Gitiles
Code Review Sign In
gerrit-public.fairphone.software / toolchain / llvm-project / 4769612be15c785f0b430eee631a7898dca2507c / . / llvm / docs / ReleaseNotes.html
blob: 3b2edc63dbe42fbf054401bbae0aa7dabf7230d9 [file] [log] [blame]
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
2 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
3<html>
4<head>
5 <link rel="stylesheet" href="llvm.css" type="text/css">
Chris Lattner1a7e43c2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]6 <title>LLVM 1.3 Release Notes</title>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]7</head>
8<body>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]9
Chris Lattner1a7e43c2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]10<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.3 Release Notes</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]11
12<ol>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]13 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
14 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
Chris Lattner77a51732004-04-30 22:17:12 +0000[diff] [blame]15 <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]16 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]17 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
18 <ul>
Chris Lattner1a7e43c2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <li><a href="#experimental">Experimental features included in this
20 release</a>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 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 Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]27 </ul></li>
28 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]29</ol>
30
Chris Lattner020e1fc2004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]31<div class="doc_author">
32 <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM team</a><p>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]33</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]34
35<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]36<div class="doc_section">
37 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
38</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]39<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
40
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 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 Lattner1a7e43c2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]44infrastructure, release 1.3. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]45known problems and bug fixes from the previous release. The most up-to-date
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]46version of this document can be found on the <a
Chris Lattner1a7e43c2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]47href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.3/">LLVM 1.3 web site</a>. If you are
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]48not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]49this document may be updated after the release.</p>
Chris Lattner62495762003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]50
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]51<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about potentially more
Chris Lattnere7525b52003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]52current releases, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main
53web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
54href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]55list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]56
Chris Lattnere76e9ab2003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]57<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS, this document applies
58to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one. To see the release notes for
59the current or previous releases, see the <a
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]60href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
61
62</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]63
64<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]65<div class="doc_section">
66 <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
67</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]68<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
69
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]70<div class="doc_text">
71
Misha Brukmanfa50a222004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]72<p>This is the fourth public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. This
Chris Lattnerea309ff2004-05-04 17:04:09 +0000[diff] [blame]73release primarily improves the <a href="#codequality">performance of the
74code</a> produced by all aspects of the LLVM compiler and adds some <a
75href="#newfeatures">new features</a>, though it does <a href="#bugfix">fix a few
Misha Brukmanfa50a222004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]76bugs</a> as well.</p>
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]77
Misha Brukmanfa50a222004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]78<p> At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all C &amp; C++
79SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks, the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist benchmarks. It
80has also been used to compile <b>many</b> other programs. LLVM now also works
81with a broad variety of C++ programs, though it has still received less testing
82than the C front-end.</p>
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]83
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]84</div>
85
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]86<!--=========================================================================-->
87<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattner8ebf2532004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000[diff] [blame]88<a name="newfeatures">This release implements the following new features:</a>
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]89</div>
Chris Lattnere7525b52003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]90
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]91<div class="doc_text">
92
Chris Lattnere7525b52003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]93<ol>
Chris Lattner1a7e43c2004-04-01 00:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]94<li>The LLVM <a href="LangRef.html#i_select"><tt>select</tt></a> instruction is
Chris Lattner2ad48782004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]95now fully implemented and supported by all transformations, native code
96generators, and the interpreter.</li>
Misha Brukman017f2f32004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]97<li>Bugpoint can now narrow down code-generation bugs to a loop nest, where
98before it could only narrow them down to a function being miscompiled.</li>
Brian Gaekee307f8a72004-05-04 21:22:57 +0000[diff] [blame]99<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR40">Bugpoint can now debug arbitrary
100modes of llc</a> and lli, by passing them command line flags (e.g.,
101<tt>-regalloc=linearscan</tt>, <tt>-enable-correct-eh-support</tt>, etc.) </li>
Chris Lattner2ad48782004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]102<li>The Control Flow Graph in the native code generators is no longer
103constrained to be the same as the CFG for the LLVM input code.</li>
104<li>The LLVM induction variable analysis routines have been rewritten.</li>
105<li>LLVM now has new loop unrolling and loop unswitching passes.</li>
106<li>The induction variable substitution pass performs linear function test
107replacement and exit value replacement optimizations.</li>
Chris Lattnereda4f472004-05-24 04:45:52 +0000[diff] [blame]108<li>LLVM now has first-class support for <a href="GarbageCollection.html">Accurate
109Garbage Collection</a>, enabling the use of aggressive copying and generational
110collectors.</li>
111<li>LLVM now includes an implementation of Andersen's interprocedural alias
112analysis algorithm.</li>
Chris Lattner57e7a4c2004-05-24 05:34:32 +0000[diff] [blame]113<li>Bugpoint can <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR327">extract individual
114basic blocks</a> to track down reduce miscompilation testcases.</li>
Brian Gaeke84c8bd02004-06-01 20:02:56 +0000[diff] [blame]115<li>LLVM and the C front-end now work under Win32 using the
116<a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a> runtime libraries.
