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Chris Lattner857fb132008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000[diff] [blame]11<div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.4 Release Notes</div>
Mikhail Glushenkovea65d7d2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000[diff] [blame]12
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]13<ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]14 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]15 <li><a href="#subproj">Sub-project Status Update</a></li>
16 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in LLVM?</a></li>
Chris Lattner4b538b92004-04-30 22:17:12 +0000[diff] [blame]17 <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]18 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]20 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]21</ol>
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Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]23<div class="doc_author">
Chris Lattnerc463b272005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]24 <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Team</a><p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]25</div>
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27<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]28<div class="doc_section">
29 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
30</div>
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32
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]33<div class="doc_text">
34
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]35<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler
36Infrastructure, release 2.4. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including
37major improvements from the previous release and significant known problems.
38All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the <a
39href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM releases web site</a>.</p>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]40
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000[diff] [blame]41<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
Chris Lattnerc463b272005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]42release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.org/">main LLVM
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]43web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]44href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM Developer's Mailing
45List</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]46
Mikhail Glushenkovea65d7d2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000[diff] [blame]47<p>Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the
Chris Lattner84977642007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]48main LLVM web page, this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the
49current one. To see the release notes for a specific releases, please see the
50<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
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52</div>
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59 one MBB to another
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68<div class="doc_section">
69 <a name="subproj">Sub-project Status Update</a>
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73<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]74<p>
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]75The LLVM 2.4 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM
Chris Lattnerfb97b2d2008-10-13 18:11:54 +0000[diff] [blame]76repository (which roughly includes the LLVM optimizers, code generators and
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]77supporting tools) and the llvm-gcc repository. In addition to this code, the
78LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in development. The two which
Chris Lattner857fb132008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000[diff] [blame]79are the most actively developed are the <a href="#clang">Clang Project</a> and
Duncan Sandsbf8c4f22008-10-13 18:33:28 +0000[diff] [blame]80the <a href="#vmkit">vmkit Project</a>.
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]81</p>
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]82
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]83</div>
84
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]85
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]86<!--=========================================================================-->
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]87<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattnerfb97b2d2008-10-13 18:11:54 +0000[diff] [blame]88<a name="clang">Clang: C/C++/Objective-C Frontend Toolkit</a>
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]89</div>
90
91<div class="doc_text">
92
93<p>The <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">Clang project</a> is an effort to build
94a set of new 'LLVM native' front-end technologies for the LLVM optimizer
95and code generator. Clang is continuing to make major strides forward in all
96areas. Its C and Objective-C parsing support is very solid, and the code
97generation support is far enough along to build many C applications. While not
98yet production quality, it is progressing very nicely. In addition, C++
99front-end work has started to make significant progress.</p>
100
Chris Lattnercc042612008-10-14 00:52:49 +0000[diff] [blame]101<p>Codegen progress/state [DANIEL]</p>
Chris Lattner857fb132008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000[diff] [blame]102
Chris Lattnerfb97b2d2008-10-13 18:11:54 +0000[diff] [blame]103</div>
