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Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | <div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.4 Release Notes</div> |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 12 | |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | <ol> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 8348b47 | 2008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | <li><a href="#changes">Major Changes and Sub-project Status</a></li> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 4b538b9 | 2004-04-30 22:17:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | </ol> |
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Chris Lattner | 7911ce2 | 2004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | <div class="doc_author"> |
Chris Lattner | c463b27 | 2005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Team</a><p> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | |
| 27 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 29 | <a name="intro">Introduction</a> |
| 30 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 32 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 34 | |
| 35 | <p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | infrastructure, release 2.4. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including |
Chris Lattner | 57a460e | 2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | major improvements from the previous release and any known problems. All LLVM |
Chris Lattner | caf0634 | 2007-05-09 04:58:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | releases may be downloaded from the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM |
Chris Lattner | 57a460e | 2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | releases web site</a>.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | |
Chris Lattner | 7506b1d | 2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | <p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest |
Chris Lattner | c463b27 | 2005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.org/">main LLVM |
Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a |
| 44 | 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] | 45 | list</a> is a good place to send them.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 47 | <p>Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | main LLVM web page, this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the |
| 49 | current one. To see the release notes for a specific releases, please see the |
| 50 | <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | |
| 52 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | |
| 54 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | <div class="doc_section"> |
Chris Lattner | 8348b47 | 2008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | <a name="changes">Major Changes and Sub-project Status</a> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 59 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 61 | |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 62 | <p>This is the fifteenth public release of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure. |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | It includes a large number of features and refinements from LLVM 2.3.</p> |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | |
Chris Lattner | 80453c9 | 2004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | </div> |
| 66 | |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | <!-- Unfinished features in 2.4: |
Chris Lattner | acce85d | 2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | Machine LICM |
| 69 | Machine Sinking |
| 70 | LegalizeDAGTypes |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | llc -enable-value-prop, propagation of value info (sign/zero ext info) from |
| 72 | one MBB to another |
Chris Lattner | acce85d | 2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | --> |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 74 | |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | <!-- for announcement email: |
| 76 | mention dev mtg |
Chris Lattner | cdb0e4c | 2008-10-12 22:57:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | Xcode 3.1 and 3.1.1. |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | --> |
Chris Lattner | acce85d | 2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
Chris Lattner | 8a45876 | 2005-05-15 05:44:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | <a name="changes">Major Changes in LLVM 2.4</a> |
Chris Lattner | b4c68cd | 2008-02-10 07:04:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | </div> |
| 84 | |
| 85 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 86 | |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | <p>The LLVM IR generated by llvm-gcc now doesn't name instructions. Use the |
| 88 | instnamer pass if you want them.</p> |
| 89 | |
Chris Lattner | cdb0e4c | 2008-10-12 22:57:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | <li>LoadVN and GCSE are completely gone.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | |
Chris Lattner | e6e1b35 | 2008-06-08 21:19:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 93 | <p>LLVM API Changes:</p> |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 94 | |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 95 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | <li>....</li> |
Daniel Dunbar | 43778b3 | 2008-10-11 21:26:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 97 | |
| 98 | <li>... Attributes changes ... </li> |
| 99 | |
Chris Lattner | cce6d4b | 2008-10-12 18:30:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | <li>The <tt>DbgStopPointInst</tt> methods <tt>getDirectory</tt> and |
| 101 | <tt>getFileName</tt> now return <tt>Value*</tt> instead of strings. These can be |
| 102 | converted to strings using <tt>llvm::GetConstantStringInfo</tt> defined via |
| 103 | "llvm/Analysis/ValueTracking.h".</li> |
Daniel Dunbar | 43778b3 | 2008-10-11 21:26:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | |
Chris Lattner | cce6d4b | 2008-10-12 18:30:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 105 | <li>API change: BinaryOperator::create -> Create (CmpInst, CastInst too)</li> |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | <li>Various header files like "llvm/ADT/iterator" were given a .h suffix. |
| 107 | Change your code to #include "llvm/ADT/iterator.h" instead.</li> |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 108 | |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | cdb0e4c | 2008-10-12 22:57:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | |
Chris Lattner | 252b83d | 2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | </div> |
| 112 | |
| 113 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 114 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | ea34f64 | 2008-06-08 21:34:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 115 | <a name="otherprojects">Other LLVM Sub-Projects</a> |
| 116 | </div> |
| 117 | |
| 118 | <div class="doc_text"> |
Chris Lattner | 8348b47 | 2008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | <p> |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 120 | The core LLVM 2.4 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM |
Chris Lattner | 8348b47 | 2008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 121 | repository (which roughly contains the LLVM optimizer, code generators and |
| 122 | supporting tools) and the llvm-gcc repository. In addition to this code, the |
| 123 | LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in development. The two which |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 124 | are the most actively developed are the <a href="#clang">Clang Project</a> and |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 125 | <a href="#vmkit">vmkit Project</a>. |
Chris Lattner | 8348b47 | 2008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 126 | </p> |
| 127 | </div> |
| 128 | |
| 129 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 130 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> |
| 131 | <a name="vmkit">vmkit</a> |
| 132 | </div> |
| 133 | |
| 134 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 135 | <p> |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | The <a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/">"vmkit" project</a> is an implementation of |
| 137 | a JVM and a CLI Virtual Machines (Microsoft .NET is an |
Chris Lattner | 8348b47 | 2008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | implementation of the CLI) using the Just-In-Time compiler of LLVM.</p> |
| 139 | |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 140 | <p>...</p> |
Chris Lattner | ea34f64 | 2008-06-08 21:34:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | |
| 142 | </div> |
| 143 | |
| 144 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
Chris Lattner | 8348b47 | 2008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 145 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> |
| 146 | <a name="clang">Clang</a> |
| 147 | </div> |
| 148 | |
| 149 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 150 | |
| 151 | <p>The <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">Clang project</a> is an effort to build |
| 152 | a set of new 'LLVM native' front-end technologies for the LLVM optimizer |
| 153 | and code generator. Clang is continuing to make major strides forward in all |
| 154 | areas. Its C and Objective-C parsing support is very solid, and the code |
| 155 | generation support is far enough along to build many C applications. While not |
| 156 | yet production quality, it is progressing very nicely. In addition, C++ |
| 157 | front-end work has started to make significant progress.</p> |
| 158 | |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | <p>Codegen progress/state |
| 160 | </p> |
| 161 | |
| 162 | <p> |
| 163 | <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/StaticAnalysis.html">static analysis tool</a> |
| 164 | </p> |
Chris Lattner | 8348b47 | 2008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 165 | |
| 166 | </div> |
| 167 | |
| 168 | |
| 169 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 170 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 171 | <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a> |
| 172 | </div> |
| 173 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 174 | |
Chris Lattner | f8e0b4e | 2008-06-08 22:59:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 175 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 176 | |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | <p>LLVM 2.4 includes a huge number of bug fixes, performance tweaks and minor |
Chris Lattner | f8e0b4e | 2008-06-08 22:59:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 178 | improvements. Some of the major improvements and new features are listed in |
| 179 | this section. |
| 180 | </p> |
| 181 | </div> |
| 182 | |
Chris Lattner | 8348b47 | 2008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 183 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
Chris Lattner | ea34f64 | 2008-06-08 21:34:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 184 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 252b83d | 2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 185 | <a name="majorfeatures">Major New Features</a> |
| 186 | </div> |
| 187 | |
| 188 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 189 | |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 190 | <p>LLVM 2.4 includes several major new capabilities:</p> |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 191 | |
| 192 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 193 | <li> |
Chris Lattner | cce6d4b | 2008-10-12 18:30:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 194 | <p>MRVs got generalized to FCAs. getresult is gone, ret with multiple values |
| 195 | is gone.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | </li> |
| 197 | |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | <li><p>-O0 compile times overall much faster</p></li> |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 199 | |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | <li><p>Attrs changes?</p></li> |
Chris Lattner | bc5786b | 2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 201 | |
Chris Lattner | cce6d4b | 2008-10-12 18:30:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 202 | |
| 203 | <li><p>Initial PIC16 port</p></li> |
| 204 | |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 205 | <li><p> Support the rest of the atomic __sync builtins</p></li> |
Chris Lattner | cce6d4b | 2008-10-12 18:30:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 206 | |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 207 | <li><p>...</p></li> |
Chris Lattner | bc5786b | 2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 208 | |
Chris Lattner | 8170c10 | 2008-02-10 08:18:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | </ul> |
