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| 6 | <title>LLVM 1.1 Release Notes</title> |
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| 8 | <body> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | <div class="doc_title"> |
| 11 | LLVM 1.1 Release Notes |
| 12 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | |
| 14 | <ol> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li> |
| 16 | <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li> |
| 17 | <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li> |
| 18 | <li><a href="#install-instructions">Installation Instructions</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a> |
| 20 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | <!-- <li><a href="#portabilityprobs">Portability Problems</a> --> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | <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> |
| 26 | <li><a href="#sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc Back-end</a> |
| 27 | <li><a href="#c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | </ul></li> |
| 29 | <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | </ol> |
| 31 | |
Misha Brukman | e0c891c | 2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | <div class="doc_text"> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | <p><b>Written by <a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a></b><p> |
| 34 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | |
| 36 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 38 | <a name="intro">Introduction</a> |
| 39 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 41 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 43 | |
| 44 | <p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler |
| 45 | infrastructure, release 1.1. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any |
| 46 | known problems, and bug fixes from the previous release. The most up-to-date |
| 47 | version of this document can be found on the <a |
Chris Lattner | 12d9063 | 2003-10-27 01:31:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.1/">LLVM 1.1 web site</a>. If you are |
Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there, because |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | this document may be updated after the release.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | <p>For more information about LLVM, including information about potentially more |
Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | current releases, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main |
| 54 | web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a |
| 55 | href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | list</a> is a good place to send them.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | <p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS, that this document applies |
| 59 | to the <i>next</i> release, not the previous one. To see the release notes for |
| 60 | the previous release, see the <a |
| 61 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p> |
| 62 | |
| 63 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | |
| 65 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 66 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 67 | <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a> |
| 68 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 70 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 72 | |
| 73 | <p>This is the second public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. This |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 74 | release is primarily a bugfix release, dramatically improving the C/C++ |
| 75 | front-end, and improving support for C++ in the LLVM core. This release also |
| 76 | features a few new features, such as a simple profiler, support for Mac OS/X, |
| 77 | and better interoperability with external source bases.</p> |
| 78 | |
| 79 | <p>At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile the SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks |
| 80 | (X86 only), the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist benchmarks along with |
| 81 | <b>many</b> other programs. LLVM now also works with a fairly broad variety of |
| 82 | C++ programs, though it has still received much less testing than the C |
| 83 | front-end. |
| 84 | </p> |
| 85 | |
| 86 | <p> |
| 87 | Note that the Sparc and X86 backends do not currently support exception throwing |
| 88 | or long jumping (including 253.perlbmk in SPEC). For these programs, you must |
| 89 | use the C backend. Support for unwinding will be added in a future release. |
| 90 | </p> |
| 91 | |
| 92 | |
| 93 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 94 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> |
| 95 | This release implements the following new features: |
| 96 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 97 | |
| 98 | <ol> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | <li><a |
Chris Lattner | 55ee031 | 2003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2003-November/000528.html">A new |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 101 | LLVM profiler, similar to gprof</a> is available</li> |
Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 103 | <li>LLVM and the C/C++ front-end now compile on Mac OS/X! Mac OS/X users can |
Chris Lattner | 55ee031 | 2003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | now explore the LLVM optimizer with the C backend (note that LLVM requires GCC |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 105 | 3.3 on Mac OS/X).</li> |
Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | <li>LLVM has been <a |
Chris Lattner | 2a77f2d | 2003-11-11 23:46:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2003-November/000554.html">moved |
| 109 | into an 'llvm' C++ namespace</a>, for easier integration with third-party |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 110 | code. Note that lack of namespace handling in GDB 5.x, you will probably want to |
| 111 | upgrade to GDB 6 or better to debug LLVM code.</li> |
John Criswell | f2ec35b | 2003-11-26 20:09:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 112 | |
| 113 | <li> |
| 114 | The build system now copies Makefiles dynamically from the source tree to the |
| 115 | object tree as subdirectories are built. This means that: |
| 116 | <ol> |
| 117 | <li> |
| 118 | New directories can be added to the source tree, and the build will |
| 119 | automatically pick them up (i.e. no need to re-run <tt>configure</tt>). |
| 120 | </li> |
| 121 | |
| 122 | <li> |
| 123 | You will need to build LLVM from the top of the object tree once to ensure |
| 124 | that all of the Makefiles are copied into the object tree subdirectories. |
| 125 | </li> |
| 126 | </ol> |
| 127 | </li> |
| 128 | |
| 129 | <li> |
| 130 | The <tt>configure</tt> script will now configure all projects placed in the |
| 131 | <tt>llvm/projects</tt> directory. |
| 132 | </li> |
Chris Lattner | 55ee031 | 2003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 133 | </ol> |
Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 134 | |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 135 | |
| 136 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 137 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> |
| 138 | In this release, the following missing features were implemented: |
| 139 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 140 | |
| 141 | <ol> |
| 142 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR88">The interpreter does not support |
| 143 | invoke or unwind</a></li> |
Misha Brukman | c99037d | 2003-11-14 03:30:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 144 | |