Chris Lattner2c7b0872004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]117This includes the JIT compiler.</li>
Chris Lattnera7fac952004-06-04 00:40:11 +0000[diff] [blame]118<li>The LLVM code generator is now being <a
119 href="CodeGenerator.html">documented</a>.</li>
Reid Spencer850f85f2004-06-08 07:30:31 +0000[diff] [blame]120<li>There is a new tool, llvm-abcd, the Analysis of ByteCode Dumper (abcd).
121This tool can compute basic statistics and bytecode density statistics on a
122module or function basis and also dump out bytecode in a textual format that
123is lower level than assembly (values are not resolved from slot numbers).
124It should only be of interest to (a) those who are working to improve the
125bytecode format and (b) those who really want to understand or document the
126details of the bytecode format.</li>
127<li>The <a href="BytecodeFormat.html">LLVM Bytecode file format</a> is now
128 being documented.</li>
Chris Lattner592db402003-11-19 22:05:38 +0000[diff] [blame]129</ol>
Chris Lattner4491de62003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]130
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]131</div>
132
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]133
134<!--=========================================================================-->
135<div class="doc_subsubsection">
136In this release, the following missing features were implemented:
137</div>
Chris Lattner4491de62003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]138
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]139<div class="doc_text">
140
Chris Lattner4491de62003-11-08 04:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]141<ol>
Misha Brukman017f2f32004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]142<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR82">LLVM cannot handle structures with
143more than 256 elements</a></li>
Misha Brukmane7050232004-04-19 03:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]144<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR38">[bugpoint] External functions used in
145non-instruction entities, such as global constant initializer</a></li>
Reid Spencer45e25d82004-05-09 23:32:39 +0000[diff] [blame]146<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR178">Stacker does not handle targets
147with 64-bit pointers.</a></li>
Misha Brukmane7050232004-04-19 03:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]148<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR290">Bugpoint doesn't support
149uses of external fns by immediate constant exprs</a></li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]150</ol>
Chris Lattnere7525b52003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]151
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]152</div>
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]153
154<!--=========================================================================-->
155<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukman017f2f32004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]156<a name="qualityofimp">In this release, the following Quality of Implementation
157issues were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattner4df78f02003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]158</div>
159
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]160<div class="doc_text">
161
Chris Lattner4df78f02003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]162<ol>
Misha Brukman017f2f32004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]163<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR305">LLVM tools will happily spew
164bytecode onto your terminal</a></li>
Misha Brukmanfa50a222004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]165<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR329">[llvmgcc] type names are not emitted
166for structure typedefs</a></li>
Chris Lattnerf10ccbf2004-05-24 04:53:32 +0000[diff] [blame]167<li>All documentation is now conformant to the HTML 4.01 (Strict) level.</li>
Chris Lattnerbd948cf2004-06-08 07:19:29 +0000[diff] [blame]168<li>The spurious "WARNING: Found global types that are not compatible" warning
169produced when linking C++ programs has been fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner4df78f02003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]170</ol>
171
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]172</div>
173
Chris Lattner4df78f02003-12-20 03:42:11 +0000[diff] [blame]174<!--=========================================================================-->
175<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattner8ebf2532004-02-25 16:36:51 +0000[diff] [blame]176In this release, the following build problems were fixed:
Brian Gaeke8b05e4f2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]177</div>
178
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]179<div class="doc_text">
Brian Gaeke8b05e4f2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]180<ol>
Misha Brukmanfa50a222004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]181<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR301">Minor configure bugs with
182-disable/enable-povray and -disable-spec</a></li>
183<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR289">shell scripts output by gccld don't
184work if you change PATH</a></li>
Chris Lattner47696122004-06-09 01:09:16 +0000[diff] [blame^]185<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR364">[llvmgcc] llvmgcc does not compile
186with gcc 3.4</a></li>
Brian Gaeke8b05e4f2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]187</ol>
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]188</div>
Brian Gaeke8b05e4f2004-01-16 21:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]189
190<!--=========================================================================-->
191<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Chris Lattner2ad48782004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]192<a name="codequality">This release includes the following Code Quality
193improvements:</a>
Chris Lattner23257062004-05-23 20:42:08 +0000[diff] [blame]194</div>
Chris Lattner639579c2003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]195
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]196<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner639579c2003-10-27 17:06:39 +0000[diff] [blame]197<ol>
Chris Lattner2ad48782004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]198<li>Fixed: <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR309">[vmcore] Code quality problem
199due to long operand of getelementptr</a></li>
Chris Lattner54dcea82004-04-13 14:43:35 +0000[diff] [blame]200
201<li>The X86 backend now generates substantially better code for 64-bit integer
202and floating point operations.</li>
203
204<li>The -inline pass no longer inlines mutually recursive functions until it
205hits the inlining threshold.</li>
206
207<li>The -inline pass no longer misses obvious inlining opportunities just
208because the callee eventually calls into an external function.</li>
209
210<li>The -simplifycfg pass can now "if convert" simple statements into the new
211<tt>select</tt> instruction.</li>
212
213<li>The -loopsimplify pass can now break <a
214href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR35">natural loops with multiple backedges</a>
215into multiple nested loops. This enables a variety of subsequent
216optimizations.</li>
217
218<li>The -adce pass can now eliminate calls to functions that do not not write to
219memory.</li>
220
221<li>The link-time optimizer now runs the -prune-eh pass (to remove unused
Chris Lattnerea309ff2004-05-04 17:04:09 +0000[diff] [blame]222exception handlers).</li>
Chris Lattner54dcea82004-04-13 14:43:35 +0000[diff] [blame]223