104
105<!--=========================================================================-->
106<div class="doc_subsection">
107<a name="clangsa">Clang Static Analyzer</a>
108</div>
109
110<div class="doc_text">
111
Ted Kremenek3c3ec0c2008-10-14 05:14:21 +0000[diff] [blame]112<p>The Clang project also includes an early stage static source code analysis
113tool for <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/StaticAnalysis.html">automatically
114finding bugs</a> in C and Objective-C programs. The tool performs a growing set
Chris Lattnerc702d162008-10-14 06:02:29 +0000[diff] [blame^]115of checks to find bugs that occur on a specific path within a program. Examples
Ted Kremenek3c3ec0c2008-10-14 05:14:21 +0000[diff] [blame]116of bugs the tool finds include logic errors such as null dereferences,
117violations of various API rules, dead code, and potential memory leaks in
Chris Lattnerc702d162008-10-14 06:02:29 +0000[diff] [blame^]118Objective-C programs. Since its inception, public feedback on the tool has been
119extremely positive, and conservative estimates put the number of real bugs it
120has found in industrial-quality software on the order of thousands.</p>
Chris Lattnercc042612008-10-14 00:52:49 +0000[diff] [blame]121
Ted Kremenek3c3ec0c2008-10-14 05:14:21 +0000[diff] [blame]122<p>The tool also provides a simple web GUI to inspect potential bugs found by
Chris Lattnerc702d162008-10-14 06:02:29 +0000[diff] [blame^]123the tool. While still early in development, the GUI illustrates some of the key
Ted Kremenek3c3ec0c2008-10-14 05:14:21 +0000[diff] [blame]124features of Clang: accurate source location information, which is used by the
125GUI to highlight specific code expressions that relate to a bug (including those
126that span multiple lines) and built-in knowledge of macros, which is used to
127perform inline expansion of macros within the GUI itself.</p>
128
Chris Lattnerc702d162008-10-14 06:02:29 +0000[diff] [blame^]129<p>The set of checks performed by the static analyzer is gradually expanding,
130and
Ted Kremenek3c3ec0c2008-10-14 05:14:21 +0000[diff] [blame]131future plans for the tool include full source-level inter-procedural analysis
132and deeper checks such as buffer overrun detection. There are many opportunities
133to extend and enhance the static analyzer, and anyone interested in working on
134this project is encouraged to get involved!</p>
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]135
136</div>
137
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]138<!--=========================================================================-->
139<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattnerfb97b2d2008-10-13 18:11:54 +0000[diff] [blame]140<a name="vmkit">vmkit: JVM/CLI Virtual Machine Implementation</a>
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]141</div>
142
143<div class="doc_text">
144<p>
Chris Lattnerfb97b2d2008-10-13 18:11:54 +0000[diff] [blame]145The <a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/">vmkit project</a> is an implementation of
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]146a JVM and a CLI Virtual Machines (Microsoft .NET is an
147implementation of the CLI) using the Just-In-Time compiler of LLVM.</p>
148
Chris Lattnercc042612008-10-14 00:52:49 +0000[diff] [blame]149<p>[NICOLAS]</p>
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]150
151</div>
152
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]153
154<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
155<div class="doc_section">
Chris Lattner96a445e2008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]156 <a name="whatsnew">What's New in LLVM?</a>
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]157</div>
158<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
159
Chris Lattnerf8e0b4e2008-06-08 22:59:35 +0000[diff] [blame]160<div class="doc_text">
161
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]162<p>This release includes a huge number of bug fixes, performance tweaks and
163minor improvements. Some of the major improvements and new features are listed
164in this section.
Chris Lattnerf8e0b4e2008-06-08 22:59:35 +0000[diff] [blame]165</p>
166</div>
167
Chris Lattner8348b472008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]168<!--=========================================================================-->
Chris Lattnerea34f642008-06-08 21:34:41 +0000[diff] [blame]169<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattner252b83d2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000[diff] [blame]170<a name="majorfeatures">Major New Features</a>
171</div>
172
173<div class="doc_text">
174
Chris Lattner857fb132008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000[diff] [blame]175<p>LLVM 2.4 includes several major new capabilities:</p>
Chris Lattnerf3e5bc62007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]176
177<ul>
Chris Lattnerb82eb062008-10-13 20:47:20 +0000[diff] [blame]178<li><p>The most visible end-user change in LLVM 2.4 is that it includes many
Chris Lattnerf3013872008-10-13 21:50:36 +0000[diff] [blame]179optimizations and changes to make -O0 compile times much faster. You should see
Chris Lattnerb82eb062008-10-13 20:47:20 +0000[diff] [blame]180improvements on the order of 30% or more faster than LLVM 2.3. There are many
181pieces to this change, described in more detail below. The speedups and new
182components can also be used for JIT compilers that want fast compilation as
183well.</p></li>
Chris Lattner857fb132008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000[diff] [blame]184
