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John Criswellfee5f112005-05-18 20:28:46 +000011<div class="doc_title">LLVM 1.6 Release Notes</div>
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13<ol>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +000014 <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
15 <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
Chris Lattner77a51732004-04-30 22:17:12 +000016 <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +000017 <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +000018 <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +000019 <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
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Chris Lattner020e1fc2004-05-23 21:07:27 +000022<div class="doc_author">
Chris Lattnerf3a7c242004-12-09 22:22:58 +000023 <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Team</a><p>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +000024</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +000025
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Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +000027<div class="doc_section">
28 <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
29</div>
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Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +000032<div class="doc_text">
33
34<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
John Criswellfee5f112005-05-18 20:28:46 +000035infrastructure, release 1.6. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
Chris Lattner406bddf2005-05-15 05:44:51 +000036known problems and major improvements from the previous release. The most
37up-to-date version of this document can be found on the <a
John Criswellfee5f112005-05-18 20:28:46 +000038href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.6/">LLVM 1.6 web site</a>. If you are
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +000039not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +000040this document may be updated after the release.</p>
Chris Lattner62495762003-10-02 16:38:05 +000041
Chris Lattnerb5bb5972004-12-07 08:04:13 +000042<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
43release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main LLVM
Chris Lattnere7525b52003-10-07 21:38:31 +000044web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
45href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +000046list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +000047
Chris Lattnerf3a7c242004-12-09 22:22:58 +000048<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS or the main LLVM web page,
49this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one. To see
50the release notes for the current or previous releases, see the <a
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +000051href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
52
53</div>
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55<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +000056<div class="doc_section">
57 <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
58</div>
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60
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +000061<div class="doc_text">
62
John Criswellfee5f112005-05-18 20:28:46 +000063<p>This is the seventh public release of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure.</p>
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +000064
John Criswellfee5f112005-05-18 20:28:46 +000065<p>LLVM 1.6 is known to correctly compile a wide range of C and C++ programs,
66includes bug fixes for those problems found since the 1.5 release, and includes
Chris Lattner7e1f2622005-05-16 16:56:09 +000067a large number of new features and enhancements, described below.</p>
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +000068
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +000069</div>
70
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +000071<!--=========================================================================-->
Chris Lattner406bddf2005-05-15 05:44:51 +000072<div class="doc_subsection">
John Criswellfee5f112005-05-18 20:28:46 +000073<a name="newfeatures">New Features in LLVM 1.6</a>
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +000074</div>
Brian Gaeke8b05e4f2004-01-16 21:55:04 +000075
76<!--=========================================================================-->
Chris Lattner406bddf2005-05-15 05:44:51 +000077<div class="doc_subsection">
John Criswellfee5f112005-05-18 20:28:46 +000078<a name="codequality">Code Quality Improvements in LLVM 1.6</a>
Chris Lattner23257062004-05-23 20:42:08 +000079</div>
Chris Lattner639579c2003-10-27 17:06:39 +000080
Chris Lattner7e1f2622005-05-16 16:56:09 +000081<!--=========================================================================-->
82<div class="doc_subsection">
John Criswellfee5f112005-05-18 20:28:46 +000083<a name="codequality">Code Generator Improvements in LLVM 1.6</a>
Chris Lattner7e1f2622005-05-16 16:56:09 +000084</div>
85
Chris Lattnerba7bd472003-12-06 20:22:41 +000086<!--=========================================================================-->
Chris Lattner406bddf2005-05-15 05:44:51 +000087<div class="doc_subsection">
John Criswellfee5f112005-05-18 20:28:46 +000088<a name="bugfix">Significant Bugs Fixed in LLVM 1.6</a>
Chris Lattner21a90402004-05-24 04:50:25 +000089</div>
Reid Spencer3e58f582004-05-23 17:23:13 +000090
Chris Lattner62495762003-10-02 16:38:05 +000091<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +000092<div class="doc_section">
93 <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
94</div>
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96
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +000097<div class="doc_text">
98
John Criswell64307722004-12-08 20:35:47 +000099<p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p>
Chris Lattner2c7b0872004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000100
101<ul>
Reid Spencer9803b402005-05-17 02:47:27 +0000102 <li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core and FreeBSD
103 (and probably other unix-like systems).</li>
Chris Lattner2c7b0872004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000104<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>
Chris Lattnerb5bb5972004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000105<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries (limited
106 support is available for native builds with Visual C++).</li>
107<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X systems, running 10.2 and above.</li>
John Criswelld5234922005-05-13 20:28:15 +0000108<li>Alpha-based machines running Debian GNU/Linux.</li>
109<li>Itanium-based machines running Linux and HP-UX.</li>
