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Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]10
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]11<h1>LLVM 3.0 Release Notes</h1>
Mikhail Glushenkov024f7cf2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000[diff] [blame]12
Chris Lattnerc871bac2010-03-17 04:02:39 +0000[diff] [blame]13<img align=right src="http://llvm.org/img/DragonSmall.png"
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Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]17 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
Chris Lattnerf5cd9862008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]18 <li><a href="#subproj">Sub-project Status Update</a></li>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <li><a href="#externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 3.0</a></li>
20 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in LLVM 3.0?</a></li>
Chris Lattner77a51732004-04-30 22:17:12 +0000[diff] [blame]21 <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Dan Gohmanad888912008-10-14 16:23:02 +0000[diff] [blame]22 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a></li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]23 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]24</ol>
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Chris Lattner020e1fc2004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]26<div class="doc_author">
NAKAMURA Takumica46f5a2011-04-09 02:13:37 +0000[diff] [blame]27 <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM Team</a></p>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]28</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]29
Chris Lattner17c170a2011-04-06 06:29:50 +0000[diff] [blame]30<!--
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]31<h1 style="color:red">These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.0
Jeffrey Yasskin0830b972010-01-28 01:14:43 +0000[diff] [blame]32release.<br>
33You may prefer the
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]34<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/2.9/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">LLVM 2.9
Dan Gohman62af9d22010-05-03 23:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]35Release Notes</a>.</h1>
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NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]39<h2>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]40 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]41</h2>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]42<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
43
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]44<div>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]45
Chris Lattner1e4d5bc2008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]46<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]47Infrastructure, release 3.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including
Chris Lattner1e4d5bc2008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]48major improvements from the previous release and significant known problems.
Mikhail Glushenkov25422542009-03-01 18:09:47 +0000[diff] [blame]49All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the <a
Chris Lattner1e4d5bc2008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]50href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM releases web site</a>.</p>
Chris Lattner62495762003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000[diff] [blame]51
Chris Lattnerb5bb5972004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000[diff] [blame]52<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
Chris Lattnera69595e2005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]53release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.org/">main LLVM
Chris Lattnere7525b52003-10-07 21:38:31 +0000[diff] [blame]54web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
Chris Lattner0b1c9a52010-03-17 04:41:49 +0000[diff] [blame]55href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM Developer's
56Mailing List</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]57
Mikhail Glushenkov024f7cf2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000[diff] [blame]58<p>Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the
Chris Lattner0a1fd102007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]59main LLVM web page, this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the
Gabor Greif355f81c2008-10-14 11:00:32 +0000[diff] [blame]60current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the
Chris Lattner0a1fd102007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]61<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]62
63</div>
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]64
Chris Lattnerce6b0472011-04-05 23:22:33 +0000[diff] [blame]65<!-- Features that need text if they're finished for 3.1:
66 ARM EHABI
Chris Lattnera67df2d2010-04-22 06:28:20 +0000[diff] [blame]67 combiner-aa?
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]68 strong phi elim
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]69 loop dependence analysis
Chris Lattner342f9572010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]70 CorrelatedValuePropagation
Chris Lattnerce6b0472011-04-05 23:22:33 +0000[diff] [blame]71 lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp => consider for 3.1.
Chris Lattner2b8a52e2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000[diff] [blame]72 -->
Chris Lattner342f9572010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]73
Chris Lattnerf5cd9862008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]74<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]75<h2>
Chris Lattnerf5cd9862008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]76 <a name="subproj">Sub-project Status Update</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]77</h2>
Chris Lattnerf5cd9862008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]78<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Chris Lattner625a3d82008-06-08 21:34:41 +0000[diff] [blame]79
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]80<div>
Chris Lattnerc75fd522008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]81<p>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]82The LLVM 3.0 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]83repository (which roughly includes the LLVM optimizers, code generators
84and supporting tools), the Clang repository and the llvm-gcc repository. In
85addition to this code, the LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in
86development. Here we include updates on these subprojects.
Bill Wendlingf170d2e2009-03-02 04:28:57 +0000[diff] [blame]87</p>
Chris Lattnerf5cd9862008-10-13 18:01:01 +0000[diff] [blame]88
Chris Lattnerc75fd522008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]89<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]90<h3>
Chris Lattner44c09cd2008-10-13 18:11:54 +0000[diff] [blame]91<a name="clang">Clang: C/C++/Objective-C Frontend Toolkit</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]92</h3>
Chris Lattnerc75fd522008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]93
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]94<div>
Chris Lattnerc75fd522008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]95
Chris Lattner5de7f6e2010-04-26 17:42:18 +0000[diff] [blame]96<p><a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">Clang</a> is an LLVM front end for the C,
97C++, and Objective-C languages. Clang aims to provide a better user experience
98through expressive diagnostics, a high level of conformance to language
99standards, fast compilation, and low memory use. Like LLVM, Clang provides a
100modular, library-based architecture that makes it suitable for creating or
101integrating with other development tools. Clang is considered a
Chris Lattner342f9572010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]102production-quality compiler for C, Objective-C, C++ and Objective-C++ on x86
Chris Lattnerc3a2c982011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]103(32- and 64-bit), and for darwin/arm targets.</p>
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]104
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]105<p>In the LLVM 3.0 time-frame, the Clang team has made many improvements:</p>
Douglas Gregor936c75b2011-10-15 00:48:01 +0000[diff] [blame]106
107<ul>
108 <li>Greatly improved support for building C++ applications, with greater stability and better diagnostics.</li>
109
110 <li><a href="http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html">Improved support</a> for the <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=50372 ">C++ 2011</a> standard, including implementations of non-static data member initializers, alias templates, delegating constructors, the range-based for loop, and implicitly-generated move constructors and move assignment operators, among others.</li>
111
112 <li>Implemented support for some features of the upcoming C1x standard, including static assertions and generic selections.</li>
113
114 <li>Better detection of include and linking paths for system headers and libraries, especially for Linux distributions.</li>
115
116 <li>Implemented support for <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html">Automatic Reference Counting</a> for Objective-C.</li>
117
118 <li>Implemented a number of optimizations in <tt>libclang</tt>, the Clang C interface, to improve the performance of code completion and the mapping from source locations to abstract syntax tree nodes.</li>
119</ul>
120
Chris Lattnerfd97b882011-04-05 07:19:28 +0000[diff] [blame]121
Duncan Sandsce5d9ae2011-04-06 08:07:40 +0000[diff] [blame]122<p>If Clang rejects your code but another compiler accepts it, please take a
Chris Lattnerfd97b882011-04-05 07:19:28 +0000[diff] [blame]123look at the <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/compatibility.html">language
Duncan Sandsce5d9ae2011-04-06 08:07:40 +0000[diff] [blame]124compatibility</a> guide to make sure this is not intentional or a known issue.