| 145 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR99">Interpreter does not support the |
Chris Lattner | 55ee031 | 2003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 146 | <tt>vaarg</tt> instruction</a></li> |
Misha Brukman | c99037d | 2003-11-14 03:30:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | |
Brian Gaeke | b7508ee | 2003-11-16 23:49:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR117">llvm-nm cannot read archive |
Chris Lattner | 55ee031 | 2003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 149 | files</a></li> |
Brian Gaeke | b7508ee | 2003-11-16 23:49:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 151 | </ol> |
Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 152 | |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 153 | |
| 154 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 155 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> |
| 156 | In this release, the following Quality of Implementation issues were |
| 157 | fixed: |
| 158 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 89ca2b8 | 2003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | |
| 160 | <ol> |
Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 161 | |
| 162 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR29">C++ front-end is not generating |
| 163 | linkonce linkage type when it can</a></li> |
| 164 | |
| 165 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR84">C front-end doesn't emit |
| 166 | getelementptr for address of array element</a></li> |
| 167 | |
Chris Lattner | ba46d55 | 2003-11-16 20:25:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR96">Bad path to the C/C++ frontend causes |
| 169 | build problems</a></li> |
| 170 | |
| 171 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR114">LLVM header files should be -Wold-style-cast clean</a></li> |
| 172 | |
Chris Lattner | 55ee031 | 2003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 173 | <li>The LLVM bytecode reader has been <a |
| 174 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR127">sped up a lot</a> (up to 4x in some |
| 175 | cases).</li> |
| 176 | |
Chris Lattner | 9f9d00a | 2003-11-22 01:14:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | <li>Methods and functions in anonymous namespaces <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR85">now get internal linkage</a>.</li> |
| 178 | |
Chris Lattner | f733073 | 2003-11-26 08:20:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 179 | <li>Constant initializers now generate loops instead of potentially <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR75">huge amounts of straight-line code</a>.</li> |
| 180 | |
Chris Lattner | 3074b34 | 2003-11-27 09:51:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 181 | <li>Code for running C++ destructors is now properly shared when possible. Before, the C++ front-end |
| 182 | <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR11">generated N^2 amounts of duplicated cleanup code</a> in some cases.</li> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 183 | </ol> |
Chris Lattner | 89ca2b8 | 2003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 184 | |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 185 | |
| 186 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 187 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> |
| 188 | In this release, the following bugs in the previous release were fixed: |
| 189 | </div> |
| 190 | |
| 191 | <p>Bugs in the LLVM Core:</p> |
Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | |
| 193 | <ol> |
Chris Lattner | f710020 | 2003-10-27 05:41:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 194 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR57">[inliner] Inlining invoke with PHI in unwind target is broken</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 89ca2b8 | 2003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 195 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR58">[linker] linkonce globals should link successfully to external globals</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 32547fe | 2003-10-29 07:17:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR64">[constmerge] Constant merging pass merges constants with external linkage</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 34790e5 | 2003-10-29 18:49:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR66">[scalarrepl] Scalar Replacement of aggregates is decimating structures it shouldn't be</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 36bd5d1 | 2003-10-30 01:20:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR70">[instcombine] Resolving invoke inserts cast after terminator</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | f9e8a0f | 2003-10-30 01:43:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 199 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR71">llvm-as crashes when labels are used in phi nodes</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 3dcc7b9 | 2003-10-30 16:20:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR72">[build problem] Callgraph.cpp not pulled in from libipa.a</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 3af4722 | 2003-11-16 22:11:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 201 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR77">Variables in scope of output setjmp |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 202 | calls should be volatile</a> (Note that this does not effect correctness on |
| 203 | many platforms, such as X86).</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2fb1ef8 | 2003-11-03 20:08:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 204 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR83">[X86] Emission of global bool initializers broken</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | de3bb57 | 2003-11-05 06:30:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 205 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR91">[gccld] The -r (relinking) option does not work correctly</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 5b3fb03 | 2003-11-07 04:46:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 206 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR92">[bcreader] Cannot read shift constant expressions from bytecode file</a></li> |
| 207 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR93">[lowersetjmp] Lowersetjmp pass breaks dominance properties!</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 11dde85 | 2003-11-09 19:44:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 208 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR95">SymbolTable::getUniqueName is very inefficient</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 5b3fb03 | 2003-11-07 04:46:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR98">[buildscripts] Building into objdir with .o in it fails</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 7af4d5e | 2003-11-08 05:18:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 210 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR101">[setjmp/longjmp] Linking C programs which use setjmp/longjmp sometimes fail with references to the C++ runtime library!</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 9b29bde | 2003-11-12 04:42:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 211 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR107">AsmParser Misses Symbol Redefinition Error</a></li> |
