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Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]10<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.3 Release Notes</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]11
12<ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]13 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
14 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
Chris Lattner4b538b92004-04-30 22:17:12 +0000[diff] [blame]15 <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]16 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]17 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
18 <ul>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <li><a href="#experimental">Experimental features included in this
20 release</a>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]21 <li><a href="#core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
22 <li><a href="#c-fe">Known problems with the C Front-end</a>
23 <li><a href="#c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ Front-end</a>
24 <li><a href="#x86-be">Known problems with the X86 Back-end</a>
25 <li><a href="#sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc Back-end</a>
26 <li><a href="#c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]27 </ul></li>
28 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]29</ol>
30
Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]31<div class="doc_author">
32 <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM team</a><p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]33</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]34
35<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]36<div class="doc_section">
37 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
38</div>
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40
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]41<div class="doc_text">
42
43<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]44infrastructure, release 1.3. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]45known problems and bug fixes from the previous release. The most up-to-date
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]46version of this document can be found on the <a
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]47href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.3/">LLVM 1.3 web site</a>. If you are
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]48not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]49this document may be updated after the release.</p>
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]50
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]51<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about potentially more
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]52current releases, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main
53web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
54href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]55list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]56
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]57<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS, this document applies
58to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one. To see the release notes for
59the current or previous releases, see the <a
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]60href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
61
62</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]63
64<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]65<div class="doc_section">
66 <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
67</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]68<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
69
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]70<div class="doc_text">
71
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]72<p>This is the fourth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. This
Chris Lattnerd4594dc2004-05-04 17:04:09 +0000[diff] [blame]73release primarily improves the <a href="#codequality">performance of the
Chris Lattnerceebeb62004-06-18 06:26:29 +0000[diff] [blame]74code</a> produced by all aspects of the LLVM compiler and adds many <a
75href="#newfeatures">new features</a>, and <a href="#bugfix">fixes a few
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]76bugs</a> as well.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]77
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]78<p> At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all C &amp; C++
79SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks, the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist benchmarks. It
80has also been used to compile <b>many</b> other programs. LLVM now also works
81with a broad variety of C++ programs, though it has still received less testing
82than the C front-end.</p>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]83
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]84</div>
85
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]86<!--=========================================================================-->
87<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000[diff] [blame]88<a name="newfeatures">This release implements the following new features:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]89</div>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]90
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]91<div class="doc_text">
92
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]93<ol>
Chris Lattner2974b5b2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]94<li>The LLVM <a href="LangRef.html#i_select"><tt>select</tt></a> instruction is
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]95now fully implemented and supported by all transformations, native code
96generators, and the interpreter.</li>
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]97<li>Bugpoint can now narrow down code-generation bugs to a loop nest, where
98before it could only narrow them down to a function being miscompiled.</li>
Brian Gaeke43be3112004-05-04 21:22:57 +0000[diff] [blame]99<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR40">Bugpoint can now debug arbitrary
100modes of llc</a> and lli, by passing them command line flags (e.g.,
101<tt>-regalloc=linearscan</tt>, <tt>-enable-correct-eh-support</tt>, etc.) </li>
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]102<li>The Control Flow Graph in the native code generators is no longer
103constrained to be the same as the CFG for the LLVM input code.</li>
104<li>The LLVM induction variable analysis routines have been rewritten.</li>
105<li>LLVM now has new loop unrolling and loop unswitching passes.</li>
106<li>The induction variable substitution pass performs linear function test
107replacement and exit value replacement optimizations.</li>
Chris Lattner39491a72004-05-24 04:45:52 +0000[diff] [blame]108<li>LLVM now has first-class support for <a href="GarbageCollection.html">Accurate
109Garbage Collection</a>, enabling the use of aggressive copying and generational
110collectors.</li>
111<li>LLVM now includes an implementation of Andersen's interprocedural alias
112analysis algorithm.</li>
Chris Lattner14cd5392004-05-24 05:34:32 +0000[diff] [blame]113<li>Bugpoint can <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR327">extract individual
114basic blocks</a> to track down reduce miscompilation testcases.</li>
Brian Gaeke5beb8ba2004-06-01 20:02:56 +0000[diff] [blame]115<li>LLVM and the C front-end now work under Win32 using the
116<a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a> runtime libraries.
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]117This includes the JIT compiler.</li>
Chris Lattner00f19b622004-06-04 00:40:11 +0000[diff] [blame]118<li>The LLVM code generator is now being <a
119 href="CodeGenerator.html">documented</a>.</li>
Reid Spencer624c5432004-06-08 07:30:31 +0000[diff] [blame]120<li>There is a new tool, llvm-abcd, the Analysis of ByteCode Dumper (abcd).