Chris Lattnerfd97b882011-04-05 07:19:28 +0000[diff] [blame]125</p>
Bill Wendlingef362462008-10-27 09:27:33 +0000[diff] [blame]126
Chris Lattner44c09cd2008-10-13 18:11:54 +0000[diff] [blame]127</div>
128
129<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]130<h3>
Duncan Sands1cd78982011-04-04 11:09:08 +0000[diff] [blame]131<a name="dragonegg">DragonEgg: GCC front-ends, LLVM back-end</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]132</h3>
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]133
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]134<div>
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]135<p>
Duncan Sands1cd78982011-04-04 11:09:08 +0000[diff] [blame]136<a href="http://dragonegg.llvm.org/">DragonEgg</a> is a
137<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugins">gcc plugin</a> that replaces GCC's
138optimizers and code generators with LLVM's.
139Currently it requires a patched version of gcc-4.5.
140The plugin can target the x86-32 and x86-64 processor families and has been
141used successfully on the Darwin, FreeBSD and Linux platforms.
142The Ada, C, C++ and Fortran languages work well.
143The plugin is capable of compiling plenty of Obj-C, Obj-C++ and Java but it is
144not known whether the compiled code actually works or not!
Duncan Sands92452b92010-04-02 09:23:15 +0000[diff] [blame]145</p>
146
147<p>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]148The 3.0 release has the following notable changes:
Duncan Sands7f9a0dc2010-09-30 17:37:34 +0000[diff] [blame]149<ul>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]150<!--
151<li></li>
152-->
Duncan Sands7f9a0dc2010-09-30 17:37:34 +0000[diff] [blame]153</ul>
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]154
155</div>
156
Chris Lattner120804a2010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]157<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]158<h3>
Chris Lattner120804a2010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]159<a name="compiler-rt">compiler-rt: Compiler Runtime Library</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]160</h3>
Chris Lattner120804a2010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]161
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]162<div>
Chris Lattner120804a2010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]163<p>
164The new LLVM <a href="http://compiler-rt.llvm.org/">compiler-rt project</a>
165is a simple library that provides an implementation of the low-level
166target-specific hooks required by code generation and other runtime components.
167For example, when compiling for a 32-bit target, converting a double to a 64-bit
168unsigned integer is compiled into a runtime call to the "__fixunsdfdi"
169function. The compiler-rt library provides highly optimized implementations of
170this and other low-level routines (some are 3x faster than the equivalent
171libgcc routines).</p>
172
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]173<p>In the LLVM 3.0 timeframe,</p>
Chris Lattner120804a2010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]174
175</div>
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]176
177<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]178<h3>
Chris Lattner342f9572010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]179<a name="lldb">LLDB: Low Level Debugger</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]180</h3>
Chris Lattner342f9572010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]181
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]182<div>
Chris Lattner342f9572010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]183<p>
Chris Lattner120804a2010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]184<a href="http://lldb.llvm.org/">LLDB</a> is a brand new member of the LLVM
185umbrella of projects. LLDB is a next generation, high-performance debugger. It
186is built as a set of reusable components which highly leverage existing
187libraries in the larger LLVM Project, such as the Clang expression parser, the
188LLVM disassembler and the LLVM JIT.</p>
Chris Lattner342f9572010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]189
190<p>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]191LLDB is has advanced by leaps and bounds in the 3.0 timeframe. It is
Chris Lattner9d5b3712011-04-06 00:56:12 +0000[diff] [blame]192dramatically more stable and useful, and includes both a new <a
193href="http://lldb.llvm.org/tutorial.html">tutorial</a> and a <a
194href="http://lldb.llvm.org/lldb-gdb.html">side-by-side comparison with
195GDB</a>.</p>
Chris Lattner342f9572010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]196
197</div>
198
199<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]200<h3>
Chris Lattner342f9572010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]201<a name="libc++">libc++: C++ Standard Library</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]202</h3>
Chris Lattner342f9572010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]203
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]204<div>
Chris Lattner342f9572010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]205<p>
Tobias Grosser436bc5f2010-10-06 21:07:30 +0000[diff] [blame]206<a href="http://libcxx.llvm.org/">libc++</a> is another new member of the LLVM
Chris Lattner120804a2010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]207family. It is an implementation of the C++ standard library, written from the
208ground up to specifically target the forthcoming C++'0X standard and focus on
209delivering great performance.</p>
Chris Lattner342f9572010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]210
211<p>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]212In the LLVM 3.0 timeframe,</p>
Chris Lattnerfd97b882011-04-05 07:19:28 +0000[diff] [blame]213
Chris Lattner14a33332011-04-06 00:59:18 +0000[diff] [blame]214<p>
215Like compiler_rt, libc++ is now <a href="DeveloperPolicy.html#license">dual
216 licensed</a> under the MIT and UIUC license, allowing it to be used more
217 permissively.
Chris Lattner342f9572010-09-29 05:30:03 +0000[diff] [blame]218</p>
219
220</div>
221
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]222
Chris Lattnercaefe932011-04-07 03:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]223<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]224<h3>
Chris Lattnercaefe932011-04-07 03:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]225<a name="LLBrowse">LLBrowse: IR Browser</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]226</h3>
Daniel Dunbar8fbd8aa2010-10-04 17:39:47 +0000[diff] [blame]227
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]228<div>
Chris Lattnercaefe932011-04-07 03:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]229<p>
230<a href="http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llbrowse/trunk/doc/LLBrowse.html">
231 LLBrowse</a> is an interactive viewer for LLVM modules. It can load any LLVM
232 module and displays its contents as an expandable tree view, facilitating an
233 easy way to inspect types, functions, global variables, or metadata nodes. It
234 is fully cross-platform, being based on the popular wxWidgets GUI toolkit.
235</p>
236</div>
237
238<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]239<h3>
Chris Lattnercaefe932011-04-07 03:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]240<a name="vmkit">VMKit</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]241</h3>
Chris Lattnercaefe932011-04-07 03:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]242
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]243<div>
Chris Lattnercaefe932011-04-07 03:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]244<p>The <a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/">VMKit project</a> is an implementation
245 of a Java Virtual Machine (Java VM or JVM) that uses LLVM for static and
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]246 just-in-time compilation. As of LLVM 3.0, VMKit now supports generational
Chris Lattnercaefe932011-04-07 03:08:22 +0000[diff] [blame]247 garbage collectors. The garbage collectors are provided by the MMTk framework,
248 and VMKit can be configured to use one of the numerous implemented collectors
249 of MMTk.
250</p>
251</div>
252
253
Daniel Dunbar8fbd8aa2010-10-04 17:39:47 +0000[diff] [blame]254<!--=========================================================================-->
Chris Lattner9ee0b012011-04-05 18:38:45 +0000[diff] [blame]255<!--
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]256<h3>
Daniel Dunbar8fbd8aa2010-10-04 17:39:47 +0000[diff] [blame]257<a name="klee">KLEE: A Symbolic Execution Virtual Machine</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]258</h3>
Daniel Dunbar8fbd8aa2010-10-04 17:39:47 +0000[diff] [blame]259
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]260<div>
Daniel Dunbar8fbd8aa2010-10-04 17:39:47 +0000[diff] [blame]261<p>
262<a href="http://klee.llvm.org/">KLEE</a> is a symbolic execution framework for
263programs in LLVM bitcode form. KLEE tries to symbolically evaluate "all" paths
264through the application and records state transitions that lead to fault
265states. This allows it to construct testcases that lead to faults and can even
266be used to verify some algorithms.
