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| Chris Lattner | 78bf32b | 2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | <div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.5 Release Notes</div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 |  | 
|  | 13 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li> | 
|  | 15 | <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 4b538b9 | 2004-04-30 22:17:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | </ol> | 
|  | 21 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 7911ce2 | 2004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | <div class="doc_author"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 78bf32b | 2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Team</a><p> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 |  | 
|  | 26 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 28 | <a name="intro">Introduction</a> | 
|  | 29 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 31 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 33 |  | 
|  | 34 | <p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler | 
| Chris Lattner | 78bf32b | 2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | infrastructure, release 1.5.  Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any | 
| Chris Lattner | 7506b1d | 2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | known problems and improvements from the previous release.  The most up-to-date | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | version of this document can be found on the <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 78bf32b | 2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.5/">LLVM 1.5 web site</a>.  If you are | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | 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] | 40 | this document may be updated after the release.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 41 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 7506b1d | 2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | <p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest | 
|  | 43 | release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main LLVM | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | web site</a>.  If you have questions or comments, the <a | 
|  | 45 | 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] | 46 | list</a> is a good place to send them.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 78bf32b | 2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | <p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS or the main LLVM web page, | 
|  | 49 | this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one.  To see | 
|  | 50 | the release notes for the current or previous releases, see the <a | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p> | 
|  | 52 |  | 
|  | 53 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 54 |  | 
|  | 55 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 57 | <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a> | 
|  | 58 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 59 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 60 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 62 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 78bf32b | 2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | <p>This is the sixth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 64 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 0bce6ac | 2004-12-10 16:27:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | <p> At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile a broad range of C and | 
| Chris Lattner | 78bf32b | 2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 66 | C++ programs, including the SPEC CPU95 & 2000 suite. TODO.  It also includes | 
|  | 67 | bug fixes for those problems found since the 1.4 release.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 68 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 80453c9 | 2004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | </div> | 
|  | 70 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 72 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | a39719f | 2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | <a name="newfeatures">This release implements the following new features:</a> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 80453c9 | 2004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 74d74cd | 2004-12-11 06:10:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | <li>LLVM now includes an <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR415"> | 
| Chris Lattner | da1f03c | 2005-01-22 18:45:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 79 | Interprocedural Sparse Conditional Constant Propagation</a> pass, named | 
| Chris Lattner | 74d74cd | 2004-12-11 06:10:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | -ipsccp, which is run by default at link-time.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 55ee031 | 2003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 80453c9 | 2004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | </div> | 
|  | 84 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 85 |  | 
|  | 86 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 87 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 88 | In this release, the following missing features were implemented: | 
|  | 89 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 90 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 80453c9 | 2004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 92 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 93 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 78bf32b | 2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 94 | <li></li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 95 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 80453c9 | 2004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 97 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 98 |  | 
|  | 99 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 100 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | a7aadf1 | 2004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 101 | <a name="qualityofimp">In this release, the following Quality of Implementation | 
|  | 102 | issues were fixed:</a> | 
| Chris Lattner | e29ac16 | 2003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | </div> | 
|  | 104 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 80453c9 | 2004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 105 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 106 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | e29ac16 | 2003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | da1f03c | 2005-01-22 18:45:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 108 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR448">Building LLVM in optimized mode | 
|  | 109 | should no longer cause GCC to hit swap in the PowerPC backend.</a></li> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 6b31beb | 2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 80453c9 | 2004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | </div> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 6b31beb | 2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 112 |  | 
|  | 113 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 114 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 6e1ef19 | 2004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 115 | <a name="codequality">This release includes the following Code Quality | 
|  | 116 | improvements:</a> | 
| Chris Lattner | aab56d4 | 2004-05-23 20:42:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 89ca2b8 | 2003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 118 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 80453c9 | 2004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 89ca2b8 | 2003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 120 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 78bf32b | 2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 121 | <li></li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 122 | </ol> | 