Chris Lattnerb82eb062008-10-13 20:47:20 +0000[diff] [blame]185<li><p>The biggest change to the LLVM IR is that Multiple Return Values (which
186were introduced in LLVM 2.3) have been generalized to full support for "First
187Class Aggregate" values in LLVM 2.4. This means that LLVM IR supports using
188structs and arrays as values in a function. This capability is mostly useful
189for front-end authors, who prefer to treat things like complex numbers, simple
190tuples, dope vectors, etc as Value*'s instead of as a tuple of Value*'s or as
191memory values.</p></li>
Mikhail Glushenkovea65d7d2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000[diff] [blame]192
Chris Lattnerb82eb062008-10-13 20:47:20 +0000[diff] [blame]193<li><p>LLVM 2.4 also includes an initial port for the PIC16 microprocessor. This
194is the LLVM targer that only has support for 8 bit registers, and a number of
195other crazy constraints. While the port is still in early development stages,
196it shows some interesting things you can do with LLVM.</p></li>
Chris Lattnerbc5786b2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000[diff] [blame]197
Chris Lattner8170c102008-02-10 08:18:42 +0000[diff] [blame]198</ul>
199
Chris Lattnerf3e5bc62007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]200</div>
201
Chris Lattner791f77b2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000[diff] [blame]202
203<!--=========================================================================-->
204<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattnerea34f642008-06-08 21:34:41 +0000[diff] [blame]205<a name="llvm-gcc">llvm-gcc 4.2 Improvements</a>
Chris Lattner791f77b2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000[diff] [blame]206</div>
207
208<div class="doc_text">
209
Chris Lattnerb82eb062008-10-13 20:47:20 +0000[diff] [blame]210<p>LLVM fully supports the llvm-gcc 4.2 front-end, which marries the GCC
211front-ends and driver with the LLVM optimizer and code generator. It currently
212includes support for the C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, and Fortran front-ends.</p>
Chris Lattner791f77b2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000[diff] [blame]213
Chris Lattnerf8e0b4e2008-06-08 22:59:35 +0000[diff] [blame]214<ul>
Chris Lattner7752d1a2008-10-13 20:59:32 +0000[diff] [blame]215<li>LLVM 2.4 supports the full set of atomic <tt>__sync_*</tt> builtins. LLVM
2162.3 only supported those used by OpenMP, but 2.4 supports them all. While
Chris Lattnerf3013872008-10-13 21:50:36 +0000[diff] [blame]217llvm-gcc supports all of these builtins, note that not all targets do. X86
218support them all in both 32-bit and 64-bit mode and PowerPC supports them all
219except for the 64-bit operations when in 32-bit mode.</li>
Chris Lattnerf8e0b4e2008-06-08 22:59:35 +0000[diff] [blame]220
Chris Lattner7752d1a2008-10-13 20:59:32 +0000[diff] [blame]221<li>llvm-gcc now supports an <tt>-flimited-precision</tt> option, which tells
222the compiler that it is ok to use low-precision approximations of certain libm
Chris Lattnerb82eb062008-10-13 20:47:20 +0000[diff] [blame]223functions (like tan, log, etc). This allows you to get high performance if you
224only need (say) 14-bits of precision.</li>
225
226<li>llvm-gcc now supports a C language extension known as "<a
227href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2008-August/002670.html">Blocks
228</a>. This feature is similar to nested functions and closures, but does not
229require stack trampolines (with most ABIs) and supports returning closures
230from functions that define them. Note that actually <em>using</em> Blocks
231requires a small runtime that is not included with llvm-gcc.</li>
232
233<li>llvm-gcc now supports a new <tt>-flto</tt> option. On systems that support
234transparent Link Time Optimization (currently Darwin systems with Xcode 3.1 and
235later) this allows the use of LTO with other optimization levels like -Os.
236Previously, LTO could only be used with -O4, which implied optimizations in
237-O3 that can increase code size.</li>
Gabor Greifa3bd11d2008-06-09 06:06:18 +0000[diff] [blame]238</ul>
Chris Lattner791f77b2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000[diff] [blame]239
Chris Lattner791f77b2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000[diff] [blame]240</div>
241
242
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244<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattnerf304ffc2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000[diff] [blame]245<a name="coreimprovements">LLVM Core Improvements</a>
246</div>
247
248<div class="doc_text">
249<p>New features include:
250</p>
251
Chris Lattner791f77b2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000[diff] [blame]252<ul>
Chris Lattner7752d1a2008-10-13 20:59:32 +0000[diff] [blame]253<li>A major change to the "Use" class landed, which shrank it by 25%. Since
254this is a pervasive part of the LLVM, it ended up reducing the memory use of
255LLVM IR in general by 15% for most programs.</li>
256
257<li>Values with no names are now pretty printed by <tt>llvm-dis</tt> more
258nicely. They now print as "<tt>%3 = add i32 %A, 4</tt>" instead of
259"<tt>add i32 %A, 4 ; &lt;i32&gt;:3</tt>", which makes it much easier to read.
260</li>
261
262<li>LLVM 2.4 includes some changes for better vector support. First, the shift
263operations (<tt>shl</tt>, <tt>ashr</tt>, <tt>lshr</tt>) now all support vectors
264and do an element-by-element shift (shifts of the whole vector can be
265accomplished by bitcasting the vector to &lt;1 x i128&gt; for example). Second,
Chris Lattnercc042612008-10-14 00:52:49 +0000[diff] [blame]266there is initial support in development for vector comparisons with the
