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| Chris Lattner | 2974b5b | 2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 |   <title>LLVM 1.3 Release Notes</title> | 
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 | 8 | <body> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 2974b5b | 2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | <div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.3 Release Notes</div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 |   | 
 | 12 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 |   <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li> | 
 | 14 |   <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li> | 
 | 15 |   <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li> | 
 | 16 |   <li><a href="#install-instructions">Installation Instructions</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 |   <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a> | 
 | 18 |   <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 2974b5b | 2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 |     <li><a href="#experimental">Experimental features included in this | 
 | 20 |                                 release</a> | 
| 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 | 2974b5b | 2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | infrastructure, release 1.3.  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 | 2974b5b | 2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.3/">LLVM 1.3 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 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a39719f | 2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | <p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 2974b5b | 2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | This is the fourth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.  | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | </p> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 835104c | 2004-03-17 03:54:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | <p> | 
 | 77 | At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all C & C++ SPEC | 
 | 78 | CPU2000 benchmarks, the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist benchmarks.  It has | 
 | 79 | also been used to compile <b>many</b> other programs.  LLVM now also works with | 
 | 80 | a broad variety of C++ programs, though it has still received less testing than | 
 | 81 | the C front-end. | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | </p> | 
 | 83 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
 | 85 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | a39719f | 2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | <a name="newfeatures">This release implements the following new features:</a> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 88 |  | 
 | 89 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 2974b5b | 2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | <li>The LLVM <a href="LangRef.html#i_select"><tt>select</tt></a> instruction is | 
 | 91 | now fully implemented and supported by all targets.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | acd85c5 | 2004-04-06 19:48:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | <li>Bugpoint can now narrow down code-generation bugs to a loop nest, where before it could only narrow them down to a function being miscompiled.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 55ee031 | 2003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 93 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 94 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 95 |  | 
 | 96 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
 | 97 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
 | 98 | In this release, the following missing features were implemented: | 
 | 99 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 100 |  | 
 | 101 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | ce8492d | 2004-04-05 01:43:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR82">LLVM cannot handle structures with more than 256 elements</a></li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 105 |  | 
 | 106 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
 | 107 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | a39719f | 2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | <a name="qualityofimp">In this release, the following Quality of Implementation issues were fixed:</a> | 
| Chris Lattner | e29ac16 | 2003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | </div> | 
 | 110 |  | 
 | 111 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 89c6048 | 2004-04-05 00:40:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 112 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR305">LLVM tools will happily spew bytecode onto your terminal</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | e29ac16 | 2003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 113 | </ol> | 
 | 114 |  | 
 | 115 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
 | 116 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | a39719f | 2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | In this release, the following build problems were fixed: | 
| Brian Gaeke | 6b31beb | 2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | </div> | 
 | 119 |  | 
 | 120 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 2974b5b | 2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 121 | <li></li> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 6b31beb | 2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 122 | </ol> | 
 | 123 |  | 
 | 124 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
 | 125 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | a39719f | 2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 126 | <a name="codequality">In this release, the following Code Quality issues were fixed:</a> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 127 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 89ca2b8 | 2003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 128 |  | 
 | 129 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 6491340 | 2004-04-13 14:43:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 130 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR309">[vmcore] Code quality problem due to | 
 | 131 | long operand of getelementptr</a></li> | 
 | 132 |  | 
 | 133 | <li>The X86 backend now generates substantially better code for 64-bit integer | 
 | 134 | and floating point operations.</li> | 
 | 135 |  | 
 | 136 | <li>The -inline pass no longer inlines mutually recursive functions until it | 
 | 137 | hits the inlining threshold.</li> | 
 | 138 |  | 
 | 139 | <li>The -inline pass no longer misses obvious inlining opportunities just | 
 | 140 | because the callee eventually calls into an external function.</li> | 
 | 141 |  | 
 | 142 | <li>The -simplifycfg pass can now "if convert" simple statements into the new | 
 | 143 | <tt>select</tt> instruction.</li> | 
 | 144 |  | 
 | 145 | <li>The -loopsimplify pass can now break <a | 
 | 146 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR35">natural loops with multiple backedges</a> | 
 | 147 | into multiple nested loops.  This enables a variety of subsequent | 
 | 148 | optimizations.</li> | 
 | 149 |  | 
 | 150 | <li>The -adce pass can now eliminate calls to functions that do not not write to | 
 | 151 | memory.</li> | 
 | 152 |  | 
 | 153 | <li>The link-time optimizer now runs the -prune-eh pass (to remove unused | 
 | 154 | exception handlers.</li> | 
 | 155 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 156 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 89ca2b8 | 2003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 157 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 158 |  | 
 | 159 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
 | 160 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | a39719f | 2004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 161 | <a name="bugfix">In this release, the following bugs in the previous release were fixed:</a> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 162 | </div> | 
 | 163 |  | 
 | 164 | <p>Bugs in the LLVM Core:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 165 |  | 
 | 166 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1869a46 | 2004-04-01 19:09:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 167 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR306">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify incorrectly updates dominator information</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 56d0f11 | 2004-04-01 20:31:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR310">[tailduplicate] DemoteRegToStack breaks SSA form</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | acd85c5 | 2004-04-06 19:48:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 169 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR313">[X86] JIT miscompiles unsigned short to floating point cast</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 170 | </ol> | 
