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<div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.4 Release Notes</div>
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<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
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<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler
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Infrastructure, release 2.4. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including
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major improvements from the previous release and significant known problems.
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All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the <a
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href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM releases web site</a>.</p>
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release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.org/">main LLVM
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web site</a>. If you have questions or comments, the <a
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href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM Developer's Mailing
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main LLVM web page, this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the
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current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the
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<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
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repository (which roughly includes the LLVM optimizers, code generators and
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supporting tools) and the llvm-gcc repository. In addition to this code, the
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LLVM Project includes other sub-projects that are in development. The two which
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are the most actively developed are the <a href="#clang">Clang Project</a> and
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the <a href="#vmkit">VMKit Project</a>.
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<a name="clang">Clang: C/C++/Objective-C Frontend Toolkit</a>
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<p>The <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">Clang project</a> is an effort to build
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a set of new 'LLVM native' front-end technologies for the LLVM optimizer
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and code generator. Clang is continuing to make major strides forward in all
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areas. Its C and Objective-C parsing support is very solid, and the code
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generation support is far enough along to build many C applications. While not
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yet production quality, it is progressing very nicely. In addition, C++
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front-end work has started to make significant progress.</p>
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Clang, in conjunction with the <tt>ccc</tt> driver, is now usable as a
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replacement for gcc for building some small- to medium-sized C applications.
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Additionally, Clang now has code generation support for Objective-C on Mac OS X
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platform. Major highlights include:
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<li> Clang/ccc pass almost all of the LLVM test suite on Mac OS X and Linux
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on the 32-bit x86 architecture. This includes significant C
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applications such as <a href="http://www.sqlite.org">sqlite3</a>,
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<a href="http://www.lua.org">lua</a>, and
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<a href="http://www.clamav.net">Clam AntiVirus</a>.
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<li> Clang can build the majority of Objective-C examples shipped with the
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Mac OS X Developer Tools.
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Clang code generation still needs considerable testing and development, however.
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Some areas under active development include:
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<li> Improved support for C and Objective-C features, for example
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variable-length arrays, va_arg, exception handling (Obj-C), and garbage
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collection (Obj-C).
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<li> ABI compatibility, especially for platforms other than 32-bit x86.
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<a name="clangsa">Clang Static Analyzer</a>
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<p>The Clang project also includes an early stage static source code analysis
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tool for <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/StaticAnalysis.html">automatically
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finding bugs</a> in C and Objective-C programs. The tool performs a growing set
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of checks to find bugs that occur on a specific path within a program. Examples
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of bugs the tool finds include logic errors such as null dereferences,
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violations of various API rules, dead code, and potential memory leaks in
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Objective-C programs. Since its inception, public feedback on the tool has been
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extremely positive, and conservative estimates put the number of real bugs it
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has found in industrial-quality software on the order of thousands.</p>
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<p>The tool also provides a simple web GUI to inspect potential bugs found by
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the tool. While still early in development, the GUI illustrates some of the key
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features of Clang: accurate source location information, which is used by the
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GUI to highlight specific code expressions that relate to a bug (including those
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that span multiple lines) and built-in knowledge of macros, which is used to
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perform inline expansion of macros within the GUI itself.</p>
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<p>The set of checks performed by the static analyzer is gradually expanding,
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and
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future plans for the tool include full source-level inter-procedural analysis
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and deeper checks such as buffer overrun detection. There are many opportunities
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to extend and enhance the static analyzer, and anyone interested in working on
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this project is encouraged to get involved!</p>
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<a name="vmkit">VMKit: JVM/CLI Virtual Machine Implementation</a>
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The <a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/">VMKit project</a> is an implementation of
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a JVM and a CLI Virtual Machines (Microsoft .NET is an
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implementation of the CLI) using the Just-In-Time compiler of LLVM.</p>
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<p>Following LLVM 2.4, VMKit has its first release 0.24 that you can find on its
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<a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/releases/">webpage</a>. The release includes
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bug fixes, cleanup and new features. The major changes are:</p>
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<li> Support for generics in the .Net virtual machine.
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<li> Initial support for the Mono class libraries.
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<li> Support for MacOSX/x86, following LLVM's support for exceptions in
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JIT on MacOSX/x86.
