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-<div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.3 Release Notes</div>
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+<div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.5 Release Notes</div>
+
<ol>
<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
- <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#subproj">Sub-project Status Update</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 2.5</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in LLVM?</a></li>
<li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
<li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
- <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
+ <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a></li>
<li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
</ol>
<div class="doc_author">
- <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Team</a><p>
+ <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Team</a></p>
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<div class="doc_text">
-<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
-infrastructure, release 2.3. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including
-major improvements from the previous release and any known problems. All LLVM
-releases may be downloaded from the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM
-releases web site</a>.</p>
+<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler
+Infrastructure, release 2.5. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including
+major improvements from the previous release and significant known problems.
+All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the <a
+href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM releases web site</a>.</p>
<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.org/">main LLVM
web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
-href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
-list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
+href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM Developer's Mailing
+List</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
-<p>Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the
+<p>Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the
main LLVM web page, this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the
-current one. To see the release notes for a specific releases, please see the
+current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the
<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
</div>
+<!-- Unfinished features in 2.5:
+ Machine LICM
+ Machine Sinking
+ target-specific intrinsics
+ gold lto plugin
+ pre-alloc splitter, strong phi elim
+ llc -enable-value-prop, propagation of value info (sign/zero ext info) from
+ one MBB to another
+ debug info for optimized code
+ interpreter + libffi
+ postalloc scheduler: anti dependence breaking, hazard recognizer?
+
+ -->
+
+ <!-- for announcement email:
+ -->
+
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<div class="doc_section">
- <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
+ <a name="subproj">Sub-project Status Update</a>
</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
+<p>
+The LLVM 2.5 distribution currently consists of code from the core LLVM
+repository (which roughly includes the LLVM optimizers, code generators and
+supporting tools) and the llvm-gcc repository. In addition to this code, the
+LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in development. The two which
+are the most actively developed are the <a href="#clang">Clang Project</a> and
+the <a href="#vmkit">VMKit Project</a>.
+</p>
+
+</div>
-<p>This is the fourteenth public release of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure.
-It includes a large number of features and refinements from LLVM 2.2.</p>
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+<a name="clang">Clang: C/C++/Objective-C Frontend Toolkit</a>
</div>
-<!-- Unfinished features in 2.3:
- Index Set Splitting not enabled by default
- Machine LICM
- Machine Sinking
- LegalizeDAGTypes
- -->
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>The <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">Clang project</a> is an effort to build
+a set of new 'LLVM native' front-end technologies for the LLVM optimizer
+and code generator. While Clang is not included in the LLVM 2.5 release, it
+is continuing to make major strides forward in all areas. Its C and Objective-C
+parsing and code generation support is now very solid. For example, it is
+capable of successfully building many real applications for X86-32 and X86-64,
+including <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang">the FreeBSD
+kernel</a>. C++ is also making <a
+href="http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html">incredible progress</a>, and work
+on templates has recently started.</p>
+
+<p>While Clang is not yet production quality, it is progressing very nicely and
+is quite usable for building many C and Objective-C applications. If you are
+interested in fast compiles and good diagnostics, we encourage you to try it out
+by <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html">building from mainline</a>
+and reporting any issues you hit to the <a
+href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev">Clang front-end mailing
+list</a>.</p>
+
+<p>In the LLVM 2.5 time-frame, the Clang team has made many improvements:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Clang now has a new driver, which is focused on providing a GCC-compatible
+ interface.</li>
+<li>The X86-64 ABI is now supported.</li>
+<li>Precompiled header support is now implemented.</li>
+<li>Objective-C support is significantly improved beyond LLVM 2.4, supporting
+ many features, such as Objective-C Garbage Collection.</li>
+<li>Many many bugs are fixed.</li>
+</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
<div class="doc_subsection">
-<a name="deprecation">Removed features in LLVM 2.3</a>
+<a name="clangsa">Clang Static Analyzer</a>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
-<p>LLVM 2.2 was the last LLVM release to support llvm-gcc 4.0 and llvm-upgrade.
