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Hans Wennborgfbb21e02017-07-19 14:14:07 +0000[diff] [blame^]2Clang 6.0.0 (In-Progress) Release Notes
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9Written by the `LLVM Team <http://llvm.org/>`_
10
11.. warning::
12
Hans Wennborgfbb21e02017-07-19 14:14:07 +0000[diff] [blame^]13 These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Clang 6 release.
Hans Wennborg189f1f32017-02-09 23:26:34 +0000[diff] [blame]14 Release notes for previous releases can be found on
15 `the Download Page <http://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_.
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17Introduction
18============
19
20This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C
Hans Wennborgfbb21e02017-07-19 14:14:07 +0000[diff] [blame^]21frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 6.0.0. Here we
Sean Silvafe251442012-12-23 01:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]22describe the status of Clang in some detail, including major
23improvements from the previous release and new feature work. For the
24general LLVM release notes, see `the LLVM
25documentation <http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html>`_. All LLVM
26releases may be downloaded from the `LLVM releases web
27site <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
28
29For more information about Clang or LLVM, including information about
30the latest release, please check out the main please see the `Clang Web
31Site <http://clang.llvm.org>`_ or the `LLVM Web
32Site <http://llvm.org>`_.
33
34Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the
35main Clang web page, this document applies to the *next* release, not
36the current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please
37see the `releases page <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
38
Hans Wennborgfbb21e02017-07-19 14:14:07 +0000[diff] [blame^]39What's New in Clang 6.0.0?
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42Some of the major new features and improvements to Clang are listed
43here. Generic improvements to Clang as a whole or to its underlying
44infrastructure are described first, followed by language-specific
45sections with improvements to Clang's support for those languages.
46
47Major New Features
48------------------
49
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Rafael Espindola34970692013-12-12 16:07:11 +0000[diff] [blame]51
Sean Silvafe251442012-12-23 01:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]52Improvements to Clang's diagnostics
53^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
54
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Sean Silvafe251442012-12-23 01:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]57New Compiler Flags
58------------------
59
Sylvestre Ledruf6b48972016-11-12 10:37:17 +0000[diff] [blame]60The option ....
61
Joerg Sonnenbergerc9199682017-07-01 21:36:21 +0000[diff] [blame]62Deprecated Compiler Flags
63-------------------------
64
65The following options are deprecated and ignored. They will be removed in
66future versions of Clang.
67
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Joerg Sonnenbergerc9199682017-07-01 21:36:21 +0000[diff] [blame]69
Tyler Nowickidb2668a2014-06-18 00:51:32 +0000[diff] [blame]70New Pragmas in Clang
71-----------------------
72
Rafael Espindolaaf742502014-08-22 21:59:11 +0000[diff] [blame]73Clang now supports the ...
Mark Heffernanbd26f5e2014-07-21 18:08:34 +0000[diff] [blame]74
Paul Robinsonf9ede1c2016-07-18 17:19:12 +0000[diff] [blame]75
76Attribute Changes in Clang
77--------------------------
78
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Paul Robinsonf9ede1c2016-07-18 17:19:12 +0000[diff] [blame]80
Hans Wennborg02dc0002014-08-05 00:21:23 +0000[diff] [blame]81Windows Support
82---------------
83
Rafael Espindolaaf742502014-08-22 21:59:11 +0000[diff] [blame]84Clang's support for building native Windows programs ...
Hans Wennborg02dc0002014-08-05 00:21:23 +0000[diff] [blame]85
86
Renato Golinf2fcddb2013-12-13 09:27:34 +0000[diff] [blame]87C Language Changes in Clang
88---------------------------
89
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Pirama Arumuga Nainarc85c8532016-06-21 16:09:30 +0000[diff] [blame]91
Renato Golinf2fcddb2013-12-13 09:27:34 +0000[diff] [blame]92...
93
Sean Silvafe251442012-12-23 01:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]94C11 Feature Support
95^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
96
97...