121This tool can compute basic statistics and bytecode density statistics on a
122module or function basis and also dump out bytecode in a textual format that
123is lower level than assembly (values are not resolved from slot numbers).
124It should only be of interest to (a) those who are working to improve the
125bytecode format and (b) those who really want to understand or document the
126details of the bytecode format.</li>
127<li>The <a href="BytecodeFormat.html">LLVM Bytecode file format</a> is now
128 being documented.</li>
Chris Lattneree98bf52004-06-15 21:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]129<li>LLVM now provides an <a href="LangRef.html#i_isunordered">llvm.isunordered</a> intrinsic
Chris Lattner00cda7a2004-06-11 04:35:21 +0000[diff] [blame]130for efficient implementation of unordered floating point comparisons.</li>
Chris Lattnerceebeb62004-06-18 06:26:29 +0000[diff] [blame]131<li>The llvmgcc front-end now supports the GCC builtins for ISO C99 floating
132point comparison macros (e.g., <tt>__builtin_islessequal</tt>).</li>
Chris Lattner55ee0312003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000[diff] [blame]133</ol>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]134
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]135</div>
136
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]137
138<!--=========================================================================-->
139<div class="doc_subsubsection">
140In this release, the following missing features were implemented:
141</div>
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]142
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]143<div class="doc_text">
144
Chris Lattner0ef19062003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]145<ol>
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]146<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR82">LLVM cannot handle structures with
147more than 256 elements</a></li>
Misha Brukmancb003362004-04-19 03:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]148<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR38">[bugpoint] External functions used in
149non-instruction entities, such as global constant initializer</a></li>
Reid Spencer44ff57a2004-05-09 23:32:39 +0000[diff] [blame]150<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR178">Stacker does not handle targets
151with 64-bit pointers.</a></li>
Misha Brukmancb003362004-04-19 03:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]152<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR290">Bugpoint doesn't support
153uses of external fns by immediate constant exprs</a></li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]154</ol>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]155
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]156</div>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]157
158<!--=========================================================================-->
159<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]160<a name="qualityofimp">In this release, the following Quality of Implementation
161issues were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]162</div>
163
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]164<div class="doc_text">
165
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]166<ol>
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]167<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR305">LLVM tools will happily spew
168bytecode onto your terminal</a></li>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]169<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR329">[llvmgcc] type names are not emitted
170for structure typedefs</a></li>
Chris Lattnerb9656692004-05-24 04:53:32 +0000[diff] [blame]171<li>All documentation is now conformant to the HTML 4.01 (Strict) level.</li>
Chris Lattnerea955512004-06-08 07:19:29 +0000[diff] [blame]172<li>The spurious "WARNING: Found global types that are not compatible" warning
173produced when linking C++ programs has been fixed.</li>
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]174</ol>
175
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]176</div>
177
Chris Lattnere29ac162003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]178<!--=========================================================================-->
179<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattnera39719f2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000[diff] [blame]180In this release, the following build problems were fixed:
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]181</div>
182
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]183<div class="doc_text">
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]184<ol>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]185<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR301">Minor configure bugs with
186-disable/enable-povray and -disable-spec</a></li>
187<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR289">shell scripts output by gccld don't
188work if you change PATH</a></li>
Chris Lattner24738a72004-06-09 01:09:16 +0000[diff] [blame]189<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR364">[llvmgcc] llvmgcc does not compile
190with gcc 3.4</a></li>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]191</ol>
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]192</div>
Brian Gaeke6b31beb2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]193
194<!--=========================================================================-->
195<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]196<a name="codequality">This release includes the following Code Quality
197improvements:</a>
Chris Lattneraab56d42004-05-23 20:42:08 +0000[diff] [blame]198</div>
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]199
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]200<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner89ca2b82003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]201<ol>
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]202<li>Fixed: <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR309">[vmcore] Code quality problem
203due to long operand of getelementptr</a></li>
Chris Lattner64913402004-04-13 14:43:35 +0000[diff] [blame]204
205<li>The X86 backend now generates substantially better code for 64-bit integer
206and floating point operations.</li>
207
208<li>The -inline pass no longer inlines mutually recursive functions until it
209hits the inlining threshold.</li>
210
211<li>The -inline pass no longer misses obvious inlining opportunities just
212because the callee eventually calls into an external function.</li>
213
214<li>The -simplifycfg pass can now "if convert" simple statements into the new
215<tt>select</tt> instruction.</li>
216
217<li>The -loopsimplify pass can now break <a
218href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR35">natural loops with multiple backedges</a>
219into multiple nested loops. This enables a variety of subsequent
220optimizations.</li>
221
222<li>The -adce pass can now eliminate calls to functions that do not not write to
223memory.</li>
224
225<li>The link-time optimizer now runs the -prune-eh pass (to remove unused
