49 subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code.
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]50 All LLVM releases may be downloaded from
51 the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM releases web site</a>.</p>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]52
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000[diff] [blame]53<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]54 release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.org/">main LLVM web
55 site</a>. If you have questions or comments,
56 the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM
57 Developer's Mailing List</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]58
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]59<p>Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main
60 LLVM web page, this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the
61 current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the
62 <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]63
64</div>
Michael J. Spencer60f790c2011-11-28 18:20:09 +0000[diff] [blame]65
66
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]67<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]68<h2>
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]69 <a name="subproj">Sub-project Status Update</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]70</h2>
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]71<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Chris Lattnerea34f642008-06-08 21:34:41 +0000[diff] [blame]72
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]73<div>
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]74
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]75<p>The LLVM 3.1 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]76 repository (which roughly includes the LLVM optimizers, code generators and
Chris Lattnerc343e312011-11-10 20:15:40 +0000[diff] [blame]77 supporting tools), and the Clang repository. In
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]78 addition to this code, the LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are
79 in development. Here we include updates on these subprojects.</p>
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]80
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]81<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]82<h3>
Chris Lattnerfb97b2d2008-10-13 18:11:54 +0000[diff] [blame]83<a name="clang">Clang: C/C++/Objective-C Frontend Toolkit</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]84</h3>
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]85
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]86<div>
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]87
Chris Lattner095539f2010-04-26 17:42:18 +0000[diff] [blame]88<p><a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">Clang</a> is an LLVM front end for the C,
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]89 C++, and Objective-C languages. Clang aims to provide a better user
90 experience through expressive diagnostics, a high level of conformance to
91 language standards, fast compilation, and low memory use. Like LLVM, Clang
92 provides a modular, library-based architecture that makes it suitable for
93 creating or integrating with other development tools. Clang is considered a
94 production-quality compiler for C, Objective-C, C++ and Objective-C++ on x86
Chris Lattner1ab8ce92011-11-27 18:47:37 +0000[diff] [blame]95 (32- and 64-bit), and for Darwin/ARM targets.</p>
Chris Lattner61358ab2009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]96
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]97<p>In the LLVM 3.1 time-frame, the Clang team has made many improvements:</p>
Douglas Gregorba087df2011-10-15 00:48:01 +0000[diff] [blame]98<ul>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]99 <li>...</li>
Douglas Gregorba087df2011-10-15 00:48:01 +0000[diff] [blame]100</ul>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]101
102 <p>For more details about the changes to Clang since the 2.9 release, see the
Chandler Carruthcc966de2011-11-29 00:32:43 +0000[diff] [blame]103<a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">Clang release notes</a>
104</p>
Douglas Gregorba087df2011-10-15 00:48:01 +0000[diff] [blame]105
Michael J. Spencer60f790c2011-11-28 18:20:09 +0000[diff] [blame]106
Duncan Sandsf3ba7af2011-04-06 08:07:40 +0000[diff] [blame]107<p>If Clang rejects your code but another compiler accepts it, please take a
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]108 look at the <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/compatibility.html">language
109 compatibility</a> guide to make sure this is not intentional or a known
110 issue.</p>
Bill Wendling741748a2008-10-27 09:27:33 +0000[diff] [blame]111
Chris Lattnerfb97b2d2008-10-13 18:11:54 +0000[diff] [blame]112</div>
113
114<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]115<h3>
Duncan Sands528a5102011-04-04 11:09:08 +0000[diff] [blame]116<a name="dragonegg">DragonEgg: GCC front-ends, LLVM back-end</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]117</h3>
Chris Lattner61358ab2009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]118
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]119<div>
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]120<p><a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> is a
121 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugins">gcc plugin</a> that replaces GCC's