 | 171 |  | 
 | 172 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 56e6705 | 2004-02-09 21:22:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 173 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | <p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p> | 
 | 175 |  | 
 | 176 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 2974b5b | 2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | <li></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 178 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 179 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 180 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 181 |  | 
 | 182 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 183 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
 | 184 |   <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a> | 
 | 185 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 186 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
 | 187 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 188 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
 | 189 |  | 
 | 190 | <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] | 191 | 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] | 192 | Additionally,  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 193 | 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] | 194 | interpreter (no native backend for the PowerPC is available yet). | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 195 | The core LLVM infrastructure uses "autoconf" for portability, so hopefully we | 
| Chris Lattner | 3e2959e | 2003-11-08 05:22:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | work on more platforms than that.  However, it is likely that we | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | 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] | 198 | new platforms.  We welcome portability patches and error messages.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 199 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 201 |  | 
 | 202 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 203 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
 | 204 |   <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a> | 
 | 205 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 206 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
 | 207 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 208 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
 | 209 |  | 
 | 210 | <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] | 211 | component.  As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these | 
| Chris Lattner | 5eccca4 | 2003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 212 | sections.  If you run into a problem, please check the <a | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 213 | 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] | 214 | there isn't already one.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 215 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 216 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 217 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | f5ee170 | 2004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 218 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
 | 219 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
 | 220 |   <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a> | 
 | 221 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 222 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | f5ee170 | 2004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 223 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
 | 224 |  | 
 | 225 | <p> | 
 | 226 | The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to be | 
 | 227 | broken or unreliable, or are in early development.  These components should not | 
 | 228 | be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be useful | 
 | 229 | to some people.  In particular, if you would like to work on one of these | 
 | 230 | components, please contact us on the llvmdev list. | 
 | 231 | </p> | 
 | 232 |  | 
 | 233 | <ul> | 
 | 234 | <li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep, | 
 | 235 |     -ipmodref, -sortstructs, -swapstructs, -cee</tt></li> | 
 | 236 |  | 
 | 237 | <li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that | 
 | 238 |     it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li> | 
 | 239 | <li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool is incomplete and probably buggy.</li> | 
 | 240 | <li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development.</li> | 
 | 241 | </ul> | 
 | 242 |  | 
 | 243 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 244 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 245 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
 | 246 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
 | 247 |   <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a> | 
 | 248 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 249 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 250 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
 | 251 |  | 
 | 252 | <ul> | 
 | 253 |  | 
 | 254 | <li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not | 
 | 255 | work.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 256 |  | 
 | 257 | <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] | 258 | such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be | 
 | 259 | corrupted.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 260 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 261 | <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] | 262 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | e84843b | 2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 263 | <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] | 264 | table in the archive).</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 2855ecd | 2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 265 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 2e6fcaf | 2004-02-15 23:09:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 266 | <li>The gccld program <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR139">does not link objects/archives in the order specified on the command line.</a></li> | 
 | 267 |  | 
 | 268 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR240">The lower-invoke pass does not mark | 
| John Criswell | d46c696 | 2004-03-12 21:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 269 | values live across a setjmp as volatile</a>.  This missing feature only affects | 
| Chris Lattner | 2e6fcaf | 2004-02-15 23:09:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 270 | targets whose setjmp/longjmp libraries do not save and restore the entire | 
 | 271 | register file.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 272 | </ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 273 | </div> | 
 | 274 |  | 
 | 275 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
 | 276 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
 | 277 |   <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a> | 
 | 278 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47588f9 | 2003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 279 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 280 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 281 | <div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 282 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 283 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 284 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 285 | <li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of  | 
 | 286 |     scope.  Thus, the following program may run out of stack space: | 
 | 287 | <pre> | 
 | 288 |     for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) { | 
 | 289 |       int X[n]; | 
 | 290 |       foo(X); | 
 | 291 |     } | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 292 | </pre></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 293 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 294 | <li> | 
 | 295 | Initialization of global union variables can only be done | 
 | 296 | <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=162">with the largest | 
 | 297 | union member</a>. | 
 | 298 | </li> | 
| Chris Lattner | f580cdc | 2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 299 |  | 
 | 300 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR244">[llvm-gcc] Error when an implicitly external function is re-declared as static</a></li> | 
 | 301 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 302 | </ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 303 | </div> | 
 | 304 |  | 
 | 305 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
 | 306 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
 | 307 |   Notes | 
 | 308 | </div> | 
 | 309 |  | 
