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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 | 1124e2c | 2003-12-12 21:33:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | <p>At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all non-unwinding C | 
|  | 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 | 
|  | 79 | received much less testing than the C front-end. | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | </p> | 
|  | 81 |  | 
|  | 82 | <p> | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | The LLVM native code generators are very stable but do not currently support | 
| Chris Lattner | 1124e2c | 2003-12-12 21:33:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | unwinding (exception throwing or <tt>longjmp</tt>ing), which prevent them from | 
|  | 85 | working with programs like the <tt>253.perlbmk</tt> in SPEC CPU2000.  The C | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | backend and the rest of LLVM supports these programs, so you can | 
| Chris Lattner | 1124e2c | 2003-12-12 21:33:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | still use LLVM with them.  Support for unwinding will be added in a future | 
|  | 88 | release. | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | </p> | 
|  | 90 |  | 
|  | 91 |  | 
|  | 92 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 93 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 94 | This release implements the following new features: | 
|  | 95 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 |  | 
|  | 97 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 98 | <li></li> | 
|  | 99 | <li></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 55ee031 | 2003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 101 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 102 |  | 
|  | 103 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 104 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 105 | In this release, the following missing features were implemented: | 
|  | 106 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 107 |  | 
|  | 108 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | <li></li> | 
|  | 110 | <li></li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 112 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 113 |  | 
|  | 114 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 115 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | e29ac16 | 2003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | In this release, the following Quality of Implementation issues were fixed: | 
|  | 117 | </div> | 
|  | 118 |  | 
|  | 119 | <ol> | 
|  | 120 |  | 
|  | 121 | <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^] | 122 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR192">[X86] X86 Backend never releases memory for machine code structures</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | e29ac16 | 2003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 123 |  | 
|  | 124 | <li></li> | 
|  | 125 | </ol> | 
|  | 126 |  | 
|  | 127 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 128 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 129 | In this release, the following Code Quality issues were fixed: | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 89ca2b8 | 2003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 131 |  | 
|  | 132 | <ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 133 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e25906 | 2003-12-19 06:31:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 134 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR187">[loopsimplify] Many pointless phi nodes are created</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 0ef1906 | 2003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 135 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | <li></li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 137 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 89ca2b8 | 2003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 138 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 139 |  | 
|  | 140 | <!--=========================================================================--> | 
|  | 141 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 142 | In this release, the following bugs in the previous release were fixed: | 
|  | 143 | </div> | 
|  | 144 |  | 
|  | 145 | <p>Bugs in the LLVM Core:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47ad72c | 2003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 146 |  | 
|  | 147 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | ad64385 | 2003-12-15 22:48:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR179">[licm] LICM promotes volatile memory | 
|  | 149 | locations to registers</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5b7142a | 2003-12-18 08:16:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR191">[licm] Memory read after free causes | 
|  | 151 | infrequent crash</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 152 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | </ol> | 
|  | 154 |  | 
|  | 155 |  | 
|  | 156 | <p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p> | 
|  | 157 |  | 
|  | 158 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | ad64385 | 2003-12-15 22:48:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR186">Need weak linkage on memory | 
|  | 160 | management functions in libc runtime to allow them to be overriden</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 161 | <li></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | a509996 | 2003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 162 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 163 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 164 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 165 |  | 
|  | 166 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 167 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 168 | <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a> | 
|  | 169 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 170 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 171 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 172 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 173 |  | 
|  | 174 | <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] | 175 | 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] | 176 | Additionally, | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | 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] | 178 | interpreter (no native backend for the PowerPC is available yet). | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 179 | The core LLVM infrastructure uses "autoconf" for portability, so hopefully we | 
| Chris Lattner | 3e2959e | 2003-11-08 05:22:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 180 | work on more platforms than that.  However, it is likely that we | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 181 | 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] | 182 | new platforms.  We welcome portability patches and error messages.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 183 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 184 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 185 |  | 
|  | 186 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 187 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 188 | <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a> | 
|  | 189 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 190 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 191 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 193 |  | 
|  | 194 | <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] | 195 | component.  As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these | 
| Chris Lattner | 5eccca4 | 2003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | sections.  If you run into a problem, please check the <a | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | 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] | 198 | there isn't already one.</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 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 203 | <!-- | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 204 | </ul><h4><a name="portability"><hr size=0>Portability Problems</h4><ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 205 | --> | 
| 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 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 209 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 210 | <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a> | 
|  | 211 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 212 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 213 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 214 |  | 
|  | 215 | <ul> | 
|  | 216 |  | 
|  | 217 | <li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not | 
|  | 218 | work.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 219 |  | 
|  | 220 | <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] | 221 | such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be | 
|  | 222 | corrupted.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 223 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 224 | <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] | 225 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | e84843b | 2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 226 | <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] | 227 | table in the archive).</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 2855ecd | 2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 228 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 2855ecd | 2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | <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] | 230 | more than 256 elements</a>.</li> | 
|  | 231 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 232 | <li> | 
|  | 233 | The gccld program | 
|  | 234 | <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=139"> | 
|  | 235 | does not link objects/archives in the order specified on the command line. | 
|  | 236 | </a> | 
|  | 237 | </li> | 
|  | 238 |  | 
|  | 239 | <li> | 
|  | 240 | <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=174"> | 
|  | 241 | Tail duplication does not update SSA form correctly. | 
|  | 242 | </a> | 