| 210 | |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 211 | </div> |
| 212 | |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 213 | |
| 214 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 215 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | ea34f64 | 2008-06-08 21:34:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 216 | <a name="llvm-gcc">llvm-gcc 4.2 Improvements</a> |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 217 | </div> |
| 218 | |
| 219 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 220 | |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 221 | <p>LLVM 2.4 fully supports the llvm-gcc 4.2 front-end, and includes support |
Chris Lattner | f8e0b4e | 2008-06-08 22:59:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 222 | for the C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, and Fortran front-ends.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 223 | |
Chris Lattner | f8e0b4e | 2008-06-08 22:59:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 224 | <p> |
| 225 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 226 | <li>...</li> |
Chris Lattner | f8e0b4e | 2008-06-08 22:59:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 227 | |
Gabor Greif | a3bd11d | 2008-06-09 06:06:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 228 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 230 | </div> |
| 231 | |
| 232 | |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 233 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 234 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | f304ffc | 2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 235 | <a name="coreimprovements">LLVM Core Improvements</a> |
| 236 | </div> |
| 237 | |
| 238 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 239 | <p>New features include: |
| 240 | </p> |
| 241 | |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 242 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | cdb0e4c | 2008-10-12 22:57:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 243 | <li>vector shifts in the IR: no codegen support yet</li> |
Chris Lattner | cce6d4b | 2008-10-12 18:30:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 244 | <li>use diet patch landed: saved 15% IR memory footprint</li> |
| 245 | <li>LLVM IR now directly represents "common" linkage, instead of |
| 246 | representing it as a form of weak linkage.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 247 | <li>DebugInfoBuilder</li> |
Chris Lattner | cdb0e4c | 2008-10-12 22:57:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 248 | <li>.ll printing format change: %3 = add i32 4, 2</li> |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 249 | <li>...</li> |
Chris Lattner | f304ffc | 2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 250 | </ul> |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 251 | |
Chris Lattner | f304ffc | 2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 252 | </div> |
| 253 | |
| 254 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 255 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | acce85d | 2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 256 | <a name="optimizer">Optimizer Improvements</a> |
| 257 | </div> |
| 258 | |
| 259 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 260 | |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 261 | <p>In addition to a huge array of bug fixes and minor performance tweaks, the |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 262 | LLVM 2.4 optimizers support a few major enhancements:</p> |
Chris Lattner | acce85d | 2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 263 | |
| 264 | <ul> |
| 265 | |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 266 | <li>GVN now does local PRE?</li> |
| 267 | |
| 268 | <li>Matthijs' Dead argument elimination rewrite</li> |
| 269 | |
Chris Lattner | cce6d4b | 2008-10-12 18:30:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 270 | <li>Old-ADCE used control dependence and deleted output-free infinite loops. |
| 271 | Added a new Loop deletion pass (for deleting output free provably-finite loops) |
| 272 | and rewrote ADCE to be simpler faster, and not need control dependence.</li> |
| 273 | |
| 274 | <li>SparsePropagation framework for lattice-based dataflow solvers.</li> |
| 275 | |
Chris Lattner | cdb0e4c | 2008-10-12 22:57:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 276 | <li>Tail duplication was removed from the standard optimizer sequence.</li> |
Chris Lattner | cce6d4b | 2008-10-12 18:30:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 277 | |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 278 | <li>Various helper functions (ComputeMaskedBits, ComputeNumSignBits, etc) were |
| 279 | pulled out of instcombine and put into a new ValueTracking.h file, where they |
| 280 | can be reused by other passes.</li> |
| 281 | |
Chris Lattner | cdb0e4c | 2008-10-12 22:57:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 282 | <li>MarkModRef etc</li> |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 283 | </ul> |
| 284 | |
| 285 | </div> |
| 286 | |
| 287 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 288 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 289 | <a name="codegen">Code Generator Improvements</a> |
| 290 | </div> |
| 291 | |
| 292 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 293 | |
| 294 | <p>We put a significant amount of work into the code generator infrastructure, |
| 295 | which allows us to implement more aggressive algorithms and make it run |
| 296 | faster:</p> |
| 297 | |
| 298 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | cdb0e4c | 2008-10-12 22:57:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 299 | <li>asm writers split out to their own library to avoid JITs having to link |
| 300 | them in.</li> |
| 301 | <li>Big asm writer refactoring + TargetAsmInfo</li> |
| 302 | <li>2-addr pass and coalescer can now remat trivial insts to avoid a copy.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 303 | <li>spiller to commute instructions in order to fold a reload</li> |
| 304 | <li>Stack slot coloring?</li> |
| 305 | <li>Live intervals renumbering? Is this useful to external people?</li> |
| 306 | <li>'is as cheap as a move' instruction flag</li> |
| 307 | <li>Improvements to selection dag viewing</li> |
