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| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | <title>LLVM 1.2 Release Notes</title> | 
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| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | <div class="doc_title"> | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | LLVM 1.2 Release Notes | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | </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> | 
|  | 17 | <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li> | 
|  | 18 | <li><a href="#install-instructions">Installation Instructions</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a> | 
|  | 20 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 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 Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | </ul></li> | 
|  | 28 | <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | </ol> | 
|  | 30 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | e0c891c | 2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | <p><b>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM team</a></b><p> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 |  | 
|  | 35 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 37 | <a name="intro">Introduction</a> | 
|  | 38 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 40 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 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 Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | infrastructure, release 1.2.  Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | known problems and bug fixes from the previous release.  The most up-to-date | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | version of this document can be found on the <a | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.2/">LLVM 1.2 web site</a>.  If you are | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | this document may be updated after the release.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 50 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | <p>For more information about LLVM, including information about potentially more | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | current releases, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main | 
|  | 53 | web site</a>.  If you have questions or comments, the <a | 
|  | 54 | 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] | 55 | list</a> is a good place to send them.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 56 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e84809 | 2003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | <p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS, this document applies | 
|  | 58 | to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one.  To see the release notes for | 
|  | 59 | the current or previous releases, see the <a | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p> | 
|  | 61 |  | 
|  | 62 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 |  | 
|  | 64 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 66 | <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a> | 
|  | 67 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 69 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 71 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | <p>This is the third public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | </p> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 74 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | de4afdc | 2004-02-08 22:23:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | <p>At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all C | 
| Chris Lattner | 1124e2c | 2003-12-12 21:33:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | & C++ SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks, the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist | 
|  | 77 | benchmarks.  It has also been used to compile <b>many</b> other programs.  LLVM | 
|  | 78 | now also works with a broad variety of C++ programs, though it has still | 
| Chris Lattner | de4afdc | 2004-02-08 22:23:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | received less testing than the C front-end. | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | </p> | 
|  | 81 |  | 
|  | 82 |  | 
|  | 83 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 84 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 85 | This release implements the following new features: | 
|  | 86 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 87 |  | 
|  | 88 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 95778a0 | 2004-02-08 21:20:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | <li><a href="SourceLevelDebugging.html">A new LLVM source-level debugger has been started.</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | <li></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 55ee031 | 2003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 92 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 93 |  | 
|  | 94 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 95 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 96 | In this release, the following missing features were implemented: | 
|  | 97 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 98 |  | 
|  | 99 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 127215e | 2004-02-08 19:59:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR16">Exception handling support in the X86 | 
|  | 101 | & Sparc native code generators</a></li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 |  | 
|  | 105 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 106 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | e29ac16 | 2003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | In this release, the following Quality of Implementation issues were fixed: | 
|  | 108 | </div> | 
|  | 109 |  | 
|  | 110 | <ol> | 
|  | 111 |  | 
|  | 112 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR135">JIT should lazily initialize global variables</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | ef56a19 | 2003-12-20 10:29:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 113 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR192">[X86] X86 Backend never releases memory for machine code structures</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 71f0a82 | 2003-12-23 23:50:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR196">[vmcore] OpaqueType objects memory leak</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1abc87e | 2004-01-08 17:20:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 115 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR182">[llvmgcc] C front-end does not compile "extern inline" into linkonce</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 23632f1 | 2004-01-15 17:59:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR73">Bytecode format inconsistent</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 913a934 | 2004-02-05 17:31:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR209">[loadvn/inline/scalarrepl] Slow optimizations with extremely large basic blocks</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | a50c4ba | 2004-02-09 21:16:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR224">[asmparser] Really slow parsing of types with complex upreferences</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | e29ac16 | 2003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | </ol> | 
|  | 120 |  | 
|  | 121 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 122 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 6b31beb | 2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 123 | In this release, the following build problems were fixed: | 
|  | 124 | </div> | 
|  | 125 |  | 
|  | 126 | <ol> | 
|  | 127 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR210">[build] Makefiles break if C frontend target string has unexpected value</a></li> | 