Duncan Sands77352c92011-11-10 18:44:29 +0000[diff] [blame]122 optimizers and code generators with LLVM's. It works with gcc-4.5 or gcc-4.6,
123 targets the x86-32 and x86-64 processor families, and has been successfully
124 used on the Darwin, FreeBSD, KFreeBSD, Linux and OpenBSD platforms. It fully
125 supports Ada, C, C++ and Fortran. It has partial support for Go, Java, Obj-C
126 and Obj-C++.</p>
Duncan Sands749fd832010-04-02 09:23:15 +0000[diff] [blame]127
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]128<p>The 3.1 release has the following notable changes:</p>
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]129
Chris Lattner1ab8ce92011-11-27 18:47:37 +0000[diff] [blame]130 <ul>
Duncan Sands77352c92011-11-10 18:44:29 +0000[diff] [blame]131
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]132 <li>...</li>
Duncan Sands77352c92011-11-10 18:44:29 +0000[diff] [blame]133
Duncan Sands4b1da2b2010-09-30 17:37:34 +0000[diff] [blame]134</ul>
Chris Lattner61358ab2009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]135
136</div>
137
Chris Lattner75547712010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]138<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]139<h3>
Chris Lattner75547712010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]140<a name="compiler-rt">compiler-rt: Compiler Runtime Library</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]141</h3>
Chris Lattner75547712010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]142
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]143<div>
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]144
145<p>The new LLVM <a href="http://compiler-rt.llvm.org/">compiler-rt project</a>
146 is a simple library that provides an implementation of the low-level
147 target-specific hooks required by code generation and other runtime
148 components. For example, when compiling for a 32-bit target, converting a
149 double to a 64-bit unsigned integer is compiled into a runtime call to the
150 "__fixunsdfdi" function. The compiler-rt library provides highly optimized
151 implementations of this and other low-level routines (some are 3x faster than
152 the equivalent libgcc routines).</p>
Chris Lattner75547712010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]153
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]154<p>....</p>
Chris Lattner75547712010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]155
156</div>
Chris Lattner61358ab2009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]157
158<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]159<h3>
Chris Lattnere07043c2010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]160<a name="lldb">LLDB: Low Level Debugger</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]161</h3>
Chris Lattnere07043c2010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]162
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]163<div>
Michael J. Spencer60f790c2011-11-28 18:20:09 +0000[diff] [blame]164
Chris Lattner9e896712011-11-27 18:53:41 +0000[diff] [blame]165<p>LLDB is a ground-up implementation of a command line debugger, as well as a
166 debugger API that can be used from other applications. LLDB makes use of the
167 Clang parser to provide high-fidelity expression parsing (particularly for
168 C++) and uses the LLVM JIT for target support.</p>
Chris Lattnere07043c2010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]169
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]170<p>...</p>
Chris Lattnere07043c2010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]171
172</div>
173
174<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]175<h3>
Chris Lattnere07043c2010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]176<a name="libc++">libc++: C++ Standard Library</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]177</h3>
Chris Lattnere07043c2010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]178
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]179<div>
Chris Lattnere07043c2010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]180
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]181<p>Like compiler_rt, libc++ is now <a href="DeveloperPolicy.html#license">dual
182 licensed</a> under the MIT and UIUC license, allowing it to be used more
183 permissively.</p>
Chris Lattnere07043c2010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]184
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]185<p>...</p>
David Chisnall553284e2011-11-26 10:56:17 +0000[diff] [blame]186
Chris Lattnere07043c2010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]187</div>
188
Chris Lattner3d6a80a2011-04-07 03:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]189<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]190<h3>
Chris Lattner3d6a80a2011-04-07 03:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]191<a name="vmkit">VMKit</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]192</h3>
Chris Lattner3d6a80a2011-04-07 03:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]193
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]194<div>
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]195
Nicolas Geoffray54d5df92011-11-10 23:37:56 +0000[diff] [blame]196 <p>The <a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/">VMKit project</a> is an
197 implementation of a Java Virtual Machine (Java VM or JVM) that uses LLVM for
198 static and just-in-time compilation.