Brian Gaeke | 7879206 | 2003-11-11 21:52:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 212 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR108">gccld -Lfoo -lfoo fails to find ./foo/libfoo.a</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 6e4046f | 2003-11-14 06:42:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 213 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR110">[bcreader] Incorrect cast causes misread forward constant references</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 5edc1bb | 2003-11-16 21:42:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 214 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR116">[adce] ADCE considers blocks without postdominators to be unreachable</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 43a54cc | 2003-11-18 23:04:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 215 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR123">[X86] div and rem constant exprs invalidate iterators!</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 216 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR130">[vmcore] Symbol table doesn't rename colliding variables during type resolution</a></li> |
| 217 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR97">bugpoint must not pass -R<directory> to Mach-O linker</a></li> |
| 218 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR140">gccld produces a runner script that includes command-line options to load the necessary shared objects</a></li> |
| 219 | </ol> |
| 220 | |
| 221 | |
| 222 | <p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p> |
| 223 | |
| 224 | <ol> |
| 225 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR59">C++ frontend can crash when compiling virtual base classes</a></li> |
| 226 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR62">C backend fails on constant cast expr to ptr-to-anonymous struct</a></li> |
| 227 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR63">#ident is not recognized by C frontend</a></li> |
| 228 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR65">C front-end miscompiles the builtin_expect intrinsic!</a></li> |
| 229 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR67">1.0 precompiled libstdc++ does not include wchar_t support</a></li> |
| 230 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR68">llvmgcc asserts when compiling functions renamed with asm's</a></li> |
| 231 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR69">C frontend crashes on some programs with lots of types.</a></li> |
| 232 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR79">llvm-gcc crashes compiling global union initializer</a></li> |
| 233 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR80">C front-end crash on empty structure</a></li> |
| 234 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR81">CFrontend crashes when compiling C99 compound expressions</a></li> |
| 235 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR87">llvm-gcc infinite loops on "case MAXINT:"</a></li> |
| 236 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR89">[C++] Catch blocks make unparsable labels</a></li> |
| 237 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR90">[C++] Initializing array with constructable objects fail</a></li> |
| 238 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR94">llvm-gcc tries to add bools</a></li> |
| 239 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR104">[c++] C++ Frontend lays out superclasses like anonymous bitfields!</a></li> |
| 240 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR54">C front-end miscompiles unsigned enums whose LLVM types are signed</a></li> |
| 241 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR112">Casting a string constant to void crashes llvm-gcc</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 43a54cc | 2003-11-18 23:04:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 242 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR125">[llvmg++] Enum types are incorrectly shrunk to smaller than 'int' size</a></li> |
| 243 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR128">[llvmg++] Cannot use pointer to member to initialize global</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 6ff1a92 | 2003-11-19 01:08:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 244 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR131">[llvm-gcc] ?: operator as lvalue not implemented</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 55ee031 | 2003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 245 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR133">[C/C++] Bogus warning about taking the address of 'register' variable</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 18c4d85 | 2003-11-20 01:07:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 246 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR113">crash assigning into an array in a struct which contains a bitfield</a>.</li> |
| 247 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR6">Oversized integer bitfields cause crash</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | f733073 | 2003-11-26 08:20:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 248 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR141">[llvm-gcc] Bitfields & large array don't mix well</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 6c024c4b | 2003-11-20 19:30:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 249 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR132">[llvm-gcc] Complex division is not supported</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 5f36ebe | 2003-11-20 20:59:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 250 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR143">[llvm-gcc] Illegal union field reference</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 38eeb15 | 2003-11-25 08:49:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 251 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR148">[llvmg++] Front-end attempts to return structure by value</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 676c255 | 2003-11-26 01:18:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 252 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR152">[llvmg++] Pointer to member initializers not supported in constructors</a></li> |
| 253 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR155">[llvm-gcc] crash on union initialization</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 5b26658 | 2003-11-26 02:48:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 254 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR124">[llvm-g++] ?: expressions do not run correct number of destructors!</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | f733073 | 2003-11-26 08:20:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 255 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR157">[llvm-gcc] Pointer & constant results in invalid shift</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 256 | |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 257 | </ol> |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 258 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 259 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 260 | |
| 261 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 262 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 263 | <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a> |
| 264 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 265 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 266 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 267 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 268 | |
| 269 | <p>LLVM has been extensively tested on Intel and AMD machines running Red |
Chris Lattner | 3e2959e | 2003-11-08 05:22:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 270 | Hat Linux, and Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8. Additionally, |