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<li> A new vmkit driver: a program to run java or .net applications. The
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driver supports llvm command line arguments including the new "-fast" option.
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<li> A new memory allocation scheme in the JVM that makes unloading a
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class loader very fast.
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<li> VMKit now follows the LLVM Makefile machinery.
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<p>This release includes a huge number of bug fixes, performance tweaks and
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minor improvements. Some of the major improvements and new features are listed
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in this section.
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<a name="majorfeatures">Major New Features</a>
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<p>LLVM 2.4 includes several major new capabilities:</p>
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<li><p>The most visible end-user change in LLVM 2.4 is that it includes many
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optimizations and changes to make -O0 compile times much faster. You should see
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improvements on the order of 30% (or more) faster than LLVM 2.3. There are many
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pieces to this change, described in more detail below. The speedups and new
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components can also be used for JIT compilers that want fast compilation as
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well.</p></li>
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<li><p>The biggest change to the LLVM IR is that Multiple Return Values (which
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were introduced in LLVM 2.3) have been generalized to full support for "First
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Class Aggregate" values in LLVM 2.4. This means that LLVM IR supports using
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structs and arrays as values in a function. This capability is mostly useful
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for front-end authors, who prefer to treat things like complex numbers, simple
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tuples, dope vectors, etc as Value*'s instead of as a tuple of Value*'s or as
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memory values. Bitcode files from LLVM 2.3 will automatically migrate to the
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general representation.</p></li>
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<li><p>LLVM 2.4 also includes an initial port for the PIC16 microprocessor. This
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is the LLVM target that only has support for 8 bit registers, and a number of
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other crazy constraints. While the port is still in early development stages,
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it shows some interesting things you can do with LLVM.</p></li>
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<a name="llvm-gcc">llvm-gcc 4.2 Improvements</a>
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<p>LLVM fully supports the llvm-gcc 4.2 front-end, which marries the GCC
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front-ends and driver with the LLVM optimizer and code generator. It currently
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includes support for the C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, and Fortran front-ends.</p>
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2008-02-06 18:00:06 +00:00
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2008-06-08 22:59:35 +00:00
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<ul>
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2008-10-13 20:59:32 +00:00
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<li>LLVM 2.4 supports the full set of atomic <tt>__sync_*</tt> builtins. LLVM
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2.3 only supported those used by OpenMP, but 2.4 supports them all. While
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llvm-gcc supports all of these builtins, note that not all targets do. X86
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support them all in both 32-bit and 64-bit mode and PowerPC supports them all
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except for the 64-bit operations when in 32-bit mode.</li>
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2008-10-13 20:47:20 +00:00
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2008-10-13 20:59:32 +00:00
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<li>llvm-gcc now supports an <tt>-flimited-precision</tt> option, which tells
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the compiler that it is ok to use low-precision approximations of certain libm
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2008-10-13 20:47:20 +00:00
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functions (like tan, log, etc). This allows you to get high performance if you
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only need (say) 14-bits of precision.</li>
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<li>llvm-gcc now supports a C language extension known as "<a
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href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2008-August/002670.html">Blocks
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</a>". This feature is similar to nested functions and closures, but does not
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2008-10-13 20:47:20 +00:00
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require stack trampolines (with most ABIs) and supports returning closures
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from functions that define them. Note that actually <em>using</em> Blocks
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requires a small runtime that is not included with llvm-gcc.</li>
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<li>llvm-gcc now supports a new <tt>-flto</tt> option. On systems that support
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transparent Link Time Optimization (currently Darwin systems with Xcode 3.1 and
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later) this allows the use of LTO with other optimization levels like -Os.
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Previously, LTO could only be used with -O4, which implied optimizations in
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-O3 that can increase code size.</li>
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2008-06-09 06:06:18 +00:00
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</ul>
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2008-06-05 06:25:56 +00:00
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2007-05-14 06:56:09 +00:00
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2008-06-05 06:25:56 +00:00
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2008-02-10 08:17:19 +00:00
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="coreimprovements">LLVM Core Improvements</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>New features include:
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</p>
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2008-06-08 22:59:35 +00:00
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<ul>
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2008-10-14 11:00:32 +00:00
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<li>A major change to the <tt>Use</tt> class landed, which shrank it by 25%. Since
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2008-10-13 20:59:32 +00:00
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this is a pervasive part of the LLVM, it ended up reducing the memory use of
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LLVM IR in general by 15% for most programs.</li>
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<li>Values with no names are now pretty printed by <tt>llvm-dis</tt> more
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nicely. They now print as "<tt>%3 = add i32 %A, 4</tt>" instead of
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"<tt>add i32 %A, 4 ; <i32>:3</tt>", which makes it much easier to read.