199
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]200 <p>In the LLVM 3.1 time-frame, VMKit has had significant improvements on both
Nicolas Geoffray54d5df92011-11-10 23:37:56 +0000[diff] [blame]201 runtime and startup performance:</p>
202
203 <ul>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]204 <li>...</li>
Nicolas Geoffray54d5df92011-11-10 23:37:56 +0000[diff] [blame]205 </ul>
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]206
Chris Lattner3d6a80a2011-04-07 03:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]207</div>
Michael J. Spencer60f790c2011-11-28 18:20:09 +0000[diff] [blame]208
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]209</div>
Daniel Dunbar97b01a82010-10-04 17:39:47 +0000[diff] [blame]210
Chris Lattnerab68e9e2009-02-26 22:33:38 +0000[diff] [blame]211<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]212<h2>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]213 <a name="externalproj">External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.1</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]214</h2>
Chris Lattnerab68e9e2009-02-26 22:33:38 +0000[diff] [blame]215<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
216
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]217<div>
Chris Lattner61358ab2009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]218
219<p>An exciting aspect of LLVM is that it is used as an enabling technology for
220 a lot of other language and tools projects. This section lists some of the
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]221 projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.1.</p>
Chris Lattner75547712010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]222
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]223 ... to be filled in right before the release ...
Bill Wendling644ce532011-10-26 09:25:01 +0000[diff] [blame]224
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]225</div>
226
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]227<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]228<h2>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]229 <a name="whatsnew">What's New in LLVM 3.1?</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]230</h2>
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]231<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
232
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]233<div>
Chris Lattnerf8e0b4e2008-06-08 22:59:35 +0000[diff] [blame]234
Chris Lattner61358ab2009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]235<p>This release includes a huge number of bug fixes, performance tweaks and
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]236 minor improvements. Some of the major improvements and new features are
237 listed in this section.</p>
Chris Lattner61358ab2009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]238
Chris Lattner914ce462010-04-22 06:28:20 +0000[diff] [blame]239<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]240<h3>
Chris Lattner252b83d2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000[diff] [blame]241<a name="majorfeatures">Major New Features</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]242</h3>
Chris Lattner252b83d2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000[diff] [blame]243
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]244<div>
Chris Lattner252b83d2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000[diff] [blame]245
Chris Lattner1ab8ce92011-11-27 18:47:37 +0000[diff] [blame]246 <!-- Features that need text if they're finished for 3.1:
247 ARM EHABI
248 combiner-aa?
249 strong phi elim
250 loop dependence analysis
251 CorrelatedValuePropagation
252 lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp => consider for 3.1.
Chris Lattner1c80fbf2011-11-27 20:51:47 +0000[diff] [blame]253 Integrated assembler on by default for arm/thumb?
254
Chris Lattner1ab8ce92011-11-27 18:47:37 +0000[diff] [blame]255 -->
256
Chris Lattner1c80fbf2011-11-27 20:51:47 +0000[diff] [blame]257 <!-- Near dead:
Chris Lattnerdec23b62011-11-15 22:13:27 +0000[diff] [blame]258 Analysis/RegionInfo.h + Dom Frontiers
259 SparseBitVector: used in LiveVar.
Chris Lattner5a1731d2011-11-27 08:32:32 +0000[diff] [blame]260 llvm/lib/Archive - replace with lib object?
Chris Lattner1c80fbf2011-11-27 20:51:47 +0000[diff] [blame]261 -->
Chris Lattner6a007d12011-11-25 20:33:27 +0000[diff] [blame]262
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]263<p>LLVM 3.1 includes several major changes and big features:</p>
Bill Wendlingbc5f6dd2011-10-26 18:33:01 +0000[diff] [blame]264
Chris Lattner791f77b2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000[diff] [blame]265<ul>
Evan Cheng28681862011-12-14 22:57:45 +0000[diff] [blame]266 <li><a href="../tools/clang/docs/AddressSanitizer.html">AddressSanitizer</a>,
267 a fast memory error detector.</li>
268 <li><a href="CodeGenerator.html#machineinstrbundle">MachineInstr Bundles</a>,
269 Support to model instruction bundling / packing.</li>
Jim Grosbach6e6b8222012-02-23 23:52:06 +0000[diff] [blame]270 <li><a href="#armintegratedassembler">ARM Integrated Assembler</a>,
271 A full featured assembler and direct-to-object support for ARM.</li>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]272 <li>....</li>
Chris Lattnerf304ffc2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000[diff] [blame]273</ul>
Mikhail Glushenkovea65d7d2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000[diff] [blame]274
Bill Wendlingbc5f6dd2011-10-26 18:33:01 +0000[diff] [blame]275</div>
