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+ LLVM 1.2 Release Notes
+</div>
<ol>
- <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a>
- <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a>
- <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
- <li><a href="#install-instructions">Installation Instructions</a>
+ <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#install-instructions">Installation Instructions</a></li>
<li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
<ul>
-<!-- <li><a href="#portabilityprobs">Portability Problems</a> -->
<li><a href="#core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
<li><a href="#c-fe">Known problems with the C Front-end</a>
<li><a href="#c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ Front-end</a>
<li><a href="#x86-be">Known problems with the X86 Back-end</a>
<li><a href="#sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc Back-end</a>
<li><a href="#c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
- </ul>
- <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a>
- </ul>
-
- <p><b>Written by <a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a></b><p>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
</ol>
+<div class="doc_text">
+ <p><b>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM team</a></b><p>
+</div>
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-</b></font></td></tr></table><ul>
+<div class="doc_section">
+ <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
+</div>
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-This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler infrastructure,
-release 1.1. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any known problems,
-and bug fixes from the previous release. The most up-to-date version of this
-document can be found on the <a
-href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.1/">LLVM 1.1 web site</a>. If you are
-not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there, because
-this document may be updated after the release.<p>
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
+infrastructure, release 1.2. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including any
+known problems and bug fixes from the previous release. The most up-to-date
+version of this document can be found on the <a
+href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.2/">LLVM 1.2 web site</a>. If you are
+not reading this on the LLVM web pages, you should probably go there because
+this document may be updated after the release.</p>
-For more information about LLVM, including information about potentially more
+<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about potentially more
current releases, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">main
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>
+list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
-Note that if you are reading this file from CVS, that this document applies to
-the <i>next</i> release, not the previous one. To see the release notes for the
-previous release, see the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases
-page</a>.<p>
+<p>Note that if you are reading this file from CVS, this document applies
+to the <i>next</i> release, not the current one. To see the release notes for
+the current or previous releases, see the <a
+href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
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-<tr><td align=center><font color="#EEEEFF" size=+2 face="Georgia,Palatino"><b>
-<a name="whatsnew">What's New?
-</b></font></td></tr></table><ul>
+<div class="doc_section">
+ <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
+</div>
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-This is the second public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure. This
-release implements the following new features:<p>
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>This is the third public release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
+</p>
+
+<p>At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all C
+& C++ SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks, the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist
+benchmarks. It has also been used to compile <b>many</b> other programs. LLVM
+now also works with a broad variety of C++ programs, though it has still
+received less testing than the C front-end.
+</p>
+
+
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+This release implements the following new features:
+</div>
<ol>
-<li><a href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2003-November/000528.html">A new LLVM profiler, similar to gprof</a> is available</li><p>
+<li><a href="SourceLevelDebugging.html">A new LLVM source-level debugger has been started.</a></li>
+<li></li>
+</ol>
-<li>LLVM and the C/C++ front-end now compile on Mac OSX! Mac OSX users can now
-explore the LLVM optimizer with the C backend (note that LLVM requires GCC 3.3
-on Mac OSX).</li><p>
-<li>LLVM has been <a
-href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2003-November/000554.html">moved
-into an 'llvm' C++ namespace</a>, for easier integration with third-party
-code.</a> Note that due to a bug in GDB 5.x, to debug namespacified LLVM code,
-you will need to upgrade to GDB 6.</li>
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+In this release, the following missing features were implemented:
+</div>
+
+<ol>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR16">Exception handling support in the X86
+& Sparc native code generators</a></li>
+</ol>
-</ol><p>
-In this release, the following missing features were implemented:<p>
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+In this release, the following Quality of Implementation issues were fixed:
+</div>
<ol>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR88">The interpreter does not support
-invoke or unwind</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR99">Interpreter does not support the
-<tt>vaarg</tt> instruction</a></li><p>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR135">JIT should lazily initialize global variables</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR192">[X86] X86 Backend never releases memory for machine code structures</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR196">[vmcore] OpaqueType objects memory leak</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR182">[llvmgcc] C front-end does not compile "extern inline" into linkonce</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR73">Bytecode format inconsistent</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR209">[loadvn/inline/scalarrepl] Slow optimizations with extremely large basic blocks</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR224">[asmparser] Really slow parsing of types with complex upreferences</a></li>
+</ol>
-</ol><p>
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+LLVM gained several improvements to its build and installation
+infrastructure in this release. There is now
+a <tt>autoconf/AutoRegen.sh</tt> script that you can run to rebuild the
+<tt>configure</tt> script and its associated files
+(<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR105">Bug 105</a>) as well as beta support
+for "make install" (<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR208">Bug 208</a> and
+<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR220">Bug 220</a>) and RPM package generation
+(<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR203">Bug 203</a>).