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</li>
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<li>LLVM 2.4 includes some changes for better vector support. First, the shift
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operations (<tt>shl</tt>, <tt>ashr</tt>, <tt>lshr</tt>) now all support vectors
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and do an element-by-element shift (shifts of the whole vector can be
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accomplished by bitcasting the vector to <1 x i128> for example). Second,
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2008-10-14 00:52:49 +00:00
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there is initial support in development for vector comparisons with the
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<a href="LangRef.html#i_fcmp">fcmp</a>/<a href="LangRef.html#i_icmp">icmp</a>
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instructions. These instructions compare two vectors and return a vector of
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i1's for each result. Note that there is very little codegen support available
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for any of these IR features though.</li>
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2008-10-13 20:59:32 +00:00
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<li>A new <tt>DebugInfoBuilder</tt> class is available, which makes it much
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easier for front-ends to create debug info descriptors, similar to the way that
|
2008-10-14 11:31:14 +00:00
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<tt>IRBuilder</tt> makes it easier to create LLVM IR.</li>
|
2008-10-13 20:59:32 +00:00
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2008-10-14 16:13:59 +00:00
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<li>The <tt>IRBuilder</tt> class is now parameterized by a class responsible
|
2008-10-14 11:00:32 +00:00
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for constant folding. The default <tt>ConstantFolder</tt> class does target independent
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constant folding. The <tt>NoFolder</tt> class does no constant folding at all, which is
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useful when learning how LLVM works. The <tt>TargetFolder</tt> class folds the most,
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2008-10-14 07:06:37 +00:00
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doing target dependent constant folding.</li>
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<li>LLVM now supports "function attributes", which allows us to separate return
|
2008-10-13 20:59:32 +00:00
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value attributes from function attributes. LLVM now supports attributes on a
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function itself, a return value, and its parameters. New supported function
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attributes include noinline/alwaysinline and the "opt-size" flag which says the
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function should be optimized for code size.</li>
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2008-10-12 18:30:33 +00:00
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<li>LLVM IR now directly represents "common" linkage, instead of
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representing it as a form of weak linkage.</li>
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2008-10-13 20:59:32 +00:00
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2008-02-10 08:17:19 +00:00
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</ul>
|
2008-10-13 02:08:34 +00:00
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2008-02-10 08:17:19 +00:00
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</div>
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2007-09-21 03:54:09 +00:00
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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<div class="doc_subsection">
|
2008-02-10 07:46:44 +00:00
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<a name="optimizer">Optimizer Improvements</a>
|
2007-09-21 03:54:09 +00:00
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</div>
|
2007-05-18 06:33:02 +00:00
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2006-04-18 06:18:36 +00:00
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<div class="doc_text">
|
2007-09-21 03:54:09 +00:00
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|
2008-10-13 21:50:36 +00:00
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<p>In addition to a huge array of bug fixes and minor performance tweaks, this
|
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release includes a few major enhancements and additions to the optimizers:</p>
|
2007-09-26 05:44:21 +00:00
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2006-11-18 07:51:14 +00:00
|
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<ul>
|
2007-05-16 23:25:46 +00:00
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|
2008-10-13 21:50:36 +00:00
|
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<li>The Global Value Numbering (GVN) pass now does local Partial Redundancy
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Elimination (PRE) to eliminate some partially redundant expressions in cases
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where doing so won't grow code size.</li>