-llvm-gcc 4.0 has been replaced with llvm-gcc 4.2. llvm-upgrade was useful for
-upgrading LLVM 1.9 files to LLVM 2.x syntax, but you can always use a previous
-LLVM release to do this. One nice impact of this is that the LLVM regressionn
-test suite no longer depends on llvm-upgrade, which makes it run faster.</p>
+<p>Previously announced in the last LLVM release, the Clang project also
+includes an early stage static source code analysis tool for <a
+href="http://clang.llvm.org/StaticAnalysis.html">automatically finding bugs</a>
+in C and Objective-C programs. The tool performs a growing set of checks to find
+bugs that occur on a specific path within a program.</p>
+
+<p>In the LLVM 2.5 time-frame there have been many significant improvements to
+the analyzer's core path simulation engine and machinery for generating
+path-based bug reports to end-users. Particularly noteworthy improvements
+include experimental support for full field-sensitivity and reasoning about heap
+objects as well as an improved value-constraints subengine that does a much
+better job of reasoning about inequality relationships (e.g., <tt>x > 2</tt>)
+between variables and constants.
+
+<p>The set of checks performed by the static analyzer continue to expand, and
+future plans for the tool include full source-level inter-procedural analysis
+and deeper checks such as buffer overrun detection. There are many opportunities
+to extend and enhance the static analyzer, and anyone interested in working on
+this project is encouraged to get involved!</p>
</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
<div class="doc_subsection">
-<a name="majorfeatures">Major New Features</a>
+<a name="vmkit">VMKit: JVM/CLI Virtual Machine Implementation</a>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
+<p>
+The <a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/">VMKit project</a> is an implementation of
+a JVM and a CLI Virtual Machines (Microsoft .NET is an
+implementation of the CLI) using the Just-In-Time compiler of LLVM.</p>
-<p>LLVM 2.3 includes several major new capabilities:</p>
+<p>Following LLVM 2.5, VMKit has its first release ? that you can find on its
+<a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/releases/">webpage</a>. The release includes
+bug fixes, cleanup and new features. The major changes are:</p>
<ul>
-<li>Multiple Return Value Support</li>
+<li>Ahead of Time compiler: compiles .class files to llvm .bc. VMKit uses this
+functionality to native compile the standard classes (eg java.lang.String).
+Users can compile AOT .class files into dynamic libraries and run them with the
+help of VMKit.</li>
-<li><p>LLVM 2.3 includes a complete reimplementation of the "llvmc" tool. It is
-designed to overcome several problems of the original llvmc and to provide a
-superset of the features as the 'gcc' driver.</p>
+<li>New exception model: the dwarf exception model is very slow for
+exception-intensive applications, so the JVM has had a new implementation of
+exceptions which check at each function call if an exception happened. There is
+a low performance penalty on applications without exceptions, but it is a big
+gain for exception-intensive applications. For example the jack benchmark in
+Spec JVM98 is 6x faster (performance gain of 83%).</li>
-<p>The main features of llvmc2 is:</p>
+<li>New support for OSX/X64, Linux/X64 (with the Boehm GC), Linux/ppc32.</li>
-<ul>
-<li>Extended handling of command line options and smart rules for
-dispatching them to different tools.</li>
-<li>Flexible (and extensible) rules for defining different tools.</li>
-<li>The different intermediate steps performed by tools are represented
-as edged in the abstract graph.</li>
-</l>The 'language' for driver behaviour definition is tablegen and thus
-it's relatively easy to add new features.</li>
-<li>The definition of driver is transformed into set of C++ classes, thus
-no runtime interpretation is needed.</li>
</ul>
+</div>
-</li>
+<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
+<div class="doc_section">
+ <a name="externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 2.5</a>
+</div>
+<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
+
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+<a name="pure">Pure</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+<p>
+http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pure is an algebraic/functional programming language based on term rewriting.
+Programs are collections of equations which are used to evaluate expressions in
+a symbolic fashion. Pure offers dynamic typing, eager and lazy evaluation,
+lexical closures, a hygienic macro system (also based on term rewriting),
+built-in list and matrix support (including list and matrix comprehensions) and
+an easy-to-use C interface. The interpreter uses LLVM as a backend to
+ JIT-compile Pure programs to fast native code.</p>
+
+<p>In addition to the usual algebraic data structures, Pure also has
+MATLAB-style matrices in order to support numeric computations and signal
+processing in an efficient way. Pure is mainly aimed at mathematical
+applications right now, but it has been designed as a general purpose language.
