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Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | <title>LLVM 2.3 Release Notes</title> |
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Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | <div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.3 Release Notes</div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | |
| 14 | <ol> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li> |
| 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> |
| 22 | |
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 | |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | <!-- Done through Week-of-Mon-20080324.txt --> |
| 28 | |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 31 | <a name="intro">Introduction</a> |
| 32 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 34 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 36 | |
| 37 | <p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | infrastructure, release 2.3. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including |
Chris Lattner | 57a460e | 2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | major improvements from the previous release and any known problems. All LLVM |
Chris Lattner | caf0634 | 2007-05-09 04:58:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | 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] | 41 | releases web site</a>.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | |
Chris Lattner | 7506b1d | 2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | <p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest |
Chris Lattner | c463b27 | 2005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.org/">main LLVM |
Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a |
| 46 | 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] | 47 | list</a> is a good place to send them.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | |
Reid Spencer | 669ed45 | 2007-07-09 08:04:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | <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] | 50 | main LLVM web page, this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the |
| 51 | current one. To see the release notes for a specific releases, please see the |
| 52 | <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | |
| 54 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | |
| 56 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 58 | <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a> |
| 59 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 61 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 63 | |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | <p>This is the fourteenth public release of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure. |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | It includes a large number of features and refinements from LLVM 2.2.</p> |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 66 | |
Chris Lattner | 80453c9 | 2004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | </div> |
| 68 | |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | <!-- Unfinished features in 2.3: |
Chris Lattner | acce85d | 2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | Machine LICM |
| 71 | Machine Sinking |
| 72 | LegalizeDAGTypes |
| 73 | --> |
| 74 | |
Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
Chris Lattner | 8a45876 | 2005-05-15 05:44:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | <a name="changes">Major Changes in LLVM 2.3</a> |
Chris Lattner | b4c68cd | 2008-02-10 07:04:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | </div> |
| 79 | |
| 80 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 81 | |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | <p>LLVM 2.2 was the last LLVM release to support llvm-gcc 4.0 and llvm-upgrade. |
| 83 | llvm-gcc 4.0 has been replaced with llvm-gcc 4.2. llvm-upgrade was useful for |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | upgrading LLVM 1.9 files to LLVM 2.x syntax, but you can always use a previous |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | LLVM release to do this. One nice impact of this is that the LLVM regression |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | test suite no longer depends on llvm-upgrade, which makes it run faster.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 252b83d | 2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 88 | <p>LLVM API Changes:</p> |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | <ul> |
| 91 | <li>Several core LLVM IR classes have migrated to use 'FOOCLASS::Create(...)' |
| 92 | instead of 'new FOOCLASS(...)' (e.g. where FOOCLASS=BasicBlock). We hope to |
| 93 | standardize on FOOCLASS::Create for all IR classes in the future, but not |
| 94 | all of them have been moved over yet.</li> |
| 95 | <li>LLVM 2.3 renames the LLVMBuilder and LLVMFoldingBuilder classes to |
| 96 | IRBuilder.</li> |
| 97 | <li>MRegisterInfo was renamed to TargetRegisterInfo.</li> |
| 98 | <li>The MappedFile class is gone, please use MemoryBuffer instead.</li> |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 99 | <li>The '-enable-eh' flag to llc has been removed. Now code should encode |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | whether it is safe to not generate unwind information for a function by |
| 101 | tagging the Function object with the 'nounwind' attribute.</li> |
| 102 | |
| 103 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | 252b83d | 2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | </div> |
| 105 | |
| 106 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 107 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 108 | <a name="majorfeatures">Major New Features</a> |
| 109 | </div> |
| 110 | |
| 111 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 112 | |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 113 | <p>LLVM 2.3 includes several major new capabilities:</p> |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | |
| 115 | <ul> |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 116 | <li>Multiple Return Value Support.</li> |
Chris Lattner | bc5786b | 2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | |
| 118 | |