| Reid Spencer | 8e0262f | 2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 123 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 124 |  | 
|  | 125 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 126 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | a7aadf1 | 2004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 127 | <a name="bugfix">In this release, the following bugs in the previous release | 
|  | 128 | were fixed:</a> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 129 | </div> | 
|  | 130 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 80453c9 | 2004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 132 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | d571388 | 2004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 133 | <p>Bugs fixed in the LLVM Core:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 134 |  | 
|  | 135 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | e936771 | 2004-12-29 04:03:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR490">[cbackend] Logical constant | 
|  | 137 | expressions (and/or/xor) not implemented</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | bfd2468 | 2004-12-29 04:39:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR491">[dse] DSE deletes stores that | 
|  | 139 | are partially overwritten by smaller stores</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 140 | </ol> | 
|  | 141 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 142 | <p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p> | 
|  | 143 |  | 
|  | 144 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8de9f23 | 2005-01-03 04:20:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 145 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR487">[llvmgcc] llvm-gcc incorrectly | 
|  | 146 | rejects some constant initializers involving the addresses of array | 
|  | 147 | elements</a></li> | 
| Brian Gaeke | e77c8e7 | 2004-08-24 07:43:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | </ol> | 
|  | 149 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 80453c9 | 2004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | </div> | 
| Reid Spencer | 8e0262f | 2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 151 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 152 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 154 | <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a> | 
|  | 155 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 156 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 157 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 158 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 159 |  | 
| John Criswell | 0b5b5e9 | 2004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 160 | <p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 4654bdb | 2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 161 |  | 
|  | 162 | <ul> | 
|  | 163 | <li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably | 
|  | 164 | other unix-like systems).</li> | 
|  | 165 | <li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 7506b1d | 2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 166 | <li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries (limited | 
|  | 167 | support is available for native builds with Visual C++).</li> | 
|  | 168 | <li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X systems, running 10.2 and above.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 4654bdb | 2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 169 | </ul> | 
|  | 170 |  | 
| Brian Gaeke | b0fd761 | 2004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 171 | <p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses | 
|  | 172 | <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself | 
|  | 173 | to the machine and operating system on which it is built.  However, minor | 
|  | 174 | porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms.  We welcome your | 
|  | 175 | portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 176 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 178 |  | 
|  | 179 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 180 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 181 | <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a> | 
|  | 182 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 183 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 184 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 185 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 186 |  | 
|  | 187 | <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] | 188 | component.  As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these | 
| Chris Lattner | 5eccca4 | 2003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 189 | sections.  If you run into a problem, please check the <a | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 190 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if | 
| Chris Lattner | 5eccca4 | 2003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 191 | there isn't already one.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 192 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 193 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 194 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | f5ee170 | 2004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 195 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 196 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 197 | <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a> | 
|  | 198 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 199 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | f5ee170 | 2004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 201 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 6df9e2c | 2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 202 | <p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to | 
|  | 203 | be broken or unreliable, or are in early development.  These components should | 
|  | 204 | not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be | 
|  | 205 | useful to some people.  In particular, if you would like to work on one of these | 
|  | 206 | components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | f5ee170 | 2004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 207 |  | 
|  | 208 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 7506b1d | 2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | <li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy, and may be removed in future | 
|  | 210 | releases: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep, -ipmodref, -cee, -branch-combine, | 
|  | 211 | -instloops, -paths, -pre</tt></li> | 
|  | 212 | <li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development, but can | 
|  | 213 | be used to step through programs and inspect the stack.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 0da7f49 | 2004-12-02 17:20:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 214 | <li>The "iterative scan" register allocator (enabled with -regalloc=iterativescan) | 
|  | 215 | is not stable.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | f5ee170 | 2004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 216 | </ul> | 
|  | 217 |  | 
|  | 218 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 219 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 220 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 221 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 222 | <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a> | 
|  | 223 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 224 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 225 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 226 |  | 
|  | 227 | <ul> | 
| Reid Spencer | 4f86f9c | 2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 228 | <li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not work. | 
|  | 229 | </li> | 
|  | 230 | <li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As | 