| John Criswell | 6b15340 | 2004-01-26 21:03:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 128 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR214">[build] hard-wired assumption that shared-library extension is ".so"</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 3e0bd31 | 2004-02-03 22:59:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 129 | <li><A href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR222">make tools-only doesn't make lib/Support</a></li> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 4bb2969 | 2004-02-08 18:49:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR105">[build] Usage of autoconf is awkward</a></li> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 6b31beb | 2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | </ol> | 
|  | 132 |  | 
|  | 133 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 134 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | e29ac16 | 2003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 135 | In this release, the following Code Quality issues were fixed: | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 89ca2b8 | 2003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 137 |  | 
|  | 138 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e25906 | 2003-12-19 06:31:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 139 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR187">[loopsimplify] Many pointless phi nodes are created</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 02babb8 | 2004-02-02 19:40:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 140 | <li>The X86 backend didn't generate <tt>fchs</tt> to negate floating point numbers</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 89ca2b8 | 2003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 142 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 143 |  | 
|  | 144 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 145 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 146 | In this release, the following bugs in the previous release were fixed: | 
|  | 147 | </div> | 
|  | 148 |  | 
|  | 149 | <p>Bugs in the LLVM Core:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 150 |  | 
|  | 151 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | ad64385 | 2003-12-15 22:48:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 152 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR179">[licm] LICM promotes volatile memory | 
|  | 153 | locations to registers</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5b7142a | 2003-12-18 08:16:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 154 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR191">[licm] Memory read after free causes | 
|  | 155 | infrequent crash</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5de946f | 2003-12-22 04:06:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 156 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR194">[indvars] Induction variable | 
|  | 157 | canonicalization always makes 32-bit indvars</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 0cbdd97 | 2003-12-22 23:56:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 158 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR193">[constantmerge] Merging globals can | 
|  | 159 | cause use of invalid pointers!</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | ae3664b | 2004-01-20 19:16:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 160 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR212">[bcreader] Bytecode reader misreads 'long -9223372036854775808'!</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 56e6705 | 2004-02-09 21:22:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 161 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=174">Tail duplication does not update SSA form correctly.</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | c8a3581 | 2004-02-01 22:52:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 162 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR218">VMCore mishandles double -0.0</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 02babb8 | 2004-02-02 19:40:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 163 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR219">[X86] X86 backend code generates -0.0 as +0.0</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 741f6b4 | 2004-02-05 21:16:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 164 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR223">[loopsimplify] Loopsimplify incorrectly updates dominator information</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 95778a0 | 2004-02-08 21:20:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 165 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR225">[pruneeh] -pruneeh pass removes invoke instructions it shouldn't</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 166 | </ol> | 
|  | 167 |  | 
|  | 168 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 56e6705 | 2004-02-09 21:22:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 169 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 170 | <p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p> | 
|  | 171 |  | 
|  | 172 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | ad64385 | 2003-12-15 22:48:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 173 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR186">Need weak linkage on memory | 
|  | 174 | management functions in libc runtime to allow them to be overriden</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1abc87e | 2004-01-08 17:20:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 175 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR202">[llvm-gcc] asserts when an extern inline function is redefined</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | c43f91f | 2004-01-12 05:15:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 176 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR204">[llvmg++] Dynamically initialized constants cannot be marked 'constant'</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 55d14de | 2004-02-02 17:48:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR216">[llvmgcc] floating-point unary minus is incorrect for +0.0</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | acc00bc | 2004-02-03 08:03:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 178 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR221">[llvm-gcc] miscompilation of 'X = Y = Z' with aggregate values</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 179 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 180 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 181 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 182 |  | 
|  | 183 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 184 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 185 | <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a> | 
|  | 186 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 187 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 188 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 189 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 190 |  | 
|  | 191 | <p>LLVM has been extensively tested on Intel and AMD machines running Red | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | Hat Linux and FreeBSD.  It has also been tested on Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8. | 
| John Criswell | bb1bad5 | 2003-12-12 19:54:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 193 | Additionally, | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 194 | LLVM works on Mac OS X 10.3 and above, but only with the C backend or | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e84809 | 2003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 195 | interpreter (no native backend for the PowerPC is available yet). | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | The core LLVM infrastructure uses "autoconf" for portability, so hopefully we | 
| Chris Lattner | 3e2959e | 2003-11-08 05:22:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | work on more platforms than that.  However, it is likely that we | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | missed something and that minor porting is required to get LLVM to work on | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 199 | new platforms.  We welcome portability patches and error messages.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 200 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 201 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 202 |  | 