| 119 | <li><p>LLVM 2.3 includes a complete reimplementation of the "llvmc" tool. It is |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 120 | designed to overcome several problems with the original llvmc and to provide a |
| 121 | superset of the features of the 'gcc' driver.</p> |
Chris Lattner | bc5786b | 2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 122 | |
| 123 | <p>The main features of llvmc2 is:</p> |
| 124 | |
| 125 | <ul> |
| 126 | <li>Extended handling of command line options and smart rules for |
| 127 | dispatching them to different tools.</li> |
| 128 | <li>Flexible (and extensible) rules for defining different tools.</li> |
| 129 | <li>The different intermediate steps performed by tools are represented |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | as edges in the abstract graph.</li> |
Duncan Sands | 47eff2b | 2008-06-08 19:38:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | <li>The 'language' for driver behavior definition is tablegen and thus |
Chris Lattner | bc5786b | 2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | it's relatively easy to add new features.</li> |
| 133 | <li>The definition of driver is transformed into set of C++ classes, thus |
| 134 | no runtime interpretation is needed.</li> |
| 135 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | bc5786b | 2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | </li> |
| 137 | |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 139 | <li>Reimplemented <a href="LinkTimeOptimization.html">LTO interface</a> in |
| 140 | C.</li> |
Chris Lattner | bc5786b | 2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | |
| 142 | |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 143 | <li>Kaleidoscope tutorial in Ocaml.</li> |
Chris Lattner | bc5786b | 2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 144 | |
Chris Lattner | 8170c10 | 2008-02-10 08:18:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 145 | </ul> |
| 146 | |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | </div> |
| 148 | |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 149 | |
| 150 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 151 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 152 | <a name="frontends">llvm-gcc 4.2 Improvements and Clang</a> |
| 153 | </div> |
| 154 | |
| 155 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 156 | |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 157 | <p>LLVM 2.3 fully supports the llvm-gcc 4.2 front-end.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 158 | |
| 159 | <p>llvm-gcc 4.2 includes numerous fixes to better support the Objective-C |
| 160 | front-end. Objective-C now works very well on Mac OS/X.</p> |
| 161 | |
| 162 | <p>llvm-gcc 4.2 includes many other fixes which improve conformance with the |
| 163 | relevant parts of the GCC testsuite.</p> |
| 164 | |
| 165 | <p>The <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">clang project</a> is an effort to build |
| 166 | a set of new 'llvm native' front-end technologies for the LLVM optimizer |
| 167 | and code generator. Currently, its C and Objective-C support is maturing |
| 168 | nicely, and it has advanced source-to-source analysis and transformation |
| 169 | capabilities. If you are interested in building source-level tools for C and |
| 170 | Objective-C (and eventually C++), you should take a look. However, note that |
| 171 | clang is not an official part of the LLVM 2.3 release. If you are interested in |
| 172 | this project, please see its <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">web site</a>.</p> |
| 173 | |
| 174 | </div> |
| 175 | |
| 176 | |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 178 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | f304ffc | 2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 179 | <a name="coreimprovements">LLVM Core Improvements</a> |
| 180 | </div> |
| 181 | |
| 182 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 183 | <p>New features include: |
| 184 | </p> |
| 185 | |
Chris Lattner | f304ffc | 2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 186 | |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 187 | Common linkage? |
| 188 | |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 189 | Atomic operation support, Alpha, X86, X86-64, PowerPC. "__sync_synchronize", |
Anton Korobeynikov | 0d17691 | 2008-06-08 10:23:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 190 | "__sync_val_compare_and_swap", etc |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 191 | |
| 192 | <ul> |
Gordon Henriksen | 1494bcc | 2008-06-05 12:51:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 193 | <li>The C and Ocaml bindings have received additional improvements. The |
| 194 | bindings now cover pass managers, several transformation passes, iteration |
| 195 | over the LLVM IR, target data, and parameter attribute lists.</li> |
Chris Lattner | f304ffc | 2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | </ul> |
| 197 | |
| 198 | </div> |
| 199 | |
| 200 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 201 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | acce85d | 2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 202 | <a name="optimizer">Optimizer Improvements</a> |
| 203 | </div> |
| 204 | |
| 205 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 206 | |
Chris Lattner | f304ffc | 2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 207 | <p>In addition to a huge array of bug fixes and minor performance tweaks, the |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 208 | LLVM 2.3 optimizers support a few major enhancements:</p> |
Chris Lattner | acce85d | 2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | |
| 210 | <ul> |
| 211 | |
Devang Patel | 83a15d7 | 2008-06-05 21:44:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 212 | <li>Loop index set splitting on by default.<p> |
| 213 | This transformation hoists conditions from loop bodies and reduces loop's |
| 214 | iteration space to improve performance. For example, <p> |
| 215 | <pre> |
| 216 | for (i = LB; i < UB; ++i) |
| 217 | if (i <= NV) |
| 218 | LOOP_BODY |
| 219 | </pre> |
| 220 | is transformed into |
| 221 | <pre> |
| 222 | NUB = min(NV+1, UB) |
| 223 | for (i = LB; i < NUB; ++i) |
| 224 | LOOP_BODY |
| 225 | </pre> |
| 226 | </li> |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 227 | |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 228 | <li>LLVM includes a new <tt>memcpy</tt> optimization pass removes |