|  | 231 | such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be | 
|  | 232 | corrupted. | 
|  | 233 | </li> | 
| Reid Spencer | 4f86f9c | 2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 234 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR240">The lower-invoke pass does not | 
|  | 235 | mark values live across a setjmp as volatile</a>. This missing feature | 
|  | 236 | only affects targets whose setjmp/longjmp libraries do not save and restore | 
|  | 237 | the entire register file.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 238 | </ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 239 | </div> | 
|  | 240 |  | 
|  | 241 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 242 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 243 | <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a> | 
|  | 244 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47588f9 | 2003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 245 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 246 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 247 | <div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 248 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 249 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 250 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 251 | <li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of | 
|  | 252 | scope.  Thus, the following program may run out of stack space: | 
|  | 253 | <pre> | 
|  | 254 | for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) { | 
|  | 255 | int X[n]; | 
|  | 256 | foo(X); | 
|  | 257 | } | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 258 | </pre></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 259 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 6df9e2c | 2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 260 | <li>Initialization of global union variables can only be done <a | 
| Misha Brukman | 43ee293 | 2004-12-04 00:45:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 261 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR162">with the largest union member</a>.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | f580cdc | 2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 262 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 263 | </ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 264 | </div> | 
|  | 265 |  | 
|  | 266 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 267 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 268 | Notes | 
|  | 269 | </div> | 
|  | 270 |  | 
|  | 271 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 272 |  | 
|  | 273 | <ul> | 
|  | 274 |  | 
|  | 275 | <li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | e01fcfb | 2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 276 |  | 
|  | 277 | <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] | 278 | support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64 | 
|  | 279 | bits.</li> | 
|  | 280 |  | 
|  | 281 | <li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not | 
|  | 282 | work: | 
| Misha Brukman | e0c891c | 2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 283 | <ol> | 
|  | 284 | <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the | 
|  | 285 | appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions.  Note that | 
|  | 286 | <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly. | 
|  | 287 | <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt> | 
|  | 288 | - These functions have not been tested. | 
|  | 289 | </ol></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 290 |  | 
|  | 291 | <li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not.  In particular, | 
|  | 292 | the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported: | 
|  | 293 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 294 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Labels.html#Local%20Labels">Local Labels</a>: Labels local to a block.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 295 | <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> | 
|  | 296 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li> | 
|  | 297 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#Extended%20Asm">Extended Asm</a>: Assembler instructions with C expressions as operands.</li> | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 298 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constraints.html#Constraints">Constraints</a>: Constraints for asm operands.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 299 | <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> | 
|  | 300 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Explicit-Reg-Vars.html#Explicit%20Reg%20Vars">Explicit Reg Vars</a>: Defining variables residing in specified registers.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 301 | <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> | 
|  | 302 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Target-Builtins.html#Target%20Builtins">Target Builtins</a>:   Built-in functions specific to particular targets.</li> | 
| Tanya Lattner | 014e5f5 | 2004-12-08 18:25:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 303 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread_002dLocal.html">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 304 | <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] | 305 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 306 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 307 | <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported.  An ignored | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 308 | attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute, | 
|  | 309 | but the code should still work.  An unsupported attribute is one which is | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 310 | ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 311 | the program.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 312 |  | 
|  | 313 | <ol> | 
|  | 314 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>: | 
|  | 315 | Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 316 | 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] | 317 |  | 
|  | 318 | <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] | 319 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 320 | Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 321 | return.<br> | 
|  | 322 |  | 
|  | 323 | <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>, | 
| John Criswell | 0b5b5e9 | 2004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 324 | <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, | 
|  | 325 | <tt>unused</tt>, | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 326 | <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br> | 
|  | 327 |  | 
| John Criswell | 0b5b5e9 | 2004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 328 | <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noinline</tt>, | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 329 | <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>, | 
|  | 330 | <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br> | 
|  | 331 |  | 
|  | 332 | <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>, | 
|  | 333 | <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>, | 
|  | 334 | <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 335 |  | 
|  | 336 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>: | 
|  | 337 | Specifying attributes of variables.<br> | 
|  | 338 | <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>, | 
|  | 339 | <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>, | 
|  | 340 | <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 341 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 342 | <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>, | 
|  | 343 | <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>, | 