267</p>
268
Chris Lattner0d364302011-03-10 07:43:44 +0000[diff] [blame]269<p>UPDATE!</p>
Chris Lattner9ee0b012011-04-05 18:38:45 +0000[diff] [blame]270</div>-->
Daniel Dunbar8fbd8aa2010-10-04 17:39:47 +0000[diff] [blame]271
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]272</div>
Daniel Dunbar8fbd8aa2010-10-04 17:39:47 +0000[diff] [blame]273
Chris Lattner53e06f92009-02-26 22:33:38 +0000[diff] [blame]274<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]275<h2>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]276 <a name="externalproj">External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.0</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]277</h2>
Chris Lattner53e06f92009-02-26 22:33:38 +0000[diff] [blame]278<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
279
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]280<div>
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]281
282<p>An exciting aspect of LLVM is that it is used as an enabling technology for
283 a lot of other language and tools projects. This section lists some of the
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]284 projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.0.</p>
Chris Lattner120804a2010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]285
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]286<!--=========================================================================-->
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]287
288<!-- FIXME: Comment out
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]289<h3>Crack Programming Language</h3>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]290
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]291<div>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]292<p>
293<a href="http://code.google.com/p/crack-language/">Crack</a> aims to provide the
294ease of development of a scripting language with the performance of a compiled
295language. The language derives concepts from C++, Java and Python, incorporating
296object-oriented programming, operator overloading and strong typing.</p>
297</div>
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Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]299
300<!--=========================================================================-->
Bill Wendling3e3968e2011-10-25 20:35:31 +0000[diff] [blame]301<h3>gwXscript</h3>
302
303<div>
304
305<p><a href="http://botwars.tk/gwscript/">gwXscript</a> is an object oriented,
306 aspect orientied programing language which can create both, executables (ELF,
307 EXE) and shared libraries (DLL, SO, DYNLIB). The compiler is implemented in
308 its own language and translates scripts into LLVM-IR which can be optimized
309 and translated into native code by the LLVM framework. Source code in
310 gwScript contains definitions that expand the namespaces. So you can build
311 your project and simply 'plug out' features by removing a file. The remaining
312 project does not leave scars since you directly separate concerns by the
313 'template' feature of gwX. It is also possible to add new features to a
314 project by just adding files and without editing the original project. This
315 language is used for example to create games or content management systems
316 that should be extendable.</p>
317
318<p>gwXscript is strongly typed and offers comfort with its native types string,
319 hash and array. You can easily write new libraries in gwXscript or native
320 code. gwXscript is type safe and users should not be able to crash your
321 program or execute malicious code except code that is eating CPU time.</p>
322
323</div>
324
325<!--=========================================================================-->
Bill Wendling53aa7a82011-10-25 20:24:32 +0000[diff] [blame]326<h3>TTA-based Co-design Environment (TCE)</h3>
327
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]328<div>
Bill Wendling53aa7a82011-10-25 20:24:32 +0000[diff] [blame]329
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]330<p>TCE is a toolset for designing application-specific processors (ASP) based on
Bill Wendling53aa7a82011-10-25 20:24:32 +0000[diff] [blame]331 the Transport triggered architecture (TTA). The toolset provides a complete
332 co-design flow from C/C++ programs down to synthesizable VHDL and parallel
333 program binaries. Processor customization points include the register files,
334 function units, supported operations, and the interconnection network.</p>
335
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]336<p>TCE uses Clang and LLVM for C/C++ language support, target independent
Bill Wendling53aa7a82011-10-25 20:24:32 +0000[diff] [blame]337 optimizations and also for parts of code generation. It generates new
338 LLVM-based code generators <i>on the fly</i> for the designed TTA processors
339 and loads them in to the compiler backend as runtime libraries to avoid
340 per-target recompilation of larger parts of the compiler chain.</p>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]341</div>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]342
343
344<!--=========================================================================-->
Bill Wendlingae9aa352011-10-25 20:27:37 +0000[diff] [blame]345<h3>Tart Programming Language</h3>
346
347<div>
348
349<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/tart/">Tart</a> is a general-purpose,
350 strongly typed programming language designed for application
351 developers. Strongly inspired by Python and C#, Tart focuses on practical
352 solutions for the professional software developer, while avoiding the clutter
353 and boilerplate of legacy languages like Java and C++. Although Tart is still
354 in development, the current implementation supports many features expected of
355 a modern programming language, such as garbage collection, powerful
356 bidirectional type inference, a greatly simplified syntax for template
357 metaprogramming, closures and function literals, reflection, operator
358 overloading, explicit mutability and immutability, and much more. Tart is
359 flexible enough to accommodate a broad range of programming styles and
360 philosophies, while maintaining a strong commitment to simplicity, minimalism
361 and elegance in design.</p>
362
363</div>
364
365<!--=========================================================================-->
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]366<!--
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]367<h3>PinaVM</h3>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]368
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]369<div>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]370<p><a href="http://gitorious.org/pinavm/pages/Home">PinaVM</a> is an open
371source, <a href="http://www.systemc.org/">SystemC</a> front-end. Unlike many
372other front-ends, PinaVM actually executes the elaboration of the
373program analyzed using LLVM's JIT infrastructure. It later enriches the
374bitcode with SystemC-specific information.</p>
375</div>
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]376-->
377
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]378
379<!--=========================================================================-->
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]380<!--
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]381<h3>Pure</h3>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]382
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]383<div>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]384<p><a href="http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/">Pure</a> is an
385 algebraic/functional
386 programming language based on term rewriting. Programs are collections
387 of equations which are used to evaluate expressions in a symbolic
388 fashion. The interpreter uses LLVM as a backend to JIT-compile Pure
389 programs to fast native code. Pure offers dynamic typing, eager and lazy
390 evaluation, lexical closures, a hygienic macro system (also based on
391 term rewriting), built-in list and matrix support (including list and
392 matrix comprehensions) and an easy-to-use interface to C and other
393 programming languages (including the ability to load LLVM bitcode
394 modules, and inline C, C++, Fortran and Faust code in Pure programs if
395 the corresponding LLVM-enabled compilers are installed).</p>
396
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]397<p>Pure version 0.47 has been tested and is known to work with LLVM 3.0
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]398 (and continues to work with older LLVM releases &gt;= 2.5).</p>
399</div>
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]400-->
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]401
402<!--=========================================================================-->
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]403<!--
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]404<h3 id="icedtea">IcedTea Java Virtual Machine Implementation</h3>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]405
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]406<div>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]407<p>
408<a href="http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page">IcedTea</a> provides a
409harness to build OpenJDK using only free software build tools and to provide
410replacements for the not-yet free parts of OpenJDK. One of the extensions that
411IcedTea provides is a new JIT compiler named <a
412href="http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/ZeroSharkFaq">Shark</a> which uses LLVM
413to provide native code generation without introducing processor-dependent
414code.