|
2008-10-12 19:47:48 +00:00
|
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|
2008-10-13 21:50:36 +00:00
|
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<li>LLVM 2.4 includes a new loop deletion pass (which removes output-free
|
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provably-finite loops) and a rewritten Aggressive Dead Code Elimination (ADCE)
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pass that no longer uses control dependence information. These changes speed up
|
2008-10-14 11:31:14 +00:00
|
|
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the optimizer and also prevent it from deleting output-free infinite
|
2008-10-13 21:50:36 +00:00
|
|
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loops.</li>
|
2008-10-12 19:47:48 +00:00
|
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|
2008-10-13 21:50:36 +00:00
|
|
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<li>The new AddReadAttrs pass works out which functions are read-only or
|
2008-10-14 11:31:14 +00:00
|
|
|
read-none (these correspond to 'pure' and 'const' in GCC) and marks them
|
2008-10-13 21:50:36 +00:00
|
|
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with the appropriate attribute.</li>
|
2008-10-12 18:30:33 +00:00
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|
2008-10-13 21:50:36 +00:00
|
|
|
<li>LLVM 2.4 now includes a new SparsePropagation framework, which makes it
|
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|
|
|
trivial to build lattice-based dataflow solvers that operate over LLVM IR. Using
|
|
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|
|
this interface means that you just define objects to represent your lattice
|
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|
|
values and the transfer functions that operate on them. It handles the
|
|
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|
|
mechanics of worklist processing, liveness tracking, handling PHI nodes,
|
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|
|
etc.</li>
|
2008-10-12 18:30:33 +00:00
|
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|
2008-10-14 06:02:29 +00:00
|
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|
<li>The Loop Strength Reduction and induction variable optimization passes have
|
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|
|
several improvements to avoid inserting MAX expressions, to optimize simple
|
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|
|
|
floating point induction variables and to analyze trip counts of more
|
|
|
|
|
loops.</li>
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|
2008-10-12 19:47:48 +00:00
|
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<li>Various helper functions (ComputeMaskedBits, ComputeNumSignBits, etc) were
|
2008-10-13 21:50:36 +00:00
|
|
|
pulled out of the Instruction Combining pass and put into a new
|
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|
|
<tt>ValueTracking.h</tt> header, where they can be reused by other passes.</li>
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|
|
<li>The tail duplication pass has been removed from the standard optimizer
|
|
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|
|
sequence used by llvm-gcc. This pass still exists, but the benefits it once
|
|
|
|
|
provided are now achieved by other passes.</li>
|
2008-10-12 19:47:48 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2008-06-08 02:45:07 +00:00
|
|
|
</ul>
|
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</div>
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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|
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|
<div class="doc_subsection">
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|
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|
|
<a name="codegen">Code Generator Improvements</a>
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|
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|
</div>
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|
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|
|
<div class="doc_text">
|
|
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|
|
|
2008-10-14 11:31:14 +00:00
|
|
|
<p>We have put a significant amount of work into the code generator infrastructure,
|
2008-06-08 02:45:07 +00:00
|
|
|
which allows us to implement more aggressive algorithms and make it run
|
|
|
|
|
faster:</p>
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
<ul>
|
2008-10-13 21:50:36 +00:00
|
|
|
<li>The target-independent code generator supports (and the X86 backend
|
|
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|
|
currently implements) a new interface for "fast" instruction selection. This
|
|
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|
|
interface is optimized to produce code as quickly as possible, sacrificing
|
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|
|
code quality to do it. This is used by default at -O0 or when using
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|
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|
|
"llc -fast" on X86. It is straight-forward to add support for
|
|
|
|
|
other targets if faster -O0 compilation is desired.</li>
|
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|
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|
|
<li>In addition to the new 'fast' instruction selection path, many existing
|
|
|
|
|
pieces of the code generator have been optimized in significant ways.