Chris Lattner2ad48782004-05-02 04:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]224<li>The -simplifycfg pass can now eliminate simple correlated branches (such as
225"<tt>if (A &lt; B &amp;&amp; A &lt; B)</tt>", and can turn short-circuiting
226operators into the strict versions when useful (such as "<tt>if (A &lt; B || A
227&gt; C)</tt>" into "<tt>if (A &lt; B | A &gt; C)</tt>"</li>
228
Chris Lattnerea309ff2004-05-04 17:04:09 +0000[diff] [blame]229<li>LLVM now has infrastructure for (simple and sparse conditional) constant
230propagation of function calls. It currently supports a few math library
231functions like sqrt/sin/cos/etc.</li>
Chris Lattner249b3552004-06-03 22:35:13 +0000[diff] [blame]232
233<li>The C backend now emits <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR334">Syntactic
234loops</a> in the code to help C compilers whose optimizers do not recognize
235loops formed from gotos (like GCC).</li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]236</ol>
Reid Spencer3e58f582004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000[diff] [blame]237</div>
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]238
239<!--=========================================================================-->
240<div class="doc_subsubsection">
Misha Brukman017f2f32004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]241<a name="bugfix">In this release, the following bugs in the previous release
242were fixed:</a>
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]243</div>
244
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]245<div class="doc_text">
246
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]247<p>Bugs in the LLVM Core:</p>
Chris Lattnere7525b52003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]248
249<ol>
John Criswell6956afa2004-05-06 22:23:24 +0000[diff] [blame]250<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR330">[vmcore] Linker causes erroneous
251asssertion</a></li>
Misha Brukman017f2f32004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]252<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR306">[loopsimplify] Loop simplify
253incorrectly updates dominator information</a></li>
254<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR310">[tailduplicate] DemoteRegToStack
255breaks SSA form</a></li>
256<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR313">[X86] JIT miscompiles unsigned short
257to floating point cast</a></li>
Misha Brukmanfa50a222004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]258<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR332">[adce] Crash handling unreachable
259code that unwinds</a></li>
260<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR333">[sparc] LLC can't emit 2 functions
261of the same name, both having constant pools</a></li>
262<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR337">[livevar] Live variables missed
263physical register use of aliased definition</a></li>
Chris Lattner8f7cf272004-05-21 16:48:20 +0000[diff] [blame]264<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR340">Verifier misses malformed switch instruction</a></li>
Chris Lattner3edb94b2004-06-01 21:52:45 +0000[diff] [blame]265<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR315">[jit] abort, don't warn, when missing external functions encountered</a></li>
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]266</ol>
267
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]268<p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>
269
270<ol>
Misha Brukmanfa50a222004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]271<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR326">[llvmgcc] Crash on use of undeclared
272enum type</a></li>
273<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR298">[llvmgcc] Variable length array
274indexing miscompiled</a></li>
Chris Lattner25b3a032004-06-08 07:15:52 +0000[diff] [blame]275<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR355">[llvmgcc] Errors handling function prototypes that take opaque structs by-value</a></li>
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]276</ol>
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]277</div>
Reid Spencer3e58f582004-05-23 17:23:13 +0000[diff] [blame]278
Chris Lattner62495762003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]279<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]280<div class="doc_section">
281 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
282</div>
Chris Lattner62495762003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]283<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
284
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]285<div class="doc_text">
286
Chris Lattner2c7b0872004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]287<p>LLVM is known to work in the following platforms:</p>
288
289<ul>
290<li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably
291 other unix-like systems).</li>
292<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>
293<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.3 and above (C backend and
294 interpreter only, no native codegen is available yet).</li>
295<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries.</li>
296</ul>
297
Brian Gaekee3e557e2004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000[diff] [blame]298
299<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
300<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself
301to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor
302porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your
303portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]304
Chris Lattner2c7b0872004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]305<p>Note that the LLVM build system does not currently support directories with
306spaces on them when running on Win32/cygwin. We strongly recommend running
307LLVM and the C frontend out of a top-level directory without spaces (e.g.,
Chris Lattnerce1a3842004-06-01 19:41:30 +0000[diff] [blame]308<tt>/cygdrive/c/llvm</tt>). Also, make sure to install <b>all</b> of the
309cygwin packages. By default, many important tools are not installed that
310are needed by the LLVM build process or test suite (e.g., /bin/time).</p>
Chris Lattner2c7b0872004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000[diff] [blame]311
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]312</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]313
Brian Gaeke86a6c752004-04-20 18:18:46 +0000[diff] [blame]314<!--=========================================================================-->
315<div class="doc_subsection">
316In this release, the following portability problems were fixed:
317</div>
318
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]319<div class="doc_text">
320
Brian Gaeke86a6c752004-04-20 18:18:46 +0000[diff] [blame]321<ol>
Misha Brukmanfa50a222004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]322<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR304">warnings compiling Stacker compiler
323on Mac OS X</a></li>
324<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR308">Archive file reader doesn't
325understand abbreviated names in headers</a></li>
Brian Gaeke86a6c752004-04-20 18:18:46 +0000[diff] [blame]326</ol>
327
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +0000[diff] [blame]328</div>
329
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]330<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]331<div class="doc_section">
332 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
333</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]334<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
335
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]336<div class="doc_text">
337
338<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]339component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Chris Lattnerb84f3322003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]340sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]341href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