+Additionally, in this release, the following build problems were fixed:
+</div>
-In this release, the following Quality of Implementation issues were fixed:<p>
+<ol>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR210">[build] Makefiles break if C frontend target string has unexpected value</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR214">[build] hard-wired assumption that shared-library extension is ".so"</a></li>
+<li><A href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR222">make tools-only doesn't make lib/Support</a></li>
+</ol>
+
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+In this release, the following Code Quality issues were fixed:
+</div>
<ol>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR187">[loopsimplify] Many pointless phi nodes are created</a></li>
+<li>The X86 backend didn't generate <tt>fchs</tt> to negate floating point numbers</li>
+<li>The X86 backend didn't expand memcpy() into the <tt>rep movs</tt> instruction</li>
+</ol>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR29">C++ front-end is not generating
-linkonce linkage type when it can</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR84">C front-end doesn't emit
-getelementptr for address of array element</a></li>
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+In this release, the following bugs in the previous release were fixed:
+</div>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR96">Bad path to the C/C++ frontend causes
-build problems</a></li>
+<p>Bugs in the LLVM Core:</p>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR114">LLVM header files should be -Wold-style-cast clean</a></li>
+<ol>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR179">[licm] LICM promotes volatile memory
+locations to registers</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR191">[licm] Memory read after free causes
+infrequent crash</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR194">[indvars] Induction variable
+canonicalization always makes 32-bit indvars</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR193">[constantmerge] Merging globals can
+cause use of invalid pointers!</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR212">[bcreader] Bytecode reader misreads 'long -9223372036854775808'!</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=174">Tail duplication does not update SSA form correctly.</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR218">VMCore mishandles double -0.0</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR219">[X86] X86 backend code generates -0.0 as +0.0</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR223">[loopsimplify] Loopsimplify incorrectly updates dominator information</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR225">[pruneeh] -pruneeh pass removes invoke instructions it shouldn't</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR228">[sparc] Boolean constants are emitted as true and false</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR235">Tablegen aborts on errors</a></li>
+</ol>
-</ol><p>
-In this release, the following bugs in the previous release were fixed:<p>
+<p>Bugs in the C/C++ front-end:</p>
<ol>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR57">[inliner] Inlining invoke with PHI in unwind target is broken</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR58">[linker] linkonce globals should link successfully to external globals</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR59">C++ frontend can crash when compiling virtual base classes</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR62">C backend fails on constant cast expr to ptr-to-anonymous struct</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR63">#ident is not recognized by C frontend</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR64">[constmerge] Constant merging pass merges constants with external linkage</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR65">C front-end miscompiles the builtin_expect intrinsic!</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR66">[scalarrepl] Scalar Replacement of aggregates is decimating structures it shouldn't be</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR67">1.0 precompiled libstdc++ does not include wchar_t support</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR68">llvmgcc asserts when compiling functions renamed with asm's</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR69">C frontend crashes on some programs with lots of types.</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR70">[instcombine] Resolving invoke inserts cast after terminator</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR71">llvm-as crashes when labels are used in phi nodes</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR72">[build problem] Callgraph.cpp not pulled in from libipa.a</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR79">llvm-gcc crashes compiling global union initializer</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR80">C front-end crash on empty structure</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR81">CFrontend crashes when compiling C99 compound expressions</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR83">[X86] Emission of global bool initializers broken</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR87">llvm-gcc infinite loops on "case MAXINT:"</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR89">[C++] Catch blocks make unparsable labels</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR90">[C++] Initializing array with constructable objects fail</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR91">[gccld] The -r (relinking) option does not work correctly</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR92">[bcreader] Cannot read shift constant expressions from bytecode file</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR93">[lowersetjmp] Lowersetjmp pass breaks dominance properties!