Chris Lattnerd4594dc2004-05-04 17:04:09 +0000[diff] [blame]226exception handlers).</li>
Chris Lattner64913402004-04-13 14:43:35 +0000[diff] [blame]227
Chris Lattner6e1ef192004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]228<li>The -simplifycfg pass can now eliminate simple correlated branches (such as
229"<tt>if (A &lt; B &amp;&amp; A &lt; B)</tt>", and can turn short-circuiting
230operators into the strict versions when useful (such as "<tt>if (A &lt; B || A
231&gt; C)</tt>" into "<tt>if (A &lt; B | A &gt; C)</tt>"</li>
232
Chris Lattnerd4594dc2004-05-04 17:04:09 +0000[diff] [blame]233<li>LLVM now has infrastructure for (simple and sparse conditional) constant
234propagation of function calls. It currently supports a few math library
235functions like sqrt/sin/cos/etc.</li>
Chris Lattner3bff8f52004-06-03 22:35:13 +0000[diff] [blame]236
237<li>The C backend now emits <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR334">Syntactic
238loops</a> in the code to help C compilers whose optimizers do not recognize
239loops formed from gotos (like GCC).</li>
Brian Gaeke11074e32004-06-11 02:15:39 +0000[diff] [blame]240
241<li>Fixed: <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR368">[sparcv9] null
242often spilled to constant pool</a>.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]243</ol>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000[diff] [blame]244</div>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]245
246<!--=========================================================================-->
247<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]248<a name="bugfix">In this release, the following bugs in the previous release
249were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]250</div>
251
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]252<div class="doc_text">
253
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]254<p>Bugs in the LLVM Core:</p>
Chris Lattner47ad72c2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]255
256<ol>
John Criswell4d8d49f2004-05-06 22:23:24 +0000[diff] [blame]257<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR330">[vmcore] Linker causes erroneous
258asssertion</a></li>
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]259<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR306">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify
260incorrectly updates dominator information</a></li>
261<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR310">[tailduplicate] DemoteRegToStack
262breaks SSA form</a></li>
263<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR313">[X86] JIT miscompiles unsigned short
264to floating point cast</a></li>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]265<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR332">[adce] Crash handling unreachable
266code that unwinds</a></li>
267<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR333">[sparc] LLC can't emit 2 functions
268of the same name, both having constant pools</a></li>
269<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR337">[livevar] Live variables missed
270physical register use of aliased definition</a></li>
Chris Lattnere5ad10a2004-05-21 16:48:20 +0000[diff] [blame]271<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR340">Verifier misses malformed switch instruction</a></li>
Chris Lattneraec5f262004-06-01 21:52:45 +0000[diff] [blame]272<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR315">[jit] abort, don't warn, when missing external functions encountered</a></li>
Chris Lattner00cda7a2004-06-11 04:35:21 +0000[diff] [blame]273<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR369">[X86] stackifier crash on floating point setcc X, X</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]274</ol>
275
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]276<p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>
277
278<ol>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]279<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR326">[llvmgcc] Crash on use of undeclared
280enum type</a></li>
281<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR298">[llvmgcc] Variable length array
282indexing miscompiled</a></li>
Chris Lattner11eaf532004-06-08 07:15:52 +0000[diff] [blame]283<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR355">[llvmgcc] Errors handling function prototypes that take opaque structs by-value</a></li>
Chris Lattnera5099962003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]284</ol>
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]285</div>
Reid Spencer8e0262f2004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000[diff] [blame]286
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Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]288<div class="doc_section">
289 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
290</div>
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292
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]293<div class="doc_text">
294
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]295<p>LLVM is known to work in the following platforms:</p>
296
297<ul>
298<li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably
299 other unix-like systems).</li>
300<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>
301<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.3 and above (C backend and
302 interpreter only, no native codegen is available yet).</li>
303<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries.</li>
304</ul>
305
Brian Gaekeb0fd7612004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000[diff] [blame]306
307<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
308<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself
309to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor
310porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your
311portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]312
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]313<p>Note that the LLVM build system does not currently support directories with
314spaces on them when running on Win32/cygwin. We strongly recommend running
315LLVM and the C frontend out of a top-level directory without spaces (e.g.,
Chris Lattner74032a52004-06-01 19:41:30 +0000[diff] [blame]316<tt>/cygdrive/c/llvm</tt>). Also, make sure to install <b>all</b> of the
317cygwin packages. By default, many important tools are not installed that
318are needed by the LLVM build process or test suite (e.g., /bin/time).</p>
Chris Lattner4654bdb2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]319
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]320</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]321
Brian Gaeke21a710a2004-04-20 18:18:46 +0000[diff] [blame]322<!--=========================================================================-->
323<div class="doc_subsection">
324In this release, the following portability problems were fixed:
325</div>
326
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]327<div class="doc_text">
328
Brian Gaeke21a710a2004-04-20 18:18:46 +0000[diff] [blame]329<ol>