|
|
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|
|
SelectionDAG's are now pool allocated and use better algorithms in many
|
2008-10-14 11:31:14 +00:00
|
|
|
places, the ".s" file printers now use <tt>raw_ostream</tt> to emit text much faster,
|
2008-10-13 21:50:36 +00:00
|
|
|
etc. The end result of these improvements is that the compiler also takes
|
|
|
|
|
substantially less time to generate code that is just as good (and often
|
|
|
|
|
better) than before.</li>
|
|
|
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|
|
2008-10-14 11:31:14 +00:00
|
|
|
<li>Each target has been split to separate the ".s" file printing logic from the
|
2008-10-13 21:50:36 +00:00
|
|
|
rest of the target. This enables JIT compilers that don't link in the
|
2008-10-14 11:31:14 +00:00
|
|
|
(somewhat large) code and data tables used for printing a ".s" file.</li>
|
2008-10-13 21:50:36 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
<li>The code generator now includes a "stack slot coloring" pass, which packs
|
|
|
|
|
together individual spilled values into common stack slots. This reduces
|
|
|
|
|
the size of stack frames with many spills, which tends to increase L1 cache
|
|
|
|
|
effectiveness.</li>
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|
<li>Various pieces of the register allocator (e.g. the coalescer and two-address
|
|
|
|
|
operation elimination pass) now know how to rematerialize trivial operations
|
|
|
|
|
to avoid copies and include several other optimizations.</li>
|
|
|
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|
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|
|
<li>The <a href="CodeGenerator.html#selectiondag_process">graphs</a> produced by
|
|
|
|
|
the <tt>llc -view-*-dags</tt> options are now significantly prettier and
|
|
|
|
|
easier to read.</li>
|
|
|
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|
<li>LLVM 2.4 includes a new register allocator based on Partitioned Boolean
|
|
|
|
|
Quadratic Programming (PBQP). This register allocator is still in
|
|
|
|
|
development, but is very simple and clean.</li>
|
2008-06-08 02:45:07 +00:00
|
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|
2006-11-18 07:51:14 +00:00
|
|
|
</ul>
|
2007-09-21 03:54:09 +00:00
|
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|
2006-04-18 06:18:36 +00:00
|
|
|
</div>
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|
2007-09-21 03:54:09 +00:00
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|
<!--=========================================================================-->
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|
|
|
|
<div class="doc_subsection">
|
2008-10-13 22:06:31 +00:00
|
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|
<a name="targetspecific">Target Specific Improvements</a>
|
2007-09-21 03:54:09 +00:00
|
|
|
</div>
|
2006-11-18 07:51:14 +00:00
|
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|
|
2006-04-18 06:18:36 +00:00
|
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|
<div class="doc_text">
|
2008-02-10 08:17:19 +00:00
|
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|
<p>New target-specific features include:
|
2007-05-14 06:56:09 +00:00
|
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|
</p>
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|
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<ul>
|
2008-10-12 19:47:48 +00:00
|
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<li>Exception handling is supported by default on Linux/x86-64.</li>
|
2008-10-13 17:32:15 +00:00
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|
<li>Position Independent Code (PIC) is now supported on Linux/x86-64.</li>
|
2008-10-14 06:02:29 +00:00
|
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|
<li>@llvm.frameaddress now supports getting the frame address of stack frames
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|
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> 0 on x86/x86-64.</li>
|
2008-10-13 22:06:31 +00:00
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<li>MIPS floating point support? [BRUNO]</li>
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<li>The PowerPC backend now supports trampolines.</li>
|
2008-06-05 08:02:49 +00:00
|
|
|
</ul>
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|
|
2008-10-13 02:08:34 +00:00
|
|
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</div>
|
2008-06-05 08:02:49 +00:00
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2007-09-21 03:54:09 +00:00
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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|
<div class="doc_subsection">
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|
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|
<a name="otherimprovements">Other Improvements</a>
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|
|
|
|
</div>
|
2007-05-14 06:56:09 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2006-04-18 06:32:08 +00:00
|
|
|
<div class="doc_text">
|
2007-09-21 03:54:09 +00:00
|
|
|
<p>New features include:
|
|
|
|
|
</p>
|
2006-04-18 06:18:36 +00:00
|
|
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|
2006-02-05 06:39:36 +00:00
|
|
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<ul>
|
2008-10-13 02:46:01 +00:00
|
|
|
<li><tt>llvmc2</tt> (the generic compiler driver) gained plugin
|
2008-10-13 22:06:31 +00:00
|
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|
support. It is now easier to experiment with <tt>llvmc2</tt> and
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|
|
|
build your own tools based on it.</li>
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<li>LLVM 2.4 includes a number of new generic algorithms and data structures,
|
2008-10-14 15:14:55 +00:00
|
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|
include a scoped hash table, 'immutable' data structures, a simple
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free-list manager, and a <tt>raw_ostream</tt> class.
