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<div class="doc_title">LLVM 2.1 Release Notes</div>
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  <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
  <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New?</a></li>
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  <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li>
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  <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li>
  <li><a href="#knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
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  <li><a href="#additionalinfo">Additional Information</a></li>
  <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Team</a><p>
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<div class="doc_section">
  <a name="intro">Introduction</a>
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<div class="doc_text">

<p>This document contains the release notes for the LLVM compiler
infrastructure, release 2.1.  Here we describe the status of LLVM, including
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major improvements from the previous release and any known problems.  All LLVM
releases may be downloaded from the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM
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releases web site</a>.</p>
<p>For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
release, please check out the <a href="http://llvm.org/">main LLVM
web site</a>.  If you have questions or comments, the <a
href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM developer's mailing
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list</a> is a good place to send them.</p>
<p>Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the 
main LLVM web page, this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the
current one.  To see the release notes for a specific releases, please see the
<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
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<div class="doc_section">
  <a name="whatsnew">What's New?</a>
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<div class="doc_text">

<p>This is the twelfth public release of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure. 
It includes many features and refinements from LLVM 2.0.</p>
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<a name="frontends">New Frontends</a>
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<p>LLVM 2.1 brings two new beta C front-ends.  First, Duncan, Anton and Devang
start syncing up llvm-gcc with GCC 4.2, yielding "llvm-gcc 4.2" (creative,
huh?).  llvm-gcc 4.2 has the promise to bring much better FORTRAN and Ada
support to LLVM as well as features like atomic builtins, OpenMP, and many other
things.  Check it out!</p>
<p>Second, LLVM now includes its own native C and Objective-C front-end (C++ is
in progress, but is not very far along) code named "<a
href="http://clang.llvm.org/">clang</a>".  This front-end has a number of great
features, primarily aimed at source-level analysis and speeding up compile-time.
At this point though, the LLVM Code Generator component is still very early in
development, so it's mostly useful for people looking to build source-level
analysis tools or source-to-source translators.</p>
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<a name="optimizer">Optimizer Improvements</a>
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<p>Some of the most noticable improvements this release have been in the
optimizer, speeding it up and making it more aggressive</p>
<li>Owen DSE and MemDep analysis</li>
<li>Owen GVN</li>
<li>Owen GVN-PRE, not in llvm-gcc</li>
<li>Devang merged ETForest and DomTree into a single easier to use data
structure.</li>
<li>Nick Lewycky improved loop trip count analysis to handle many more common
cases.</li>
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<a name="codegen">Code Generator Improvements</a>
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<li>Dale finished up the Tail Merging optimization in the code generator,
enabling it by default.  This produces smaller code that is also faster in some
cases.</li>

<li>Dan Gohman changed the way we represent vectors before legalization,
significantly simplifying the SelectionDAG representation for these and making
the code generator faster for vector code.</li>
<li>Evan remat rewrite (coallesced intervals + folding of remat'd loads) and
live intervals improvements.</li>
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<li>Dan Gohman contributed support for better alignment and volatility handling
in the code generator, and significantly enhanced alignment analysis for SSE
load/store instructions.</li>
<li>Christopher Lamb virtual register sub-register support, better truncates and
extends on X86.</li>
<li>Duraid Madina contributed a new "bigblock" register allocator, and Roman
Levenstein contributed several big improvements.  BigBlock is optimized for code
that uses very large basic blocks.  It is slightly slower than the "local"
allocator, but produces much better code.</li>
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<li>David Greene refactored the register allocator to split coallescing out from
allocation, making coallescers pluggable.</li>

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<a name="targetspecific">Target Specific Improvements</a>
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<p>New features include:
<li>Bruno Cardoso Lopes contributed initial MIPS support.</li>
<li>Bill Wendling added SSSE3 support.</li>
<li>New Target independent if converter, ARM uses it so far</li>
<li>Nicholas Geoffray contributed improved linux/ppc ABI and JIT support.</li>
<li>Dale Johannesen rewrote handling of 32-bit float values in the X86 backend
when using the floating point stack, fixing several nasty bugs.</li>
<li>Dan contributed rematerialization support for the X86 backend.</li>
</ul>
  
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<a name="llvmgccimprovements">llvm-gcc Improvements</a>
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<div class="doc_text">
<p>New features include:
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</p>