 | 310 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
 | 311 |  | 
 | 312 | <ul> | 
 | 313 |  | 
 | 314 | <li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | e01fcfb | 2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 315 |  | 
 | 316 | <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] | 317 | support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64 | 
 | 318 | bits.</li> | 
 | 319 |      | 
 | 320 | <li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not | 
 | 321 | work: | 
| Misha Brukman | e0c891c | 2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 322 |   <ol> | 
 | 323 |   <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the | 
 | 324 |       appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions.  Note that | 
 | 325 |       <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly. | 
 | 326 |   <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt> | 
 | 327 |       - These functions have not been tested. | 
 | 328 |   </ol></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 329 |  | 
 | 330 | <li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not.  In particular, | 
 | 331 |     the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported: | 
 | 332 |   <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 333 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Labels.html#Local%20Labels">Local Labels</a>: Labels local to a block.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 334 |   <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> | 
 | 335 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li> | 
 | 336 |   <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] | 337 |   <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] | 338 |   <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> | 
 | 339 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Explicit-Reg-Vars.html#Explicit%20Reg%20Vars">Explicit Reg Vars</a>: Defining variables residing in specified registers.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 340 |   <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> | 
 | 341 |   <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> | 
 | 342 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li> | 
 | 343 |   <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] | 344 |   </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 345 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 346 |   <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported.  An ignored | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 347 |   attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute, | 
 | 348 |   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] | 349 |   ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 350 |   the program.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 351 |  | 
 | 352 |   <ol> | 
 | 353 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>: | 
 | 354 |       Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 355 |       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] | 356 |  | 
 | 357 |   <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] | 358 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 359 |       Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 360 |       return.<br> | 
 | 361 |  | 
 | 362 |       <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>, | 
 | 363 |       <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>, | 
 | 364 |       <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br> | 
 | 365 |  | 
 | 366 |       <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>, | 
 | 367 |       <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>, | 
 | 368 |       <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br> | 
 | 369 |  | 
 | 370 |       <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>, | 
 | 371 |       <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>, | 
 | 372 |       <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 373 |     | 
 | 374 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>: | 
 | 375 |       Specifying attributes of variables.<br> | 
 | 376 |       <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>, | 
 | 377 |                         <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>, | 
 | 378 |                         <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 379 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 380 |       <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>, | 
 | 381 |                         <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>, | 
 | 382 |                         <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 383 |                         <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 384 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | c4b7bee | 2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 385 |   <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] | 386 |       <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>, | 
| Misha Brukman | c4b7bee | 2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 387 |                         <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 388 |  | 
 | 389 |       <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,  | 
 | 390 |                         all target specific attributes.</li> | 
 | 391 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 392 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>: | 
 | 393 |       Other built-in functions.<br> | 
 | 394 |       We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,  | 
 | 395 |          <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>),  <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,  | 
 | 396 |          <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>, | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 397 |          <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt> (ignored).</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 398 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 399 |   </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 400 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 401 |   <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p> | 
 | 402 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 403 |   <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 7fe97dd | 2004-03-16 08:54:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 404 |   <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] | 405 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>:   Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li> | 
 | 406 |   <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> | 
 | 407 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li> | 
 | 408 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li> | 
 | 409 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li> | 
 | 410 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>:   Data types for complex numbers.</li> | 
 | 411 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li> | 
 | 412 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li> | 
 | 413 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li> | 
 | 414 |   <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> | 
 | 415 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>:  Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li> | 
 | 416 |   <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] | 417 |   <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] | 418 |   <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] | 419 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions, | 
 | 420 | or arrays as values.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 421 |   <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] | 422 |   <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] | 423 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li> | 
 | 424 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li> | 
 | 425 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li> | 
 | 426 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li> | 
 | 427 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li> | 
 | 428 |   <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> | 
 | 429 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li> | 
 | 430 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li> | 
 | 431 |   <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> | 
 | 432 |   <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> | 
 | 433 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Names.html#Function%20Names">Function Names</a>: Printable strings which are the name of the current function.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 25795bc | 2004-02-14 04:08:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 434 |   <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Return-Address.html#Return%20Address">Return Address</a>: Getting the return or frame address of a function.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 435 |   <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> | 