| 308 | <li>fast isel</li> |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 309 | <li>Selection dag speedups</li> |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 310 | <li>asmwriter + raw_ostream -> fastah</li> |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 311 | <li>...</li> |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 312 | |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 313 | </ul> |
| 314 | |
| 315 | </div> |
| 316 | |
| 317 | |
| 318 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 319 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 320 | <a name="x86specific">X86/X86-64 Specific Improvements</a> |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 321 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 60893e5 | 2007-05-18 06:33:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 322 | |
Chris Lattner | 738bd30 | 2006-04-18 06:32:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 323 | <div class="doc_text"> |
Chris Lattner | f304ffc | 2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 324 | <p>New target-specific features include: |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 325 | </p> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 326 | |
| 327 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 328 | <li>Exception handling is supported by default on Linux/x86-64.</li> |
| 329 | <li>Position Independent Code (PIC) is now support on Linux/x86-64.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 330 | <li>...</li> |
Chris Lattner | e6e1b35 | 2008-06-08 21:19:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 331 | |
Chris Lattner | bfb17ab | 2007-05-17 21:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | </ul> |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 333 | |
Chris Lattner | bfb17ab | 2007-05-17 21:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 334 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | c5d658a | 2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 335 | |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 336 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 337 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 338 | <a name="targetspecific">Other Target Specific Improvements</a> |
| 339 | </div> |
| 340 | |
| 341 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 342 | <p>New target-specific features include: |
| 343 | </p> |
| 344 | |
| 345 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | cdb0e4c | 2008-10-12 22:57:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 346 | <li>MIPS floating point support?</li> |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 347 | <li>....</li> |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 348 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 349 | |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 350 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 351 | |
| 352 | |
| 353 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 354 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 355 | <a name="otherimprovements">Other Improvements</a> |
| 356 | </div> |
| 357 | |
| 358 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 359 | <p>New features include: |
| 360 | </p> |
| 361 | |
| 362 | <ul> |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 363 | <li><tt>llvmc2</tt>(the generic compiler driver) gained plugin |
| 364 | support. It is now easier to experiment with <tt>llvmc2</tt> and |
| 365 | build your own tools based on it. </li> |
Chris Lattner | 547a391 | 2008-10-12 19:47:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 366 | <li>raw_ostream + formatting</li> |
Chris Lattner | cdb0e4c | 2008-10-12 22:57:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 367 | <li>Recycler + pool allocation stuff?</li> |
Chris Lattner | 857fb13 | 2008-10-11 18:18:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 368 | <li>...</li> |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 369 | </ul> |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 370 | |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 371 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | c5d658a | 2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 372 | |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 373 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 374 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 375 | <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a> |
| 376 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 377 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 378 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 379 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 380 | |
John Criswell | 0b5b5e9 | 2004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 381 | <p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p> |
Chris Lattner | 4654bdb | 2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 382 | |
| 383 | <ul> |
Mikhail Glushenkov | ea65d7d | 2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 384 | <li>Intel and AMD machines (IA32) running Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core and FreeBSD |
Reid Spencer | 00812e2 | 2005-05-17 02:47:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 385 | (and probably other unix-like systems).</li> |
Chris Lattner | 000c73b | 2008-02-06 06:30:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 386 | <li>PowerPC and X86-based Mac OS X systems, running 10.3 and above in 32-bit and |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 387 | 64-bit modes.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 252b83d | 2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 388 | <li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 using MinGW libraries (native).</li> |
Chris Lattner | 57a460e | 2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 389 | <li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries (limited |
| 390 | support is available for native builds with Visual C++).</li> |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 391 | <li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 10.</li> |
John Criswell | 9321fa8 | 2005-05-13 20:28:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 392 | <li>Alpha-based machines running Debian GNU/Linux.</li> |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 393 | <li>Itanium-based (IA64) machines running Linux and HP-UX.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 4654bdb | 2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 394 | </ul> |
| 395 | |
Chris Lattner | bc5786b | 2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 396 | <p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses GNU autoconf to adapt itself |