Chris Lattner2c7b0872004-06-01 18:22:41 +0000110</ul>
111
Brian Gaekee3e557e2004-05-09 05:28:35 +0000112<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
113<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself
114to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor
115porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your
116portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000117
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000118</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000119
120<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000121<div class="doc_section">
122 <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
123</div>
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125
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000126<div class="doc_text">
127
128<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000129component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
Chris Lattnerb84f3322003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000130sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000131href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
Chris Lattnerb84f3322003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000132there isn't already one.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000133
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000134</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000135
Chris Lattnerb911de42004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000136<!-- ======================================================================= -->
137<div class="doc_subsection">
138 <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
139</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000140
Chris Lattnerb911de42004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000141<div class="doc_text">
142
Misha Brukmanfa50a222004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000143<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
144be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should
145not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
146useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
147components, please contact us on the llvmdev list.</p>
Chris Lattnerb911de42004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000148
149<ul>
Chris Lattnerb5bb5972004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000150<li>The following passes are incomplete or buggy, and may be removed in future
Chris Lattner38389b12005-01-28 06:13:52 +0000151 releases: <tt>-cee, -branch-combine, -instloops, -paths, -pre</tt></li>
Chris Lattnerb5bb5972004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000152<li>The <tt>llvm-db</tt> tool is in a very early stage of development, but can
153 be used to step through programs and inspect the stack.</li>
Misha Brukman96158092005-03-30 19:14:24 +0000154<li>The "iterative scan" register allocator (enabled with
155 <tt>-regalloc=iterativescan</tt>) is not stable.</li>
John Criswelld5234922005-05-13 20:28:15 +0000156<li>The SparcV8, Alpha, and IA64 code generators are experimental.</li>
Chris Lattnerb911de42004-03-14 02:03:02 +0000157</ul>
158
159</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000160
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000161<!-- ======================================================================= -->
162<div class="doc_subsection">
163 <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
164</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000165
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000166<div class="doc_text">
167
168<ul>
Misha Brukman96158092005-03-30 19:14:24 +0000169 <li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym()</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not
170 work.</li>
Reid Spencer493d9c22004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000171 <li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
172 such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be
173 corrupted.
174 </li>
Reid Spencer493d9c22004-11-25 22:38:30 +0000175 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR240">The lower-invoke pass does not
176 mark values live across a setjmp as volatile</a>. This missing feature
177 only affects targets whose setjmp/longjmp libraries do not save and restore
178 the entire register file.</li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000179</ul>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000180</div>
181
182<!-- ======================================================================= -->
183<div class="doc_subsection">
184 <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
185</div>
Chris Lattner178f3db2003-10-02 05:07:23 +0000186
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000187<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner5a8a7282003-12-14 05:03:43 +0000188<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000189
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000190<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000191<ul>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000192<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
193 scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
194<pre>
195 for (i = 0; i != 1000000; ++i) {
196 int X[n];
197 foo(X);
198 }
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000199</pre></li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000200
Misha Brukmanfa50a222004-05-12 21:46:05 +0000201<li>Initialization of global union variables can only be done <a
Misha Brukman68ef9a92004-12-04 00:45:09 +0000202href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR162">with the largest union member</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner1ab58dd2004-03-16 21:39:04 +0000203
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000204</ul>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000205</div>
206
207<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
208<div class="doc_subsubsection">
209 Notes
210</div>
211
212<div class="doc_text">
213
214<ul>
215
216<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
Chris Lattnerd2a74272003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000217
218<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000219support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
220bits.</li>
221
222<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
223work:
Misha Brukman7cb4e382003-11-22 01:00:11 +0000224 <ol>
225 <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
226 appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
227 <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
228 <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
229 - These functions have not been tested.