415</p>
416
417<p> OpenJDK 7 b112, IcedTea6 1.9 and IcedTea7 1.13 and later have been tested
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]418and are known to work with LLVM 3.0 (and continue to work with older LLVM
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]419releases &gt;= 2.6 as well).</p>
420</div>
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]421-->
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]422
423<!--=========================================================================-->
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]424<!--
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]425<h3>Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC)</h3>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]426
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]427<div>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]428<p>GHC is an open source, state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell,
429a standard lazy functional programming language. It includes an
430optimizing static compiler generating good code for a variety of
431platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
432development.</p>
433
434<p>In addition to the existing C and native code generators, GHC 7.0 now
435supports an LLVM code generator. GHC supports LLVM 2.7 and later.</p>
436</div>
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]437-->
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]438
439<!--=========================================================================-->
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]440<!--
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]441<h3>Polly - Polyhedral optimizations for LLVM</h3>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]442
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]443<div>
Chris Lattnerae6a89a2011-04-06 01:13:49 +0000[diff] [blame]444<p>Polly is a project that aims to provide advanced memory access optimizations
445to better take advantage of SIMD units, cache hierarchies, multiple cores or
446even vector accelerators for LLVM. Built around an abstract mathematical
447description based on Z-polyhedra, it provides the infrastructure to develop
448advanced optimizations in LLVM and to connect complex external optimizers. In
449its first year of existence Polly already provides an exact value-based
450dependency analysis as well as basic SIMD and OpenMP code generation support.
451Furthermore, Polly can use PoCC(Pluto) an advanced optimizer for data-locality
452and parallelism.</p>
453</div>
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]454-->
Chris Lattner120804a2010-10-03 23:49:06 +0000[diff] [blame]455
Chris Lattner958d2992011-04-06 16:14:25 +0000[diff] [blame]456<!--=========================================================================-->
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]457<!--
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]458<h3>Rubinius</h3>
Chris Lattner958d2992011-04-06 16:14:25 +0000[diff] [blame]459
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]460<div>
Chris Lattner958d2992011-04-06 16:14:25 +0000[diff] [blame]461 <p><a href="http://github.com/evanphx/rubinius">Rubinius</a> is an environment
462 for running Ruby code which strives to write as much of the implementation in
463 Ruby as possible. Combined with a bytecode interpreting VM, it uses LLVM to
464 optimize and compile ruby code down to machine code. Techniques such as type
465 feedback, method inlining, and deoptimization are all used to remove dynamism
466 from ruby execution and increase performance.</p>
467</div>
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]468-->
Chris Lattner958d2992011-04-06 16:14:25 +0000[diff] [blame]469
Chris Lattner5ddaab12011-04-07 03:09:21 +0000[diff] [blame]470<!--=========================================================================-->
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]471<!--
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]472<h3>
Chris Lattner5ddaab12011-04-07 03:09:21 +0000[diff] [blame]473<a name="FAUST">FAUST Real-Time Audio Signal Processing Language</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]474</h3>
Chris Lattnerca7c8962010-10-01 06:34:49 +0000[diff] [blame]475
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]476<div>
Chris Lattner5ddaab12011-04-07 03:09:21 +0000[diff] [blame]477<p>
478<a href="http://faust.grame.fr">FAUST</a> is a compiled language for real-time
479audio signal processing. The name FAUST stands for Functional AUdio STream. Its
480programming model combines two approaches: functional programming and block
481diagram composition. In addition with the C, C++, JAVA output formats, the
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]482Faust compiler can now generate LLVM bitcode, and works with LLVM 2.7-3.0.</p>
Chris Lattner5ddaab12011-04-07 03:09:21 +0000[diff] [blame]483
484</div>
Bill Wendling99ba0b62011-10-25 01:01:42 +0000[diff] [blame]485-->
Chris Lattner5ddaab12011-04-07 03:09:21 +0000[diff] [blame]486
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]487</div>
488
Chris Lattnerc75fd522008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]489<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]490<h2>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]491 <a name="whatsnew">What's New in LLVM 3.0?</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]492</h2>
Chris Lattnerc75fd522008-06-08 21:58:17 +0000[diff] [blame]493<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
494
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]495<div>
Chris Lattnerb7bc2aa2008-06-08 22:59:35 +0000[diff] [blame]496
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]497<p>This release includes a huge number of bug fixes, performance tweaks and
Chris Lattner1e4d5bc2008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]498minor improvements. Some of the major improvements and new features are listed
499in this section.
Chris Lattnerb7bc2aa2008-06-08 22:59:35 +0000[diff] [blame]500</p>
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]501
Chris Lattnera67df2d2010-04-22 06:28:20 +0000[diff] [blame]502<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]503<h3>
Chris Lattnercdc44ed2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000[diff] [blame]504<a name="majorfeatures">Major New Features</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]505</h3>
Chris Lattnercdc44ed2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000[diff] [blame]506
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]507<div>
Chris Lattnercdc44ed2008-02-06 18:00:06 +0000[diff] [blame]508
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]509<p>LLVM 3.0 includes several major new capabilities:</p>
Chris Lattner97beb512007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]510
511<ul>
Chris Lattnerc3a2c982011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]512
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]513<!--
514<li></li>
515-->
Chris Lattner9ee0b012011-04-05 18:38:45 +0000[diff] [blame]516
Chris Lattner458e79f2008-02-10 08:18:42 +0000[diff] [blame]517</ul>
Chris Lattnerfd97b882011-04-05 07:19:28 +0000[diff] [blame]518
Chris Lattner97beb512007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]519</div>
520
Chris Lattner0a1fd102007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]521<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]522<h3>
Chris Lattnerd1094e02009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]523<a name="coreimprovements">LLVM IR and Core Improvements</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]524</h3>
Chris Lattnerdd6acc02008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000[diff] [blame]525
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]526<div>
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]527<p>LLVM IR has several new features for better support of new targets and that
528expose new optimization opportunities:</p>
Chris Lattnerdd6acc02008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000[diff] [blame]529
Chris Lattnerb7112222008-06-05 06:25:56 +0000[diff] [blame]530<ul>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]531<!--
532<li></li>
533-->
Chris Lattnerdd6acc02008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000[diff] [blame]534</ul>