<ul>
<li>Duncan and Anton exception handling in llvm-gcc 4.0/4.2</li>
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<li>Devang and Duncan: Bitfields, pragma pack</li>
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<li>Tanya implemented support for __attribute__((noinline)) in llvm-gcc, and
added support for generic variable annotations which are propagated into the
LLVM IR, e.g. "<tt>int X __attribute__((annotate("myproperty")));</tt>".</li>
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<li>Sheng Zhou and Christopher Lamb implemented alias analysis support for
'restrict' arguments to functions.</li>
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<li>Duncan contributed support for trampolines (pointers to nested functions),
currently only supported on x86 target.</li>
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</ul>
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<a name="coreimprovements">LLVM Core Improvements</a>
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<p>New features include:
<li>Neil Booth APFloat, foundation for long double support that will be wrapped
up in 2.2.  Dale contributed most of long double support, will be enabled in
2.2.</li>
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<li>LLVM now provides an LLVMBuilder class which makes it significantly easier
to create LLVM IR instructions.</li>
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<li>Reid contributed support for intrinsics that take arbitrary integer typed
arguments, Dan Gohman and Chandler extended it to support FP and vectors.</li>
</li>
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<a name="otherimprovements">Other Improvements</a>
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<div class="doc_text">
<p>New features include:
</p>
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<ul>
<li>BrainF frontend by Sterling Stein.</li>
<li>David Green contributed a new --enable-expensive-checks configure option
which enables STL checking, and fixed several bugs exposed by it.</li>
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  <a name="portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a>
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<div class="doc_text">

<p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p>
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<li>Intel and AMD machines 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 10.2 and above in 32-bit and
    64-bit modes.</li>
<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 using MinGW libraries (native)</li>
<li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries (limited
    support is available for native builds with Visual C++).</li>
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<li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>
<li>Alpha-based machines running Debian GNU/Linux.</li>
<li>Itanium-based machines running Linux and HP-UX.</li>
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<p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">GNU autoconf</a> to adapt itself
to the machine and operating system on which it is built.  However, minor
porting may be required to get LLVM to work on new platforms.  We welcome your
portability patches and reports of successful builds or error messages.</p>
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<div class="doc_section">
  <a name="knownproblems">Known Problems</a>
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<div class="doc_text">

<p>This section contains all known problems with the LLVM system, listed by
component.  As new problems are discovered, they will be added to these
sections.  If you run into a problem, please check the <a
href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bug database</a> and submit a bug if
there isn't already one.</p>
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  <a name="experimental">Experimental features included with this release</a>
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<p>The following components of this LLVM release are either untested, known to
be broken or unreliable, or are in early development.  These components should
not be relied on, and bugs should not be filed against them, but they may be
useful to some people.  In particular, if you would like to work on one of these
components, please contact us on the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev list</a>.</p>
<li>The <tt>-cee</tt> pass is known to be buggy, and may be removed in in a 
    future release.</li>
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<li>C++ EH support is disabled for this release.</li>
<li>The MSIL backend is experimental.</li>
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<li>The IA64 code generator is experimental.</li>
<li>The Alpha JIT is experimental.</li>
<li>"<tt>-filetype=asm</tt>" (the default) is the only supported value for the 
    <tt>-filetype</tt> llc option.</li>
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  <a name="x86-be">Known problems with the X86 back-end</a>
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<ul>
<li>The X86 backend does not yet support <a href="http://llvm.org/PR879">inline
    assembly that uses the X86 floating point stack</a>.</li>
</ul>

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  <a name="ppc-be">Known problems with the PowerPC back-end</a>
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR642">PowerPC backend does not correctly
implement ordered FP comparisons</a>.</li>
<li>The Linux PPC32/ABI support needs testing for the interpreter and static
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compilation, and lacks support for debug information.</li>
</ul>

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  <a name="arm-be">Known problems with the ARM back-end</a>
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<ul>
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<li>Thumb mode works only on ARMv6 or higher processors. On sub-ARMv6
processors, thumb program can crash or produces wrong
results (<a href="http://llvm.org/PR1388">PR1388</a>).</li>
<li>Compilation for ARM Linux OABI (old ABI) is supported, but not fully tested.
</li>
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<li>There is a bug in QEMU-ARM (<= 0.9.0) which causes it to incorrectly execute
programs compiled with LLVM.  Please use more recent versions of QEMU.</li>
</ul>

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  <a name="sparc-be">Known problems with the SPARC back-end</a>
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<ul>
<li>The SPARC backend only supports the 32-bit SPARC ABI (-m32), it does not
    support the 64-bit SPARC ABI (-m64).</li>
</ul>

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<div class="doc_subsection">
  <a name="alpha-be">Known problems with the Alpha back-end</a>
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<div class="doc_text">

<ul>

<li>On 21164s, some rare FP arithmetic sequences which may trap do not have the
appropriate nops inserted to ensure restartability.</li>

</ul>
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  <a name="ia64-be">Known problems with the IA64 back-end</a>
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<ul>

<li>C++ programs are likely to fail on IA64, as calls to <tt>setjmp</tt> are
made where the argument is not 16-byte aligned, as required on IA64. (Strictly
speaking this is not a bug in the IA64 back-end; it will also be encountered
when building C++ programs using the C back-end.)</li>