Brian Gaeke | b0fd761 | 2004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 397 | to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor |
| 398 | porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your |
| 399 | portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 400 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 401 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 402 | |
| 403 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 404 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 405 | <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a> |
| 406 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 407 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 408 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 409 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 410 | |
| 411 | <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] | 412 | component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these |
Chris Lattner | 5eccca4 | 2003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 413 | sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a |
Chris Lattner | c463b27 | 2005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 414 | href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if |
Chris Lattner | 5eccca4 | 2003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 415 | there isn't already one.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 416 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 417 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 418 | |
Chris Lattner | f5ee170 | 2004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 419 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 420 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 421 | <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a> |
| 422 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 423 | |
Chris Lattner | f5ee170 | 2004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 424 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 425 | |
Misha Brukman | 6df9e2c | 2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 426 | <p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to |
| 427 | be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should |
| 428 | not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be |
| 429 | useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 430 | components, please contact us on the <a |
| 431 | href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev list</a>.</p> |
Chris Lattner | f5ee170 | 2004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 432 | |
| 433 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 434 | <li>The MSIL, IA64, Alpha, SPU, and MIPS backends are experimental.</li> |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 435 | <li>The llc "<tt>-filetype=asm</tt>" (the default) is the only supported |
Chris Lattner | 000c73b | 2008-02-06 06:30:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 436 | value for this option.</li> |
Chris Lattner | f5ee170 | 2004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 437 | </ul> |
| 438 | |
| 439 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 440 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 441 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 442 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 443 | <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a> |
John Criswell | c0c186d | 2005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 444 | </div> |
| 445 | |
| 446 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 447 | |
| 448 | <ul> |
Anton Korobeynikov | a6094be | 2008-06-08 10:24:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 449 | <li>The X86 backend does not yet support |
| 450 | all <a href="http://llvm.org/PR879">inline assembly that uses the X86 |
| 451 | floating point stack</a>. It supports the 'f' and 't' constraints, but not |
| 452 | 'u'.</li> |
Chris Lattner | e6e1b35 | 2008-06-08 21:19:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 453 | <li>The X86 backend generates inefficient floating point code when configured |
| 454 | to generate code for systems that don't have SSE2.</li> |
Duncan Sands | 47eff2b | 2008-06-08 19:38:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 455 | <li>Win64 code generation wasn't widely tested. Everything should work, but we |
Anton Korobeynikov | a6094be | 2008-06-08 10:24:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 456 | expect small issues to happen. Also, llvm-gcc cannot build mingw64 runtime |
| 457 | currently due |
| 458 | to <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2255">several</a> |
Chris Lattner | 04af7cb | 2008-06-08 23:12:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 459 | <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2257">bugs</a> due to lack of support for the |
| 460 | 'u' inline assembly constraint and X87 floating point inline assembly.</li> |
Dan Gohman | 8207ba9 | 2008-06-08 23:05:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 461 | <li>The X86-64 backend does not yet support the LLVM IR instruction |
| 462 | <tt>va_arg</tt>. Currently, the llvm-gcc front-end supports variadic |
| 463 | argument constructs on X86-64 by lowering them manually.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 464 | </ul> |
| 465 | |
| 466 | </div> |
| 467 | |
| 468 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 469 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 470 | <a name="ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC back-end</a> |
| 471 | </div> |
| 472 | |
| 473 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 474 | |
| 475 | <ul> |
Nicolas Geoffray | e4285dc | 2007-05-15 09:21:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 476 | <li>The Linux PPC32/ABI support needs testing for the interpreter and static |
Chris Lattner | 57a460e | 2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 477 | compilation, and lacks support for debug information.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 478 | </ul> |
| 479 | |
| 480 | </div> |
| 481 | |
| 482 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 483 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 484 | <a name="arm-be">Known problems with the ARM back-end</a> |
| 485 | </div> |
| 486 | |
| 487 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 488 | |