98
99C++ Language Changes in Clang
100-----------------------------
101
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103
104C++1z Feature Support
Sean Silvafe251442012-12-23 01:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]105^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
106
107...
108
109Objective-C Language Changes in Clang
110-------------------------------------
111
112...
113
Erik Schnetter489700d2013-11-11 06:36:33 +0000[diff] [blame]114OpenCL C Language Changes in Clang
115----------------------------------
116
Bill Wendling0a794a4b2013-11-20 10:13:37 +0000[diff] [blame]117...
Erik Schnetter489700d2013-11-11 06:36:33 +0000[diff] [blame]118
Alexey Bataev44b67502016-05-31 11:17:08 +0000[diff] [blame]119OpenMP Support in Clang
120----------------------------------
121
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Alexey Bataev44b67502016-05-31 11:17:08 +0000[diff] [blame]123
Sean Silvafe251442012-12-23 01:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]124Internal API Changes
125--------------------
126
Hans Wennborg159d6ad2017-01-12 21:55:16 +0000[diff] [blame]127These are major API changes that have happened since the 4.0.0 release of
Sean Silvafe251442012-12-23 01:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]128Clang. If upgrading an external codebase that uses Clang as a library,
129this section should help get you past the largest hurdles of upgrading.
130
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Richard Smitha0334a92015-05-14 00:22:12 +0000[diff] [blame]132
Aaron Ballmancdc43af2015-09-17 13:47:22 +0000[diff] [blame]133AST Matchers
134------------
Aaron Ballmancdc43af2015-09-17 13:47:22 +0000[diff] [blame]135
136...
137
Sylvestre Ledru72e3fa72017-03-14 09:43:55 +0000[diff] [blame]138
139clang-format
140------------
141
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Ted Kremenek3a2291b2013-04-24 07:33:52 +0000[diff] [blame]144libclang
145--------
146
Bill Wendling61f44cc2013-06-04 06:17:46 +0000[diff] [blame]147...
Ted Kremenek3a2291b2013-04-24 07:33:52 +0000[diff] [blame]148
Sylvestre Ledruea49d3a2016-08-06 20:23:54 +0000[diff] [blame]149
Anna Zaksb6219a92013-04-25 23:14:38 +0000[diff] [blame]150Static Analyzer
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Anna Zaksb6219a92013-04-25 23:14:38 +0000[diff] [blame]152
Bill Wendling0a794a4b2013-11-20 10:13:37 +0000[diff] [blame]153...
Ted Kremenek004e8232013-04-26 00:01:34 +0000[diff] [blame]154
Vedant Kumar840c2c72017-06-13 02:52:31 +0000[diff] [blame]155Undefined Behavior Sanitizer (UBSan)
156------------------------------------
157
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Vedant Kumar840c2c72017-06-13 02:52:31 +0000[diff] [blame]159
Ted Kremenek004e8232013-04-26 00:01:34 +0000[diff] [blame]160Core Analysis Improvements
161==========================
162
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Ted Kremenek004e8232013-04-26 00:01:34 +0000[diff] [blame]164
165New Issues Found
166================
167
Bill Wendling61f44cc2013-06-04 06:17:46 +0000[diff] [blame]168- ...
Anna Zaksb6219a92013-04-25 23:14:38 +0000[diff] [blame]169
Sean Silvafe251442012-12-23 01:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]170Python Binding Changes
171----------------------
172
173The following methods have been added:
174
175- ...
176
177Significant Known Problems
178==========================
179
180Additional Information
181======================
182
183A wide variety of additional information is available on the `Clang web
184page <http://clang.llvm.org/>`_. The web page contains versions of the
185API documentation which are up-to-date with the Subversion version of
186the source code. You can access versions of these documents specific to
187this release by going into the "``clang/docs/``" directory in the Clang
188tree.
189
190If you have any questions or comments about Clang, please feel free to
191contact us via the `mailing
Tanya Lattner4a08e932015-08-05 03:55:23 +0000[diff] [blame]192list <http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev>`_.