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The <tt>raw_ostream</tt> class and
|
2008-10-13 22:06:31 +00:00
|
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<tt>format</tt> allow for efficient file output, and various pieces of LLVM
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have switched over to use it. The eventual goal is to eliminate
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std::ostream in favor of it.</li>
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|
2007-05-17 21:41:31 +00:00
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</ul>
|
2008-10-13 02:08:34 +00:00
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2007-05-17 21:41:31 +00:00
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</div>
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2006-03-03 00:34:26 +00:00
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2008-10-13 17:57:36 +00:00
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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|
<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="changes">Major Changes and Removed Features</a>
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</div>
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|
<div class="doc_text">
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|
2008-10-13 22:06:31 +00:00
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|
|
<p>If you're already an LLVM user or developer with out-of-tree changes based
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|
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|
on LLVM 2.3, this section lists some "gotchas" that you may run into upgrading
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|
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|
|
from the previous release.</p>
|
2008-10-13 18:01:01 +00:00
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2008-10-13 22:06:31 +00:00
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<ul>
|
2008-10-13 17:57:36 +00:00
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|
2008-10-13 22:06:31 +00:00
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<li>The LLVM IR generated by llvm-gcc no longer names all instructions. This
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|
makes it run faster, but may be more confusing to some people. If you
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|
|
prefer to have names, the '<tt>opt -instnamer</tt>' pass will add names to
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|
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all instructions.</li>
|
2008-10-13 17:57:36 +00:00
|
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|
2008-10-13 22:06:31 +00:00
|
|
|
<li>The LoadVN and GCSE passes have been removed from the tree. They are
|
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|
|
obsolete and have been replaced with the GVN and MemoryDependence passes.
|
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</li>
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<p>In addition, many APIs have changed in this release. Some of the major LLVM
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separately. Interface exported by <tt>ParameterAttributes.h</tt> header is now
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experted by <tt>Attributes.h</tt> header. The new attributes interface changes are:
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stored at index ~0U. Parameter attributes are stored at index that matches
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parameter number.</li>
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attributes is changed from <tt>PAListPtr</tt> to <tt>AttrListPtr</tt>.</li>
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<li> <tt>ParamAttrsWithIndex</tt> is now renamed as <tt>AttributeWithIndex</tt>.
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<li>The <tt>DbgStopPointInst</tt> methods <tt>getDirectory</tt> and
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<tt>getFileName</tt> now return <tt>Value*</tt> instead of strings. These can be
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"<tt>llvm/Analysis/ValueTracking.h</tt>".</li>
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"create" methods to upper case "Create" methods (e.g.
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<tt>BinaryOperator::create</tt>). LLVM 2.4 includes both cases, but the
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lower case ones are removed in mainline, please migrate.</li>
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<li>In the code generator, many <tt>MachineOperand</tt> predicates were renamed to be
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shorter (e.g. <tt>isFrameIndex()</tt> -> <tt>isFI()</tt>),
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<tt>SDOperand</tt> was renamed to <tt>SDValue</tt> (and the "<tt>Val</tt>"
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member was changed to be the <tt>getNode()</tt> accessor), and the
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<tt>MVT::ValueType</tt> enum has been replaced with an "<tt>MVT</tt>"
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struct. The <tt>getSignExtended</tt> and <tt>getValue</tt> methods in the
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ConstantSDNode class were renamed to <tt>getSExtValue</tt> and
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<tt>getZExtValue</tt> respectively, to be more consistent with
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the <tt>ConstantInt</tt> class.</li>
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<a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
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<p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p>
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<li>Intel and AMD machines (IA32) running Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core and FreeBSD
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(and probably other unix-like systems).</li>
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<li>PowerPC and X86-based Mac OS X systems, running 10.3 and above in 32-bit and
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64-bit modes.</li>
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<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 using MinGW libraries (native).</li>
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<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries (limited
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support is available for native builds with Visual C++).</li>
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<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 10.</li>
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<li>Alpha-based machines running Debian GNU/Linux.</li>
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<li>Itanium-based (IA64) machines running Linux and HP-UX.</li>