+The dynamic interpreter environment and the C interface make it possible to use
+it as a kind of functional scripting language for many application areas.
+</p>
+</div>
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+<a name="ldc">LLVM D Compiler</a>
+</div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+<p>
+http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc
+</p>
-</ul>
+<p>
+I'd like to inform that the LDC project (LLVM D
+Compiler) is working with release 2.5 of LLVM. In fact we've required
+2.5 in our trunk since the release was branched.
+The improvements in 2.5 have fixed a lot of problems with LDC, more
+specifically the new inline asm constraints, better debug info
+support, general bugfixes :) and better x86-64 support have allowed
+some major improvements in LDC, getting us much closer to being as
+fully featured as the original DMD compiler from DigitalMars.
+</p>
+</div>
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+<a name="RoadsendPHP">Roadsend PHP</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+<p>http://code.roadsend.com/rphp</p>
+
+<p>Roadsend PHP is using LLVM for code generation. This is an open source
+project.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
+<div class="doc_section">
+ <a name="whatsnew">What's New in LLVM?</a>
</div>
+<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+<p>This release includes a huge number of bug fixes, performance tweaks, and
+minor improvements. Some of the major improvements and new features are listed
+in this section.
+</p>
+</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
<div class="doc_subsection">
-<a name="frontends">llvm-gcc 4.2 Improvements and Clang</a>
+<a name="majorfeatures">Major New Features</a>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
-<p>LLVM 2.3 fully supports llvm-gcc 4.2 front-end.</p>
+<p>LLVM 2.5 includes several major new capabilities:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>The code generator now supports arbitrary precision integers.
+Types like <tt>i33</tt> have long been valid in the LLVM IR, but previously
+could only be used with the interpreter.
+Now IR using such types can be compiled to native code on all targets.
+All operations are supported if the integer is not bigger than twice the
+target machine word size.
+Simple operations like loads, stores and shifts by a constant amount are
+supported for integers of any size.
+</p></li>
+
+<!--
+Random stuff:
+
+Pure project: http://code.google.com/p/pure-lang/
+
+
+xcore backend!
+fortran on darwin!
+
+.ll parser rewrite, caret diags, better errors, less fragile (less likely to
+ crash on strange things). No longer depends on flex/bison.
+GCC inliner off, llvm handles always-inline.
+cmake mature?
+x86 backend GS segment -> addr space 256 (r62980)
+nocapture
+memdep (used by GVN and memcpyopt) is faster / more aggressive.
+how to write a backend doc docs/WritingAnLLVMBackend.html
+fastisel + exception handling
+vector widening <3 x float> -> <4 x float>
+arm port improvements? arm jit encoding stuff, constant island support?
+JIT TLS support on x86-32 but not x86-64.
+mem2reg now faster on code with huge basic blocks
+stack protectors/stack canaries, -fstack-protector, controllable on a
+ per-function basis with attributes.
+shufflevector is generalized to allow different shuffle mask width than its
+ input vectors.
+loop optimizer improves floating point induction variables
+llvm/Analysis/DebugInfo.h classes, llvm-gcc and clang and codegen use them.
+ DebugInfoBuilder gone.
+asmprinters seperate from targets for jits
+PBQP register allocator now supports register coalescing.
+JIT supports exceptions on linux/x86-64 and linux/x86-64.
+integer overflow intrinsics for [us](add/sub/mul). Supported on all targets,
+ but only generates efficient code on x86.
+X86 backend now supports -disable-mmx.
+noalias attribute on return value indicates that function returns new memory
+ (e.g. malloc).
+llvmc2 renamed to llvmc
+Jump threading more powerful: it is iterative, handles threading based on values
+ with fully redundant and partially redundant loads.
+LSR improvements?
+ARM debug info support?
+unit test framework based on Google Test.
+
+vector shift support + X86 backend.
+x86 JIT now detects core i7 and atom, autoconfiguring itself appropriately.
+SROA is more aggressive about promoting unions.
+non-zero __builtin_return_address values on X86.
+x86-64 now uses red zone (unless -mno-red-zone option is specified).