|  | 243 | </li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 244 | </ul> | 
|  | 245 |  | 
|  | 246 | </div> | 
|  | 247 |  | 
|  | 248 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 249 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 250 | <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a> | 
|  | 251 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 47588f9 | 2003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 252 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 253 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | b40efb3 | 2003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 254 | <div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 255 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 256 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 257 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 258 | <li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of | 
|  | 259 | scope.  Thus, the following program may run out of stack space: | 
|  | 260 | <pre> | 
|  | 261 | for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) { | 
|  | 262 | int X[n]; | 
|  | 263 | foo(X); | 
|  | 264 | } | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 265 | </pre></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 266 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 267 | <li> | 
|  | 268 | Initialization of global union variables can only be done | 
|  | 269 | <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=162">with the largest | 
|  | 270 | union member</a>. | 
|  | 271 | </li> | 
| Chris Lattner | e01fcfb | 2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 272 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 273 | <li> | 
|  | 274 | <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182"> | 
|  | 275 | Functions marked "extern inline" are not compiled into LLVM with linkonce | 
|  | 276 | linkage. | 
|  | 277 | </a> | 
|  | 278 | </li> | 
|  | 279 |  | 
|  | 280 |  | 
|  | 281 | <li> | 
|  | 282 | The memory management functions in the libc runtime | 
|  | 283 | <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR186">need weak linkage so that they can be | 
|  | 284 | overridden. | 
|  | 285 | </a> | 
|  | 286 | </li> | 
|  | 287 | </ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 288 | </div> | 
|  | 289 |  | 
|  | 290 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 291 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 292 | Notes | 
|  | 293 | </div> | 
|  | 294 |  | 
|  | 295 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 296 |  | 
|  | 297 | <ul> | 
|  | 298 |  | 
|  | 299 | <li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | e01fcfb | 2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 300 |  | 
|  | 301 | <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] | 302 | support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64 | 
|  | 303 | bits.</li> | 
|  | 304 |  | 
|  | 305 | <li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not | 
|  | 306 | work: | 
| Misha Brukman | e0c891c | 2003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 307 | <ol> | 
|  | 308 | <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the | 
|  | 309 | appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions.  Note that | 
|  | 310 | <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly. | 
|  | 311 | <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt> | 
|  | 312 | - These functions have not been tested. | 
|  | 313 | </ol></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 314 |  | 
|  | 315 | <li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not.  In particular, | 
|  | 316 | the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported: | 
|  | 317 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 318 | <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] | 319 | <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] | 320 | <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> | 
|  | 321 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li> | 
|  | 322 | <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] | 323 | <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] | 324 | <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> | 
|  | 325 | <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> | 
|  | 326 | <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> | 
|  | 327 | <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> | 
|  | 328 | <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> | 
|  | 329 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li> | 
|  | 330 | <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] | 331 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 332 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 333 | <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported.  An ignored | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 334 | attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute, | 
|  | 335 | 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] | 336 | ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 337 | the program.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 338 |  | 
|  | 339 | <ol> | 
|  | 340 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>: | 
|  | 341 | Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 342 | 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] | 343 |  | 
|  | 344 | <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] | 345 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 346 | Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 347 | return.<br> | 
|  | 348 |  | 
|  | 349 | <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>, | 
|  | 350 | <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>, | 
|  | 351 | <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br> | 
|  | 352 |  | 
|  | 353 | <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>, | 
|  | 354 | <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>, | 
|  | 355 | <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br> | 
|  | 356 |  | 
|  | 357 | <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>, | 
|  | 358 | <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>, | 
|  | 359 | <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 360 |  | 
|  | 361 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>: | 
|  | 362 | Specifying attributes of variables.<br> | 
|  | 363 | <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>, | 
|  | 364 | <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>, | 
|  | 365 | <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 366 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 367 | <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>, | 
|  | 368 | <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>, | 
|  | 369 | <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>, | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 370 | <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 371 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | c4b7bee | 2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 372 | <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] | 373 | <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>, | 
| Misha Brukman | c4b7bee | 2003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 374 | <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 375 |  | 
|  | 376 | <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>, | 
|  | 377 | all target specific attributes.</li> | 
|  | 378 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 379 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>: | 
|  | 380 | Other built-in functions.<br> | 
|  | 381 | We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g., | 
|  | 382 | <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>),  <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>, | 
|  | 383 | <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>, | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 384 | <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt> (ignored).</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 385 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 386 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 387 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 388 | <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p> | 
|  | 389 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 390 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 391 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>:   Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li> | 
|  | 392 | <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> | 
|  | 393 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li> | 
|  | 394 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li> | 
|  | 395 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li> | 
|  | 396 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>:   Data types for complex numbers.</li> | 
|  | 397 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li> | 
|  | 398 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li> | 
|  | 399 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li> | 
|  | 400 | <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> | 
|  | 401 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>:  Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li> | 
|  | 402 | <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] | 403 | <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] | 404 | <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] | 405 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions, | 
|  | 406 | or arrays as values.</li> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 407 | <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] | 408 | <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] | 409 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li> | 
|  | 410 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li> | 
|  | 411 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li> | 
|  | 412 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li> | 
|  | 413 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li> | 
|  | 414 | <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> | 
|  | 415 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li> | 
|  | 416 | <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li> | 