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<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses GNU autoconf to adapt itself
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to the machine and operating system on which it is built. However, minor
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porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms. We welcome your
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portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>
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<a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
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component. As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
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sections. If you run into a problem, please check the <a
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2005-10-29 07:07:09 +00:00
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href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
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there isn't already one.</p>
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2003-10-02 04:57:28 +00:00
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2003-11-22 00:38:41 +00:00
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</div>
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2004-03-14 02:03:02 +00:00
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<!-- ======================================================================= -->
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
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</div>
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2003-10-02 04:57:28 +00:00
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2004-03-14 02:03:02 +00:00
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<div class="doc_text">
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2004-05-12 21:46:05 +00:00
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<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
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be broken or unreliable, or are in early development. These components should
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not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
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useful to some people. In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
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components, please contact us on the <a
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href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev list</a>.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The MSIL, IA64, Alpha, SPU, MIPS, and PIC16 backends are experimental.</li>
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2008-06-08 20:18:35 +00:00
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<li>The llc "<tt>-filetype=asm</tt>" (the default) is the only supported
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value for this option.</li>
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</ul>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
|
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<a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<ul>
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2008-06-08 10:24:13 +00:00
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<li>The X86 backend does not yet support
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all <a href="http://llvm.org/PR879">inline assembly that uses the X86
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floating point stack</a>. It supports the 'f' and 't' constraints, but not
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'u'.</li>
|
2008-06-08 21:19:07 +00:00
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<li>The X86 backend generates inefficient floating point code when configured
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to generate code for systems that don't have SSE2.</li>
|
2008-06-08 19:38:43 +00:00
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<li>Win64 code generation wasn't widely tested. Everything should work, but we
|
2008-06-08 10:24:13 +00:00
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expect small issues to happen. Also, llvm-gcc cannot build mingw64 runtime
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currently due
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to <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2255">several</a>
|
2008-06-08 23:12:47 +00:00
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<a href="http://llvm.org/PR2257">bugs</a> due to lack of support for the
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'u' inline assembly constraint and X87 floating point inline assembly.</li>
|
2008-06-08 23:05:11 +00:00
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<li>The X86-64 backend does not yet support the LLVM IR instruction
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<tt>va_arg</tt>. Currently, the llvm-gcc front-end supports variadic
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argument constructs on X86-64 by lowering them manually.</li>
|
2006-11-18 07:51:14 +00:00
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</ul>
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</div>
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<!-- ======================================================================= -->
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC back-end</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<ul>
|
2007-05-15 09:21:28 +00:00
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<li>The Linux PPC32/ABI support needs testing for the interpreter and static
|
2007-05-23 04:39:32 +00:00
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compilation, and lacks support for debug information.</li>
|
2006-11-18 07:51:14 +00:00
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</ul>
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</div>
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<!-- ======================================================================= -->
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<div class="doc_subsection">
|
2007-05-14 06:56:09 +00:00
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<a name="arm-be">Known problems with the ARM back-end</a>
|
2006-11-18 07:51:14 +00:00
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<ul>
|
2007-05-23 04:39:32 +00:00
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<li>Thumb mode works only on ARMv6 or higher processors. On sub-ARMv6
|
2007-09-26 15:59:54 +00:00
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processors, thumb programs can crash or produce wrong
|
2007-05-23 04:39:32 +00:00
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results (<a href="http://llvm.org/PR1388">PR1388</a>).</li>
|
2007-05-14 06:56:09 +00:00
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<li>Compilation for ARM Linux OABI (old ABI) is supported, but not fully tested.