267<a href="LangRef.html#i_fcmp">fcmp</a>/<a href="LangRef.html#i_icmp">icmp</a>
268instructions. These instructions compare two vectors and return a vector of
269i1's for each result. Note that there is very little codegen support available
270for any of these IR features though.</li>
Chris Lattner7752d1a2008-10-13 20:59:32 +0000[diff] [blame]271
272<li>A new <tt>DebugInfoBuilder</tt> class is available, which makes it much
273easier for front-ends to create debug info descriptors, similar to the way that
274IRBuilder makes it easier to create LLVM IR.</li>
275
276<li>LLVM now supports "function attributes", which allows us to seperate return
277value attributes from function attributes. LLVM now supports attributes on a
278function itself, a return value, and its parameters. New supported function
279attributes include noinline/alwaysinline and the "opt-size" flag which says the
280function should be optimized for code size.</li>
281
Chris Lattnercce6d4b2008-10-12 18:30:33 +0000[diff] [blame]282<li>LLVM IR now directly represents "common" linkage, instead of
283 representing it as a form of weak linkage.</li>
Chris Lattner7752d1a2008-10-13 20:59:32 +0000[diff] [blame]284
Chris Lattnerf304ffc2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000[diff] [blame]285</ul>
Mikhail Glushenkovea65d7d2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000[diff] [blame]286
Chris Lattnerf304ffc2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000[diff] [blame]287</div>
288
289<!--=========================================================================-->
290<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattneracce85d2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000[diff] [blame]291<a name="optimizer">Optimizer Improvements</a>
292</div>
293
294<div class="doc_text">
295
Chris Lattnerf3013872008-10-13 21:50:36 +0000[diff] [blame]296<p>In addition to a huge array of bug fixes and minor performance tweaks, this
297release includes a few major enhancements and additions to the optimizers:</p>
Chris Lattneracce85d2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000[diff] [blame]298
299<ul>
300
Chris Lattnerf3013872008-10-13 21:50:36 +0000[diff] [blame]301<li>The Global Value Numbering (GVN) pass now does local Partial Redundancy
302Elimination (PRE) to eliminate some partially redundant expressions in cases
303where doing so won't grow code size.</li>
Chris Lattner547a3912008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000[diff] [blame]304
Chris Lattnerf3013872008-10-13 21:50:36 +0000[diff] [blame]305<li>LLVM 2.4 includes a new loop deletion pass (which removes output-free
306provably-finite loops) and a rewritten Aggressive Dead Code Elimination (ADCE)
307pass that no longer uses control dependence information. These changes speed up
308the optimizer and also prevents it from deleting output-free infinite
309loops.</li>
Chris Lattner547a3912008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000[diff] [blame]310
Duncan Sands1050d732008-10-13 18:42:43 +0000[diff] [blame]311<li>The new AddReadAttrs pass works out which functions are read-only or
312read-none (these correspond to 'pure' and 'const' in C) and marks them
313with the appropriate attribute.</li>
Chris Lattnerf3013872008-10-13 21:50:36 +0000[diff] [blame]314
315<li>LLVM 2.4 now includes a new SparsePropagation framework, which makes it
316trivial to build lattice-based dataflow solvers that operate over LLVM IR. Using
317this interface means that you just define objects to represent your lattice
318values and the transfer functions that operate on them. It handles the
319mechanics of worklist processing, liveness tracking, handling PHI nodes,
320etc.</li>
321
Chris Lattnerc702d162008-10-14 06:02:29 +0000[diff] [blame^]322<li>The Loop Strength Reduction and induction variable optimization passes have
323several improvements to avoid inserting MAX expressions, to optimize simple
324floating point induction variables and to analyze trip counts of more
325loops.</li>
326
Chris Lattnerf3013872008-10-13 21:50:36 +0000[diff] [blame]327<li>Various helper functions (ComputeMaskedBits, ComputeNumSignBits, etc) were
328pulled out of the Instruction Combining pass and put into a new
329<tt>ValueTracking.h</tt> header, where they can be reused by other passes.</li>
330
331<li>The tail duplication pass has been removed from the standard optimizer
332sequence used by llvm-gcc. This pass still exists, but the benefits it once
333provided are now achieved by other passes.</li>
334
Chris Lattner0b832202008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000[diff] [blame]335</ul>
336
337</div>
338
339<!--=========================================================================-->
340<div class="doc_subsection">
341<a name="codegen">Code Generator Improvements</a>
342</div>
343
344<div class="doc_text">
345
346<p>We put a significant amount of work into the code generator infrastructure,
347which allows us to implement more aggressive algorithms and make it run
348faster:</p>
349
350<ul>
Chris Lattnerf3013872008-10-13 21:50:36 +0000[diff] [blame]351<li>The target-independent code generator supports (and the X86 backend
352 currently implements) a new interface for "fast" instruction selection. This
353 interface is optimized to produce code as quickly as possible, sacrificing
354 code quality to do it. This is used by default at -O0 or when using
355 "llc -fast" on X86. It is straight-forward to add support for
356 other targets if faster -O0 compilation is desired.</li>
357
358<li>In addition to the new 'fast' instruction selection path, many existing
359 pieces of the code generator have been optimized in significant ways.