| 229 | dead <tt>memcpy</tt> calls, unneeded copies of aggregates, and performs |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 230 | return slot optimization. The LLVM optimizer now notices long sequences of |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 231 | consecutive stores and merges them into <tt>memcpy</tt>'s where profitable.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 232 | |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 233 | <li>Alignment detection for vector memory references and for <tt>memcpy</tt> and |
| 234 | <tt>memset</tt> is now more aggressive.</li> |
Owen Anderson | 30073ff | 2008-06-06 16:23:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 235 | |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 236 | <li>The aggressive dead code elimination (ADCE) optimization has been rewritten |
| 237 | to make it both faster and safer in the presence of code containing infinite |
| 238 | loops. Some of its prior functionality has been factored out into the loop |
| 239 | deletion pass, which <em>is</em> safe for infinite loops.</li> |
| 240 | |
| 241 | <li>Several optimizations have been sped up, leading to faster code generation |
| 242 | with the same code quality.</li> |
| 243 | |
| 244 | <li>The 'SimplifyLibCalls' pass, which optimizes calls to libc and libm |
| 245 | functions for C-based languages, has been rewritten to be a FunctionPass |
| 246 | instead a ModulePass. This allows it to be run more often and to be |
| 247 | included at -O1 in llvm-gcc. It was also extended to include more |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 248 | optimizations and several corner case bugs were fixed.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 249 | |
Duncan Sands | 47eff2b | 2008-06-08 19:38:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 250 | <li>LLVM now includes a simple 'Jump Threading' pass, which attempts to simplify |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 251 | conditional branches using information about predecessor blocks, simplifying |
| 252 | the control flow graph. This pass is pretty basic at this point, but catches |
| 253 | some important cases and provides a foundation to build on.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 254 | </ul> |
| 255 | |
| 256 | </div> |
| 257 | |
| 258 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 259 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 260 | <a name="codegen">Code Generator Improvements</a> |
| 261 | </div> |
| 262 | |
| 263 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 264 | |
| 265 | <p>We put a significant amount of work into the code generator infrastructure, |
| 266 | which allows us to implement more aggressive algorithms and make it run |
| 267 | faster:</p> |
| 268 | |
| 269 | <ul> |
| 270 | <li>MemOperand in the code generator: describe me!.</li> |
| 271 | |
| 272 | <li>The target-independent code generator infrastructure now uses LLVM's APInt |
| 273 | class to handle integer values, which allows it to support integer types |
| 274 | larger than 64 bits. Note that support for such types is also dependent on |
| 275 | target-specific support. Use of APInt is also a step toward support for |
| 276 | non-power-of-2 integer sizes.</li> |
| 277 | |
| 278 | <li>Several compile time speedups for code with large basic blocks.</li> |
| 279 | |
| 280 | <li>Several improvements which make llc's <tt>--view-sunit-dags</tt> |
| 281 | visualization of scheduling dependency graphs easier to understand.</li> |
| 282 | |
| 283 | <li>The code generator allows targets to write patterns that generate subreg |
| 284 | references directly in .td files now.</li> |
| 285 | |
| 286 | <li><tt>memcpy</tt> lowering in the backend is more aggressive, particularly for |
| 287 | <tt>memcpy</tt> calls introduced by the code generator when handling |
| 288 | pass-by-value structure argument copies.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 289 | </ul> |
| 290 | |
| 291 | </div> |
| 292 | |
| 293 | |
| 294 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 295 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 296 | <a name="x86specific">X86/X86-64 Specific Improvements</a> |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 297 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 60893e5 | 2007-05-18 06:33:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 298 | |
Chris Lattner | 738bd30 | 2006-04-18 06:32:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 299 | <div class="doc_text"> |
Chris Lattner | f304ffc | 2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 300 | <p>New target-specific features include: |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 301 | </p> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 302 | |
| 303 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 304 | <li>llvm-gcc's X86-64 ABI conformance is far improved, particularly in the |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 305 | area of passing and returning structures by value. llvm-gcc compiled code |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 306 | now interoperates very well on X86-64 systems with other compilers.</li> |
| 307 | |
Duncan Sands | 47eff2b | 2008-06-08 19:38:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 308 | <li>Support for Win64 was added. This includes code generation itself, JIT |
Anton Korobeynikov | a6094be | 2008-06-08 10:24:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 309 | support and necessary changes to llvm-gcc.</li> |
| 310 | |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 311 | <li>The LLVM X86 backend now supports the support SSE 4.1 instruction set, and |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 312 | the llvm-gcc 4.2 front-end supports the SSE 4.1 compiler builtins. Various |
| 313 | generic vector operations (insert/extract/shuffle) are much more efficient |
| 314 | when SSE 4.1 is enabled. The JIT automatically takes advantage of these |
| 315 | instructions, but llvm-gcc must be explicitly told to use them, e.g. with |
| 316 | <tt>-march=penryn</tt>.</li> |
Anton Korobeynikov | a6094be | 2008-06-08 10:24:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 317 | |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 318 | <li>The X86 backend now does a number of optimizations that aim to avoid |