|  | 203 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 204 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 205 | <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a> | 
|  | 206 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 207 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 208 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 210 |  | 
|  | 211 | <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] | 212 | component.  As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these | 
| Chris Lattner | 5eccca4 | 2003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 213 | sections.  If you run into a problem, please check the <a | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 214 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if | 
| Chris Lattner | 5eccca4 | 2003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 215 | there isn't already one.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 216 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 217 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 218 |  | 
|  | 219 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 220 | <!-- | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 221 | </ul><h4><a name="portability"><hr size=0>Portability Problems</h4><ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 222 | --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 223 |  | 
|  | 224 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 225 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 226 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 227 | <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a> | 
|  | 228 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 229 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 230 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 231 |  | 
|  | 232 | <ul> | 
|  | 233 |  | 
|  | 234 | <li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not | 
|  | 235 | work.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 236 |  | 
|  | 237 | <li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures.  As | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 238 | such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be | 
|  | 239 | corrupted.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 240 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 241 | <li>It is not possible to <tt>dlopen</tt> an LLVM bytecode file in the JIT.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 242 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | e84843b | 2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 243 | <li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is very slow (there is no symbol | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 244 | table in the archive).</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 2855ecd | 2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 245 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 2855ecd | 2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 246 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR82">LLVM cannot handle structures with | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 247 | more than 256 elements</a>.</li> | 
|  | 248 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 249 | <li> | 
|  | 250 | The gccld program | 
|  | 251 | <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=139"> | 
|  | 252 | does not link objects/archives in the order specified on the command line. | 
|  | 253 | </a> | 
|  | 254 | </li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 255 | </ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 256 | </div> | 
|  | 257 |  | 
|  | 258 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 259 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 260 | <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a> | 
|  | 261 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47588f9 | 2003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 262 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 263 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 264 | <div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 265 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 266 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 267 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 268 | <li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of | 
|  | 269 | scope.  Thus, the following program may run out of stack space: | 
|  | 270 | <pre> | 
|  | 271 | for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) { | 
|  | 272 | int X[n]; | 
|  | 273 | foo(X); | 
|  | 274 | } | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 275 | </pre></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 276 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 277 | <li> | 
|  | 278 | Initialization of global union variables can only be done | 
|  | 279 | <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=162">with the largest | 
|  | 280 | union member</a>. | 
|  | 281 | </li> | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 282 | </ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 283 | </div> | 
|  | 284 |  | 
|  | 285 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 286 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 287 | Notes | 
|  | 288 | </div> | 
|  | 289 |  | 
|  | 290 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 291 |  | 
|  | 292 | <ul> | 
|  | 293 |  | 
|  | 294 | <li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | e01fcfb | 2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 295 |  | 
|  | 296 | <li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double".  There is no | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 297 | support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64 | 
|  | 298 | bits.</li> | 
|  | 299 |  | 
|  | 300 | <li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not | 
|  | 301 | work: | 
| Misha Brukman | e0c891c | 2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 302 | <ol> | 
|  | 303 | <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the | 
|  | 304 | appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions.  Note that | 
|  | 305 | <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly. | 
|  | 306 | <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt> | 
|  | 307 | - These functions have not been tested. | 
|  | 308 | </ol></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 309 |  | 
|  | 310 | <li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not.  In particular, | 
|  | 311 | the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported: | 
|  | 312 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 313 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Labels.html#Local%20Labels">Local Labels</a>: Labels local to a block.</li> | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 314 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html#Labels%20as%20Values">Labels as Values</a>: Getting pointers to labels and computed gotos.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 315 | <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> | 
|  | 316 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li> | 
|  | 317 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#Extended%20Asm">Extended Asm</a>: Assembler instructions with C expressions as operands.</li> | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 318 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constraints.html#Constraints">Constraints</a>: Constraints for asm operands.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 319 | <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> | 
|  | 320 | <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> | 
|  | 321 | <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> | 
|  | 322 | <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> | 
|  | 323 | <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> | 
|  | 324 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li> | 
|  | 325 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pragmas.html#Pragmas">Pragmas</a>: Pragmas accepted by GCC.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | e0c891c | 2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 326 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 327 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 328 | <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported.  An ignored | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 329 | attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute, | 