360 SelectionDAG's are now pool allocated and use better algorithms in many
361 places, the ".s" file printers now use raw_ostream to emit text much faster,
362 etc. The end result of these improvements is that the compiler also takes
363 substantially less time to generate code that is just as good (and often
364 better) than before.</li>
365
366<li>Each target has been split to separate the .s file printing logic from the
367 rest of the target. This enables JIT compilers that don't link in the
368 (somewhat large) code and data tables used for printing a .s file.</li>
369
370<li>The code generator now includes a "stack slot coloring" pass, which packs
371 together individual spilled values into common stack slots. This reduces
372 the size of stack frames with many spills, which tends to increase L1 cache
373 effectiveness.</li>
374
375<li>Various pieces of the register allocator (e.g. the coalescer and two-address
376 operation elimination pass) now know how to rematerialize trivial operations
377 to avoid copies and include several other optimizations.</li>
378
379<li>The <a href="CodeGenerator.html#selectiondag_process">graphs</a> produced by
380 the <tt>llc -view-*-dags</tt> options are now significantly prettier and
381 easier to read.</li>
382
383<li>LLVM 2.4 includes a new register allocator based on Partitioned Boolean
384 Quadratic Programming (PBQP). This register allocator is still in
385 development, but is very simple and clean.</li>
Chris Lattner0b832202008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000[diff] [blame]386
Chris Lattner84977642007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]387</ul>
388
389</div>
390
391
392<!--=========================================================================-->
393<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattnereeb4da02008-10-13 22:06:31 +0000[diff] [blame]394<a name="targetspecific">Target Specific Improvements</a>
Chris Lattner84977642007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]395</div>
Chris Lattner60893e52007-05-18 06:33:02 +0000[diff] [blame]396
Chris Lattner738bd302006-04-18 06:32:08 +0000[diff] [blame]397<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattnerf304ffc2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000[diff] [blame]398<p>New target-specific features include:
Chris Lattnerf3e5bc62007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]399</p>
Chris Lattner26299222006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]400
401<ul>
Chris Lattner547a3912008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000[diff] [blame]402<li>Exception handling is supported by default on Linux/x86-64.</li>
Duncan Sandsbbf379a2008-10-13 17:32:15 +0000[diff] [blame]403<li>Position Independent Code (PIC) is now supported on Linux/x86-64.</li>
Chris Lattnerc702d162008-10-14 06:02:29 +0000[diff] [blame^]404<li>@llvm.frameaddress now supports getting the frame address of stack frames
405 &gt; 0 on x86/x86-64.</li>
Chris Lattnereeb4da02008-10-13 22:06:31 +0000[diff] [blame]406<li>MIPS floating point support? [BRUNO]</li>
407<li>The PowerPC backend now supports trampolines.</li>
Chris Lattner77d29b12008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000[diff] [blame]408</ul>
Chris Lattner77d29b12008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000[diff] [blame]409
Mikhail Glushenkovea65d7d2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000[diff] [blame]410</div>
Chris Lattner77d29b12008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000[diff] [blame]411
412
413<!--=========================================================================-->
414<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattner84977642007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]415<a name="otherimprovements">Other Improvements</a>
416</div>
417
418<div class="doc_text">
419<p>New features include:
420</p>
421
422<ul>
Mikhail Glushenkov49feb452008-10-13 02:46:01 +0000[diff] [blame]423<li><tt>llvmc2</tt> (the generic compiler driver) gained plugin
Chris Lattnereeb4da02008-10-13 22:06:31 +0000[diff] [blame]424 support. It is now easier to experiment with <tt>llvmc2</tt> and
425 build your own tools based on it.</li>
426
427<li>LLVM 2.4 includes a number of new generic algorithms and data structures,
428 include a scoped hash table, 'immutable' data structures, and a
429 <tt>raw_ostream</tt> class. The <tt>raw_ostream</tt> class and
430 <tt>format</tt> allow for efficient file output, and various pieces of LLVM
431 have switched over to use it. The eventual goal is to eliminate
432 std::ostream in favor of it.</li>
433
434<li>Recycler + pool allocation stuff? [DAN]</li>
Chris Lattner84977642007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]435</ul>
Mikhail Glushenkovea65d7d2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000[diff] [blame]436
Chris Lattner84977642007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]437</div>
Chris Lattnerc5d658a2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000[diff] [blame]438
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]439<!--=========================================================================-->
440<div class="doc_subsection">
441<a name="changes">Major Changes and Removed Features</a>
442</div>
443
444<div class="doc_text">
445
Chris Lattnereeb4da02008-10-13 22:06:31 +0000[diff] [blame]446<p>If you're already an LLVM user or developer with out-of-tree changes based
447on LLVM 2.3, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading
448from the previous release.</p>
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]449
450<ul>
451
Chris Lattnereeb4da02008-10-13 22:06:31 +0000[diff] [blame]452<li>The LLVM IR generated by llvm-gcc no longer names all instructions. This
453 makes it run faster, but may be more confusing to some people. If you
454 prefer to have names, the '<tt>opt -instnamer</tt>' pass will add names to
455 all instructions.</li>
456
457<li>The LoadVN and GCSE passes have been removed from the tree. They are
458 obsolete and have been replaced with the GVN and MemoryDependence passes.