Chris Lattnerb84f3322003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]342there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]343
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]344</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]345
Chris Lattnerb911de42004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]346<!-- ======================================================================= -->
347<div class="doc_subsection">
348 <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
349</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]350
Chris Lattnerb911de42004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]351<div class="doc_text">
352
Misha Brukmanfa50a222004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]353<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
354be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should
355not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
356useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
357components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>
Chris Lattnerb911de42004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]358
359<ul>
360<li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy: <tt>-pgmdep, -memdep,
361 -ipmodref, -sortstructs, -swapstructs, -cee</tt></li>
362
363<li>The <tt>-pre</tt> pass is incomplete (there are cases it doesn't handle that
364 it should) and not thoroughly tested.</li>
365<li>The <tt>llvm-ar</tt> tool is incomplete and probably buggy.</li>
366<li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development.</li>
367</ul>
368
369</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]370
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]371<!-- ======================================================================= -->
372<div class="doc_subsection">
373 <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
374</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]375
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]376<div class="doc_text">
377
378<ul>
379
380<li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not
381work.</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]382
383<li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]384such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be
385corrupted.</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]386
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]387<li>It is not possible to <tt>dlopen</tt> an LLVM bytecode file in the JIT.</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]388
Chris Lattnera623e482003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]389<li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is very slow (there is no symbol
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]390table in the archive).</li>
Chris Lattnerc679fbb2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]391
Misha Brukman017f2f32004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]392<li>The gccld program <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR139">does not link
393objects/archives in the order specified on the command line.</a></li>
Chris Lattneraebc66a2004-02-15 23:09:07 +0000[diff] [blame]394
395<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR240">The lower-invoke pass does not mark
John Criswell5d6345a2004-03-12 21:29:42 +0000[diff] [blame]396values live across a setjmp as volatile</a>. This missing feature only affects
Chris Lattneraebc66a2004-02-15 23:09:07 +0000[diff] [blame]397targets whose setjmp/longjmp libraries do not save and restore the entire
398register file.</li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]399</ul>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]400</div>
401
402<!-- ======================================================================= -->
403<div class="doc_subsection">
404 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
405</div>
Chris Lattner178f3db2003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000[diff] [blame]406
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]407<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner5a8a7282003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]408<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]409
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]410<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]411<ul>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]412<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
413 scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
414<pre>
415 for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) {
416 int X[n];
417 foo(X);
418 }
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]419</pre></li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]420
Misha Brukmanfa50a222004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]421<li>Initialization of global union variables can only be done <a
422href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=162">with the largest union
423member</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner1ab58dd2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000[diff] [blame]424
Misha Brukman017f2f32004-04-19 02:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]425<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR244">[llvm-gcc] Error when an implicitly
426external function is re-declared as static</a></li>
Chris Lattner1ab58dd2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000[diff] [blame]427
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]428</ul>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]429</div>
430
431<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
432<div class="doc_subsubsection">
433 Notes
434</div>
435
436<div class="doc_text">
437
438<ul>
439
440<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
Chris Lattnerd2a74272003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]441
442<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]443support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
444bits.</li>
445
446<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
447work:
Misha Brukman7cb4e382003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000[diff] [blame]448 <ol>
449 <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
450 appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
451 <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
452 <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
453 - These functions have not been tested.
454 </ol></li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]455
456<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
457 the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
458 <ol>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]459 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Labels.html#Local%20Labels">Local Labels</a>: Labels local to a block.</li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]460 <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>
461 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li>
462 <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 Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]463 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constraints.html#Constraints">Constraints</a>: Constraints for asm operands.</li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]464 <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>
465 <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 Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]466 <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>
467 <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>