| 319 | converting numbers back and forth from SSE registers to the X87 floating |
| 320 | point stack.</li> |
Anton Korobeynikov | a6094be | 2008-06-08 10:24:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 321 | |
Chris Lattner | bc5786b | 2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 322 | <li>The X86 backend supports stack realignment, which is particularly useful for |
| 323 | vector code on OS's without 16-byte aligned stacks.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 324 | |
| 325 | <li>The X86 backend now supports the "sseregparm" options in GCC, which allow |
| 326 | functions to be tagged as passing floating point values in SSE |
| 327 | registers.</li> |
| 328 | |
| 329 | <li>Trampolines (taking the address of a nested function) now work on |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 330 | Linux/X86-64.</li> |
Anton Korobeynikov | a6094be | 2008-06-08 10:24:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 331 | |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | <li><tt>__builtin_prefetch</tt> is now compiled into the appropriate prefetch |
| 333 | instructions instead of being ignored.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 791f77b | 2008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 334 | |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 335 | <li>128-bit integers are now supported on X86-64 targets.</li> |
Dan Gohman | 4e16d40 | 2008-06-05 16:15:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 336 | |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 337 | <li>The register allocator can now rematerialize PIC-base computations.</li> |
| 338 | |
Chris Lattner | bfb17ab | 2007-05-17 21:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 339 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 340 | |
Chris Lattner | bfb17ab | 2007-05-17 21:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 341 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | c5d658a | 2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 342 | |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 343 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 344 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 345 | <a name="targetspecific">Other Target Specific Improvements</a> |
| 346 | </div> |
| 347 | |
| 348 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 349 | <p>New target-specific features include: |
| 350 | </p> |
| 351 | |
| 352 | <ul> |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 353 | <li>The LLVM C backend now supports vector code.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 77d29b1 | 2008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 354 | |
| 355 | |
| 356 | </ul> |
| 357 | |
| 358 | </div> |
| 359 | |
| 360 | |
| 361 | |
| 362 | <!--=========================================================================--> |
| 363 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 364 | <a name="otherimprovements">Other Improvements</a> |
| 365 | </div> |
| 366 | |
| 367 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 368 | <p>New features include: |
| 369 | </p> |
| 370 | |
| 371 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | bc5786b | 2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 372 | <li>LLVM now builds with GCC 4.3.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 0b83220 | 2008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 373 | <li><tt>llvm2cpp</tt> tool has been folded into llc, use |
| 374 | <tt>llc -march=cpp</tt></li> |
Chris Lattner | 8497764 | 2007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 375 | </ul> |
| 376 | |
| 377 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | c5d658a | 2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 378 | |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 379 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 380 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 381 | <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a> |
| 382 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 383 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 384 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 385 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 386 | |
John Criswell | 0b5b5e9 | 2004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 387 | <p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p> |
Chris Lattner | 4654bdb | 2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 388 | |
| 389 | <ul> |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 390 | <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] | 391 | (and probably other unix-like systems).</li> |
Chris Lattner | 000c73b | 2008-02-06 06:30:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 392 | <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] | 393 | 64-bit modes.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 252b83d | 2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 394 | <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] | 395 | <li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries (limited |
| 396 | support is available for native builds with Visual C++).</li> |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 397 | <li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 10.</li> |
John Criswell | 9321fa8 | 2005-05-13 20:28:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 398 | <li>Alpha-based machines running Debian GNU/Linux.</li> |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 399 | <li>Itanium-based (IA64) machines running Linux and HP-UX.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 4654bdb | 2004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 400 | </ul> |
| 401 | |
Chris Lattner | bc5786b | 2008-06-05 06:57:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 402 | <p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses GNU autoconf to adapt itself |
Brian Gaeke | b0fd761 | 2004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 403 | to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor |
| 404 | porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your |
| 405 | portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 406 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 407 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 408 | |