Mikhail Glushenkov024f7cf2008-10-13 02:08:34 +0000[diff] [blame]535
Chris Lattnerdd6acc02008-02-10 08:17:19 +0000[diff] [blame]536</div>
537
538<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]539<h3>
Chris Lattner2b8a52e2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000[diff] [blame]540<a name="optimizer">Optimizer Improvements</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]541</h3>
Chris Lattner2b8a52e2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000[diff] [blame]542
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]543<div>
Chris Lattner2b8a52e2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000[diff] [blame]544
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]545<p>In addition to a large array of minor performance tweaks and bug fixes, this
Chris Lattner25879d72008-10-13 21:50:36 +0000[diff] [blame]546release includes a few major enhancements and additions to the optimizers:</p>
Chris Lattner2b8a52e2008-02-10 07:46:44 +0000[diff] [blame]547
548<ul>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]549<!--
550<li></li>
551-->
Chris Lattner23e16b592011-04-06 05:50:04 +0000[diff] [blame]552</li>
Chris Lattnerc3a2c982011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]553
Chris Lattnerfcc65a72010-10-04 02:42:39 +0000[diff] [blame]554</ul>
555
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]556</div>
Chris Lattnerd1094e02009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]557
Chris Lattner7795ea92008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000[diff] [blame]558<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]559<h3>
Chris Lattnerf25bc192010-09-30 16:31:33 +0000[diff] [blame]560<a name="mc">MC Level Improvements</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]561</h3>
Chris Lattnerf25bc192010-09-30 16:31:33 +0000[diff] [blame]562
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]563<div>
Chris Lattnerf25bc192010-09-30 16:31:33 +0000[diff] [blame]564<p>
Chris Lattnerbf1cf672010-10-02 21:59:30 +0000[diff] [blame]565The LLVM Machine Code (aka MC) subsystem was created to solve a number
Chris Lattnerf25bc192010-09-30 16:31:33 +0000[diff] [blame]566of problems in the realm of assembly, disassembly, object file format handling,
567and a number of other related areas that CPU instruction-set level tools work
Chris Lattnerbf1cf672010-10-02 21:59:30 +0000[diff] [blame]568in.</p>
569
Chris Lattnerbf1cf672010-10-02 21:59:30 +0000[diff] [blame]570<ul>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]571<!--
572<li></li>
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Chris Lattnerbf1cf672010-10-02 21:59:30 +0000[diff] [blame]574</ul>
575
576<p>For more information, please see the <a
Chris Lattnerf25bc192010-09-30 16:31:33 +0000[diff] [blame]577href="http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html">Intro to the
578LLVM MC Project Blog Post</a>.
579</p>
580
NAKAMURA Takumi8d89b8e2011-04-05 08:24:22 +0000[diff] [blame]581</div>
Chris Lattnerf25bc192010-09-30 16:31:33 +0000[diff] [blame]582
Chris Lattnerf25bc192010-09-30 16:31:33 +0000[diff] [blame]583<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]584<h3>
Chris Lattnerd434bfb2009-03-02 03:24:11 +0000[diff] [blame]585<a name="codegen">Target Independent Code Generator Improvements</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]586</h3>
Chris Lattner7795ea92008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000[diff] [blame]587
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]588<div>
Chris Lattner7795ea92008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000[diff] [blame]589
Mikhail Glushenkov25422542009-03-01 18:09:47 +0000[diff] [blame]590<p>We have put a significant amount of work into the code generator
591infrastructure, which allows us to implement more aggressive algorithms and make
592it run faster:</p>
Chris Lattner7795ea92008-06-08 02:45:07 +0000[diff] [blame]593
594<ul>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]595<!--
596<li></li>
597-->
Chris Lattner0a1fd102007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]598</ul>
Chris Lattner0a1fd102007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]599</div>
600
Chris Lattnerd1094e02009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]601<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]602<h3>
Chris Lattnerd1094e02009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]603<a name="x86">X86-32 and X86-64 Target Improvements</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]604</h3>
Chris Lattnerd1094e02009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]605
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]606<div>
Chris Lattnerd3f45c82010-10-04 04:39:25 +0000[diff] [blame]607<p>New features and major changes in the X86 target include:
Chris Lattnerd1094e02009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]608</p>
609
610<ul>
Chad Rosierd1db4f82011-05-27 20:13:10 +0000[diff] [blame]611<li>The CRC32 intrinsics have been renamed. The intrinsics were previously
612 @llvm.x86.sse42.crc32.[8|16|32] and @llvm.x86.sse42.crc64.[8|64]. They have
613 been renamed to @llvm.x86.sse42.crc32.32.[8|16|32] and
614 @llvm.x86.sse42.crc32.64.[8|64].</li>
615
Chris Lattnerd1094e02009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]616</ul>
617
Chris Lattnerd1094e02009-03-02 02:37:32 +0000[diff] [blame]618</div>
Chris Lattner0a1fd102007-09-21 03:54:09 +0000[diff] [blame]619
620<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]621<h3>
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]622<a name="ARM">ARM Target Improvements</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]623</h3>
Chris Lattnerc92d7692009-03-01 02:30:21 +0000[diff] [blame]624
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]625<div>
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]626<p>New features of the ARM target include:
627</p>
Chris Lattnerc92d7692009-03-01 02:30:21 +0000[diff] [blame]628
629<ul>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]630<!--
631<li></li>
632-->
Bob Wilsone44f2982010-09-13 17:39:35 +0000[diff] [blame]633</ul>
Chris Lattneraa61f412009-10-13 17:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]634</div>
Chris Lattnerc3a2c982011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]635
636<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]637<h3>
Chris Lattnerc3a2c982011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]638<a name="OtherTS">Other Target Specific Improvements</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]639</h3>
Chris Lattnerc92d7692009-03-01 02:30:21 +0000[diff] [blame]640
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]641<div>
Chris Lattnerc3a2c982011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]642<ul>
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]643<!--
644<li></li>
645-->
Chris Lattnerc3a2c982011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]646</ul>
647</div>
Chris Lattner6cb64032008-06-05 08:02:49 +0000[diff] [blame]648
649<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]650<h3>
Chris Lattner1e4d5bc2008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]651<a name="changes">Major Changes and Removed Features</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]652</h3>
Chris Lattner1e4d5bc2008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]653
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]654<div>
Chris Lattner1e4d5bc2008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]655
Bill Wendling2d3138c2011-08-03 22:18:20 +0000[diff] [blame]656<p>If you're already an LLVM user or developer with out-of-tree changes based on
657 LLVM 2.9, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading
658 from the previous release.</p>
Chris Lattner1e4d5bc2008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]659
660<ul>
Eric Christopher508503b2011-09-28 19:47:28 +0000[diff] [blame]661 <li>The <code>LLVMC</code> front end code was removed while separating
662 out language independence.</li>
Jay Foad2755e072011-08-04 10:43:43 +0000[diff] [blame]663 <li>The <code>LowerSetJmp</code> pass wasn't used effectively by any
664 target and has been removed.</li>
Rafael Espindolaa45c20b2011-08-30 23:03:45 +0000[diff] [blame]665 <li>The old <code>TailDup</code> pass was not used in the standard pipeline
666 and was unable to update ssa form, so it has been removed.