+private linkage.
+
+llvm-gcc defaults to -fno-math-errno on all x86 targets.
+
+initial support for debug line numbers when optimization enabled, not useful in
+ 2.5 but will be for 2.6.
+-->
+
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+<a name="llvm-gcc">llvm-gcc 4.2 Improvements</a>
+</div>
-<p>llvm-gcc 4.2 includes numerous fixes to better support the Objective-C
-front-end. Objective-C now works very well on Mac OS/X.</p>
+<div class="doc_text">
-<p>llvm-gcc 4.2 includes many other fixes which improve conformance with the
-relevant parts of the GCC testsuite.</p>
+<p>LLVM fully supports the llvm-gcc 4.2 front-end, which marries the GCC
+front-ends and driver with the LLVM optimizer and code generator. It currently
+includes support for the C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, and Fortran front-ends.</p>
-<p>The <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">clang project</a> is an effort to build
-a set of new 'llvm native' front-end technologies for the LLVM optimizer
-and code generator. Currently, its C and Objective-C support is maturing
-nicely, and it has advanced source-to-source analysis and transformation
-capabilities. If you are interested in building source-level tools for C and
-Objective-C (and eventually C++), you should take a look. However, note that
-clang is not an official part of the LLVM 2.3 release. If you are interested in
-this project, please see its <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">web site</a>.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>?</li>
+</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
-<p>New features include:
-</p>
+<p>New features include:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>?</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+<a name="optimizer">Optimizer Improvements</a>
+</div>
-Common linkage?
+<div class="doc_text">
-Atomic operation support, Alpha, X86, PowerPC. "__sync_syncronize"
+<p>In addition to a huge array of bug fixes and minor performance tweaks, this
+release includes a few major enhancements and additions to the optimizers:</p>
<ul>
+
+<li>?</li>
+
</ul>
-
+
</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
<div class="doc_text">
-<p>We put a significant amount of work into the code generator infrastructure,
+<p>We have put a significant amount of work into the code generator infrastructure,
which allows us to implement more aggressive algorithms and make it run
faster:</p>
<ul>
-<li>MemOperand in the code generator: describe me!.</li>
-<li>i128 support and APInt through most of codegen.</li>
+<li>The type legalization logic has been completely rewritten, and is now
+more powerful (it supports arbitrary precision integer types for example)
+and hopefully more correct.
+The type legalizer converts operations on types that are not natively
+supported by the target machine into equivalent code sequences that only use
+natively supported types.
+The old type legalizer is still available and will be used if
+<tt>-disable-legalize-types</tt> is passed to <tt>llc</tt>.
+</li>
+<li>?</li>
+
</ul>
</div>
+
<!--=========================================================================-->
<div class="doc_subsection">
-<a name="optimizer">Optimizer Improvements</a>
+<a name="pic16">PIC16 Target Improvements</a>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
-
-<p>In addition to a huge array of bug fixes and minor performance tweaks, the
-LLVM 2.3 optimizers support a few major enhancements:</p>
+<p>New features of the PIC16 target include:
+</p>
<ul>
+<li>Both direct and indirect load/stores work now.</li>
+<li>Logical, bitwise and conditional operations now work for integer data
+types.</li>
+<li>Function calls involving basic types work now.</li>
+<li>Support for integer arrays.</li>
+<li>Compiler can now emit libcalls for operations not support by m/c insns.</li>
+<li>Support for both data and rom address spaces.</li>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Things not yet supported:</p>
-<li>Loop index set splitting on by default: describe me.</li>
-<li>LLVM includes a new memcpy optimization pass which optimizes out dead
-memcpy calls and unneeded copies of aggregates.</li>
+<ul>
+<li>Floating point.</li>
+<li>Passing/returning aggregate types to/from functions.</li>
+<li>Variable arguments.</li>
+<li>Indirect function calls.</li>
+<li>Interrupts/prgrams.</li>
+<li>Debug info.</li>
+</li>
</ul>
</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
<div class="doc_subsection">
-<a name="targetspecific">Target Specific Improvements</a>
+<a name="othertargetspecific">Other Target Specific Improvements</a>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
</p>
<ul>
-<li>llvm-gcc's X86-64 ABI conformance is far improved, particularly in the
- area of passing and returning structures by value. llvm-gcc Compiled code
- now interoperates very well on X86-64 systems with other compilers.</li>
-
-<li>The LLVM X86 backend now supports the support SSE 4.1 instruction set, and