276
Michael J. Spencer60f790c2011-11-28 18:20:09 +0000[diff] [blame]277
Chris Lattner4f0fe432011-11-27 19:26:30 +0000[diff] [blame]278<!--=========================================================================-->
279<h3>
280<a name="coreimprovements">LLVM IR and Core Improvements</a>
281</h3>
282
283<div>
284
285<p>LLVM IR has several new features for better support of new targets and that
286 expose new optimization opportunities:</p>
287
Chris Lattner064caf92011-11-27 21:30:28 +0000[diff] [blame]288 <ul>
Dan Gohmaneb4c70b2011-12-20 01:10:56 +0000[diff] [blame]289 <li>IR support for half float</li>
Bill Wendling06d7e1b2012-02-06 21:59:44 +0000[diff] [blame]290 <li>IR support for vectors of pointers, including vector GEPs.</li>
Bill Wendling190ec9b2012-02-16 10:23:43 +0000[diff] [blame]291 <li>Module flags have been introduced. They convey information about the
292 module as a whole to LLVM subsystems.</li>
Rafael Espindola626c3462012-03-25 11:14:35 +0000[diff] [blame]293 <li>Loads can now have range metadata attached to them to describe the
Rafael Espindola692cd452012-03-24 19:02:32 +0000[diff] [blame]294 possible values being loaded.</li>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]295 <li>....</li>
Chris Lattner064caf92011-11-27 21:30:28 +0000[diff] [blame]296 </ul>
Andrew Trick5aab6382011-11-06 17:59:24 +0000[diff] [blame]297</div>
298
299<!--=========================================================================-->
300<h3>
Chris Lattneracce85d2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000[diff] [blame]301<a name="optimizer">Optimizer Improvements</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]302</h3>
Chris Lattneracce85d2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000[diff] [blame]303
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]304<div>
Chris Lattneracce85d2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000[diff] [blame]305
Chris Lattner064caf92011-11-27 21:30:28 +0000[diff] [blame]306<p>In addition to many minor performance tweaks and bug fixes, this
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]307 release includes a few major enhancements and additions to the
308 optimizers:</p>
Chris Lattneracce85d2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000[diff] [blame]309
310<ul>
Brendon Cahoonff730392012-04-14 16:54:12 +0000[diff] [blame]311 <li>The loop unroll pass now is able to unroll loops with run-time trip counts.
312 This feature is turned off by default, and is enabled with the
313 <code>-unroll-runtime</code> flag.</li>
Hal Finkel9068bf52012-04-16 03:49:43 +0000[diff] [blame]314 <li>A new basic-block autovectorization pass is available. Pass
315 <code>-vectorize</code> to run this pass along with some associated
316 post-vectorization cleanup passes.</li>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]317 <li>....</li>
Chris Lattner11b66112010-10-04 02:42:39 +0000[diff] [blame]318</ul>
319
Chris Lattner61358ab2009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]320</div>
Chris Lattner917cc712009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]321
Chris Lattner0b832202008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000[diff] [blame]322<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]323<h3>
Chris Lattner4ba2b652010-09-30 16:31:33 +0000[diff] [blame]324<a name="mc">MC Level Improvements</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]325</h3>
Chris Lattner4ba2b652010-09-30 16:31:33 +0000[diff] [blame]326
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]327<div>
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]328
329<p>The LLVM Machine Code (aka MC) subsystem was created to solve a number of
330 problems in the realm of assembly, disassembly, object file format handling,
331 and a number of other related areas that CPU instruction-set level tools work
Chris Lattner2f206022011-11-27 22:03:34 +0000[diff] [blame]332 in. For more information, please see
333 the <a href="http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html">Intro
334 to the LLVM MC Project Blog Post</a>.</p>
Chris Lattner7d9b6b42010-10-02 21:59:30 +0000[diff] [blame]335
Chris Lattner7d9b6b42010-10-02 21:59:30 +0000[diff] [blame]336<ul>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]337 <li>....</li>
Chris Lattner7d9b6b42010-10-02 21:59:30 +0000[diff] [blame]338</ul>
339
NAKAMURA Takumi45c435a2011-04-05 08:24:22 +0000[diff] [blame]340</div>
Chris Lattner4ba2b652010-09-30 16:31:33 +0000[diff] [blame]341
Chris Lattner4ba2b652010-09-30 16:31:33 +0000[diff] [blame]342<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]343<h3>
Chris Lattner511433e2009-03-02 03:24:11 +0000[diff] [blame]344<a name="codegen">Target Independent Code Generator Improvements</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]345</h3>
Chris Lattner0b832202008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000[diff] [blame]346
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]347<div>
Chris Lattner0b832202008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000[diff] [blame]348
Bill Wendling190ec9b2012-02-16 10:23:43 +0000[diff] [blame]349<p>We have changed the way that the Type Legalizer legalizes vectors. The type
350 legalizer now attempts to promote integer elements. This enabled the
351 implementation of vector-select. Additionally, we see a performance boost on
352 workloads which use vectors of chars and shorts, since they are now promoted
353 to 32-bit types, which are better supported by the SIMD instruction set.