|  | 417 | <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> | 
|  | 418 | <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> | 
|  | 419 | <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> | 
|  | 420 | <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> | 
|  | 421 | <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] | 422 | </ol></li> | 
|  | 423 |  | 
|  | 424 | </ul> | 
| 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 | <p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these | 
|  | 427 | 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] | 428 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 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 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 432 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 433 | <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a> | 
|  | 434 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 435 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 436 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 437 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 438 | <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] | 439 | has not been tested as thoroughly as the C front-end.  It has been tested and | 
|  | 440 | works for a number of non-trivial programs, but there may be lurking bugs. | 
|  | 441 | Please report any bugs or problems.</p> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 442 |  | 
|  | 443 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 444 |  | 
|  | 445 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 446 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 447 | Bugs | 
|  | 448 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 449 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 450 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 451 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 452 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 453 | <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] | 454 | front-end</a>.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 455 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 456 | <li> | 
|  | 457 | <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=137"> | 
|  | 458 | Code is generated for empty classes. | 
|  | 459 | </a> | 
|  | 460 | </li> | 
|  | 461 | </ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 462 | </div> | 
|  | 463 |  | 
|  | 464 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 465 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 466 | Notes | 
|  | 467 | </div> | 
|  | 468 |  | 
|  | 469 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 470 |  | 
|  | 471 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | e01fcfb | 2003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 472 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 473 | <li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser.  This | 
|  | 474 | parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC | 
|  | 475 | versions.  For more information, see the C++ section of the <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e84809 | 2003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 476 | 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] | 477 |  | 
|  | 478 | <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] | 479 | performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 480 | 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] | 481 | Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 482 | better than most compilers).</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 483 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 1909261 | 2003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 484 | <li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a | 
|  | 485 | href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>. | 
|  | 486 | This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name | 
|  | 487 | mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++ | 
|  | 488 | representation issues.  Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM | 
|  | 489 | compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other | 
|  | 490 | Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc). | 
|  | 491 | <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very | 
|  | 492 | 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] | 493 | interact correctly</b>. </li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 494 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 495 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 496 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 497 | </div> | 
|  | 498 |  | 
|  | 499 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 500 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 501 | <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a> | 
|  | 502 | </div> | 
|  | 503 |  | 
|  | 504 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 505 |  | 
|  | 506 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 507 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 508 | <li>The X86 code generator <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 0d4379a | 2003-10-08 06:01:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 509 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR16">does not currently | 
| Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 510 | support the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction</a>, so code that throws a C++ exception | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 511 | or calls the C <tt>longjmp</tt> function will abort.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 512 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 513 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 514 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 515 | </div> | 
|  | 516 |  | 
|  | 517 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 518 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 519 | <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc back-end</a> | 
|  | 520 | </div> | 
|  | 521 |  | 
|  | 522 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 523 |  | 
|  | 524 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 525 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 526 | <li>The Sparc code generator <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 0d4379a | 2003-10-08 06:01:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 527 | href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR15">does not currently | 
| Chris Lattner | fcc54b3 | 2003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 528 | support the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction</a>, so code that throws a C++ exception | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 529 | or calls the C <tt>longjmp</tt> function will abort.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 530 |  | 
| John Criswell | d000e1d | 2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 531 | <li> | 
|  | 532 | <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=167"> | 
|  | 533 | The llc program can crash on legal code. | 
|  | 534 | </a> | 
|  | 535 | </li> | 
| 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> | 
|  | 539 |  | 
|  | 540 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 541 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 542 | <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a> | 
|  | 543 | </div> | 
|  | 544 |  | 
|  | 545 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 546 |  | 
|  | 547 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 548 |  | 
|  | 549 | <li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias | 
|  | 550 | Analysis rules.  As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code | 
|  | 551 | (for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option).  This | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 552 | problem probably cannot be fixed.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 553 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | e84843b | 2003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 554 | <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] | 555 | cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or | 
|  | 556 | Infinity.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 557 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 2855ecd | 2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 558 | <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] | 559 | 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] | 560 | frontends.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 2af4605 | 2003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 561 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 562 | </ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 563 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 564 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 565 |  | 
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| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 567 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 568 | <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a> | 
|  | 569 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 570 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
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| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 572 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 573 |  | 
|  | 574 | <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] | 575 | including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 576 | implemented in LLVM.  The web page also contains versions of the API | 
|  | 577 | documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code.  You | 
|  | 578 | 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] | 579 | the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 580 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | 500bc30 | 2003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 581 | <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] | 582 | us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing | 
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| Chris Lattner | 79c3fe1 | 2003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 584 |  | 
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