- the llvm-gcc 4.2 front-end supports the SSE 4.1 compiler builtins.</li>
-
-<li>The X86 backend now does a number of optimizations that aim to avoid
- converting numbers back and forth from SSE registers to the X87 floating
- point stack.</li>
-
-<li>The X86 backend supports stack realignment, which is particularly useful for
- vector code on OS's without 16-byte aligned stacks.</li>
+<li>?</li>
+</ul>
-<li>The X86 backend now supports the "sseregparm" options in GCC, which allow
- functions to be tagged as passing floating point values in SSE
- registers.</li>
+</div>
-<li>Trampolines (taking the address of a nested function) now work on
- Linux/x86-64.</li>
-
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+<a name="llvmc">Improvements in LLVMC</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+<p>New features include:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Beginning with LLVM 2.5, llvmc2 is known as just 'llvmc'. The
+ old llvmc driver was removed.</li>
+
+<li>The Clang plugin was substantially improved and is now enabled
+ by default. The command 'llvmc --clang' can be now used as a
+ synonym to 'ccc'.</li>
+
+<li>There is now a '--check-graph' option which is supposed to
+ catch common errors like multiple default edges, mismatched
+ output/input language names and cycles. In general, these
+ checks can't be done at compile-time because of the need to
+ support plugins.</li>
+<li>Plugins are now more flexible and can refer to compilation
+ graph nodes and options defined in other plugins. To manage
+ dependencies, a priority-sorting mechanism was introduced. This
+ change affects the '.td' file syntax; see the documentation for
+ details.</li>
+
+<li>Hooks can now be provided with arguments. The syntax
+ is "$CALL(MyHook, 'Arg1', 'Arg2', 'Arg #3')".</li>
+
+<li>A new option type: multi-valued option, for options that take
+ more than one argument (for example, "-foo a b c").</li>
+
+<li>New option properties: 'one_or_more', 'zero_or_more', 'hidden'
+ and 'really_hidden'.</li>
+
+<li>The 'case' expression gained an 'error' action and an 'empty'
+ test (equivalent to '(not (not_empty ...))').</li>
+
+<li>Documentation now looks more consistent to the rest of the LLVM
+ docs. There is also a man page now.</li>
+
</ul>
-
+
</div>
+
<!--=========================================================================-->
<div class="doc_subsection">
<a name="otherimprovements">Other Improvements</a>
</p>
<ul>
-<li>LLVM now builds with GCC 4.3.</li>
+<li>?</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+<a name="changes">Major Changes and Removed Features</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>If you're already an LLVM user or developer with out-of-tree changes based
+on LLVM 2.4, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading
+from the previous release.</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>?</li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<p>In addition, many APIs have changed in this release. Some of the major LLVM
+API changes are:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>?</li>
</ul>
-
+
+<li>?</li>
+</ul>
+
</div>
+
+
<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
<div class="doc_section">
<a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
<p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p>
<ul>
-<li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core and FreeBSD
- (and probably other unix-like systems).</li>
-<li>PowerPC and X86-based Mac OS X systems, running 10.3 and above in 32-bit and
- 64-bit modes.</li>
+<li>Intel and AMD machines (IA32, X86-64, AMD64, EMT-64) running Red Hat
+Linux, Fedora Core and FreeBSD (and probably other unix-like systems).</li>
+<li>PowerPC and X86-based Mac OS X systems, running 10.3 and above in 32-bit
+and 64-bit modes.</li>
<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 using MinGW libraries (native).</li>
<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries (limited
support is available for native builds with Visual C++).</li>
-<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>
+<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 10.</li>
<li>Alpha-based machines running Debian GNU/Linux.</li>
-<li>Itanium-based machines running Linux and HP-UX.</li>
+<li>Itanium-based (IA64) machines running Linux and HP-UX.</li>
</ul>
<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses GNU autoconf to adapt itself
<div class="doc_text">
-<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
-component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
-sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
+<p>This section contains significant known problems with the LLVM system,
+listed by component. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
there isn't already one.</p>
href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev list</a>.</p>
<ul>
-<li>The MSIL, IA64, Alpha, SPU, and MIPS backends are experimental.</li>