459 </li>
460</ul>
461
462
463<p>In addition, many APIs have changed in this release. Some of the major LLVM
464API changes are:</p>
465
466<ul>
467
468<li>Attributes changes [DEVANG] </li>
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]469
470<li>The <tt>DbgStopPointInst</tt> methods <tt>getDirectory</tt> and
471<tt>getFileName</tt> now return <tt>Value*</tt> instead of strings. These can be
472converted to strings using <tt>llvm::GetConstantStringInfo</tt> defined via
473"llvm/Analysis/ValueTracking.h".</li>
474
Chris Lattnereeb4da02008-10-13 22:06:31 +0000[diff] [blame]475<li>The APIs to create various instructions have changed from lower case
476 "create" methods to upper case "Create" methods (e.g.
477 <tt>BinaryOperator::create</tt>). LLVM 2.4 includes both cases, but the
478 lower case ones are removed in mainline, please migrate.</li>
479
Chris Lattnerf6662f92008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]480<li>Various header files like "llvm/ADT/iterator" were given a .h suffix.
481 Change your code to #include "llvm/ADT/iterator.h" instead.</li>
482
483</ul>
484
485</div>
486
487
488
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]489<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]490<div class="doc_section">
491 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
492</div>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]493<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
494
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]495<div class="doc_text">
496
John Criswell0b5b5e92004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000[diff] [blame]497<p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]498
499<ul>
Mikhail Glushenkovea65d7d2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000[diff] [blame]500<li>Intel and AMD machines (IA32) running Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core and FreeBSD
Reid Spencer00812e22005-05-17 02:47:27 +0000[diff] [blame]501 (and probably other unix-like systems).</li>
Chris Lattner000c73b2008-02-06 06:30:34 +0000[diff] [blame]502<li>PowerPC and X86-based Mac OS X systems, running 10.3 and above in 32-bit and
Chris Lattner26299222006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]503 64-bit modes.</li>
Chris Lattner252b83d2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000[diff] [blame]504<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 using MinGW libraries (native).</li>
Chris Lattner57a460e2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000[diff] [blame]505<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries (limited
506 support is available for native builds with Visual C++).</li>
Gabor Greif96a89c72008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000[diff] [blame]507<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 10.</li>
John Criswell9321fa82005-05-13 20:28:15 +0000[diff] [blame]508<li>Alpha-based machines running Debian GNU/Linux.</li>
Gabor Greif96a89c72008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000[diff] [blame]509<li>Itanium-based (IA64) machines running Linux and HP-UX.</li>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]510</ul>
511
Chris Lattnerbc5786b2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000[diff] [blame]512<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses GNU autoconf to adapt itself
Brian Gaekeb0fd7612004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000[diff] [blame]513to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor
514porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your
515portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]516
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]517</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]518
519<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]520<div class="doc_section">
521 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
522</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]523<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
524
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]525<div class="doc_text">
526
527<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]528component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]529sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
Chris Lattnerc463b272005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]530href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]531there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]532
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]533</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]534
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]535<!-- ======================================================================= -->
536<div class="doc_subsection">
537 <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
538</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]539
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]540<div class="doc_text">
541
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]542<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
543be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should
544not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
545useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
Chris Lattner2b659ef2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000[diff] [blame]546components, please contact us on the <a
547href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev list</a>.</p>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]548
549<ul>
Chris Lattner2b659ef2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000[diff] [blame]550<li>The MSIL, IA64, Alpha, SPU, and MIPS backends are experimental.</li>
Duncan Sands27aff872008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000[diff] [blame]551<li>The llc "<tt>-filetype=asm</tt>" (the default) is the only supported
Chris Lattner000c73b2008-02-06 06:30:34 +0000[diff] [blame]552 value for this option.</li>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]553</ul>
554
555</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]556
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]557<!-- ======================================================================= -->
558<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattner26299222006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]559 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
John Criswellc0c186d2005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000[diff] [blame]560</div>
561
562<div class="doc_text">
563
564<ul>
Anton Korobeynikova6094be2008-06-08 10:24:13 +0000[diff] [blame]565 <li>The X86 backend does not yet support
566 all <a href="http://llvm.org/PR879">inline assembly that uses the X86
567 floating point stack</a>. It supports the 'f' and 't' constraints, but not
568 'u'.</li>
Chris Lattnere6e1b352008-06-08 21:19:07 +0000[diff] [blame]569 <li>The X86 backend generates inefficient floating point code when configured
570 to generate code for systems that don't have SSE2.</li>
Duncan Sands47eff2b2008-06-08 19:38:43 +0000[diff] [blame]571 <li>Win64 code generation wasn't widely tested. Everything should work, but we
Anton Korobeynikova6094be2008-06-08 10:24:13 +0000[diff] [blame]572 expect small issues to happen. Also, llvm-gcc cannot build mingw64 runtime
573 currently due
574 to <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2255">several</a>
Chris Lattner04af7cb2008-06-08 23:12:47 +0000[diff] [blame]575 <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2257">bugs</a> due to lack of support for the