|  | 344 | <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>, | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 345 | <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 346 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | c4b7bee | 2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 347 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Type-Attributes.html#Type%20Attributes">Type Attributes</a>:	Specifying attributes of types.<br> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 348 | <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>, | 
| Misha Brukman | c4b7bee | 2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 349 | <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 350 |  | 
|  | 351 | <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>, | 
|  | 352 | all target specific attributes.</li> | 
|  | 353 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 354 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>: | 
|  | 355 | Other built-in functions.<br> | 
|  | 356 | We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g., | 
|  | 357 | <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>),  <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>, | 
|  | 358 | <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>, | 
| Chris Lattner | ceebeb6 | 2004-06-18 06:26:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 359 | <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt> | 
|  | 360 | (currently ignored).  We also support builtins for ISO C99 floating | 
|  | 361 | point comparison macros (e.g., <tt>__builtin_islessequal</tt>).</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 362 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 363 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 364 | <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p> | 
|  | 365 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 366 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 7fe97dd | 2004-03-16 08:54:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 367 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html#Labels%20as%20Values">Labels as Values</a>: Getting pointers to labels and computed gotos.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 368 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>:   Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li> | 
|  | 369 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Typeof.html#Typeof">Typeof</a>: <code>typeof</code>: referring to the type of an expression.</li> | 
| Tanya Lattner | ca26c3e | 2004-06-22 03:48:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 370 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.0/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 371 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li> | 
|  | 372 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li> | 
|  | 373 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>:   Data types for complex numbers.</li> | 
|  | 374 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li> | 
|  | 375 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li> | 
|  | 376 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li> | 
|  | 377 | <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> | 
|  | 378 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>:  Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li> | 
|  | 379 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Subscripting.html#Subscripting">Subscripting</a>: Any array can be subscripted, even if not an lvalue.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | c4b7bee | 2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 380 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pointer-Arith.html#Pointer%20Arith">Pointer Arith</a>: Arithmetic on <code>void</code>-pointers and function pointers.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 381 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Initializers.html#Initializers">Initializers</a>: Non-constant initializers.</li> | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 382 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions, | 
|  | 383 | or arrays as values.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 384 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html#Designated%20Inits">Designated Inits</a>: Labeling elements of initializers.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | c4b7bee | 2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 385 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Cast-to-Union.html#Cast%20to%20Union">Cast to Union</a>: Casting to union type from any member of the union.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 386 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li> | 
|  | 387 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li> | 
|  | 388 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li> | 
| Tanya Lattner | 78537e4 | 2004-12-08 18:29:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 389 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Comments.html#C_002b_002b-Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 390 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li> | 
|  | 391 | <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> | 
|  | 392 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li> | 
|  | 393 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li> | 
|  | 394 | <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> | 
|  | 395 | <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> | 
|  | 396 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Names.html#Function%20Names">Function Names</a>: Printable strings which are the name of the current function.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 25795bc | 2004-02-14 04:08:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 397 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Return-Address.html#Return%20Address">Return Address</a>: Getting the return or frame address of a function.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 398 | <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> | 
|  | 399 | <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] | 400 | </ol></li> | 
|  | 401 |  | 
|  | 402 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 403 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 404 | <p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these | 
|  | 405 | 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] | 406 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 407 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 408 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 409 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 410 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 411 | <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a> | 
|  | 412 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 413 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 414 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 415 |  | 
| Reid Spencer | e09ca64 | 2004-12-07 08:39:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 416 | <p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully | 
| Chris Lattner | 7506b1d | 2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 417 | tested and works for a number of non-trivial programs, including LLVM | 
|  | 418 | itself.</p> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 419 |  | 
|  | 420 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 421 |  | 
|  | 422 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 3a51be1 | 2004-02-14 04:12:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 423 | <div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 424 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 425 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 426 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 427 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 428 | <li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 429 | front-end</a>.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 7962f71 | 2004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 430 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | d571388 | 2004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 431 | <li><b>IA-64 specific</b>: The C++ front-end does not use <a | 