| 271 | LLVM works on Mac OS/X 10.3 and above, but only with the C back-end (no native |
| 272 | backend for the PowerPC is available yet). |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 273 | The core LLVM infrastructure uses "autoconf" for portability, so hopefully we |
Chris Lattner | 3e2959e | 2003-11-08 05:22:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 274 | work on more platforms than that. However, it is likely that we |
| 275 | missed something, and that minor porting is required to get LLVM to work on |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 276 | new platforms. We welcome portability patches and error messages.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 277 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 278 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 279 | |
| 280 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 281 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 282 | <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a> |
| 283 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 284 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 285 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 286 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 287 | |
| 288 | <p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 289 | component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 290 | sections.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 291 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 292 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 293 | |
| 294 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 295 | <!-- |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 296 | </ul><h4><a name="portability"><hr size=0>Portability Problems</h4><ul> |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 297 | --> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 298 | |
| 299 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 300 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 301 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 302 | <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a> |
| 303 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 304 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 305 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 306 | |
| 307 | <ul> |
| 308 | |
| 309 | <li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not |
| 310 | work.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 311 | |
| 312 | <li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 313 | such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be |
| 314 | corrupted.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 315 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 316 | <li>It is not possible to <tt>dlopen</tt> an LLVM bytecode file in the JIT.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 317 | |
Chris Lattner | e84843b | 2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 318 | <li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is very slow (there is no symbol |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 319 | table in the archive).</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2855ecd | 2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 320 | |
Chris Lattner | 2855ecd | 2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 321 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR82">LLVM cannot handle structures with |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 322 | more than 256 elements</a>.</li> |
| 323 | |
| 324 | </ul> |
| 325 | |
| 326 | </div> |
| 327 | |
| 328 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 329 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 330 | <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a> |
| 331 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 47588f9 | 2003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 333 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 334 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> |
| 335 | Bugs |
| 336 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 337 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 338 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 339 | |
| 340 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 341 | |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 342 | <li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of |
| 343 | scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space: |
| 344 | <pre> |
| 345 | for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) { |
| 346 | int X[n]; |
| 347 | foo(X); |
| 348 | } |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 349 | </pre></li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 350 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 351 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | e01fcfb | 2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 352 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 353 | </div> |
| 354 | |
| 355 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> |
| 356 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> |
| 357 | Notes |
| 358 | </div> |
| 359 | |
| 360 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 361 | |
| 362 | <ul> |
| 363 | |
| 364 | <li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li> |
Chris Lattner | e01fcfb | 2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 365 | |
| 366 | <li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 367 | support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64 |
| 368 | bits.</li> |
| 369 | |
| 370 | <li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not |
| 371 | work: |
Misha Brukman | e0c891c | 2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 372 | <ol> |
| 373 | <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the |
| 374 | appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that |
| 375 | <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly. |
| 376 | <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt> |
| 377 | - These functions have not been tested. |
| 378 | </ol></li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 379 | |
| 380 | <li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular, |
| 381 | the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported: |
| 382 | <ol> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 383 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Labels.html#Local%20Labels">Local Labels</a>: Labels local to a block.</li> |
| 384 | <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> |
| 385 | <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> |
| 386 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li> |
| 387 | <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> |
| 388 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constraints.html#Constraints">Constraints</a>: Constraints for asm operands</li> |
| 389 | <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> |
| 390 | <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> |
| 391 | <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> |
| 392 | <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> |
| 393 | <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> |
| 394 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li> |
| 395 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pragmas.html#Pragmas">Pragmas</a>: Pragmas accepted by GCC.</li> |
Misha Brukman | e0c891c | 2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 396 | </ol> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 397 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 398 | <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 399 | attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute, |