</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR94">llvm-gcc tries to add bools</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR95">SymbolTable::getUniqueName is very inefficient</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR98">[buildscripts] Building into objdir with .o in it fails</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR101">[setjmp/longjmp] Linking C programs which use setjmp/longjmp sometimes fail with references to the C++ runtime library!</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR104">[c++] C++ Frontend lays out superclasses like anonymous bitfields!</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR107">AsmParser Misses Symbol Redefinition Error</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR108">gccld -Lfoo -lfoo fails to find ./foo/libfoo.a</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR110">[bcreader] Incorrect cast causes misread forward constant references</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR112">Casting a string constant to void crashes llvm-gcc</a></li>
-</ol><p>
-
-At this time, LLVM is known to work properly with SPEC CPU 2000, the Olden
-benchmarks, and the Ptrdist benchmarks among many other programs. Note however
-that the Sparc and X86 backends do not currently support exception throwing or
-long jumping (including 253.perlbmk in SPEC). For these programs you must use
-the C backend.<p>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR186">Need weak linkage on memory
+management functions in libc runtime to allow them to be overriden</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR202">[llvm-gcc] asserts when an extern inline function is redefined</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR204">[llvmg++] Dynamically initialized constants cannot be marked 'constant'</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR216">[llvmgcc] floating-point unary minus is incorrect for +0.0</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR221">[llvm-gcc] miscompilation of 'X = Y = Z' with aggregate values</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR233">[llvmgcc] Structure copies result in a LOT of code</a></li>
+</ol>
+</div>
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-</ul><table width="100%" bgcolor="#330077" border=0 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0>
-<tr><td align=center><font color="#EEEEFF" size=+2 face="Georgia,Palatino"><b>
-<a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms
-</b></font></td></tr></table><ul>
+<div class="doc_section">
+ <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
+</div>
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-LLVM has been extensively tested on Intel and AMD machines running Red
-Hat Linux, and Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8. Additionally,
-LLVM works on Mac OS/X 10.3 and above, but only with the C back-end (no native
-backend for the PowerPC is available yet).
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>LLVM has been extensively tested on Intel and AMD machines running Red
+Hat Linux and FreeBSD. It has also been tested on Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.
+Additionally,
+LLVM works on Mac OS X 10.3 and above, but only with the C backend or
+interpreter (no native backend for the PowerPC is available yet).
The core LLVM infrastructure uses "autoconf" for portability, so hopefully we
work on more platforms than that. However, it is likely that we
-missed something, and that minor porting is required to get LLVM to work on
-new platforms. We welcome portability patches and error messages.<p>
+missed something and that minor porting is required to get LLVM to work on
+new platforms. We welcome portability patches and error messages.</p>
+</div>
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-</ul><table width="100%" bgcolor="#330077" border=0 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0>
-<tr><td align=center><font color="#EEEEFF" size=+2 face="Georgia,Palatino"><b>
-<a name="knownproblems">Known Problems
-</b></font></td></tr></table><ul>
+<div class="doc_section">
+ <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
+</div>
<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
-This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
+<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.
+sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
+href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
+there isn't already one.</p>
+</div>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
<!--
-->
-<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-</ul><h4><a name="core"><hr size=0>Known problems with the LLVM Core</h4><ul>
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+ <a name="core">Known problems with the LLVM Core</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
-<li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not work.<p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>In the JIT, <tt>dlsym</tt> on a symbol compiled by the JIT will not
+work.</li>
<li>The JIT does not use mutexes to protect its internal data structures. As
- such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to
- be corrupted.<p>
+such, execution of a threaded program could cause these data structures to be
+corrupted.</li>
-<li>It is not possible to <tt>dlopen</tt> an LLVM bytecode file in the JIT.<p>
+<li>It is not possible to <tt>dlopen</tt> an LLVM bytecode file in the JIT.</li>
<li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is very slow (there is no symbol
-table in the archive).<p>
+table in the archive).</li>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR82">LLVM cannot handle structures with
-more than 256 elements</a>.<p>
-
-<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-</ul><h4><a name="c-fe"><hr size=0>Known problems with the C front-end</h4><ul>
+more than 256 elements</a>.</li>
+
+<li>
+The gccld program
+<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=139">
+does not link objects/archives in the order specified on the command line.