| 409 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 410 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 411 | <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a> |
| 412 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 413 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 414 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 415 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 416 | |
| 417 | <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] | 418 | component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these |
Chris Lattner | 5eccca4 | 2003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 419 | sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a |
Chris Lattner | c463b27 | 2005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 420 | 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] | 421 | there isn't already one.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 422 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 423 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 424 | |
Chris Lattner | f5ee170 | 2004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 425 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 426 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 427 | <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a> |
| 428 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 429 | |
Chris Lattner | f5ee170 | 2004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 430 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 431 | |
Misha Brukman | 6df9e2c | 2004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 432 | <p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to |
| 433 | be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should |
| 434 | not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be |
| 435 | 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] | 436 | components, please contact us on the <a |
| 437 | 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] | 438 | |
| 439 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 440 | <li>The MSIL, IA64, Alpha, SPU, and MIPS backends are experimental.</li> |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 441 | <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] | 442 | value for this option.</li> |
Chris Lattner | f5ee170 | 2004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 443 | </ul> |
| 444 | |
| 445 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 446 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 447 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 448 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 449 | <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a> |
John Criswell | c0c186d | 2005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 450 | </div> |
| 451 | |
| 452 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 453 | |
| 454 | <ul> |
Anton Korobeynikov | a6094be | 2008-06-08 10:24:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 455 | <li>The X86 backend does not yet support |
| 456 | all <a href="http://llvm.org/PR879">inline assembly that uses the X86 |
| 457 | floating point stack</a>. It supports the 'f' and 't' constraints, but not |
| 458 | 'u'.</li> |
| 459 | <li>The X86 backend generates inefficient floating point code when configured to |
Chris Lattner | f304ffc | 2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 460 | generate code for systems that don't have SSE2.</li> |
Duncan Sands | 47eff2b | 2008-06-08 19:38:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 461 | <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] | 462 | expect small issues to happen. Also, llvm-gcc cannot build mingw64 runtime |
| 463 | currently due |
| 464 | to <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2255">several</a> |
| 465 | <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2257">bugs</a> in FP stackifier |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 466 | </ul> |
| 467 | |
| 468 | </div> |
| 469 | |
| 470 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 471 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 472 | <a name="ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC back-end</a> |
| 473 | </div> |
| 474 | |
| 475 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 476 | |
| 477 | <ul> |
Nicolas Geoffray | e4285dc | 2007-05-15 09:21:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 478 | <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] | 479 | compilation, and lacks support for debug information.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 480 | </ul> |
| 481 | |
| 482 | </div> |
| 483 | |
| 484 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 485 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 486 | <a name="arm-be">Known problems with the ARM back-end</a> |
| 487 | </div> |
| 488 | |
| 489 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 490 | |
| 491 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 57a460e | 2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 492 | <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] | 493 | processors, thumb programs can crash or produce wrong |
Chris Lattner | 57a460e | 2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 494 | results (<a href="http://llvm.org/PR1388">PR1388</a>).</li> |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 495 | <li>Compilation for ARM Linux OABI (old ABI) is supported, but not fully tested. |
| 496 | </li> |
Chris Lattner | f304ffc | 2008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 497 | <li>There is a bug in QEMU-ARM (<= 0.9.0) which causes it to incorrectly execute |
Chris Lattner | 57a460e | 2007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 498 | programs compiled with LLVM. Please use more recent versions of QEMU.</li> |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 499 | </ul> |
| 500 | |
| 501 | </div> |
| 502 | |
| 503 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 504 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 505 | <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the SPARC back-end</a> |
| 506 | </div> |
| 507 | |
| 508 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 509 | |
| 510 | <ul> |