354 Floating point types are still widened as before.</p>
Nadav Rotem75597662011-12-20 08:02:50 +0000[diff] [blame]355
356
Mikhail Glushenkovf795ef02009-03-01 18:09:47 +0000[diff] [blame]357<p>We have put a significant amount of work into the code generator
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]358 infrastructure, which allows us to implement more aggressive algorithms and
359 make it run faster:</p>
Chris Lattner0b832202008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000[diff] [blame]360
361<ul>
Jakob Stoklund Olesen9897c622011-12-19 16:53:40 +0000[diff] [blame]362 <li>TableGen can now synthesize register classes that are only needed to
Bill Wendling190ec9b2012-02-16 10:23:43 +0000[diff] [blame]363 represent combinations of constraints from instructions and sub-registers.
364 The synthetic register classes inherit most of their properties form their
365 closest user-defined super-class.</li>
Jakob Stoklund Olesend9e5c762012-01-05 00:26:49 +0000[diff] [blame]366 <li><code>MachineRegisterInfo</code> now allows the reserved registers to be
Bill Wendling190ec9b2012-02-16 10:23:43 +0000[diff] [blame]367 frozen when register allocation starts. Target hooks should use the
Nadav Rotemfdc309c2012-02-26 08:35:53 +0000[diff] [blame]368 <code>MRI-&gt;canReserveReg(FramePtr)</code> method to avoid accidentally
Bill Wendling190ec9b2012-02-16 10:23:43 +0000[diff] [blame]369 disabling frame pointer elimination during register allocation.</li>
Jakob Stoklund Olesen7739cad2012-01-16 19:22:00 +0000[diff] [blame]370 <li>A new kind of <code>MachineOperand</code> provides a compact
Bill Wendling190ec9b2012-02-16 10:23:43 +0000[diff] [blame]371 representation of large clobber lists on call instructions. The register
372 mask operand references a bit mask of preserved registers. Everything else
373 is clobbered.</li>
Chris Lattner84977642007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]374</ul>
Bill Wendling190ec9b2012-02-16 10:23:43 +0000[diff] [blame]375
Anshuman Dasgupta4b479552012-04-12 15:17:35 +0000[diff] [blame]376<p> We added new TableGen infrastructure to support bundling for
377 Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) architectures. TableGen can now
378 automatically generate a deterministic finite automaton from a VLIW
379 target's schedule description which can be queried to determine
380 legal groupings of instructions in a bundle.</p>
381
Anshuman Dasgupta3c1ded22012-04-14 20:59:13 +0000[diff] [blame]382<p> We have added a new target independent VLIW packetizer based on the
Anshuman Dasguptacff391a2012-04-14 20:57:13 +0000[diff] [blame]383 DFA infrastructure to group machine instructions into bundles.</p>
384
Chris Lattner84977642007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]385</div>
386
Chris Lattner917cc712009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]387<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]388<h3>
Chris Lattner917cc712009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]389<a name="x86">X86-32 and X86-64 Target Improvements</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]390</h3>
Chris Lattner917cc712009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]391
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]392<div>
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]393
394<p>New features and major changes in the X86 target include:</p>
Chris Lattner917cc712009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]395
396<ul>
Nadav Rotem75597662011-12-20 08:02:50 +0000[diff] [blame]397 <li>Bug fixes and improved support for AVX1</li>
398 <li>Support for AVX2 (still incomplete at this point)</li>
Jakob Stoklund Olesen26246612012-02-16 18:22:39 +0000[diff] [blame]399 <li>Call instructions use the new register mask operands for faster compile
400 times and better support for different calling conventions. The old WINCALL
401 instructions are no longer needed.</li>
NAKAMURA Takumi847307a2012-04-07 02:24:20 +0000[diff] [blame]402 <li>DW2 Exception Handling is enabled on Cygwin and MinGW.</li>
Bill Wendling59fc1662012-04-16 05:24:52 +0000[diff] [blame]403 <li>Support for implicit TLS model used with MS VC runtime</li>
Chris Lattner917cc712009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]404</ul>
405
Chris Lattner917cc712009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]406</div>