468 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
469 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pragmas.html#Pragmas">Pragmas</a>: Pragmas accepted by GCC.</li>
Misha Brukman7cb4e382003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000[diff] [blame]470 </ol>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]471
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]472 <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]473 attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
474 but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]475 ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]476 the program.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]477
478 <ol>
479 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
480 Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]481 Supported, but allocated stack space is not freed until the function returns (noted above).</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]482
483 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes">Function Attributes</a>:
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]484
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]485 Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]486 return.<br>
487
488 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
489 <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
490 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
491
492 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>,
493 <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
494 <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
495
496 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>,
497 <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
498 <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]499
500 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
501 Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
502 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
503 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
504 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]505
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]506 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
507 <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
508 <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]509 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]510
Misha Brukman8395d732003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]511 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Type-Attributes.html#Type%20Attributes">Type Attributes</a>: Specifying attributes of types.<br>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]512 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukman8395d732003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]513 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]514
515 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
516 all target specific attributes.</li>
517
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]518 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
519 Other built-in functions.<br>
520 We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
521 <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
522 <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]523 <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt> (ignored).</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]524
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]525 </ol>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]526
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]527 <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
528
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]529 <ol>
Chris Lattnerd3dc8502004-03-16 08:54:07 +0000[diff] [blame]530 <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 Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]531 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li>
532 <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>
533 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li>
534 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li>
535 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li>
536 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li>
537 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li>
538 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li>
539 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li>
540 <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>
541 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li>
542 <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 Brukman8395d732003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]543 <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 Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]544 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Initializers.html#Initializers">Initializers</a>: Non-constant initializers.</li>
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]545 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions,
546or arrays as values.</li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]547 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html#Designated%20Inits">Designated Inits</a>: Labeling elements of initializers.</li>
Misha Brukman8395d732003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000[diff] [blame]548 <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 Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]549 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li>
550 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li>
551 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li>
552 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li>
553 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li>
554 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Character-Escapes.html#Character%20Escapes">Character Escapes</a>: <code>\e</code> stands for the character &lt;ESC&gt;.</li>
555 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li>
556 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li>
557 <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>
558 <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>
559 <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 Lattner3646dad2004-02-14 04:08:29 +0000[diff] [blame]560 <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 Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]561 <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>
562 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Attribute-Syntax.html#Attribute%20Syntax">Attribute Syntax</a>: Formal syntax for attributes.</li>
Misha Brukman7cb4e382003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000[diff] [blame]563 </ol></li>
564
565</ul>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]566
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]567<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
568lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]569
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]570</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]571
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]572<!-- ======================================================================= -->
573<div class="doc_subsection">
574 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
575</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]576
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]577<div class="doc_text">
578
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]579<p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully functional but
Chris Lattnere76e9ab2003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]580has not been tested as thoroughly as the C front-end. It has been tested and
581works for a number of non-trivial programs, but there may be lurking bugs.