| 400 | but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is |
| 401 | ignored by the LLVM compiler, which will cause a different interpretation of |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 402 | the program.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 403 | |
| 404 | <ol> |
| 405 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>: |
| 406 | Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 407 | Supported, but allocated stack space is not freed until the function returns (noted above).</li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 408 | |
| 409 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes">Function Attributes</a>: |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 410 | |
| 411 | Declaring that functions have no side effects, or that they can never |
| 412 | return.<br> |
| 413 | |
| 414 | <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>, |
| 415 | <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>, |
| 416 | <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br> |
| 417 | |
| 418 | <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>, |
| 419 | <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>, |
| 420 | <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br> |
| 421 | |
| 422 | <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>, |
| 423 | <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>, |
| 424 | <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 425 | |
| 426 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>: |
| 427 | Specifying attributes of variables.<br> |
| 428 | <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>, |
| 429 | <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>, |
| 430 | <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 431 | |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 432 | <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>, |
| 433 | <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>, |
| 434 | <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>, |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 435 | <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 436 | |
| 437 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Type-Attributes.html#Type%20Attributes">Type Attributes</a>: Specifying attributes of types. |
| 438 | <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>, |
| 439 | <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 440 | |
| 441 | <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>, |
| 442 | all target specific attributes.</li> |
| 443 | |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 444 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>: |
| 445 | Other built-in functions.<br> |
| 446 | We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g., |
| 447 | <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>, |
| 448 | <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>, |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 449 | <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt> (ignored).</li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 450 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 451 | </ol> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 452 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 453 | <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p> |
| 454 | |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 455 | <ol> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 456 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li> |
| 457 | <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> |
| 458 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li> |
| 459 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li> |
| 460 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li> |
| 461 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li> |
| 462 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li> |
| 463 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li> |
| 464 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li> |
| 465 | <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> |
| 466 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li> |
| 467 | <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> |
| 468 | <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> |
| 469 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Initializers.html#Initializers">Initializers</a>: Non-constant initializers.</li> |
| 470 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions or arrays as values.</li> |
| 471 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html#Designated%20Inits">Designated Inits</a>: Labeling elements of initializers.</li> |
| 472 | <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> |
| 473 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li> |
| 474 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li> |
| 475 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li> |
| 476 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li> |
| 477 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li> |
| 478 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Character-Escapes.html#Character%20Escapes">Character Escapes</a>: <code>\e</code> stands for the character <ESC>.</li> |
| 479 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li> |
| 480 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li> |
| 481 | <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> |
| 482 | <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> |
| 483 | <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> |
| 484 | <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> |
| 485 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Attribute-Syntax.html#Attribute%20Syntax">Attribute Syntax</a>: Formal syntax for attributes.</li> |
Misha Brukman | e0c891c | 2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 486 | </ol></li> |
| 487 | |
| 488 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 489 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 490 | <p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these |
| 491 | lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 492 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 493 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 494 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 495 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 496 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 497 | <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a> |
| 498 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 499 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 500 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 501 | |
| 502 | <p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully functional but |
| 503 | of <b>beta</b> quality. It has been tested and works for a number of simple |
| 504 | programs that collectively exercise most of the language. Nevertheless, it has |
| 505 | not been in use as long as the C front-end. Please report any bugs or |
| 506 | problems.</p> |
| 507 | |
| 508 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 509 | |
| 510 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 511 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> |
| 512 | Bugs |
| 513 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 514 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 515 | <div class="doc_text"> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 516 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 517 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 518 | <li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 519 | front-end</a></li> |