230 </ol></li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000231
232<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
233 the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
234 <ol>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000235 <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 +0000236 <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>
237 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li>
238 <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 +0000239 <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 +0000240 <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>
241 <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 +0000242 <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>
243 <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>
Tanya Lattner63371342004-12-08 18:25:34 +0000244 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread_002dLocal.html">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000245 <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 +0000246 </ol>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000247
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000248 <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000249 attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
250 but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000251 ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000252 the program.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000253
254 <ol>
255 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
256 Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000257 Supported, but allocated stack space is not freed until the function returns (noted above).</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000258
259 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes">Function Attributes</a>:
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000260
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000261 Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000262 return.<br>
263
264 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
John Criswell64307722004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000265 <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>,
266 <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000267 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
268
John Criswell64307722004-12-08 20:35:47 +0000269 <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noinline</tt>,
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000270 <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
271 <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
272
273 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>,
274 <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
275 <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000276
277 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
278 Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
279 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
280 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
281 <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000282
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000283 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
284 <tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
285 <tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000286 <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000287
Misha Brukman8395d732003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000288 <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 +0000289 <b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
Misha Brukman8395d732003-12-12 04:37:31 +0000290 <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000291
292 <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
293 all target specific attributes.</li>
294
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000295 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
296 Other built-in functions.<br>
297 We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
298 <tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
299 <tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
Chris Lattnerb7c4bac2004-06-18 06:26:29 +0000300 <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt>
301 (currently ignored). We also support builtins for ISO C99 floating
Chris Lattnerb34b2732005-05-07 02:21:21 +0000302 point comparison macros (e.g., <tt>__builtin_islessequal</tt>),
303 <tt>__builtin_prefetch</tt>, <tt>__builtin_popcount[ll]</tt>,
304 <tt>__builtin_clz[ll]</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_ctz[ll]</tt>.</li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000305 </ol>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000306
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000307 <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
308
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000309 <ol>
Chris Lattnerd3dc8502004-03-16 08:54:07 +0000310 <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 +0000311 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li>
312 <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>
Tanya Lattnerce33a1b2004-06-22 03:48:17 +0000313 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.0/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000314 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li>
315 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li>
316 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li>
317 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li>
318 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li>
319 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li>
320 <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>
321 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li>
322 <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 +0000323 <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 +0000324 <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 +0000325 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions,
326or arrays as values.</li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000327 <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 +0000328 <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 +0000329 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li>
330 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li>
331 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li>
Tanya Lattner7591b822004-12-08 18:29:38 +0000332 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Comments.html#C_002b_002b-Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000333 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li>
334 <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>
335 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li>
336 <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li>
337 <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>
338 <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>
339 <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 +0000340 <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 +0000341 <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>
342 <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 +0000343 </ol></li>
344
345</ul>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000346
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000347<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
348lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000349
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000350</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000351
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000352<!-- ======================================================================= -->
353<div class="doc_subsection">
354 <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
355</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000356
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000357<div class="doc_text">
358
Reid Spencer55684c32004-12-07 08:39:08 +0000359<p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully
Chris Lattnerb5bb5972004-12-07 08:04:13 +0000360tested and works for a number of non-trivial programs, including LLVM
361itself.</p>
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000362
363</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000364
365<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner141ebb62004-02-14 04:12:41 +0000366<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000367
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000368<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000369
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000370<ul>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000371<li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000372 front-end</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner041e6c92004-07-17 02:04:41 +0000373