|  | 432 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR406">IA64 ABI compliant layout of v-tables</a>. | 
| Chris Lattner | 7962f71 | 2004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 433 | In particular, it just stores function pointers instead of function | 
|  | 434 | descriptors in the vtable.  This bug prevents mixing C++ code compiled with | 
| Chris Lattner | 04db808 | 2004-08-02 20:29:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 435 | LLVM with C++ objects compiled by other C++ compilers.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 7962f71 | 2004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 436 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | d571388 | 2004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 437 | </ul> | 
|  | 438 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 439 | </div> | 
|  | 440 |  | 
|  | 441 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 442 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 443 | Notes | 
|  | 444 | </div> | 
|  | 445 |  | 
|  | 446 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 447 |  | 
|  | 448 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | e01fcfb | 2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 449 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 450 | <li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser.  This | 
|  | 451 | parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC | 
|  | 452 | versions.  For more information, see the C++ section of the <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e84809 | 2003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 453 | href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 454 |  | 
|  | 455 | <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] | 456 | performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 457 | function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run. | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 458 | Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 459 | better than most compilers).</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 460 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 461 | <li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a | 
|  | 462 | href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>. | 
|  | 463 | This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name | 
|  | 464 | mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++ | 
|  | 465 | representation issues.  Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM | 
|  | 466 | compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other | 
|  | 467 | Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc). | 
|  | 468 | <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very | 
|  | 469 | 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] | 470 | interact correctly</b>. </li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 471 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 472 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 473 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 474 | </div> | 
|  | 475 |  | 
|  | 476 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 477 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 478 | <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a> | 
|  | 479 | </div> | 
|  | 480 |  | 
|  | 481 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 482 |  | 
|  | 483 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | d571388 | 2004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 484 | <li>none yet</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 485 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 486 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 487 | </div> | 
|  | 488 |  | 
|  | 489 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 490 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | adb1c39 | 2004-07-12 16:55:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 491 | <a name="sparcv9-be">Known problems with the SparcV9 back-end</a> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 492 | </div> | 
|  | 493 |  | 
|  | 494 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 495 |  | 
|  | 496 | <ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | adb1c39 | 2004-07-12 16:55:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 497 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR60">[sparcv9] SparcV9 backend miscompiles | 
|  | 498 | several programs in the LLVM test suite</a></li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 499 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 500 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 501 | </div> | 
|  | 502 |  | 
|  | 503 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 504 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | f32a5f5 | 2004-11-07 01:55:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 505 | <a name="ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC back-end</a> | 
|  | 506 | </div> | 
|  | 507 |  | 
|  | 508 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 509 |  | 
|  | 510 | <ul> | 
|  | 511 | <li>none yet</li> | 
|  | 512 | </ul> | 
|  | 513 |  | 
|  | 514 | </div> | 
|  | 515 |  | 
|  | 516 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 517 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 518 | <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a> | 
|  | 519 | </div> | 
|  | 520 |  | 
|  | 521 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 522 |  | 
|  | 523 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 524 |  | 
|  | 525 | <li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias | 
|  | 526 | Analysis rules.  As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code | 
|  | 527 | (for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option).  This | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 528 | problem probably cannot be fixed.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 529 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 2855ecd | 2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 530 | <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] | 531 | 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] | 532 | frontends.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 2af4605 | 2003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 533 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 534 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 535 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 536 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 537 |  | 
|  | 538 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 539 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 540 | <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a> | 
|  | 541 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 542 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 543 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 544 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 545 |  | 
|  | 546 | <p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page, | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 547 | including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 548 | implemented in LLVM.  The web page also contains versions of the API | 
|  | 549 | documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code.  You | 
|  | 550 | 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] | 551 | the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 552 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 553 | <p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact | 
| Chris Lattner | 5eccca4 | 2003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 554 | us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing | 
|  | 555 | lists</a>.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 556 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 557 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 558 |  | 
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