| 489 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 57a460e | 2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 490 | <li>Thumb mode works only on ARMv6 or higher processors. On sub-ARMv6 |
Duncan Sands | c90d68b | 2007-09-26 15:59:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 491 | processors, thumb programs can crash or produce wrong |
Chris Lattner | 57a460e | 2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 492 | results (<a href="http://llvm.org/PR1388">PR1388</a>).</li> |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 493 | <li>Compilation for ARM Linux OABI (old ABI) is supported, but not fully tested. |
| 494 | </li> |
Chris Lattner | e6e1b35 | 2008-06-08 21:19:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 495 | <li>There is a bug in QEMU-ARM (<= 0.9.0) which causes it to incorrectly |
| 496 | execute |
Chris Lattner | 57a460e | 2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 497 | programs compiled with LLVM. Please use more recent versions of QEMU.</li> |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 498 | </ul> |
| 499 | |
| 500 | </div> |
| 501 | |
| 502 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 503 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 504 | <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the SPARC back-end</a> |
| 505 | </div> |
| 506 | |
| 507 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 508 | |
| 509 | <ul> |
| 510 | <li>The SPARC backend only supports the 32-bit SPARC ABI (-m32), it does not |
| 511 | support the 64-bit SPARC ABI (-m64).</li> |
| 512 | </ul> |
| 513 | |
| 514 | </div> |
| 515 | |
| 516 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 517 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 518 | <a name="alpha-be">Known problems with the Alpha back-end</a> |
| 519 | </div> |
| 520 | |
| 521 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 522 | |
| 523 | <ul> |
| 524 | |
| 525 | <li>On 21164s, some rare FP arithmetic sequences which may trap do not have the |
| 526 | appropriate nops inserted to ensure restartability.</li> |
| 527 | |
John Criswell | c0c186d | 2005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 528 | </ul> |
| 529 | </div> |
| 530 | |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 531 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 532 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 533 | <a name="ia64-be">Known problems with the IA64 back-end</a> |
| 534 | </div> |
| 535 | |
| 536 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 537 | |
| 538 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 04af7cb | 2008-06-08 23:12:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 539 | <li>The Itanium backend is highly experimental, and has a number of known |
| 540 | issues. We are looking for a maintainer for the Itanium backend. If you |
| 541 | are interested, please contact the llvmdev mailing list.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 542 | </ul> |
| 543 | |
| 544 | </div> |
| 545 | |
| 546 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 547 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 548 | <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 549 | </div> |
| 550 | |
| 551 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 552 | |
| 553 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 5733b27 | 2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 554 | <li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR802">The C backend has only basic support for |
| 555 | inline assembly code</a>.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 725a0d8 | 2007-09-26 06:01:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 556 | <li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR1658">The C backend violates the ABI of common |
| 557 | C++ programs</a>, preventing intermixing between C++ compiled by the CBE and |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 558 | C++ code compiled with llc or native compilers.</li> |
Duncan Sands | f74c0cc | 2008-02-10 13:40:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 559 | <li>The C backend does not support all exception handling constructs.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 560 | </ul> |
| 561 | |
| 562 | </div> |
John Criswell | c0c186d | 2005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 563 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 564 | |
| 565 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 566 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 5733b27 | 2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 567 | <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc C front-end</a> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 568 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 47588f9 | 2003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 569 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 570 | <div class="doc_text"> |
Chris Lattner | c5d658a | 2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 571 | |
Chris Lattner | 252b83d | 2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 572 | <p>llvm-gcc does not currently support <a href="http://llvm.org/PR869">Link-Time |
| 573 | Optimization</a> on most platforms "out-of-the-box". Please inquire on the |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 574 | llvmdev mailing list if you are interested.</p> |
Chris Lattner | d9ea017 | 2006-08-08 17:27:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 575 | |
Chris Lattner | 5733b27 | 2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 576 | <p>The only major language feature of GCC not supported by llvm-gcc is |
| 577 | the <tt>__builtin_apply</tt> family of builtins. However, some extensions |
| 578 | are only supported on some targets. For example, trampolines are only |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 579 | supported on some targets (these are used when you take the address of a |
| 580 | nested function).</p> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 581 | |
Chris Lattner | 5733b27 | 2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 582 | <p>If you run into GCC extensions which are not supported, please let us know. |