Chris Lattner84977642007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]407
408<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]409<h3>
Chris Lattner61358ab2009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]410<a name="ARM">ARM Target Improvements</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]411</h3>
Chris Lattnerc441fb82009-03-01 02:30:21 +0000[diff] [blame]412
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]413<div>
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]414
415<p>New features of the ARM target include:</p>
Chris Lattnerc441fb82009-03-01 02:30:21 +0000[diff] [blame]416
417<ul>
Jakob Stoklund Olesenf5bb45f2011-12-16 16:07:41 +0000[diff] [blame]418 <li>The constant island pass now supports basic block and constant pool entry
Jim Grosbach6e6b8222012-02-23 23:52:06 +0000[diff] [blame]419 alignments greater than 4 bytes.</li>
420 <li>On Darwin, the ARM target now has a full-featured integrated assembler.
421 </li>
422</ul>
Chris Lattner7b95c382011-11-15 22:23:46 +0000[diff] [blame]423
Jim Grosbach6e6b8222012-02-23 23:52:06 +0000[diff] [blame]424<h4>
425<a name="armintegratedassembler">ARM Integrated Assembler</a>
426</h4>
427<div>
428<p>The ARM target now includes a full featured macro assembler, including
429direct-to-object module support for clang. The assembler is currently enabled
430by default for Darwin only pending testing and any additional necessary
431platform specific support for Linux.</p>
Michael J. Spencer60f790c2011-11-28 18:20:09 +0000[diff] [blame]432
Jim Grosbach6e6b8222012-02-23 23:52:06 +0000[diff] [blame]433<p>Full support is included for Thumb1, Thumb2 and ARM modes, along with
434subtarget and CPU specific extensions for VFP2, VFP3 and NEON.</p>
435
436<p>The assembler is Unified Syntax only (see ARM Architecural Reference Manual
437for details). While there is some, and growing, support for pre-unfied (divided)
438syntax, there are still significant gaps in that support.</p>
439</div>
NAKAMURA Takumi9c55f592012-03-27 11:25:16 +0000[diff] [blame]440
441</div>
Chris Lattner1efe27e2011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]442<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]443<h3>
Akira Hatanaka5381cbf2011-11-15 21:33:05 +0000[diff] [blame]444<a name="MIPS">MIPS Target Improvements</a>
445</h3>
446
447<div>
448
Chris Lattner1cc489b2011-11-27 22:12:32 +0000[diff] [blame]449<p>This release has seen major new work on just about every aspect of the MIPS
450 backend. Some of the major new features include:</p>
Akira Hatanaka5381cbf2011-11-15 21:33:05 +0000[diff] [blame]451
452<ul>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]453 <li>....</li>
Akira Hatanaka5381cbf2011-11-15 21:33:05 +0000[diff] [blame]454</ul>
455</div>
Chris Lattner7b95c382011-11-15 22:23:46 +0000[diff] [blame]456
457<!--=========================================================================-->
458<h3>
Chris Lattner1efe27e2011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]459<a name="OtherTS">Other Target Specific Improvements</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]460</h3>
Chris Lattnerc441fb82009-03-01 02:30:21 +0000[diff] [blame]461
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]462<div>
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]463
Tony Linthicume05e55d2012-04-13 19:09:44 +0000[diff] [blame]464<p>Support for Qualcomm's Hexagon VLIW processor has been added.</p>
465
Chris Lattner1efe27e2011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]466<ul>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]467 <li>....</li>
Michael J. Spencer60f790c2011-11-28 18:20:09 +0000[diff] [blame]468
Chris Lattnerd6cc2c22011-11-27 22:36:22 +0000[diff] [blame]469
Chris Lattner1efe27e2011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]470</ul>
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]471
Chris Lattner1efe27e2011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]472</div>
Chris Lattner77d29b12008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000[diff] [blame]473
474<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]475<h3>
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]476<a name="changes">Major Changes and Removed Features</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]477</h3>
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]478
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]479<div>