|  | 330 | but the code should still work.  An unsupported attribute is one which is | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 331 | ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | the program.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 333 |  | 
|  | 334 | <ol> | 
|  | 335 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>: | 
|  | 336 | Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 337 | Supported, but allocated stack space is not freed until the function returns (noted above).</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 338 |  | 
|  | 339 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes">Function Attributes</a>: | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 340 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 341 | Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 342 | return.<br> | 
|  | 343 |  | 
|  | 344 | <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>, | 
|  | 345 | <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>, | 
|  | 346 | <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br> | 
|  | 347 |  | 
|  | 348 | <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>, | 
|  | 349 | <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>, | 
|  | 350 | <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br> | 
|  | 351 |  | 
|  | 352 | <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>, | 
|  | 353 | <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>, | 
|  | 354 | <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 355 |  | 
|  | 356 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>: | 
|  | 357 | Specifying attributes of variables.<br> | 
|  | 358 | <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>, | 
|  | 359 | <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>, | 
|  | 360 | <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 361 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 362 | <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>, | 
|  | 363 | <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>, | 
|  | 364 | <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>, | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 365 | <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 366 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | c4b7bee | 2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 367 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Type-Attributes.html#Type%20Attributes">Type Attributes</a>:	Specifying attributes of types.<br> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 368 | <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>, | 
| Misha Brukman | c4b7bee | 2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 369 | <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 370 |  | 
|  | 371 | <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>, | 
|  | 372 | all target specific attributes.</li> | 
|  | 373 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 374 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>: | 
|  | 375 | Other built-in functions.<br> | 
|  | 376 | We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g., | 
|  | 377 | <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>),  <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>, | 
|  | 378 | <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>, | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 379 | <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt> (ignored).</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 380 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 381 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 382 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 383 | <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p> | 
|  | 384 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 385 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 386 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>:   Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li> | 
|  | 387 | <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> | 
|  | 388 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li> | 
|  | 389 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li> | 
|  | 390 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li> | 
|  | 391 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>:   Data types for complex numbers.</li> | 
|  | 392 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li> | 
|  | 393 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li> | 
|  | 394 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li> | 
|  | 395 | <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> | 
|  | 396 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>:  Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li> | 
|  | 397 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Subscripting.html#Subscripting">Subscripting</a>: Any array can be subscripted, even if not an lvalue.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | c4b7bee | 2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 398 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pointer-Arith.html#Pointer%20Arith">Pointer Arith</a>: Arithmetic on <code>void</code>-pointers and function pointers.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 399 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Initializers.html#Initializers">Initializers</a>: Non-constant initializers.</li> | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 400 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions, | 
|  | 401 | or arrays as values.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 402 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html#Designated%20Inits">Designated Inits</a>: Labeling elements of initializers.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | c4b7bee | 2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 403 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Cast-to-Union.html#Cast%20to%20Union">Cast to Union</a>: Casting to union type from any member of the union.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 404 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li> | 
|  | 405 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li> | 
|  | 406 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li> | 
|  | 407 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li> | 
|  | 408 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li> | 
|  | 409 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Character-Escapes.html#Character%20Escapes">Character Escapes</a>: <code>\e</code> stands for the character <ESC>.</li> | 
|  | 410 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li> | 
|  | 411 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li> | 
|  | 412 | <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> | 
|  | 413 | <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> | 
|  | 414 | <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> | 
|  | 415 | <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> | 
|  | 416 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Attribute-Syntax.html#Attribute%20Syntax">Attribute Syntax</a>: Formal syntax for attributes.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | e0c891c | 2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 417 | </ol></li> | 
|  | 418 |  | 
|  | 419 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 420 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 421 | <p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these | 
|  | 422 | lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 423 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 424 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 425 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 426 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 427 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 428 | <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a> | 