576 'u' inline assembly constraint and X87 floating point inline assembly.</li>
Dan Gohman8207ba92008-06-08 23:05:11 +0000[diff] [blame]577 <li>The X86-64 backend does not yet support the LLVM IR instruction
578 <tt>va_arg</tt>. Currently, the llvm-gcc front-end supports variadic
579 argument constructs on X86-64 by lowering them manually.</li>
Chris Lattner26299222006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]580</ul>
581
582</div>
583
584<!-- ======================================================================= -->
585<div class="doc_subsection">
586 <a name="ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC back-end</a>
587</div>
588
589<div class="doc_text">
590
591<ul>
Nicolas Geoffraye4285dc2007-05-15 09:21:28 +0000[diff] [blame]592<li>The Linux PPC32/ABI support needs testing for the interpreter and static
Chris Lattner57a460e2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000[diff] [blame]593compilation, and lacks support for debug information.</li>
Chris Lattner26299222006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]594</ul>
595
596</div>
597
598<!-- ======================================================================= -->
599<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattnerf3e5bc62007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]600 <a name="arm-be">Known problems with the ARM back-end</a>
601</div>
602
603<div class="doc_text">
604
605<ul>
Chris Lattner57a460e2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000[diff] [blame]606<li>Thumb mode works only on ARMv6 or higher processors. On sub-ARMv6
Duncan Sandsc90d68b2007-09-26 15:59:54 +0000[diff] [blame]607processors, thumb programs can crash or produce wrong
Chris Lattner57a460e2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000[diff] [blame]608results (<a href="http://llvm.org/PR1388">PR1388</a>).</li>
Chris Lattnerf3e5bc62007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]609<li>Compilation for ARM Linux OABI (old ABI) is supported, but not fully tested.
610</li>
Chris Lattnere6e1b352008-06-08 21:19:07 +0000[diff] [blame]611<li>There is a bug in QEMU-ARM (&lt;= 0.9.0) which causes it to incorrectly
612 execute
Chris Lattner57a460e2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000[diff] [blame]613programs compiled with LLVM. Please use more recent versions of QEMU.</li>
Chris Lattnerf3e5bc62007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]614</ul>
615
616</div>
617
618<!-- ======================================================================= -->
619<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattner26299222006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]620 <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the SPARC back-end</a>
621</div>
622
623<div class="doc_text">
624
625<ul>
626<li>The SPARC backend only supports the 32-bit SPARC ABI (-m32), it does not
627 support the 64-bit SPARC ABI (-m64).</li>
628</ul>
629
630</div>
631
632<!-- ======================================================================= -->
633<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattner26299222006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]634 <a name="alpha-be">Known problems with the Alpha back-end</a>
635</div>
636
637<div class="doc_text">
638
639<ul>
640
641<li>On 21164s, some rare FP arithmetic sequences which may trap do not have the
642appropriate nops inserted to ensure restartability.</li>
643
John Criswellc0c186d2005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000[diff] [blame]644</ul>
645</div>
646
Chris Lattner26299222006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]647<!-- ======================================================================= -->
648<div class="doc_subsection">
649 <a name="ia64-be">Known problems with the IA64 back-end</a>
650</div>
651
652<div class="doc_text">
653
654<ul>
Chris Lattner04af7cb2008-06-08 23:12:47 +0000[diff] [blame]655<li>The Itanium backend is highly experimental, and has a number of known
656 issues. We are looking for a maintainer for the Itanium backend. If you
657 are interested, please contact the llvmdev mailing list.</li>
Chris Lattner26299222006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]658</ul>
659
660</div>
661
662<!-- ======================================================================= -->
663<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattnerf3e5bc62007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]664 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
Chris Lattner26299222006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]665</div>
666
667<div class="doc_text">
668
669<ul>
Chris Lattner5733b272008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000[diff] [blame]670<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR802">The C backend has only basic support for
671 inline assembly code</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner725a0d82007-09-26 06:01:35 +0000[diff] [blame]672<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR1658">The C backend violates the ABI of common
673 C++ programs</a>, preventing intermixing between C++ compiled by the CBE and
Duncan Sands27aff872008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000[diff] [blame]674 C++ code compiled with llc or native compilers.</li>
Duncan Sandsf74c0cc2008-02-10 13:40:55 +0000[diff] [blame]675<li>The C backend does not support all exception handling constructs.</li>
Chris Lattner26299222006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]676</ul>
677
678</div>
John Criswellc0c186d2005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000[diff] [blame]679
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]680
681<!-- ======================================================================= -->
682<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattner5733b272008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000[diff] [blame]683 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc C front-end</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]684</div>
Chris Lattner47588f92003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000[diff] [blame]685
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]686<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattnerc5d658a2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000[diff] [blame]687
Chris Lattner252b83d2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000[diff] [blame]688<p>llvm-gcc does not currently support <a href="http://llvm.org/PR869">Link-Time
689Optimization</a> on most platforms "out-of-the-box". Please inquire on the
Chris Lattnerf3e5bc62007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]690llvmdev mailing list if you are interested.</p>
Chris Lattnerd9ea0172006-08-08 17:27:28 +0000[diff] [blame]691
Chris Lattner5733b272008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000[diff] [blame]692<p>The only major language feature of GCC not supported by llvm-gcc is
693 the <tt>__builtin_apply</tt> family of builtins. However, some extensions
694 are only supported on some targets. For example, trampolines are only
Duncan Sands27aff872008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000[diff] [blame]695 supported on some targets (these are used when you take the address of a
696 nested function).</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]697
Chris Lattner5733b272008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000[diff] [blame]698<p>If you run into GCC extensions which are not supported, please let us know.
