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Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000011<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.5 Release Notes</div>
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13<ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000014 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
15 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
Chris Lattner4b538b92004-04-30 22:17:12 +000016 <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000017 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000018 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000019 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000020</ol>
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Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +000022<div class="doc_author">
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000023 <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Team</a><p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000024</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000025
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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000027<div class="doc_section">
28 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
29</div>
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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000032<div class="doc_text">
33
34<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000035infrastructure, release 1.5. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +000036known problems and improvements from the previous release. The most up-to-date
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000037version of this document can be found on the <a
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000038href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.5/">LLVM 1.5 web site</a>. If you are
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +000039not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000040this document may be updated after the release.</p>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +000041
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +000042<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
43release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main LLVM
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +000044web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
45href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000046list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000047
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000048<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS or the main LLVM web page,
49this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one. To see
50the release notes for the current or previous releases, see the <a
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000051href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
52
53</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +000054
55<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000056<div class="doc_section">
57 <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
58</div>
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60
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000061<div class="doc_text">
62
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000063<p>This is the sixth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000064
Chris Lattner0bce6ac2004-12-10 16:27:34 +000065<p> At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile a broad range of C and
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000066C++ programs, including the SPEC CPU95 &amp; 2000 suite. TODO. It also includes
67bug fixes for those problems found since the 1.4 release.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000068
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +000069</div>
70
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000071<!--=========================================================================-->
72<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +000073<a name="newfeatures">This release implements the following new features:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000074</div>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +000075
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +000076<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +000077<ol>
Chris Lattner74d74cd2004-12-11 06:10:52 +000078 <li>LLVM now includes an <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR415">
Chris Lattnerda1f03c2005-01-22 18:45:35 +000079 Interprocedural Sparse Conditional Constant Propagation</a> pass, named
Chris Lattner74d74cd2004-12-11 06:10:52 +000080 -ipsccp, which is run by default at link-time.</li>
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +000081</ol>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +000082
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +000083</div>
84
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000085
86<!--=========================================================================-->
87<div class="doc_subsubsection">
88In this release, the following missing features were implemented:
89</div>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +000090
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +000091<div class="doc_text">
92
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +000093<ol>
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +000094 <li></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +000095</ol>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +000096
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +000097</div>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +000098
99<!--=========================================================================-->
100<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000101<a name="qualityofimp">In this release, the following Quality of Implementation
102issues were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000103</div>
104
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000105<div class="doc_text">
106
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000107<ol>
Chris Lattnerda1f03c2005-01-22 18:45:35 +0000108 <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 Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000110</ol>
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000111</div>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000112
113<!--=========================================================================-->
114<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000115<a name="codequality">This release includes the following Code Quality
116improvements:</a>
Chris Lattneraab56d42004-05-23 20:42:08 +0000117</div>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000118
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000119<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000120<ol>
Chris Lattner78bf32b2004-12-09 22:22:58 +0000121 <li></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000122</ol>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000123</div>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000124
125<!--=========================================================================-->
126<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000127<a name="bugfix">In this release, the following bugs in the previous release
128were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000129</div>
130
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000131<div class="doc_text">
132
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000133<p>Bugs fixed in the LLVM Core:</p>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000134
135<ol>
Chris Lattnere9367712004-12-29 04:03:23 +0000136 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR490">[cbackend] Logical constant
137 expressions (and/or/xor) not implemented</a></li>
Chris Lattnerbfd24682004-12-29 04:39:50 +0000138 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR491">[dse] DSE deletes stores that
139 are partially overwritten by smaller stores</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000140</ol>
141
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000142<p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>
143
144<ol>
Chris Lattner8de9f232005-01-03 04:20:21 +0000145 <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 Gaekee77c8e72004-08-24 07:43:48 +0000148</ol>
149
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000150</div>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000151
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000152<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000153<div class="doc_section">
154 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
155</div>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000156<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
157
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000158<div class="doc_text">
159
John Criswell0b5b5e92004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000160<p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000161
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 Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000166<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 Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000169</ul>
170
Brian Gaekeb0fd7612004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000171<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
172<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself
173to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor
174porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your
175portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000176
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000177</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000178
179<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000180<div class="doc_section">
181 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
182</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000183<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
184
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000185<div class="doc_text">
186
187<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000188component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000189sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000190href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000191there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000192
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000193</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000194
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000195<!-- ======================================================================= -->
196<div class="doc_subsection">
197 <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
198</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000199
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000200<div class="doc_text">
201
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000202<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
203be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should
204not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
205useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
206components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000207
208<ul>
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000209<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 Lattner0da7f492004-12-02 17:20:17 +0000214<li>The "iterative scan" register allocator (enabled with -regalloc=iterativescan)
215 is not stable.</li>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000216</ul>
217
218</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000219
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000220<!-- ======================================================================= -->
221<div class="doc_subsection">
222 <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
223</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000224
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000225<div class="doc_text">
226
227<ul>
Reid Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000228 <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 Spencer4f86f9c2004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000234 <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 Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000238</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000239</div>
240
241<!-- ======================================================================= -->
242<div class="doc_subsection">
243 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
244</div>
Chris Lattner47588f92003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000245
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000246<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000247<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000248
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000249<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000250<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000251<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 Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000258</pre></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000259
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000260<li>Initialization of global union variables can only be done <a
Misha Brukman43ee2932004-12-04 00:45:09 +0000261href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR162">with the largest union member</a>.</li>
Chris Lattnerf580cdc2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000262
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000263</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000264</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 Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000276