+</a>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
-</ul><b>Bugs:</b><ul><p>
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+ <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
+</div>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR6">Oversized integer bitfields cause crash</a>.<p>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+<ul>
<li>C99 Variable sized arrays do not release stack memory when they go out of
scope. Thus, the following program may run out of stack space:
<pre>
int X[n];
foo(X);
}
-</pre><p>
+</pre></li>
-</ul><b>Notes:</b><ul><p>
+<li>
+Initialization of global union variables can only be done
+<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=162">with the largest
+union member</a>.
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
-<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.<p>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+ Notes
+</div>
-<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
- support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64 bits.
- <p>
+<div class="doc_text">
-<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not work:
-<ol>
- <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
- appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
- <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
- <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
- - These functions have not been tested.
-</ol><p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Inline assembly is not yet supported.</li>
+
+<li>"long double" is transformed by the front-end into "double". There is no
+support for floating point data types of any size other than 32 and 64
+bits.</li>
+
+<li>The following Unix system functionality has not been tested and may not
+work:
+ <ol>
+ <li><tt>sigsetjmp</tt>, <tt>siglongjmp</tt> - These are not turned into the
+ appropriate <tt>invoke</tt>/<tt>unwind</tt> instructions. Note that
+ <tt>setjmp</tt> and <tt>longjmp</tt> <em>are</em> compiled correctly.
+ <li><tt>getcontext</tt>, <tt>setcontext</tt>, <tt>makecontext</tt>
+ - These functions have not been tested.
+ </ol></li>
<li>Although many GCC extensions are supported, some are not. In particular,
the following extensions are known to <b>not be</b> supported:
<ol>
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Labels.html#Local%20Labels">Local Labels</a>: Labels local to a block.
- <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><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><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.
- <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><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constraints.html#Constraints">Constraints</a>: Constraints for asm operands
- <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><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><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><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html#Vector%20Extensions">Vector Extensions</a>: Using vector instructions through built-in functions.
- <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><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pragmas.html#Pragmas">Pragmas</a>: Pragmas accepted by GCC.
- </ol><p>
-
- The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Labels.html#Local%20Labels">Local Labels</a>: Labels local to a block.</li>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</li>
+ <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>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constraints.html#Constraints">Constraints</a>: Constraints for asm operands.</li>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html#Thread-Local">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pragmas.html#Pragmas">Pragmas</a>: Pragmas accepted by GCC.</li>
+ </ol>
+
+ <p>The following GCC extensions are <b>partially</b> supported. An ignored
attribute means that the LLVM compiler ignores the presence of the attribute,
but the code should still work. An unsupported attribute is one which is
- ignored by the LLVM compiler, which will cause a different interpretation of
- the program.<p>
+ ignored by the LLVM compiler and will cause a different interpretation of
+ the program.</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Variable%20Length">Variable Length</a>:
Arrays whose length is computed at run time.<br>
- Supported, but allocated stack space is not freed until the function returns (noted above).
+ Supported, but allocated stack space is not freed until the function returns (noted above).</li>
<li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes">Function Attributes</a>:
- Declaring that functions have no side effects, or that they can never return.<br>
- <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>, <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>deprecated</tt>,
- <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
- <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>, <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>, <tt>malloc</tt>
- <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
- <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>, <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
- <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes
+
+ Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
+ return.<br>
+
+ <b>Supported:</b> <tt>format</tt>, <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>,
+ <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
+ <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
+
+ <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>noinline</tt>,
+ <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
+ <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt><br>
+
+ <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>used</tt>, <tt>section</tt>, <tt>alias</tt>,
+ <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>,
+ <tt>fastcall</tt>, all other target specific attributes</li>
<li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
Specifying attributes of variables.<br>
<b>Supported:</b> <tt>cleanup</tt>, <tt>common</tt>, <tt>nocommon</tt>,
<tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>transparent_union</tt>,
<tt>unused</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
+
<b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>mode</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
<tt>section</tt>, <tt>shared</tt>, <tt>tls_model</tt>,
<tt>vector_size</tt>, <tt>dllimport</tt>,
- <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.<br>
+ <tt>dllexport</tt>, all target specific attributes.</li>
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Type-Attributes.html#Type%20Attributes">Type Attributes</a>: Specifying attributes of types.