-<li>The LLC "<tt>-filetype=asm</tt>" (the default) is the only supported
+<li>The MSIL, IA64, Alpha, SPU, MIPS, and PIC16 backends are experimental.</li>
+<li>The llc "<tt>-filetype=asm</tt>" (the default) is the only supported
value for this option.</li>
</ul>
<div class="doc_text">
<ul>
-<li>The X86 backend does not yet support <a href="http://llvm.org/PR879">inline
- assembly that uses the X86 floating point stack</a>.</li>
-<li>The X86 backend generates inefficient floating point code when configured to
- generate code for systems that don't have SSE2.</li>
+ <li>The X86 backend does not yet support
+ all <a href="http://llvm.org/PR879">inline assembly that uses the X86
+ floating point stack</a>. It supports the 'f' and 't' constraints, but not
+ 'u'.</li>
+ <li>The X86 backend generates inefficient floating point code when configured
+ to generate code for systems that don't have SSE2.</li>
+ <li>Win64 code generation wasn't widely tested. Everything should work, but we
+ expect small issues to happen. Also, llvm-gcc cannot build mingw64 runtime
+ currently due
+ to <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2255">several</a>
+ <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2257">bugs</a> due to lack of support for the
+ 'u' inline assembly constraint and X87 floating point inline assembly.</li>
+ <li>The X86-64 backend does not yet support the LLVM IR instruction
+ <tt>va_arg</tt>. Currently, the llvm-gcc front-end supports variadic
+ argument constructs on X86-64 by lowering them manually.</li>
</ul>
</div>
results (<a href="http://llvm.org/PR1388">PR1388</a>).</li>
<li>Compilation for ARM Linux OABI (old ABI) is supported, but not fully tested.
</li>
-<li>There is a bug in QEMU-ARM (<= 0.9.0) which causes it to incorrectly execute
+<li>There is a bug in QEMU-ARM (<= 0.9.0) which causes it to incorrectly
+ execute
programs compiled with LLVM. Please use more recent versions of QEMU.</li>
</ul>
</div>
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+ <a name="mips-be">Known problems with the MIPS back-end</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<ul>
+<li>The O32 ABI is not fully supported.</li>
+<li>64-bit MIPS targets are not supported yet.</li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
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<div class="doc_subsection">
<a name="alpha-be">Known problems with the Alpha back-end</a>
<div class="doc_text">
<ul>
-
-<li>C++ programs are likely to fail on IA64, as calls to <tt>setjmp</tt> are
-made where the argument is not 16-byte aligned, as required on IA64. (Strictly
-speaking this is not a bug in the IA64 back-end; it will also be encountered
-when building C++ programs using the C back-end.)</li>
-
-<li>The C++ front-end does not use <a href="http://llvm.org/PR406">IA64
-ABI compliant layout of v-tables</a>. In particular, it just stores function
-pointers instead of function descriptors in the vtable. This bug prevents
-mixing C++ code compiled with LLVM with C++ objects compiled by other C++
-compilers.</li>
-
-<li>There are a few ABI violations which will lead to problems when mixing LLVM
-output with code built with other compilers, particularly for floating-point
-programs.</li>
-
-<li>Defining vararg functions is not supported (but calling them is ok).</li>
-
-<li>The Itanium backend has bitrotted somewhat.</li>
+<li>The Itanium backend is highly experimental, and has a number of known
+ issues. We are looking for a maintainer for the Itanium backend. If you
+ are interested, please contact the LLVMdev mailing list.</li>
</ul>
</div>
inline assembly code</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR1658">The C backend violates the ABI of common
C++ programs</a>, preventing intermixing between C++ compiled by the CBE and
- C++ code compiled with LLC or native compilers.</li>
+ C++ code compiled with llc or native compilers.</li>
<li>The C backend does not support all exception handling constructs.</li>
+<li>The C backend does not support arbitrary precision integers.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<a name="c-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc C front-end</a>
</div>
-<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
-
<div class="doc_text">
<p>llvm-gcc does not currently support <a href="http://llvm.org/PR869">Link-Time
Optimization</a> on most platforms "out-of-the-box". Please inquire on the
-llvmdev mailing list if you are interested.</p>
+LLVMdev mailing list if you are interested.</p>
<p>The only major language feature of GCC not supported by llvm-gcc is
the <tt>__builtin_apply</tt> family of builtins. However, some extensions
are only supported on some targets. For example, trampolines are only
- supported on some targets, which are used when you take the address of a
- nested function.</p>
+ supported on some targets (these are used when you take the address of a
+ nested function).</p>
<p>If you run into GCC extensions which are not supported, please let us know.