| 583 | </p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 584 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 585 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 586 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 587 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 588 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 5733b27 | 2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 589 | <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc C++ front-end</a> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 590 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 591 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 592 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 593 | |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 594 | <p>The C++ front-end is considered to be fully |
Chris Lattner | 7506b1d | 2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 595 | tested and works for a number of non-trivial programs, including LLVM |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 596 | itself, Qt, Mozilla, etc.</p> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 597 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 598 | <ul> |
Anton Korobeynikov | 0021fc1 | 2008-10-11 18:27:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 599 | <li>Exception handling works well on the X86 and PowerPC targets. Currently |
| 600 | only linux and darwin targets are supported (both 32 and 64 bit).</li> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 601 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 602 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 603 | </div> |
| 604 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 605 | |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 606 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 607 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 5733b27 | 2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 608 | <a name="ada-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc Ada front-end</a> |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 609 | </div> |
| 610 | |
| 611 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 612 | The llvm-gcc 4.2 Ada compiler works fairly well, however this is not a mature |
| 613 | technology and problems should be expected. |
| 614 | <ul> |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 615 | <li>The Ada front-end currently only builds on X86-32. This is mainly due |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 616 | to lack of trampoline support (pointers to nested functions) on other platforms, |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 617 | however it <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2006">also fails to build on X86-64</a> |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 618 | which does support trampolines.</li> |
| 619 | <li>The Ada front-end <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2007">fails to bootstrap</a>. |
| 620 | Workaround: configure with --disable-bootstrap.</li> |
| 621 | <li>The c380004 and <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2010">c393010</a> ACATS tests |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 622 | fail (c380004 also fails with gcc-4.2 mainline). When built at -O3, the |
| 623 | <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2421">cxg2021</a> ACATS test also fails.</li> |
| 624 | <li>Some gcc specific Ada tests continue to crash the compiler. The testsuite |
| 625 | reports most tests as having failed even though they pass.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 626 | <li>The -E binder option (exception backtraces) |
| 627 | <a href="http://llvm.org/PR1982">does not work</a> and will result in programs |
| 628 | crashing if an exception is raised. Workaround: do not use -E.</li> |
| 629 | <li>Only discrete types <a href="http://llvm.org/PR1981">are allowed to start |
| 630 | or finish at a non-byte offset</a> in a record. Workaround: do not pack records |
| 631 | or use representation clauses that result in a field of a non-discrete type |
| 632 | starting or finishing in the middle of a byte.</li> |
Chris Lattner | e6e1b35 | 2008-06-08 21:19:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 633 | <li>The <tt>lli</tt> interpreter <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2009">considers |
| 634 | 'main' as generated by the Ada binder to be invalid</a>. |
| 635 | Workaround: hand edit the file to use pointers for <tt>argv</tt> and |
| 636 | <tt>envp</tt> rather than integers.</li> |
| 637 | <li>The <tt>-fstack-check</tt> option <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2008">is |
| 638 | ignored</a>.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 639 | </ul> |
| 640 | </div> |
| 641 | |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 642 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 643 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 644 | <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a> |
| 645 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 646 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 647 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 648 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 649 | |
Chris Lattner | 416db10 | 2005-05-16 17:13:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 650 | <p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the <a |
Chris Lattner | b4b0ce7 | 2007-05-18 00:44:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 651 | href="http://llvm.org">LLVM web page</a>, in particular in the <a |
| 652 | href="http://llvm.org/docs/">documentation</a> section. The web page also |
Reid Spencer | 669ed45 | 2007-07-09 08:04:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 653 | contains versions of the API documentation which is up-to-date with the |
| 654 | Subversion version of the source code. |
Misha Brukman | 109d9e8 | 2005-03-30 19:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 655 | You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going |
| 656 | into the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 657 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 658 | <p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact |
Chris Lattner | c463b27 | 2005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 659 | us via the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/#maillist"> mailing |
Chris Lattner | 5eccca4 | 2003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 660 | lists</a>.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 661 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 662 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 663 | |
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Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 666 | <hr> |
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