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</li>
|
2008-06-08 21:19:07 +00:00
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<li>There is a bug in QEMU-ARM (<= 0.9.0) which causes it to incorrectly
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execute
|
2007-05-23 04:39:32 +00:00
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programs compiled with LLVM. Please use more recent versions of QEMU.</li>
|
2006-11-18 07:51:14 +00:00
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</ul>
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</div>
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<!-- ======================================================================= -->
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<div class="doc_subsection">
|
2007-05-14 06:56:09 +00:00
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<a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the SPARC back-end</a>
|
2006-11-18 07:51:14 +00:00
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<ul>
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<li>The SPARC backend only supports the 32-bit SPARC ABI (-m32), it does not
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support the 64-bit SPARC ABI (-m64).</li>
|
2006-11-18 07:51:14 +00:00
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</ul>
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</div>
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<!-- ======================================================================= -->
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="alpha-be">Known problems with the Alpha back-end</a>
|
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<ul>
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<li>On 21164s, some rare FP arithmetic sequences which may trap do not have the
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appropriate nops inserted to ensure restartability.</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="ia64-be">Known problems with the IA64 back-end</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<ul>
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<li>The Itanium backend is highly experimental, and has a number of known
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issues. We are looking for a maintainer for the Itanium backend. If you
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are interested, please contact the LLVMdev mailing list.</li>
|
2005-11-08 21:11:33 +00:00
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</ul>
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2006-11-18 07:51:14 +00:00
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2005-11-08 21:11:33 +00:00
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
|
2006-11-18 07:51:14 +00:00
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<ul>
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2008-06-05 06:35:40 +00:00
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<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR802">The C backend has only basic support for
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inline assembly code</a>.</li>
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2007-09-26 06:01:35 +00:00
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<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR1658">The C backend violates the ABI of common
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C++ programs</a>, preventing intermixing between C++ compiled by the CBE and
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C++ code compiled with llc or native compilers.</li>
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2008-02-10 13:40:55 +00:00
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<li>The C backend does not support all exception handling constructs.</li>
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2006-11-18 07:51:14 +00:00
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</ul>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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2008-06-05 06:35:40 +00:00
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<a name="c-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc C front-end</a>
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2003-11-22 00:38:41 +00:00
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</div>
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2003-10-02 05:07:23 +00:00
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2003-11-22 00:38:41 +00:00
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<div class="doc_text">
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2006-03-03 00:34:26 +00:00
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2008-02-06 18:00:06 +00:00
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<p>llvm-gcc does not currently support <a href="http://llvm.org/PR869">Link-Time
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Optimization</a> on most platforms "out-of-the-box". Please inquire on the
|
2008-10-15 10:47:24 +00:00
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LLVMdev mailing list if you are interested.</p>
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2006-11-18 07:51:14 +00:00
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2008-06-05 06:35:40 +00:00
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<p>The only major language feature of GCC not supported by llvm-gcc is
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the <tt>__builtin_apply</tt> family of builtins. However, some extensions
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are only supported on some targets. For example, trampolines are only
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supported on some targets (these are used when you take the address of a
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nested function).</p>
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<a name="c++-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc C++ front-end</a>
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<p>The C++ front-end is considered to be fully
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tested and works for a number of non-trivial programs, including LLVM
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itself, Qt, Mozilla, etc.</p>
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only linux and darwin targets are supported (both 32 and 64 bit).</li>
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<a name="ada-fe">Known problems with the llvm-gcc Ada front-end</a>
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The llvm-gcc 4.2 Ada compiler works fairly well, however this is not a mature
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technology and problems should be expected.
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to lack of trampoline support (pointers to nested functions) on other platforms,
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however it <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2006">also fails to build on X86-64</a>
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which does support trampolines.</li>
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<li>The Ada front-end <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2007">fails to bootstrap</a>.
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Workaround: configure with --disable-bootstrap.</li>
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<li>The c380004, <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2010">c393010</a>
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and <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2421">cxg2021</a> ACATS tests fail
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(c380004 also fails with gcc-4.2 mainline).</li>
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<li>Some gcc specific Ada tests continue to crash the compiler.</li>
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<li>The -E binder option (exception backtraces)
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<a href="http://llvm.org/PR1982">does not work</a> and will result in programs
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crashing if an exception is raised. Workaround: do not use -E.</li>
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<li>Only discrete types <a href="http://llvm.org/PR1981">are allowed to start
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or finish at a non-byte offset</a> in a record. Workaround: do not pack records
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or use representation clauses that result in a field of a non-discrete type
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starting or finishing in the middle of a byte.</li>
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<li>The <tt>lli</tt> interpreter <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2009">considers
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'main' as generated by the Ada binder to be invalid</a>.
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<tt>envp</tt> rather than integers.</li>
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<li>The <tt>-fstack-check</tt> option <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2008">is
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ignored</a>.</li>
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<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the <a
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href="http://llvm.org">LLVM web page</a>, in particular in the <a
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href="http://llvm.org/docs/">documentation</a> section. The web page also
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contains versions of the API documentation which is up-to-date with the
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Subversion version of the source code.
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You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going
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into the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
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<p>If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
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us via the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/#maillist"> mailing
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lists</a>.</p>
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