Eli Friedman02e737b2011-08-12 22:50:01 +0000[diff] [blame]667 <li>The syntax of volatile loads and stores in IR has been changed to
668 "<code>load volatile</code>"/"<code>store volatile</code>". The old
669 syntax ("<code>volatile load</code>"/"<code>volatile store</code>")
670 is still accepted, but is now considered deprecated.</li>
Devang Pateldbf83832008-10-14 20:03:43 +0000[diff] [blame]671</ul>
Chris Lattner1e4d5bc2008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]672
NAKAMURA Takumi2b462b52011-08-22 23:22:05 +0000[diff] [blame]673<h4>Windows (32-bit)</h4>
674<div>
675<ul>
676 <li>On Win32(MinGW32 and MSVC), Windows 2000 will not be supported.
677 Windows XP or higher is required.</li>
678</ul>
679</div>
680
Chris Lattner1e4d5bc2008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]681</div>
682
Daniel Dunbarf70898a2010-10-04 20:11:41 +0000[diff] [blame]683<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]684<h3>
Chris Lattnerc3a2c982011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]685<a name="api_changes">Internal API Changes</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]686</h3>
Daniel Dunbarf70898a2010-10-04 20:11:41 +0000[diff] [blame]687
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]688<div>
Daniel Dunbarf70898a2010-10-04 20:11:41 +0000[diff] [blame]689
Chris Lattnerc3a2c982011-04-06 00:45:11 +0000[diff] [blame]690<p>In addition, many APIs have changed in this release. Some of the major
Bill Wendling46ffaa92011-08-02 06:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]691 LLVM API changes are:</p>
Daniel Dunbarf70898a2010-10-04 20:11:41 +0000[diff] [blame]692
693<ul>
Chris Lattner14b3b4d2011-07-18 04:56:02 +0000[diff] [blame]694<li>The biggest and most pervasive change is that llvm::Type's are no longer
695 returned or accepted as 'const' values. Instead, just pass around non-const
696 Type's.</li>
697
Jay Foade03f15a2011-07-14 09:19:05 +0000[diff] [blame]698<li><code>PHINode::reserveOperandSpace</code> has been removed. Instead, you
699 must specify how many operands to reserve space for when you create the
700 PHINode, by passing an extra argument into <code>PHINode::Create</code>.</li>
701
702<li>PHINodes no longer store their incoming BasicBlocks as operands. Instead,
703 the list of incoming BasicBlocks is stored separately, and can be accessed
704 with new functions <code>PHINode::block_begin</code>
705 and <code>PHINode::block_end</code>.</li>
706
707<li>Various functions now take an <code>ArrayRef</code> instead of either a pair
708 of pointers (or iterators) to the beginning and end of a range, or a pointer
709 and a length. Others now return an <code>ArrayRef</code> instead of a
710 reference to a <code>SmallVector</code> or <code>std::vector</code>. These
711 include:
712<ul>
713<!-- Please keep this list sorted. -->
Jay Foad5bd375a2011-07-15 08:37:34 +0000[diff] [blame]714<li><code>CallInst::Create</code></li>
Jay Foade03f15a2011-07-14 09:19:05 +0000[diff] [blame]715<li><code>ComputeLinearIndex</code> (in <code>llvm/CodeGen/Analysis.h</code>)</li>
716<li><code>ConstantArray::get</code></li>
717<li><code>ConstantExpr::getExtractElement</code></li>
Jay Foaded8db7d2011-07-21 14:31:17 +0000[diff] [blame]718<li><code>ConstantExpr::getGetElementPtr</code></li>
719<li><code>ConstantExpr::getInBoundsGetElementPtr</code></li>
Jay Foade03f15a2011-07-14 09:19:05 +0000[diff] [blame]720<li><code>ConstantExpr::getIndices</code></li>
721<li><code>ConstantExpr::getInsertElement</code></li>
722<li><code>ConstantExpr::getWithOperands</code></li>
Jay Foadf4b14a22011-07-19 13:32:40 +0000[diff] [blame]723<li><code>ConstantFoldCall</code> (in <code>llvm/Analysis/ConstantFolding.h</code>)</li>
724<li><code>ConstantFoldInstOperands</code> (in <code>llvm/Analysis/ConstantFolding.h</code>)</li>
Jay Foade03f15a2011-07-14 09:19:05 +0000[diff] [blame]725<li><code>ConstantVector::get</code></li>
726<li><code>DIBuilder::createComplexVariable</code></li>
727<li><code>DIBuilder::getOrCreateArray</code></li>
728<li><code>ExtractValueInst::Create</code></li>
729<li><code>ExtractValueInst::getIndexedType</code></li>
730<li><code>ExtractValueInst::getIndices</code></li>
731<li><code>FindInsertedValue</code> (in <code>llvm/Analysis/ValueTracking.h</code>)</li>
Jay Foad528beda2011-07-19 14:42:50 +0000[diff] [blame]732<li><code>gep_type_begin</code> (in <code>llvm/Support/GetElementPtrTypeIterator.h</code>)</li>
733<li><code>gep_type_end</code> (in <code>llvm/Support/GetElementPtrTypeIterator.h</code>)</li>
Jay Foadd1b78492011-07-25 09:48:08 +0000[diff] [blame]734<li><code>GetElementPtrInst::Create</code></li>
735<li><code>GetElementPtrInst::CreateInBounds</code></li>
736<li><code>GetElementPtrInst::getIndexedType</code></li>
Jay Foad857a48a2011-07-21 14:42:51 +0000[diff] [blame]737<li><code>InsertValueInst::Create</code></li>
738<li><code>InsertValueInst::getIndices</code></li>
739<li><code>InvokeInst::Create</code></li>
Jay Foad5bd375a2011-07-15 08:37:34 +0000[diff] [blame]740<li><code>IRBuilder::CreateCall</code></li>
Jay Foade03f15a2011-07-14 09:19:05 +0000[diff] [blame]741<li><code>IRBuilder::CreateExtractValue</code></li>
Jay Foad040dd822011-07-22 08:16:57 +0000[diff] [blame]742<li><code>IRBuilder::CreateGEP</code></li>
743<li><code>IRBuilder::CreateInBoundsGEP</code></li>
Jay Foade03f15a2011-07-14 09:19:05 +0000[diff] [blame]744<li><code>IRBuilder::CreateInsertValue</code></li>
Jay Foad5bd375a2011-07-15 08:37:34 +0000[diff] [blame]745<li><code>IRBuilder::CreateInvoke</code></li>
Jay Foade03f15a2011-07-14 09:19:05 +0000[diff] [blame]746<li><code>MDNode::get</code></li>
747<li><code>MDNode::getIfExists</code></li>
748<li><code>MDNode::getTemporary</code></li>
749<li><code>MDNode::getWhenValsUnresolved</code></li>
Jay Foadb992a632011-07-19 15:07:52 +0000[diff] [blame]750<li><code>SimplifyGEPInst</code> (in <code>llvm/Analysis/InstructionSimplify.h</code>)</li>
Jay Foadbf904772011-07-19 14:01:37 +0000[diff] [blame]751<li><code>TargetData::getIndexedOffset</code></li>
Jay Foade03f15a2011-07-14 09:19:05 +0000[diff] [blame]752</ul></li>
753
754<li>All forms of <code>StringMap::getOrCreateValue</code> have been remove
755 except for the one which takes a <code>StringRef</code>.</li>
756
Bill Wendling46ffaa92011-08-02 06:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]757<li>The <code>LLVMBuildUnwind</code> function from the C API was removed. The
758 LLVM <code>unwind</code> instruction has been deprecated for a long time and
Bill Wendling6bc7caa2011-08-02 06:39:13 +0000[diff] [blame]759 isn't used by the current front-ends. So this was removed during the
Bill Wendling46ffaa92011-08-02 06:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]760 exception handling rewrite.</li>
761
Bill Wendling2d3138c2011-08-03 22:18:20 +0000[diff] [blame]762<li>The <code>LLVMAddLowerSetJmpPass</code> function from the C API was removed
763 because the <code>LowerSetJmp</code> pass was removed.</li>
764
Devang Patel2b8acaf2011-08-15 23:00:00 +0000[diff] [blame]765<li>The <code>DIBuilder</code> interface used by front ends to encode debugging
766 information in the LLVM IR now expects clients to use <code>DIBuilder::finalize()</code>
767 at the end of translation unit to complete debugging information encoding.</li>
768
Torok Edwin52cac092011-09-30 13:07:52 +0000[diff] [blame]769<li>The way the type system works has been rewritten: <code>PATypeHolder</code>
770and <code>OpaqueType</code> are gone, and all APIs deal with <code>Type*</code>
771instead of <code>const Type*</code>.