699</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]700
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]701</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]702
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]703<!-- ======================================================================= -->
704<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattner5733b272008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000[diff] [blame]705 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc C++ front-end</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]706</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]707
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]708<div class="doc_text">
709
Chris Lattnerf3e5bc62007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]710<p>The C++ front-end is considered to be fully
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000[diff] [blame]711tested and works for a number of non-trivial programs, including LLVM
Chris Lattnerf3e5bc62007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]712itself, Qt, Mozilla, etc.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]713
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]714<ul>
Anton Korobeynikov0021fc12008-10-11 18:27:16 +0000[diff] [blame]715<li>Exception handling works well on the X86 and PowerPC targets. Currently
716 only linux and darwin targets are supported (both 32 and 64 bit).</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]717</ul>
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]718
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]719</div>
720
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]721
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723<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattner5733b272008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000[diff] [blame]724 <a name="ada-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc Ada front-end</a>
Chris Lattner2b659ef2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000[diff] [blame]725</div>
726
727<div class="doc_text">
728The llvm-gcc 4.2 Ada compiler works fairly well, however this is not a mature
729technology and problems should be expected.
730<ul>
Duncan Sands27aff872008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000[diff] [blame]731<li>The Ada front-end currently only builds on X86-32. This is mainly due
Chris Lattner2b659ef2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000[diff] [blame]732to lack of trampoline support (pointers to nested functions) on other platforms,
Duncan Sands27aff872008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000[diff] [blame]733however it <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2006">also fails to build on X86-64</a>
Chris Lattner2b659ef2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000[diff] [blame]734which does support trampolines.</li>
735<li>The Ada front-end <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2007">fails to bootstrap</a>.
736Workaround: configure with --disable-bootstrap.</li>
Duncan Sands978bcee2008-10-13 17:27:23 +0000[diff] [blame]737<li>The c380004, <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2010">c393010</a>
738and <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2421">cxg2021</a> ACATS tests fail
739(c380004 also fails with gcc-4.2 mainline).</li>
740<li>Some gcc specific Ada tests continue to crash the compiler.</li>
Chris Lattner2b659ef2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000[diff] [blame]741<li>The -E binder option (exception backtraces)
742<a href="http://llvm.org/PR1982">does not work</a> and will result in programs
743crashing if an exception is raised. Workaround: do not use -E.</li>
744<li>Only discrete types <a href="http://llvm.org/PR1981">are allowed to start
745or finish at a non-byte offset</a> in a record. Workaround: do not pack records
746or use representation clauses that result in a field of a non-discrete type
747starting or finishing in the middle of a byte.</li>
Chris Lattnere6e1b352008-06-08 21:19:07 +0000[diff] [blame]748<li>The <tt>lli</tt> interpreter <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2009">considers
749'main' as generated by the Ada binder to be invalid</a>.
750Workaround: hand edit the file to use pointers for <tt>argv</tt> and
751<tt>envp</tt> rather than integers.</li>
752<li>The <tt>-fstack-check</tt> option <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2008">is
753ignored</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner2b659ef2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000[diff] [blame]754</ul>
755</div>
756
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759 <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
760</div>
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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]763<div class="doc_text">
764
Chris Lattner416db102005-05-16 17:13:10 +0000[diff] [blame]765<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the <a
Chris Lattnerb4b0ce72007-05-18 00:44:29 +0000[diff] [blame]766href="http://llvm.org">LLVM web page</a>, in particular in the <a
767href="http://llvm.org/docs/">documentation</a> section. The web page also
Reid Spencer669ed452007-07-09 08:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]768contains versions of the API documentation which is up-to-date with the
769Subversion version of the source code.
Misha Brukman109d9e82005-03-30 19:14:24 +0000[diff] [blame]770You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going
771into the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]772
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]773<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
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Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]775lists</a>.</p>
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