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]480
Bill Wendling2626dba2011-08-03 22:18:20 +0000[diff] [blame]481<p>If you're already an LLVM user or developer with out-of-tree changes based on
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]482 LLVM 3.1, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading
Bill Wendling2626dba2011-08-03 22:18:20 +0000[diff] [blame]483 from the previous release.</p>
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]484
485<ul>
Bill Wendling190ec9b2012-02-16 10:23:43 +0000[diff] [blame]486 <li>LLVM 3.1 removes support for reading LLVM 2.9 bitcode files. Going
487 forward, we aim for all future versions of LLVM to read bitcode files and
488 <tt>.ll</tt> files produced by LLVM 3.0 and later.</li>
489 <li>The <tt>unwind</tt> instruction is now gone. With the introduction of the
490 new exception handling system in LLVM 3.0, the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction
491 became obsolete.</li>
Duncan Sands8883c432012-04-16 16:28:59 +0000[diff] [blame^]492 <li>Floating point instructions can be annotated with <tt>fpmath</tt> metadata
493 to indicate relaxed precision requirements, such as those corresponding to
494 "fast math".</li>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]495 <li>....</li>
Devang Patelb34dd132008-10-14 20:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]496</ul>
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]497
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]498</div>
499
Daniel Dunbarf0233c62010-10-04 20:11:41 +0000[diff] [blame]500<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]501<h3>
Chris Lattner1efe27e2011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]502<a name="api_changes">Internal API Changes</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]503</h3>
Daniel Dunbarf0233c62010-10-04 20:11:41 +0000[diff] [blame]504
NAKAMURA Takumi074eeaa2011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]505<div>
Daniel Dunbarf0233c62010-10-04 20:11:41 +0000[diff] [blame]506
Chris Lattner1efe27e2011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]507<p>In addition, many APIs have changed in this release. Some of the major
Bill Wendling16005252011-08-02 06:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]508 LLVM API changes are:</p>
Daniel Dunbarf0233c62010-10-04 20:11:41 +0000[diff] [blame]509
510<ul>
Nick Lewycky98a92d12012-03-21 22:58:28 +0000[diff] [blame]511 <li>Target specific options have been moved from global variables to members
512 on the new <code>TargetOptions</code> class, which is local to each
513 <code>TargetMachine</code>. As a consequence, the associated flags will
514 no longer be accepted by <tt>clang -mllvm</tt>. This includes:
515<ul>
Nick Lewycky8a618a22012-03-23 00:56:26 +0000[diff] [blame]516<li><code>llvm::PrintMachineCode</code></li>
517<li><code>llvm::NoFramePointerElim</code></li>
518<li><code>llvm::NoFramePointerElimNonLeaf</code></li>
519<li><code>llvm::DisableFramePointerElim(const MachineFunction &)</code></li>
520<li><code>llvm::LessPreciseFPMADOption</code></li>
521<li><code>llvm::LessPrecideFPMAD()</code></li>
522<li><code>llvm::NoExcessFPPrecision</code></li>
523<li><code>llvm::UnsafeFPMath</code></li>
524<li><code>llvm::NoInfsFPMath</code></li>
525<li><code>llvm::NoNaNsFPMath</code></li>
526<li><code>llvm::HonorSignDependentRoundingFPMathOption</code></li>
527<li><code>llvm::HonorSignDependentRoundingFPMath()</code></li>
528<li><code>llvm::UseSoftFloat</code></li>
529<li><code>llvm::FloatABIType</code></li>
530<li><code>llvm::NoZerosInBSS</code></li>
531<li><code>llvm::JITExceptionHandling</code></li>
532<li><code>llvm::JITEmitDebugInfo</code></li>
533<li><code>llvm::JITEmitDebugInfoToDisk</code></li>
534<li><code>llvm::GuaranteedTailCallOpt</code></li>
535<li><code>llvm::StackAlignmentOverride</code></li>
536<li><code>llvm::RealignStack</code></li>
537<li><code>llvm::DisableJumpTables</code></li>
538<li><code>llvm::EnableFastISel</code></li>
539<li><code>llvm::getTrapFunctionName()</code></li>
540<li><code>llvm::EnableSegmentedStacks</code></li>
Nick Lewycky98a92d12012-03-21 22:58:28 +0000[diff] [blame]541</ul></li>
Duncan Sandse747fad2012-04-15 18:03:49 +0000[diff] [blame]542 <li>The MDBuilder class has been added to simplify the creation of
543 metadata.</li>
Chris Lattner21e1b7a2011-12-13 17:55:30 +0000[diff] [blame]544 <li>....</li>