| 511 | <li>The SPARC backend only supports the 32-bit SPARC ABI (-m32), it does not |
| 512 | support the 64-bit SPARC ABI (-m64).</li> |
| 513 | </ul> |
| 514 | |
| 515 | </div> |
| 516 | |
| 517 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 518 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 519 | <a name="alpha-be">Known problems with the Alpha back-end</a> |
| 520 | </div> |
| 521 | |
| 522 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 523 | |
| 524 | <ul> |
| 525 | |
| 526 | <li>On 21164s, some rare FP arithmetic sequences which may trap do not have the |
| 527 | appropriate nops inserted to ensure restartability.</li> |
| 528 | |
John Criswell | c0c186d | 2005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 529 | </ul> |
| 530 | </div> |
| 531 | |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 532 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 533 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
| 534 | <a name="ia64-be">Known problems with the IA64 back-end</a> |
| 535 | </div> |
| 536 | |
| 537 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 538 | |
| 539 | <ul> |
| 540 | |
| 541 | <li>C++ programs are likely to fail on IA64, as calls to <tt>setjmp</tt> are |
| 542 | made where the argument is not 16-byte aligned, as required on IA64. (Strictly |
| 543 | speaking this is not a bug in the IA64 back-end; it will also be encountered |
| 544 | when building C++ programs using the C back-end.)</li> |
| 545 | |
| 546 | <li>The C++ front-end does not use <a href="http://llvm.org/PR406">IA64 |
| 547 | ABI compliant layout of v-tables</a>. In particular, it just stores function |
| 548 | pointers instead of function descriptors in the vtable. This bug prevents |
| 549 | mixing C++ code compiled with LLVM with C++ objects compiled by other C++ |
| 550 | compilers.</li> |
| 551 | |
| 552 | <li>There are a few ABI violations which will lead to problems when mixing LLVM |
| 553 | output with code built with other compilers, particularly for floating-point |
| 554 | programs.</li> |
| 555 | |
Duncan Sands | 47eff2b | 2008-06-08 19:38:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 556 | <li>Defining vararg functions is not supported (but calling them is OK).</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 557 | |
Chris Lattner | caf0634 | 2007-05-09 04:58:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 558 | <li>The Itanium backend has bitrotted somewhat.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 559 | </ul> |
| 560 | |
| 561 | </div> |
| 562 | |
| 563 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 564 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 565 | <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 566 | </div> |
| 567 | |
| 568 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 569 | |
| 570 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 5733b27 | 2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 571 | <li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR802">The C backend has only basic support for |
| 572 | inline assembly code</a>.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 725a0d8 | 2007-09-26 06:01:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 573 | <li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR1658">The C backend violates the ABI of common |
| 574 | C++ programs</a>, preventing intermixing between C++ compiled by the CBE and |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 575 | C++ code compiled with llc or native compilers.</li> |
Duncan Sands | f74c0cc | 2008-02-10 13:40:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 576 | <li>The C backend does not support all exception handling constructs.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2629922 | 2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 577 | </ul> |
| 578 | |
| 579 | </div> |
John Criswell | c0c186d | 2005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 580 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 581 | |
| 582 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 583 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 5733b27 | 2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 584 | <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] | 585 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 47588f9 | 2003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 586 | |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 587 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> |
Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 588 | <div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 589 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 590 | <div class="doc_text"> |
Chris Lattner | c5d658a | 2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 591 | |
Chris Lattner | 252b83d | 2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 592 | <p>llvm-gcc does not currently support <a href="http://llvm.org/PR869">Link-Time |
| 593 | 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] | 594 | llvmdev mailing list if you are interested.</p> |
Chris Lattner | d9ea017 | 2006-08-08 17:27:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 595 | |
Chris Lattner | 5733b27 | 2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 596 | <p>The only major language feature of GCC not supported by llvm-gcc is |
| 597 | the <tt>__builtin_apply</tt> family of builtins. However, some extensions |
| 598 | are only supported on some targets. For example, trampolines are only |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 599 | supported on some targets (these are used when you take the address of a |
| 600 | nested function).</p> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 601 | |
Chris Lattner | 5733b27 | 2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 602 | <p>If you run into GCC extensions which are not supported, please let us know. |
| 603 | </p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 604 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 605 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 606 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 607 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 608 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 5733b27 | 2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 609 | <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] | 610 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 611 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 612 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 613 | |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 614 | <p>The C++ front-end is considered to be fully |