Chris Lattner5cd40922004-08-02 20:28:44 +0000374</ul>
375
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000376</div>
377
378<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
379<div class="doc_subsubsection">
380 Notes
381</div>
382
383<div class="doc_text">
384
385<ul>
Chris Lattnerd2a74272003-10-27 18:30:37 +0000386
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000387<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
388parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
389versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
Chris Lattnere76e9ab2003-12-12 04:25:33 +0000390href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000391
392<li>Destructors for local objects are not always run when a <tt>longjmp</tt> is
Chris Lattner62495762003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000393 performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000394 function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
John Criswell86a3a482003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000395 Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000396 better than most compilers).</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000397
Chris Lattner62495762003-10-02 16:38:05 +0000398<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
399 href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
400 This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
401 mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
402 representation issues. Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
403 compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
404 Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
405 <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
406 different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000407 interact correctly</b>. </li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000408
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000409</ul>
Chris Lattner46ecf612003-10-07 22:14:37 +0000410
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000411</div>
412
413<!-- ======================================================================= -->
414<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000415 <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
416</div>
417
418<div class="doc_text">
419
420<ul>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000421
422<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
423Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
424(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000425problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000426
Chris Lattnerc679fbb2003-11-04 20:06:53 +0000427<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
Chris Lattnerb28c3282003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000428supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000429frontends.</li>
Chris Lattnerb28c3282003-10-24 04:03:19 +0000430
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000431</ul>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000432
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000433</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000434
Andrew Lenharth2e18c622005-05-03 16:59:09 +0000435<!-- ======================================================================= -->
436<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattner683a8472005-05-16 17:06:29 +0000437 <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
438</div>
439
440<div class="doc_text">
441
442<ul>
John Criswelle1a81202005-05-18 19:43:33 +0000443<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR566">Memory Mapped I/O Intrinsics do not fence memory</a></li>
Chris Lattner683a8472005-05-16 17:06:29 +0000444</ul>
445
446</div>
447
448<!-- ======================================================================= -->
449<div class="doc_subsection">
450 <a name="ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC back-end</a>
451</div>
452
453<div class="doc_text">
454
455<ul>
456<li>None yet</li>
457</ul>
458
459</div>
460
461<!-- ======================================================================= -->
462<div class="doc_subsection">
463 <a name="sparcv9-be">Known problems with the SparcV9 back-end</a>
464</div>
465
466<div class="doc_text">
467
468<ul>
469<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR60">[sparcv9] SparcV9 backend miscompiles
470several programs in the LLVM test suite</a></li>
471</ul>
472
473</div>
474
475<!-- ======================================================================= -->
476<div class="doc_subsection">
Andrew Lenharth2e18c622005-05-03 16:59:09 +0000477 <a name="alpha-be">Known problems with the Alpha back-end</a>
478</div>
479
480<div class="doc_text">
481
482<ul>
483
Chris Lattner683a8472005-05-16 17:06:29 +0000484<li>On 21164s, some rare FP arithmetic sequences which may trap do not have the
485appropriate nops inserted to ensure restartability.</li>
Andrew Lenharth2e18c622005-05-03 16:59:09 +0000486
Chris Lattner683a8472005-05-16 17:06:29 +0000487<li>Defining vararg functions is not supported (but calling them is ok).</li>
Andrew Lenharth2e18c622005-05-03 16:59:09 +0000488
Andrew Lenharth8ecaa452005-05-14 17:43:00 +0000489<li>Due to the vararg problems, C++ exceptions do not work. Small changes are required to the CFE (which break correctness in the exception handler) to compile the exception handling library (and thus the C++ standard library).</li>
490
Andrew Lenharth2e18c622005-05-03 16:59:09 +0000491</ul>
492
493</div>
494
Duraid Madina9a449002005-05-14 05:48:13 +0000495<!-- ======================================================================= -->
496<div class="doc_subsection">
497 <a name="ia64-be">Known problems with the IA64 back-end</a>
498</div>
499
500<div class="doc_text">
501
502<ul>
503
504<li>C++ programs are likely to fail on IA64, as calls to <tt>setjmp</tt> are
505made where the argument is not 16-byte aligned, as required on IA64. (Strictly
506speaking this is not a bug in the IA64 back-end; it will also be encountered
507when building C++ programs using the C back-end.)</li>
508
Chris Lattner683a8472005-05-16 17:06:29 +0000509<li>The C++ front-end does not use <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR406">IA64
510ABI compliant layout of v-tables</a>. In particular, it just stores function
511pointers instead of function descriptors in the vtable. This bug prevents
512mixing C++ code compiled with LLVM with C++ objects compiled by other C++
513compilers.</li>
Duraid Madina9a449002005-05-14 05:48:13 +0000514
Chris Lattner683a8472005-05-16 17:06:29 +0000515<li>There are a few ABI violations which will lead to problems when mixing LLVM
516output with code built with other compilers, particularly for floating-point
517programs.</li>
518
519<li>Defining vararg functions is not supported (but calling them is ok).</li>
Duraid Madina9a449002005-05-14 05:48:13 +0000520
521</ul>
522
523</div>
524
Chris Lattnerb62a5f02005-05-15 16:01:20 +0000525<!-- ======================================================================= -->
526<div class="doc_subsection">
527 <a name="sparcv8">Known problems with the SPARC-V8 back-end</a>
528</div>
529
530<div class="doc_text">
531
532<ul>
533<li>Many features are still missing (e.g. support for 64-bit integer
534arithmetic).</li>
535
536<li>This backend needs to be updated to use the SelectionDAG instruction
537selection framework.</li>
538</ul>
539
540</div>
541
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000542<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000543<div class="doc_section">
544 <a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
545</div>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000546<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
547
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000548<div class="doc_text">
549
Chris Lattnercb5596d2005-05-16 17:13:10 +0000550<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the <a
551href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM web page</a>, including <a
552href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/">documentation</a> and <a
553href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/pubs/">publications describing algorithms and
Misha Brukman96158092005-03-30 19:14:24 +0000554components implemented in LLVM</a>. The web page also contains versions of the
555API documentation which is up-to-date with the CVS version of the source code.
556You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going
557into the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
Chris Lattner3d482502003-10-02 04:57:28 +0000558
Misha Brukman80731b92003-11-22 00:38:41 +0000559<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
Chris Lattnercb5596d2005-05-16 17:13:10 +0000560us via the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/#maillist"> mailing
Chris Lattnerb84f3322003-12-12 21:22:16 +0000561lists</a>.</p>
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