582Please report any bugs or problems.</p>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]583
584</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]585
586<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner141ebb62004-02-14 04:12:41 +0000[diff] [blame]587<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]588
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]589<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]590
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]591<ul>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]592<li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]593 front-end</a>.</li>
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]594</ul>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]595</div>
596
597<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
598<div class="doc_subsubsection">
599 Notes
600</div>
601
602<div class="doc_text">
603
604<ul>
Chris Lattnerd2a74272003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000[diff] [blame]605
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]606<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
607parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
608versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
Chris Lattnere76e9ab2003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]609href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]610
611<li>Destructors for local objects are not always run when a <tt>longjmp</tt> is
Chris Lattner62495762003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]612 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]613 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]614 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]615 better than most compilers).</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]616
Chris Lattner62495762003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]617<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
618 href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
619 This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
620 mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
621 representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
622 compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
623 Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
624 <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
625 different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]626 interact correctly</b>. </li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]627
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]628</ul>
Chris Lattner46ecf612003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000[diff] [blame]629
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]630</div>
631
632<!-- ======================================================================= -->
633<div class="doc_subsection">
634 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
635</div>
636
637<div class="doc_text">
638
639<ul>
Chris Lattnerc5b7b242004-02-08 22:23:33 +0000[diff] [blame]640<li>None so far.
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]641</ul>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]642
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]643</div>
644
645<!-- ======================================================================= -->
646<div class="doc_subsection">
647 <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc back-end</a>
648</div>
649
650<div class="doc_text">
651
652<ul>
Chris Lattner9e0b81c2004-03-19 19:22:28 +0000[diff] [blame]653<li>There are several programs in the LLVM testsuite that the Sparc code generator is known to miscompile.</li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]654</ul>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]655
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]656</div>
657
658<!-- ======================================================================= -->
659<div class="doc_subsection">
660 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
661</div>
662
663<div class="doc_text">
664
665<ul>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]666
667<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
668Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
669(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]670problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]671
Chris Lattnera623e482003-10-20 19:05:03 +0000[diff] [blame]672<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]673cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or
674Infinity.</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]675
Chris Lattnerc679fbb2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000[diff] [blame]676<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
Chris Lattnerb28c3282003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]677supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]678frontends.</li>
Chris Lattnerb28c3282003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000[diff] [blame]679
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]680</ul>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]681
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]682</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]683
684<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]685<div class="doc_section">
686 <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
687</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]688<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
689
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]690<div class="doc_text">
691
692<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page,
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]693including mailing lists and publications describing algorithms and components
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]694implemented in LLVM. The web page also contains versions of the API
695documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code. You
696can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]697the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]698
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]699<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
Chris Lattnerb84f3322003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]700us via the <a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">mailing
701lists</a>.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]702
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]703</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]704
705<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]706
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]707<hr>
Misha Brukman68aab3b2003-11-22 01:23:39 +0000[diff] [blame]708<address>
Misha Brukman8834af92003-12-21 22:53:21 +0000[diff] [blame]709 <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"><img
Misha Brukman68aab3b2003-11-22 01:23:39 +0000[diff] [blame]710 src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss" alt="Valid CSS!"></a>
711 <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img
712 src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401" alt="Valid HTML 4.01!" /></a>
713
Misha Brukman7cb4e382003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000[diff] [blame]714 <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]715 Last modified: $Date$
Misha Brukman68aab3b2003-11-22 01:23:39 +0000[diff] [blame]716</address>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]717
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]718</body>
719</html>