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]330<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR304">warnings compiling Stacker compiler
331on Mac OS X</a></li>
332<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR308">Archive file reader doesn't
333understand abbreviated names in headers</a></li>
Brian Gaeke21a710a2004-04-20 18:18:46 +0000[diff] [blame]334</ol>
335
Chris Lattner80453c92004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]336</div>
337
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]338<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]339<div class="doc_section">
340 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
341</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]342<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
343
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]344<div class="doc_text">
345
346<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]347component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]348sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]349href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]350there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]351
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]352</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]353
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]354<!-- ======================================================================= -->
355<div class="doc_subsection">
356 <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
357</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]358
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]359<div class="doc_text">
360
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]361<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
362be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should
363not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
364useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
365components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>
Chris Lattnerf5ee1702004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]366
367<ul>
368<li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep,
369 -ipmodref, -sortstructs, -swapstructs, -cee</tt></li>
370
371<li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that
372 it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li>
373<li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool is incomplete and probably buggy.</li>
374<li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development.</li>
375</ul>
376
377</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]378
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]379<!-- ======================================================================= -->
380<div class="doc_subsection">
381 <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
382</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]383
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]384<div class="doc_text">
385
386<ul>
387
388<li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not
389work.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]390
391<li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]392such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be
393corrupted.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]394
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]395<li>It is not possible to <tt>dlopen</tt> an LLVM bytecode file in the JIT.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]396
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]397<li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is very slow (there is no symbol
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]398table in the archive).</li>
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]399
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]400<li>The gccld program <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR139">does not link
401objects/archives in the order specified on the command line.</a></li>
Chris Lattner2e6fcaf2004-02-15 23:09:07 +0000[diff] [blame]402
403<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR240">The lower-invoke pass does not mark
John Criswelld46c6962004-03-12 21:29:42 +0000[diff] [blame]404values live across a setjmp as volatile</a>. This missing feature only affects
Chris Lattner2e6fcaf2004-02-15 23:09:07 +0000[diff] [blame]405targets whose setjmp/longjmp libraries do not save and restore the entire
406register file.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]407</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]408</div>
409
410<!-- ======================================================================= -->
411<div class="doc_subsection">
412 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
413</div>
Chris Lattner47588f92003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000[diff] [blame]414
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]415<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattnerb40efb32003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]416<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]417
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]418<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]419<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]420<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
421 scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
422<pre>
423 for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) {
424 int X[n];
425 foo(X);
426 }
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]427</pre></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]428
Misha Brukman6df9e2c2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]429<li>Initialization of global union variables can only be done <a
430href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=162">with the largest union
431member</a>.</li>
Chris Lattnerf580cdc2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000[diff] [blame]432
Misha Brukmana7aadf12004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]433<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR244">[llvm-gcc] Error when an implicitly
434external function is re-declared as static</a></li>
Chris Lattnerf580cdc2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000[diff] [blame]435
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]436</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]437</div>
438
439<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
440<div class="doc_subsubsection">
441 Notes
442</div>
443
444<div class="doc_text">
445
446<ul>
447
448<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]449
450<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]451support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
452bits.</li>
453
454<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
455work:
Misha Brukmane0c891c2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000[diff] [blame]456 <ol>
457 <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
458 appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
459 <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
460 <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
461 - These functions have not been tested.