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Type-Attributes.html#Type%20Attributes">Type Attributes</a>: Specifying attributes of types.<br>
<b>Supported:</b> <tt>transparent_union</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>,
- <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt>
- <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>
- all target specific attributes.<br>
+ <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>may_alias</tt><br>
+
+ <b>Unsupported:</b> <tt>aligned</tt>, <tt>packed</tt>,
+ all target specific attributes.</li>
+
<li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
Other built-in functions.<br>
We support all builtins which have a C language equivalent (e.g.,
<tt>__builtin_cos</tt>), <tt>__builtin_alloca</tt>,
<tt>__builtin_types_compatible_p</tt>, <tt>__builtin_choose_expr</tt>,
- <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt> (ignored).
- </ol><p>
+ <tt>__builtin_constant_p</tt>, and <tt>__builtin_expect</tt> (ignored).</li>
+
+ </ol>
+ <p>The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:</p>
- The following extensions <b>are</b> known to be supported:
<ol>
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.
- <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><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.
- <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><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.
- <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><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><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Initializers.html#Initializers">Initializers</a>: Non-constant initializers.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions or arrays as values.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html#Designated%20Inits">Designated Inits</a>: Labeling elements of initializers.
-
- <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><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.
-
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Character-Escapes.html#Character%20Escapes">Character Escapes</a>: <code>\e</code> stands for the character <ESC>.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).
- <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><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><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><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Unnamed-Fields.html#Unnamed%20Fields">Unnamed Fields</a>: Unnamed struct/union fields within structs/unions.
- <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Attribute-Syntax.html#Attribute%20Syntax">Attribute Syntax</a>: Formal syntax for attributes.
- </ol><p>
-
- If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
- lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html#Statement%20Exprs">Statement Exprs</a>: Putting statements and declarations inside expressions.</li>
+ <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>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals">Conditionals</a>: Omitting the middle operand of a <code>?:</code> expression.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Long-Long.html#Long%20Long">Long Long</a>: Double-word integers.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Complex.html#Complex">Complex</a>: Data types for complex numbers.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html#Hex%20Floats">Hex Floats</a>:Hexadecimal floating-point constants.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html#Zero%20Length">Zero Length</a>: Zero-length arrays.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Empty-Structures.html#Empty%20Structures">Empty Structures</a>: Structures with no members.</li>
+ <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>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Escaped-Newlines.html#Escaped%20Newlines">Escaped Newlines</a>: Slightly looser rules for escaped newlines.</li>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Initializers.html#Initializers">Initializers</a>: Non-constant initializers.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html#Compound%20Literals">Compound Literals</a>: Compound literals give structures, unions,
+or arrays as values.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html#Designated%20Inits">Designated Inits</a>: Labeling elements of initializers.</li>
+ <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>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case%20Ranges">Case Ranges</a>: `case 1 ... 9' and such.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Mixed-Declarations.html#Mixed%20Declarations">Mixed Declarations</a>: Mixing declarations and code.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Prototypes.html#Function%20Prototypes">Function Prototypes</a>: Prototype declarations and old-style definitions.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C---Comments.html#C++%20Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar%20Signs">Dollar Signs</a>: Dollar sign is allowed in identifiers.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Character-Escapes.html#Character%20Escapes">Character Escapes</a>: <code>\e</code> stands for the character <ESC>.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alignment.html#Alignment">Alignment</a>: Inquiring about the alignment of a type or variable.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html#Inline">Inline</a>: Defining inline functions (as fast as macros).</li>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Attribute-Syntax.html#Attribute%20Syntax">Attribute Syntax</a>: Formal syntax for attributes.</li>
+ </ol></li>
+</ul>
-<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-</ul><h4><a name="c++-fe"><hr size=0>Known problems with the C++ front-end</h4><ul>
+<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
+lists, please let us know (also including whether or not they work).</p>
-For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully functional but
-of <b>beta</b> quality. It has been tested and works for a number of simple programs that collectively exercise most of the language. Nevertheless, it has not been in use as long as the C front-end. Please report any bugs or problems.<p>
+</div>
-</ul><b>Bugs</b>:<ul><p>
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+ <a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the C++ front-end</a>
+</div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>For this release, the C++ front-end is considered to be fully functional but
+has not been tested as thoroughly as the C front-end. It has been tested and
+works for a number of non-trivial programs, but there may be lurking bugs.