772If you need to create recursive structures, then create a named structure,
773and use <code>setBody()</code> when all its elements are built.
774Type merging and refining is gone too: named structures are not
775merged with other structures, even if their layout is identical.
776(of course anonymous structures are still uniqued by layout).
777</li>
778
779<li>TargetSelect.h moved to Support/ from Target/</li>
780
781<li>UpgradeIntrinsicCall no longer upgrades pre-2.9 intrinsic calls
782(for example <code>llvm.memset.i32</code>).</li>
783
784<li>It is mandatory to initialize all out-of-tree passes too and their dependencies now with
785<code>INITIALIZE_PASS{BEGIN,END,}</code> and <code>INITIALIZE_{PASS,AG}_DEPENDENCY</code>.</li>
786
Eli Friedmanc1702c82011-10-13 22:14:57 +0000[diff] [blame]787<li>The interface for MemDepResult in MemoryDependenceAnalysis has been enhanced
788 with new return types Unknown and NonFuncLocal, in addition to the existing
789 types Clobber, Def, and NonLocal.</li>
790
Daniel Dunbarf70898a2010-10-04 20:11:41 +0000[diff] [blame]791</ul>
792</div>
Chris Lattner1e4d5bc2008-10-13 17:57:36 +0000[diff] [blame]793
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]794</div>
795
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]796<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]797<h2>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]798 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]799</h2>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]800<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
801
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]802<div>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]803
Mikhail Glushenkov25422542009-03-01 18:09:47 +0000[diff] [blame]804<p>This section contains significant known problems with the LLVM system,
Chris Lattner2a092392008-11-10 05:40:34 +0000[diff] [blame]805listed by component. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
Chris Lattnera69595e2005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]806href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
Chris Lattnerb84f3322003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000[diff] [blame]807there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]808
Chris Lattnerb911de42004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]809<!-- ======================================================================= -->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]810<h3>
Chris Lattnerb911de42004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]811 <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]812</h3>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]813
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]814<div>
Chris Lattnerb911de42004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]815
Misha Brukmanfa50a222004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000[diff] [blame]816<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
817be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should
818not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
819useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
Chris Lattnere38ac152008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000[diff] [blame]820components, please contact us on the <a
821href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev list</a>.</p>
Chris Lattnerb911de42004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]822
823<ul>
Dan Gohmanb43c36f2011-10-25 00:05:42 +0000[diff] [blame]824<li>The Alpha, CellSPU, MicroBlaze, MSP430, MIPS, PTX,
Chris Lattnera7f45cf2010-10-04 01:29:06 +0000[diff] [blame]825 and XCore backends are experimental.</li>
Chris Lattnerbf1cf672010-10-02 21:59:30 +0000[diff] [blame]826<li><tt>llc</tt> "<tt>-filetype=obj</tt>" is experimental on all targets
Chris Lattner17c170a2011-04-06 06:29:50 +0000[diff] [blame]827 other than darwin and ELF X86 systems.</li>
Chris Lattner0d364302011-03-10 07:43:44 +0000[diff] [blame]828
Chris Lattnerb911de42004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000[diff] [blame]829</ul>
830
831</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]832
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]833<!-- ======================================================================= -->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]834<h3>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]835 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]836</h3>
John Criswell3bdbd302005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000[diff] [blame]837
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]838<div>
John Criswell3bdbd302005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000[diff] [blame]839
840<ul>
Anton Korobeynikov486c7d32008-06-08 10:24:13 +0000[diff] [blame]841 <li>The X86 backend does not yet support
842 all <a href="http://llvm.org/PR879">inline assembly that uses the X86
843 floating point stack</a>. It supports the 'f' and 't' constraints, but not
844 'u'.</li>
Dan Gohman721b3722008-06-08 23:05:11 +0000[diff] [blame]845 <li>The X86-64 backend does not yet support the LLVM IR instruction
Chris Lattnera67df2d2010-04-22 06:28:20 +0000[diff] [blame]846 <tt>va_arg</tt>. Currently, front-ends support variadic
Dan Gohman721b3722008-06-08 23:05:11 +0000[diff] [blame]847 argument constructs on X86-64 by lowering them manually.</li>
NAKAMURA Takumi8d89b8e2011-04-05 08:24:22 +0000[diff] [blame]848 <li>Windows x64 (aka Win64) code generator has a few issues.
849 <ul>
850 <li>llvm-gcc cannot build the mingw-w64 runtime currently
851 due to lack of support for the 'u' inline assembly
852 constraint and for X87 floating point inline assembly.</li>
853 <li>On mingw-w64, you will see unresolved symbol <tt>__chkstk</tt>
854 due to <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8919">Bug 8919</a>.