462 </ol></li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]463
464<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
465 the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
466 <ol>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]467 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]468 <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>
469 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li>
470 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]471 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]472 <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>
473 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]474 <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>
475 <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>
476 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
477 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]478 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]479
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]480 <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]481 attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
482 but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]483 ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]484 the program.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]485
486 <ol>
487 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
488 Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]489 Supported, but allocated stack space is not freed until the function returns (noted above).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]490
491 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes">Function Attributes</a>:
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]492
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]493 Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]494 return.<br>
495
496 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
497 <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
498 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
499
500 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>,
501 <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
502 <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
503
504 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>,
505 <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
506 <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]507
508 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
509 Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
510 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
511 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
512 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]513
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]514 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
515 <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
516 <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]517 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]518
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]519 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]520 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukmanc4b7bee2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]521 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]522
523 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
524 all target specific attributes.</li>
525
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]526 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
527 Other built-in functions.<br>
528 We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
529 <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
530 <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
Chris Lattnerceebeb62004-06-18 06:26:29 +0000[diff] [blame]531 <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt>
532 (currently ignored). We also support builtins for ISO C99 floating
533 point comparison macros (e.g., <tt>__builtin_islessequal</tt>).</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]534 </ol>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]535
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]536 <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
537
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]538 <ol>
Chris Lattner7fe97dd2004-03-16 08:54:07 +0000[diff] [blame]539 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]540 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li>
541 <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>
542 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li>
543 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li>
544 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li>
545 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li>
546 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li>
547 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li>
548 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li>
549 <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>
550 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li>
551 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]552 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]553 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]554 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions,
555or arrays as values.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]556 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]557 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]558 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li>
559 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li>
560 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li>
561 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li>
562 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li>
563 <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>
564 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li>
565 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li>
566 <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>
567 <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>
568 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]569 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]570 <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>
571 <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 +0000[diff] [blame]572 </ol></li>
573
574</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]575
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]576<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
577lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]578
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]579</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]580
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]581<!-- ======================================================================= -->
582<div class="doc_subsection">
583 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
584</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]585
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]586<div class="doc_text">
587
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]588<p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully functional but
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]589has not been tested as thoroughly as the C front-end. It has been tested and
590works for a number of non-trivial programs, but there may be lurking bugs.
591Please report any bugs or problems.</p>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]592
593</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]594
595<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner3a51be12004-02-14 04:12:41 +0000[diff] [blame]596<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]597
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]598<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]599
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]600<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]601<li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]602 front-end</a>.</li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]603</ul>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]604</div>
605
606<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
607<div class="doc_subsubsection">
608 Notes
609</div>
610
611<div class="doc_text">
612
613<ul>
Chris Lattnere01fcfb2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]614
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]615<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
616parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
617versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
Chris Lattner9e848092003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]618href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]619
620<li>Destructors for local objects are not always run when a <tt>longjmp</tt> is
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]621 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]622 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]623 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]624 better than most compilers).</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]625
Chris Lattner19092612003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]626<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
627 href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
628 This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
629 mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
630 representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
631 compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
632 Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
633 <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
634 different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]635 interact correctly</b>. </li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]636
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]637</ul>
Chris Lattnerfcc54b32003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]638
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]639</div>
640
641<!-- ======================================================================= -->
642<div class="doc_subsection">
643 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
644</div>
645
646<div class="doc_text">
647
648<ul>
Chris Lattnerde4afdc2004-02-08 22:23:33 +0000[diff] [blame]649<li>None so far.
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]650</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]651
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]652</div>
653
654<!-- ======================================================================= -->
655<div class="doc_subsection">
656 <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc back-end</a>
657</div>
658
659<div class="doc_text">
660
661<ul>
Chris Lattner6a39aa52004-03-19 19:22:28 +0000[diff] [blame]662<li>There are several programs in the LLVM testsuite that the Sparc code generator is known to miscompile.</li>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]663</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]664
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]665</div>
666
667<!-- ======================================================================= -->
668<div class="doc_subsection">
669 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
670</div>
671
672<div class="doc_text">
673
674<ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]675
676<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
677Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
678(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]679problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]680
Chris Lattnere84843b2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]681<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a>
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]682cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or
683Infinity.</li>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]684
Chris Lattner2855ecd2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]685<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]686supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]687frontends.</li>
Chris Lattner2af46052003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]688
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]689</ul>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]690
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]691</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]692
693<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]694<div class="doc_section">
695 <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
696</div>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]697<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
698
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]699<div class="doc_text">
700
701<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page,
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]702including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]703implemented in LLVM. The web page also contains versions of the API
704documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code. You
705can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]706the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]707
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]708<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
Chris Lattner5eccca42003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]709us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing
710lists</a>.</p>
Chris Lattner79c3fe12003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]711
Misha Brukman500bc302003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]712</div>
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