|  | 429 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 430 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 431 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 432 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 433 | <p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully functional but | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e84809 | 2003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 434 | has not been tested as thoroughly as the C front-end.  It has been tested and | 
|  | 435 | works for a number of non-trivial programs, but there may be lurking bugs. | 
|  | 436 | Please report any bugs or problems.</p> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 437 |  | 
|  | 438 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 439 |  | 
|  | 440 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 441 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 442 | Bugs | 
|  | 443 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 444 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 445 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| 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 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 448 | <li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 449 | front-end</a>.</li> | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 450 | </ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 451 | </div> | 
|  | 452 |  | 
|  | 453 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 454 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 455 | Notes | 
|  | 456 | </div> | 
|  | 457 |  | 
|  | 458 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 459 |  | 
|  | 460 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | e01fcfb | 2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 461 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 462 | <li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser.  This | 
|  | 463 | parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC | 
|  | 464 | versions.  For more information, see the C++ section of the <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e84809 | 2003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 465 | href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 466 |  | 
|  | 467 | <li>Destructors for local objects are not always run when a <tt>longjmp</tt> is | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 468 | performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 469 | function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run. | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 470 | Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 471 | better than most compilers).</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 472 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 473 | <li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a | 
|  | 474 | href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>. | 
|  | 475 | This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name | 
|  | 476 | mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++ | 
|  | 477 | representation issues.  Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM | 
|  | 478 | compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other | 
|  | 479 | Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc). | 
|  | 480 | <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very | 
|  | 481 | different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 482 | interact correctly</b>. </li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 483 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 484 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 485 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 486 | </div> | 
|  | 487 |  | 
|  | 488 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 489 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 490 | <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a> | 
|  | 491 | </div> | 
|  | 492 |  | 
|  | 493 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 494 |  | 
|  | 495 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | de4afdc | 2004-02-08 22:23:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 496 | <li>None so far. | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 497 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 498 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 499 | </div> | 
|  | 500 |  | 
|  | 501 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 502 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 503 | <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc back-end</a> | 
|  | 504 | </div> | 
|  | 505 |  | 
|  | 506 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 507 |  | 
|  | 508 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | de4afdc | 2004-02-08 22:23:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 509 | <li>None so far. | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 510 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 511 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 512 | </div> | 
|  | 513 |  | 
|  | 514 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 515 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 516 | <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a> | 
|  | 517 | </div> | 
|  | 518 |  | 
|  | 519 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 520 |  | 
|  | 521 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 522 |  | 
|  | 523 | <li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias | 
|  | 524 | Analysis rules.  As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code | 
|  | 525 | (for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option).  This | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 526 | problem probably cannot be fixed.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 527 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | e84843b | 2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 528 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 529 | cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or | 
|  | 530 | Infinity.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 531 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 2855ecd | 2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 532 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not | 
| Chris Lattner | 2af4605 | 2003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 533 | supported</a>.  This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++ | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 534 | frontends.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 2af4605 | 2003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 535 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 536 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 537 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 538 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 539 |  | 
|  | 540 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 541 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 542 | <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a> | 
|  | 543 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 544 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 545 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 546 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 547 |  | 
|  | 548 | <p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page, | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 549 | including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 550 | implemented in LLVM.  The web page also contains versions of the API | 
|  | 551 | documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code.  You | 
|  | 552 | can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 553 | the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 554 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 555 | <p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact | 
| Chris Lattner | 5eccca4 | 2003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 556 | us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing | 
|  | 557 | lists</a>.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 558 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 559 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 560 |  | 
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