+Please report any bugs or problems.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+ Bugs
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<ul>
<li>The C++ front-end inherits all problems afflicting the <a href="#c-fe">C
- front-end</a><p>
+ front-end</a>.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+ Notes
+</div>
-</ul><b>Notes</b>:<ul><p>
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<ul>
<li>The C++ front-end is based on a pre-release of the GCC 3.4 C++ parser. This
parser is significantly more standards compliant (and picky) than prior GCC
versions. For more information, see the C++ section of the <a
-href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.<p>
+href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html">GCC 3.4 release notes</a>.</li>
<li>Destructors for local objects are not always run when a <tt>longjmp</tt> is
performed. In particular, destructors for objects in the <tt>longjmp</tt>ing
function and in the <tt>setjmp</tt> receiver function may not be run.
- Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed however (which is
- better than most compilers).<p>
+ Objects in intervening stack frames will be destroyed, however (which is
+ better than most compilers).</li>
<li>The LLVM C++ front-end follows the <a
href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi">Itanium C++ ABI</a>.
Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
<i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by LLVM is very
different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
- interact correctly</b> .
+ interact correctly</b>. </li>
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR11">Code for executing destructors when
- unwinding is not shared</a> (this is a quality of implementation problem,
- which does not effect functionality).<p>
+</ul>
+</div>
-<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-</ul><h4><a name="x86-be"><hr size=0>Known problems with the X86 back-end</h4><ul>
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+ <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
+</div>
-<li>The X86 code generator <a
-href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR16">does not currently
-support the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction</a>, so code that throws a C++ exception
-or calls the C <tt>longjmp</tt> function will abort.<p>
+<div class="doc_text">
+<ul>
+<li>None so far.
+</ul>
-<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-</ul><h4><a name="sparc-be"><hr size=0>Known problems with the Sparc back-end</h4><ul>
+</div>
-<li>The Sparc code generator <a
-href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR15">does not currently
-support the <tt>unwind</tt> instruction</a>, so code that throws a C++ exception
-or calls the C <tt>longjmp</tt> function will abort.<p>
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+ <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the Sparc back-end</a>
+</div>
+<div class="doc_text">
-<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-</ul><h4><a name="c-be"><hr size=0>Known problems with the C back-end</h4><ul>
+<ul>
+<li>None so far.
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
+ <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<ul>
<li>The C back-end produces code that violates the ANSI C Type-Based Alias
Analysis rules. As such, special options may be necessary to compile the code
(for example, GCC requires the <tt>-fno-strict-aliasing</tt> option). This
-problem probably cannot be fixed.<p>
+problem probably cannot be fixed.</li>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a>
-cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or Infinity.<p>
+cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or
+Infinity.</li>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
-frontends.<p>
-
-<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR77">Variables in scope of output setjmp
-calls should be volatile</a>. Note that this does not effect correctness on
-many platforms.<p>
-
-<li>The code produces by the C back-end has only been tested with the Sun CC,
-GCC, and Intel compilers. It is possible that it will have to be adjusted to
-support other C compilers.<p>
+frontends.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
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-<a name="additionalinfo">Additional Information
-</b></font></td></tr></table><ul>
+<div class="doc_section">
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+</div>
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