277<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000278support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
279bits.</li>
280
281<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
282work:
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000283 <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 Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000290
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 Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000294 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Labels.html#Local%20Labels">Local Labels</a>: Labels local to a block.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000295 <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 Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000298 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constraints.html#Constraints">Constraints</a>: Constraints for asm operands.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000299 <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 Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000301 <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 Lattner014e5f52004-12-08 18:25:34 +0000303 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread_002dLocal.html">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000304 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pragmas.html#Pragmas">Pragmas</a>: Pragmas accepted by GCC.</li>
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000305 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000306
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000307 <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000308 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 Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000310 ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000311 the program.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000312
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 Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000316 Supported, but allocated stack space is not freed until the function returns (noted above).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000317
318 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes">Function Attributes</a>:
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000319
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000320 Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000321 return.<br>
322
323 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
John Criswell0b5b5e92004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000324 <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>,
325 <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000326 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
327
John Criswell0b5b5e92004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000328 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noinline</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000329 <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 Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000335
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 Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000341
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000342 <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 Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000345 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000346
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000347 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Type-Attributes.html#Type%20Attributes">Type Attributes</a>: Specifying attributes of types.<br>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000348 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000349 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000350
351 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
352 all target specific attributes.</li>
353
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000354 <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 Lattnerceebeb62004-06-18 06:26:29 +0000359 <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 Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000362 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000363
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000364 <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
365
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000366 <ol>
Chris Lattner7fe97dd2004-03-16 08:54:07 +0000367 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html#Labels%20as%20Values">Labels as Values</a>: Getting pointers to labels and computed gotos.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000368 <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 Lattnerca26c3e2004-06-22 03:48:17 +0000370 <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 Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000371 <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 Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000380 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pointer-Arith.html#Pointer%20Arith">Pointer Arith</a>: Arithmetic on <code>void</code>-pointers and function pointers.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000381 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Initializers.html#Initializers">Initializers</a>: Non-constant initializers.</li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000382 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions,
383or arrays as values.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000384 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html#Designated%20Inits">Designated Inits</a>: Labeling elements of initializers.</li>
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000385 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Cast-to-Union.html#Cast%20to%20Union">Cast to Union</a>: Casting to union type from any member of the union.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000386 <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 Lattner78537e42004-12-08 18:29:38 +0000389 <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 Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000390 <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 &lt;ESC&gt;.</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 Lattner25795bc2004-02-14 04:08:29 +0000397 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Return-Address.html#Return%20Address">Return Address</a>: Getting the return or frame address of a function.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000398 <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 Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000400 </ol></li>
401
402</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000403
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000404<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
405lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000406
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000407</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000408
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000409<!-- ======================================================================= -->
410<div class="doc_subsection">
411 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
412</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000413
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000414<div class="doc_text">
415
Reid Spencere09ca642004-12-07 08:39:08 +0000416<p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully
Chris Lattner7506b1d2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000417tested and works for a number of non-trivial programs, including LLVM
418itself.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000419
420</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000421
422<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner3a51be12004-02-14 04:12:41 +0000423<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000424
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000425<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000426
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000427<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000428<li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000429 front-end</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner7962f712004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000430
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000431<li><b>IA-64 specific</b>: The C++ front-end does not use <a
432href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR406">IA64 ABI compliant layout of v-tables</a>.
Chris Lattner7962f712004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000433In particular, it just stores function pointers instead of function
434descriptors in the vtable. This bug prevents mixing C++ code compiled with
Chris Lattner04db8082004-08-02 20:29:51 +0000435LLVM with C++ objects compiled by other C++ compilers.</li>
Chris Lattner7962f712004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000436
Chris Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000437</ul>
438
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000439</div>
440
441<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
442<div class="doc_subsubsection">
443 Notes
444</div>
445
446<div class="doc_text">
447
448<ul>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000449
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000450<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
451parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
452versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000453href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000454
455<li>Destructors for local objects are not always run when a <tt>longjmp</tt> is
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000456 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000457 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000458 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000459 better than most compilers).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000460
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000461<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 Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000470 interact correctly</b>. </li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000471
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000472</ul>
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000473
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000474</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 Lattnerd5713882004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000484 <li>none yet</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000485</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000486
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000487</div>
488
489<!-- ======================================================================= -->
490<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukmanadb1c392004-07-12 16:55:41 +0000491 <a name="sparcv9-be">Known problems with the SparcV9 back-end</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000492</div>
493
494<div class="doc_text">
495
496<ul>
Misha Brukmanadb1c392004-07-12 16:55:41 +0000497<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR60">[sparcv9] SparcV9 backend miscompiles
498several programs in the LLVM test suite</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000499</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000500
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000501</div>
502
503<!-- ======================================================================= -->
504<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattnerf32a5f52004-11-07 01:55:32 +0000505 <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 Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000518 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
519</div>
520
521<div class="doc_text">
522
523<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000524
525<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
526Analysis 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 Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000528problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000529
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000530<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000531supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000532frontends.</li>
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000533
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000534</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000535
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000536</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000537
538<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000539<div class="doc_section">
540 <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
541</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000542<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
543
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000544<div class="doc_text">
545
546<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page,
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000547including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000548implemented in LLVM. The web page also contains versions of the API
549documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code. You
550can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000551the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000552
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000553<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000554us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing
555lists</a>.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000556
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Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000558
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