Chris Lattner | 7506b1d | 2004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 615 | tested and works for a number of non-trivial programs, including LLVM |
Chris Lattner | f3e5bc6 | 2007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 616 | itself, Qt, Mozilla, etc.</p> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 617 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 618 | <ul> |
Chris Lattner | 5733b27 | 2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 619 | <li>Exception handling works well on the X86 and PowerPC targets, including |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 620 | X86-64 darwin. This works when linking to a libstdc++ compiled by GCC. It is |
| 621 | supported on X86-64 linux, but that is disabled by default in this release.</li> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 622 | </ul> |
Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 623 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 624 | </div> |
| 625 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 626 | |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 627 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
| 628 | <div class="doc_subsection"> |
Chris Lattner | 5733b27 | 2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 629 | <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] | 630 | </div> |
| 631 | |
| 632 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 633 | The llvm-gcc 4.2 Ada compiler works fairly well, however this is not a mature |
| 634 | technology and problems should be expected. |
| 635 | <ul> |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 636 | <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] | 637 | to lack of trampoline support (pointers to nested functions) on other platforms, |
Duncan Sands | 27aff87 | 2008-06-08 20:18:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 638 | 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] | 639 | which does support trampolines.</li> |
| 640 | <li>The Ada front-end <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2007">fails to bootstrap</a>. |
| 641 | Workaround: configure with --disable-bootstrap.</li> |
| 642 | <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^] | 643 | fail (c380004 also fails with gcc-4.2 mainline). When built at -O3, the |
| 644 | <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2421">cxg2021</a> ACATS test also fails.</li> |
| 645 | <li>Some gcc specific Ada tests continue to crash the compiler. The testsuite |
| 646 | reports most tests as having failed even though they pass.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 647 | <li>The -E binder option (exception backtraces) |
| 648 | <a href="http://llvm.org/PR1982">does not work</a> and will result in programs |
| 649 | crashing if an exception is raised. Workaround: do not use -E.</li> |
| 650 | <li>Only discrete types <a href="http://llvm.org/PR1981">are allowed to start |
| 651 | or finish at a non-byte offset</a> in a record. Workaround: do not pack records |
| 652 | or use representation clauses that result in a field of a non-discrete type |
| 653 | starting or finishing in the middle of a byte.</li> |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 654 | <li>The <tt>lli</tt> interpreter <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2009">considers 'main' |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 655 | as generated by the Ada binder to be invalid</a>. |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 656 | Workaround: hand edit the file to use pointers for <tt>argv</tt> and <tt>envp</tt> rather than |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 657 | integers.</li> |
Gabor Greif | 96a89c7 | 2008-06-05 18:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 658 | <li>The <tt>-fstack-check</tt> option <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2008">is ignored</a>.</li> |
Chris Lattner | 2b659ef | 2008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 659 | </ul> |
| 660 | </div> |
| 661 | |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 662 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 663 | <div class="doc_section"> |
| 664 | <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a> |
| 665 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 666 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 667 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 668 | <div class="doc_text"> |
| 669 | |
Chris Lattner | 416db10 | 2005-05-16 17:13:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 670 | <p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the <a |
Chris Lattner | b4b0ce7 | 2007-05-18 00:44:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 671 | href="http://llvm.org">LLVM web page</a>, in particular in the <a |
| 672 | href="http://llvm.org/docs/">documentation</a> section. The web page also |
Reid Spencer | 669ed45 | 2007-07-09 08:04:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 673 | contains versions of the API documentation which is up-to-date with the |
| 674 | Subversion version of the source code. |
Misha Brukman | 109d9e8 | 2005-03-30 19:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 675 | You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going |
| 676 | into the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 677 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 678 | <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] | 679 | us via the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/#maillist"> mailing |
Chris Lattner | 5eccca4 | 2003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 680 | lists</a>.</p> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 681 | |
Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 682 | </div> |
Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 683 | |
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Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 686 | <hr> |
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