Daniel Dunbarf0233c62010-10-04 20:11:41 +0000[diff] [blame]545</ul>
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]546
Daniel Dunbarf0233c62010-10-04 20:11:41 +0000[diff] [blame]547</div>
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]548
Nadav Rotemfdc309c2012-02-26 08:35:53 +0000[diff] [blame]549<!--=========================================================================-->
550<h3>
551<a name="tools_changes">Tools Changes</a>
552</h3>
553
554<div>
555
556<p>In addition, some tools have changed in this release. Some of the changes
557 are:</p>
558
559
560<ul>
561 <li>llvm-stress is a command line tool for generating random .ll files to fuzz
562 different LLVM components. </li>
563 <li>....</li>
564</ul>
565
566<ul>
567 <li>....</li>
568</ul>
569
570</div>
571
572</div>
573
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NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]575<h2>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]576 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]577</h2>
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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]581
Chris Lattner70e22012011-11-27 19:38:20 +0000[diff] [blame]582<p>LLVM is generally a production quality compiler, and is used by a broad range
583 of applications and shipping in many products. That said, not every
584 subsystem is as mature as the aggregate, particularly the more obscure
585 targets. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
586 href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
587 there isn't already one or ask on the <a
588 href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev
589 list</a>.</p>
Michael J. Spencer60f790c2011-11-28 18:20:09 +0000[diff] [blame]590
Chris Lattner70e22012011-11-27 19:38:20 +0000[diff] [blame]591 <p>Known problem areas include:</p>
Michael J. Spencer60f790c2011-11-28 18:20:09 +0000[diff] [blame]592
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]593<ul>
Chris Lattner70e22012011-11-27 19:38:20 +0000[diff] [blame]594 <li>The Alpha, Blackfin, CellSPU, MSP430, PTX, SystemZ and
Chris Lattner1c80fbf2011-11-27 20:51:47 +0000[diff] [blame]595 XCore backends are experimental, and the Alpha, Blackfin and SystemZ
596 targets have already been removed from mainline.</li>
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]597
Chris Lattner70e22012011-11-27 19:38:20 +0000[diff] [blame]598 <li>The integrated assembler, disassembler, and JIT is not supported by
599 several targets. If an integrated assembler is not supported, then a
600 system assembler is required. For more details, see the <a
601 href="CodeGenerator.html#targetfeatures">Target Features Matrix</a>.
602 </li>
Michael J. Spencer60f790c2011-11-28 18:20:09 +0000[diff] [blame]603
Chris Lattner70e22012011-11-27 19:38:20 +0000[diff] [blame]604 <li>The C backend has numerous problems and is not being actively maintained.
605 Depending on it for anything serious is not advised.</li>
Chris Lattner26299222006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]606</ul>
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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]612 <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi06c6d9a2011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]613</h2>
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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]617
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]618<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on
619 the <a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM web page</a>, in particular in
620 the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/">documentation</a> section. The web page
621 also contains versions of the API documentation which is up-to-date with the
622 Subversion version of the source code. You can access versions of these
623 documents specific to this release by going into the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>"
624 directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]625
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]626<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
Bill Wendling7b7fa742011-10-26 18:46:16 +0000[diff] [blame]627 us via the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/#maillist"> mailing lists</a>.</p>
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