</p>
itself, Qt, Mozilla, etc.</p>
<ul>
-<li>Exception handling works well on the X86 and PowerPC targets, including
-x86-64 darwin. This works when linking to a libstdc++ compiled by GCC. It is
-supported on x86-64 linux, but that is disabled by default in this release.</li>
+<li>Exception handling works well on the X86 and PowerPC targets. Currently
+ only Linux and Darwin targets are supported (both 32 and 64 bit).</li>
</ul>
</div>
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+ <a name="fortran-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc Fortran front-end</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+<ul>
+<li>Fortran support generally works, but there are still several unresolved bugs
+ in Bugzilla. Please see the tools/gfortran component for details.</li>
+
+<li>The Fortran front-end currently does not build on Darwin (without tweaks)
+ due to unresolved dependencies on the C front-end.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<div class="doc_subsection">
The llvm-gcc 4.2 Ada compiler works fairly well, however this is not a mature
technology and problems should be expected.
<ul>
-<li>The Ada front-end currently only builds on x86-32. This is mainly due
+<li>The Ada front-end currently only builds on X86-32. This is mainly due
to lack of trampoline support (pointers to nested functions) on other platforms,
-however it <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2006">also fails to build on x86-64</a>
+however it <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2006">also fails to build on X86-64</a>
which does support trampolines.</li>
<li>The Ada front-end <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2007">fails to bootstrap</a>.
+This is due to lack of LLVM support for <tt>setjmp</tt>/<tt>longjmp</tt> style
+exception handling, which is used internally by the compiler.
Workaround: configure with --disable-bootstrap.</li>
-<li>The c380004 and <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2010">c393010</a> ACATS tests
-fail (c380004 also fails with gcc-4.2 mainline).</li>
-<li>Many gcc specific Ada tests continue to crash the compiler.</li>
+<li>The c380004, <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2010">c393010</a>
+and <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2421">cxg2021</a> ACATS tests fail
+(c380004 also fails with gcc-4.2 mainline).
+If the compiler is built with checks disabled then <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2010">c393010</a>
+causes the compiler to go into an infinite loop, using up all system memory.</li>
+<li>Some gcc specific Ada tests continue to crash the compiler.</li>
<li>The -E binder option (exception backtraces)
<a href="http://llvm.org/PR1982">does not work</a> and will result in programs
crashing if an exception is raised. Workaround: do not use -E.</li>
or finish at a non-byte offset</a> in a record. Workaround: do not pack records
or use representation clauses that result in a field of a non-discrete type
starting or finishing in the middle of a byte.</li>
-<li>The lli interpreter <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2009">considers 'main'
-as generated by the Ada binder to be invalid</a>.
-Workaround: hand edit the file to use pointers for argv and envp rather than
-integers.</li>
-<li>The -fstack-check option <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2008">is ignored</a>.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-
-<!-- ======================================================================= -->
-<div class="doc_subsection">
- <a name="fortran-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc Fortran front-end</a>
-</div>
-
-<div class="doc_text">
-
-<ul>
-<li>The llvm-gcc 4.2 gfortran front-end supports a broad range of Fortran code, but does
-<a href="http://llvm.org/PR1971">not support EQUIVALENCE yet</a>.</li>
+<li>The <tt>lli</tt> interpreter <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2009">considers
+'main' as generated by the Ada binder to be invalid</a>.
+Workaround: hand edit the file to use pointers for <tt>argv</tt> and
+<tt>envp</tt> rather than integers.</li>
+<li>The <tt>-fstack-check</tt> option <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2008">is
+ignored</a>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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