<li>The C++ front-end does not use <a href="http://llvm.org/PR406">IA64
ABI compliant layout of v-tables</a>.  In particular, it just stores function
pointers instead of function descriptors in the vtable.  This bug prevents
mixing C++ code compiled with LLVM with C++ objects compiled by other C++
compilers.</li>

<li>There are a few ABI violations which will lead to problems when mixing LLVM
output with code built with other compilers, particularly for floating-point
programs.</li>

<li>Defining vararg functions is not supported (but calling them is ok).</li>

<li>The Itanium backend has bitrotted somewhat.</li>
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  <a name="c-be">Known problems with the C back-end</a>
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<div class="doc_text">

<ul>
<li><a href="http://llvm.org/PR802">The C backend does not support inline
    assembly code</a>.</li>
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  <a name="c-fe">Known problems with the C front-end</a>
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<div class="doc_subsubsection">Bugs</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
<p>llvm-gcc4 does not currently support <a href="http://llvm.org/PR869">Link-Time 
Optimization</a> on most platforms "out-of-the-box".  Please inquire on the 
llvmdev mailing list if you are interested.</p>
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  Notes
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<ul>

<li><p>"long double" is silently 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></li>
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<li><p>llvm-gcc does <b>not</b> support <tt>__builtin_apply</tt> yet.
  See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constructing-Calls.html#Constructing%20Calls">Constructing Calls</a>: Dispatching a call to another function.</p>
</li>
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<li><p>llvm-gcc <b>partially</b> supports these GCC extensions:</p>
  <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.<br>
      Nested functions are supported, but llvm-gcc does not support non-local
      gotos or taking the address of a nested function.</li>

  <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes">Function Attributes</a>:
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      Declaring that functions have no side effects or that they can never
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      return.<br>

      <b>Supported:</b> <tt>alias</tt>, <tt>always_inline</tt>, <tt>cdecl</tt>,
      <tt>constructor</tt>, <tt>destructor</tt>,
      <tt>deprecated</tt>, <tt>fastcall</tt>, <tt>format</tt>, 
      <tt>format_arg</tt>, <tt>non_null</tt>, <tt>noreturn</tt>, <tt>regparm</tt>
      <tt>section</tt>, <tt>stdcall</tt>, <tt>unused</tt>, <tt>used</tt>, 
      <tt>visibility</tt>, <tt>warn_unused_result</tt>, <tt>weak</tt><br>
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      <b>Ignored:</b> <tt>noinline</tt>, <tt>pure</tt>, <tt>const</tt>, <tt>nothrow</tt>,
      <tt>malloc</tt>, <tt>no_instrument_function</tt></li>
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  </ol>
<li><p>llvm-gcc supports the vast majority of GCC extensions, including:</p>
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  <ol>
  <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pragmas.html#Pragmas">Pragmas</a>: Pragmas accepted by GCC.</li>
  <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/Other-Builtins.html#Other%20Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:
      Other built-in functions.</li>
  <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable%20Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>:
      Specifying attributes of variables.</li>
  <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Type-Attributes.html#Type%20Attributes">Type Attributes</a>:	Specifying attributes of types.</li>
  <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread_002dLocal.html">Thread-Local</a>: Per-thread variables.</li>
  <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.</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>
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  <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-3.4.0/gcc/Lvalues.html#Lvalues">Lvalues</a>: Using <code>?:</code>, "<code>,</code>" and casts in lvalues.</li>
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  <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/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/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>
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  <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>
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  <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Initializers.html#Initializers">Initializers</a>: Non-constant initializers.</li>
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  <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>
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  <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>
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  <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_002b_002b-Comments.html#C_002b_002b-Comments">C++ Comments</a>: C++ comments are recognized.</li>
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  <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 &lt;ESC&gt;.</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/Return-Address.html#Return%20Address">Return Address</a>: Getting the return or frame address of a function.</li>
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  <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>
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<p>If you run into GCC extensions which have not been included in any of these
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<p>The C++ front-end is considered to be fully
tested and works for a number of non-trivial programs, including LLVM
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<li>llvm-gcc4 only has partial support for <a href="http://llvm.org/PR870">C++ 
Exception Handling</a>, and it is not enabled by default.</li>

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<li>Destructors for local objects are not always run when a <tt>longjmp</tt> is
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    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>.
    This document, which is not Itanium specific, specifies a standard for name
    mangling, class layout, v-table layout, RTTI formats, and other C++
    representation issues.  Because we use this API, code generated by the LLVM
    compilers should be binary compatible with machine code generated by other
    Itanium ABI C++ compilers (such as G++, the Intel and HP compilers, etc).
    <i>However</i>, the exception handling mechanism used by llvm-gcc3 is very
    different from the model used in the Itanium ABI, so <b>exceptions will not
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    interact correctly</b>. </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/docs/">documentation</a> section.  The web page also
contains versions of the API documentation which is up-to-date with the
Subversion version of the source code.
You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going
into the "<tt>llvm/doc/</tt>" directory in the LLVM tree.</p>
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