 | 436 |   <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] | 437 |   </ol></li> | 
 | 438 |  | 
 | 439 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 440 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 441 | <p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these | 
 | 442 | 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] | 443 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 444 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 445 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 446 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
 | 447 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
 | 448 |   <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a> | 
 | 449 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 450 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 451 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
 | 452 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 453 | <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] | 454 | has not been tested as thoroughly as the C front-end.  It has been tested and  | 
 | 455 | works for a number of non-trivial programs, but there may be lurking bugs. | 
 | 456 | Please report any bugs or problems.</p> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 457 |  | 
 | 458 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 459 |  | 
 | 460 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 3a51be1 | 2004-02-14 04:12:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 461 | <div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 462 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 463 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 464 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 465 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 466 | <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] | 467 |     front-end</a>.</li> | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 468 | </ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 469 | </div> | 
 | 470 |  | 
 | 471 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
 | 472 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
 | 473 |   Notes | 
 | 474 | </div> | 
 | 475 |  | 
 | 476 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
 | 477 |  | 
 | 478 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | e01fcfb | 2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 479 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 480 | <li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser.  This | 
 | 481 | parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC | 
 | 482 | versions.  For more information, see the C++ section of the <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e84809 | 2003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 483 | 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] | 484 |  | 
 | 485 | <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] | 486 |     performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 487 |     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] | 488 |     Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 489 |     better than most compilers).</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 490 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 491 | <li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a | 
 | 492 |     href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>. | 
 | 493 |     This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name | 
 | 494 |     mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++ | 
 | 495 |     representation issues.  Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM | 
 | 496 |     compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other | 
 | 497 |     Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc). | 
 | 498 |     <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very | 
 | 499 |     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] | 500 |     interact correctly</b>. </li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 501 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 502 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 503 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 504 | </div> | 
 | 505 |  | 
 | 506 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
 | 507 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
 | 508 |   <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a> | 
 | 509 | </div> | 
 | 510 |  | 
 | 511 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
 | 512 |  | 
 | 513 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | de4afdc | 2004-02-08 22:23:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 514 | <li>None so far. | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 515 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 516 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 517 | </div> | 
 | 518 |  | 
 | 519 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
 | 520 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
 | 521 |   <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc back-end</a> | 
 | 522 | </div> | 
 | 523 |  | 
 | 524 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
 | 525 |  | 
 | 526 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 6a39aa5 | 2004-03-19 19:22:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 527 | <li>There are several programs in the LLVM testsuite that the Sparc code generator is known to miscompile.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 528 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 529 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 530 | </div> | 
 | 531 |  | 
 | 532 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
 | 533 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
 | 534 |   <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a> | 
 | 535 | </div> | 
 | 536 |  | 
 | 537 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
 | 538 |  | 
 | 539 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 540 |  | 
 | 541 | <li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias | 
 | 542 | Analysis rules.  As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code | 
 | 543 | (for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option).  This | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 544 | problem probably cannot be fixed.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 545 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | e84843b | 2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 546 | <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] | 547 | cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or | 
 | 548 | Infinity.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 549 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 2855ecd | 2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 550 | <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] | 551 | 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] | 552 | frontends.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 2af4605 | 2003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 553 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 554 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 555 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 556 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 557 |  | 
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| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 559 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
 | 560 |   <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a> | 
 | 561 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 562 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
 | 563 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 564 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
 | 565 |  | 
 | 566 | <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] | 567 | including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 568 | implemented in LLVM.  The web page also contains versions of the API | 
 | 569 | documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code.  You | 
 | 570 | 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] | 571 | the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 572 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 573 | <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] | 574 | us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing | 
 | 575 | lists</a>.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 576 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 577 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 578 |  | 
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| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 581 | <hr> | 
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