| 520 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 521 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 522 | </div> |
| 523 | |
| 524 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> |
| 525 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> |
| 526 | Notes |
| 527 | </div> |
| 528 | |
| 529 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 530 | |
| 531 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | e01fcfb | 2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 532 | |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 533 | <li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This |
| 534 | parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC |
| 535 | versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a |
| 536 | href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.<p> |
| 537 | |
| 538 | <li>Destructors for local objects are not always run when a <tt>longjmp</tt> is |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 539 | performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 540 | function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run. |
| 541 | Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed however (which is |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 542 | better than most compilers).</li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 543 | |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 544 | <li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a |
| 545 | href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>. |
| 546 | This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name |
| 547 | mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++ |
| 548 | representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM |
| 549 | compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other |
| 550 | Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc). |
| 551 | <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very |
| 552 | different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 553 | interact correctly</b>. </li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 554 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 555 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 556 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 557 | </div> |
| 558 | |
| 559 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 560 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 561 | <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a> |
| 562 | </div> |
| 563 | |
| 564 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 565 | |
| 566 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 567 | |
Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 568 | <li>The X86 code generator <a |
Chris Lattner | 0d4379a | 2003-10-08 06:01:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 569 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR16">does not currently |
Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 570 | support the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction</a>, so code that throws a C++ exception |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 571 | or calls the C <tt>longjmp</tt> function will abort.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 572 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 573 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 574 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 575 | </div> |
| 576 | |
| 577 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 578 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 579 | <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc back-end</a> |
| 580 | </div> |
| 581 | |
| 582 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 583 | |
| 584 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 585 | |
Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 586 | <li>The Sparc code generator <a |
Chris Lattner | 0d4379a | 2003-10-08 06:01:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 587 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR15">does not currently |
Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 588 | support the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction</a>, so code that throws a C++ exception |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 589 | or calls the C <tt>longjmp</tt> function will abort.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 590 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 591 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 592 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 593 | </div> |
| 594 | |
| 595 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 596 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 597 | <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a> |
| 598 | </div> |
| 599 | |
| 600 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 601 | |
| 602 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 603 | |
| 604 | <li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias |
| 605 | Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code |
| 606 | (for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 607 | problem probably cannot be fixed.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 608 | |
Chris Lattner | e84843b | 2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 609 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 610 | cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or |
| 611 | Infinity.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 612 | |
Chris Lattner | 2855ecd | 2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 613 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not |
Chris Lattner | 2af4605 | 2003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 614 | supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++ |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 615 | frontends.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2af4605 | 2003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 616 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 617 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 618 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 619 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 620 | |
| 621 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 622 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 623 | <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a> |
| 624 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 625 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 626 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 627 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 628 | |
| 629 | <p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page, |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 630 | including mailing lists publications describing algorithms and components |
| 631 | implemented in LLVM. The web page also contains versions of the API |
| 632 | documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code. You |
| 633 | can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 634 | the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 635 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 636 | <p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact |
| 637 | us via the mailing lists.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 638 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 639 | </div> |
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