855 It is fixed in <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20110321/118499.html">r128206</a>.</li>
856 <li>Miss-aligned MOVDQA might crash your program. It is due to
857 <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=9483">Bug 9483</a>,
858 lack of handling aligned internal globals.</li>
859 </ul>
860 </li>
861
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]862</ul>
863
864</div>
865
866<!-- ======================================================================= -->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]867<h3>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]868 <a name="ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC back-end</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]869</h3>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]870
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]871<div>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]872
873<ul>
Nicolas Geoffray77d99502007-05-15 09:21:28 +0000[diff] [blame]874<li>The Linux PPC32/ABI support needs testing for the interpreter and static
Chris Lattnerbee7b322007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000[diff] [blame]875compilation, and lacks support for debug information.</li>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]876</ul>
877
878</div>
879
880<!-- ======================================================================= -->
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]881<h3>
Chris Lattner97beb512007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]882 <a name="arm-be">Known problems with the ARM back-end</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]883</h3>
Chris Lattner97beb512007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]884
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]885<div>
Chris Lattner97beb512007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]886
887<ul>
Chris Lattnerbee7b322007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000[diff] [blame]888<li>Thumb mode works only on ARMv6 or higher processors. On sub-ARMv6
Duncan Sands47fc0a22007-09-26 15:59:54 +0000[diff] [blame]889processors, thumb programs can crash or produce wrong
Chris Lattnerbee7b322007-05-23 04:39:32 +0000[diff] [blame]890results (<a href="http://llvm.org/PR1388">PR1388</a>).</li>
John Criswellea03c9d2009-03-02 15:28:15 +0000[diff] [blame]891<li>Compilation for ARM Linux OABI (old ABI) is supported but not fully tested.
Chris Lattner97beb512007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]892</li>
Chris Lattner97beb512007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]893</ul>
894
895</div>
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NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]898<h3>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]899 <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the SPARC back-end</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]900</h3>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]901
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]902<div>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]903
904<ul>
John Criswellea03c9d2009-03-02 15:28:15 +0000[diff] [blame]905<li>The SPARC backend only supports the 32-bit SPARC ABI (-m32); it does not
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]906 support the 64-bit SPARC ABI (-m64).</li>
907</ul>
908
909</div>
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NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]912<h3>
Bruno Cardoso Lopes24eb3de2008-10-25 14:56:26 +0000[diff] [blame]913 <a name="mips-be">Known problems with the MIPS back-end</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]914</h3>
Bruno Cardoso Lopes24eb3de2008-10-25 14:56:26 +0000[diff] [blame]915
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]916<div>
Bruno Cardoso Lopes24eb3de2008-10-25 14:56:26 +0000[diff] [blame]917
918<ul>
Bruno Cardoso Lopes24eb3de2008-10-25 14:56:26 +0000[diff] [blame]919<li>64-bit MIPS targets are not supported yet.</li>
920</ul>
921
922</div>
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NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]925<h3>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]926 <a name="alpha-be">Known problems with the Alpha back-end</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]927</h3>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]928
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]929<div>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]930
931<ul>
932
933<li>On 21164s, some rare FP arithmetic sequences which may trap do not have the
934appropriate nops inserted to ensure restartability.</li>
935
John Criswell3bdbd302005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000[diff] [blame]936</ul>
937</div>
938
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NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]940<h3>
Chris Lattner97beb512007-05-14 06:56:09 +0000[diff] [blame]941 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]942</h3>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]943
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]944<div>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]945
Chris Lattner086d2692010-09-29 05:34:42 +0000[diff] [blame]946<p>The C backend has numerous problems and is not being actively maintained.
947Depending on it for anything serious is not advised.</p>
948
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]949<ul>
Chris Lattnera1a4c9a2008-06-05 06:35:40 +0000[diff] [blame]950<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR802">The C backend has only basic support for
951 inline assembly code</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner8e061162007-09-26 06:01:35 +0000[diff] [blame]952<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR1658">The C backend violates the ABI of common
953 C++ programs</a>, preventing intermixing between C++ compiled by the CBE and
Gabor Greif75b2f762009-03-02 12:02:51 +0000[diff] [blame]954 C++ code compiled with <tt>llc</tt> or native compilers.</li>
Duncan Sandse09506a2008-02-10 13:40:55 +0000[diff] [blame]955<li>The C backend does not support all exception handling constructs.</li>
Duncan Sands3aa36732009-02-25 11:51:54 +0000[diff] [blame]956<li>The C backend does not support arbitrary precision integers.</li>
Chris Lattnerb81f10e2006-11-18 07:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]957</ul>
958
959</div>
John Criswell3bdbd302005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000[diff] [blame]960
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]961
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NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]963<h3>
Chris Lattner086d2692010-09-29 05:34:42 +0000[diff] [blame]964 <a name="llvm-gcc">Known problems with the llvm-gcc front-end</a>
NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]965</h3>
Chris Lattner178f3db2003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000[diff] [blame]966
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]967<div>
Chris Lattner72a269f2006-03-03 00:34:26 +0000[diff] [blame]968
Chad Rosier06da55e2011-05-27 22:50:46 +0000[diff] [blame]969<p><b>LLVM 3.0 will be the last release of llvm-gcc.</b></p>
Chris Lattner17c170a2011-04-06 06:29:50 +0000[diff] [blame]970
Chris Lattner086d2692010-09-29 05:34:42 +0000[diff] [blame]971<p>llvm-gcc is generally very stable for the C family of languages. The only
972 major language feature of GCC not supported by llvm-gcc is the
973 <tt>__builtin_apply</tt> family of builtins. However, some extensions
974 are only supported on some targets. For example, trampolines are only
975 supported on some targets (these are used when you take the address of a
976 nested function).</p>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]977
Chris Lattner086d2692010-09-29 05:34:42 +0000[diff] [blame]978<p>Fortran support generally works, but there are still several unresolved bugs
979 in <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">Bugzilla</a>. Please see the
980 tools/gfortran component for details. Note that llvm-gcc is missing major
981 Fortran performance work in the frontend and library that went into GCC after
982 4.2. If you are interested in Fortran, we recommend that you consider using
983 <a href="#dragonegg">dragonegg</a> instead.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]984
Duncan Sandsd63e1c82010-10-04 10:06:56 +0000[diff] [blame]985<p>The llvm-gcc 4.2 Ada compiler has basic functionality, but is no longer being
986actively maintained. If you are interested in Ada, we recommend that you
987consider using <a href="#dragonegg">dragonegg</a> instead.</p>
Chris Lattnere38ac152008-02-12 06:29:45 +0000[diff] [blame]988</div>
989
NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]990</div>
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NAKAMURA Takumi64835132011-04-18 01:17:51 +0000[diff] [blame]995</h2>
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NAKAMURA Takumi3ad28282011-04-21 01:52:00 +0000[diff] [blame]998<div>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]999
Chris Lattnercb5596d2005-05-16 17:13:10 +0000[diff] [blame]1000<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the <a
NAKAMURA Takumica46f5a2011-04-09 02:13:37 +0000[diff] [blame]1001href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM web page</a>, in particular in the <a
Chris Lattnere0c1df42007-05-18 00:44:29 +0000[diff] [blame]1002href="http://llvm.org/docs/">documentation</a> section. The web page also
Reid Spencerc7f87f22007-07-09 08:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1003contains versions of the API documentation which is up-to-date with the
1004Subversion version of the source code.
Misha Brukman96158092005-03-30 19:14:24 +0000[diff] [blame]1005You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going
1006into the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000[diff] [blame]1007
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000[diff] [blame]1008<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
Chris Lattnera69595e2005-10-29 07:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1009us via the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/#maillist"> mailing
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