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| Written by the `LLVM Team <https://llvm.org/>`_ |
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| .. only:: PreRelease |
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| .. warning:: |
| These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Clang |version| release. |
| Release notes for previous releases can be found on |
| `the Releases Page <https://llvm.org/releases/>`_. |
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| Introduction |
| ============ |
| |
| This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C |
| frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release |release|. Here we |
| describe the status of Clang in some detail, including major |
| improvements from the previous release and new feature work. For the |
| general LLVM release notes, see `the LLVM |
| documentation <https://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html>`_. For the libc++ release notes, |
| see `this page <https://libcxx.llvm.org/ReleaseNotes.html>`_. All LLVM releases |
| may be downloaded from the `LLVM releases web site <https://llvm.org/releases/>`_. |
| |
| For more information about Clang or LLVM, including information about the |
| latest release, please see the `Clang Web Site <https://clang.llvm.org>`_ or the |
| `LLVM Web Site <https://llvm.org>`_. |
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| Potentially Breaking Changes |
| ============================ |
| |
| C/C++ Language Potentially Breaking Changes |
| ------------------------------------------- |
| |
| - The ``__has_builtin`` function now only considers the currently active target when being used with target offloading. |
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| C++ Specific Potentially Breaking Changes |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| - For C++20 modules, the Reduced BMI mode will be the default option. This may introduce |
| regressions if your build system supports two-phase compilation model but haven't support |
| reduced BMI or it is a compiler bug or a bug in users code. |
| |
| ABI Changes in This Version |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| AST Dumping Potentially Breaking Changes |
| ---------------------------------------- |
| |
| Clang Frontend Potentially Breaking Changes |
| ------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Clang Python Bindings Potentially Breaking Changes |
| -------------------------------------------------- |
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| What's New in Clang |release|? |
| ============================== |
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| C++ Language Changes |
| -------------------- |
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| C++2c Feature Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| C++23 Feature Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| C++20 Feature Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| C++17 Feature Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| Resolutions to C++ Defect Reports |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| C Language Changes |
| ------------------ |
| |
| C2y Feature Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| C23 Feature Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release |
| ------------------------------------------------- |
| - Added ``__builtin_elementwise_minnumnum`` and ``__builtin_elementwise_maxnumnum``. |
| |
| - Trapping UBSan (e.g. ``-fsanitize-trap=undefined``) now emits a string describing the reason for |
| trapping into the generated debug info. This feature allows debuggers (e.g. LLDB) to display |
| the reason for trapping if the trap is reached. The string is currently encoded in the debug |
| info as an artificial frame that claims to be inlined at the trap location. The function used |
| for the artificial frame is an artificial function whose name encodes the reason for trapping. |
| The encoding used is currently the same as ``__builtin_verbose_trap`` but might change in the future. |
| This feature is enabled by default but can be disabled by compiling with |
| ``-fno-sanitize-annotate-debug-info-traps``. |
| |
| New Compiler Flags |
| ------------------ |
| - New option ``-fno-sanitize-annotate-debug-info-traps`` added to disable emitting trap reasons into the debug info when compiling with trapping UBSan (e.g. ``-fsanitize-trap=undefined``). |
| |
| Deprecated Compiler Flags |
| ------------------------- |
| |
| Modified Compiler Flags |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| Removed Compiler Flags |
| ------------------------- |
| |
| Attribute Changes in Clang |
| -------------------------- |
| |
| Improvements to Clang's diagnostics |
| ----------------------------------- |
| - Added a separate diagnostic group ``-Wfunction-effect-redeclarations``, for the more pedantic |
| diagnostics for function effects (``[[clang::nonblocking]]`` and ``[[clang::nonallocating]]``). |
| Moved the warning for a missing (though implied) attribute on a redeclaration into this group. |
| Added a new warning in this group for the case where the attribute is missing/implicit on |
| an override of a virtual method. |
| |
| Improvements to Clang's time-trace |
| ---------------------------------- |
| |
| Improvements to Coverage Mapping |
| -------------------------------- |
| |
| Bug Fixes in This Version |
| ------------------------- |
| - Fix a crash when marco name is empty in ``#pragma push_macro("")`` or |
| ``#pragma pop_macro("")``. (#GH149762). |
| - `-Wunreachable-code`` now diagnoses tautological or contradictory |
| comparisons such as ``x != 0 || x != 1.0`` and ``x == 0 && x == 1.0`` on |
| targets that treat ``_Float16``/``__fp16`` as native scalar types. Previously |
| the warning was silently lost because the operands differed only by an implicit |
| cast chain. (#GH149967). |
| |
| Bug Fixes to Compiler Builtins |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| Bug Fixes to Attribute Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| - ``[[nodiscard]]`` is now respected on Objective-C and Objective-C++ methods. |
| (#GH141504) |
| |
| Bug Fixes to C++ Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| - Diagnose binding a reference to ``*nullptr`` during constant evaluation. (#GH48665) |
| - Suppress ``-Wdeprecated-declarations`` in implicitly generated functions. (#GH147293) |
| - Fix a crash when deleting a pointer to an incomplete array (#GH150359). |
| - Fix an assertion failure when expression in assumption attribute |
| (``[[assume(expr)]]``) creates temporary objects. |
| |
| Bug Fixes to AST Handling |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| Miscellaneous Bug Fixes |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| Miscellaneous Clang Crashes Fixed |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| OpenACC Specific Changes |
| ------------------------ |
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| Target Specific Changes |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| AMDGPU Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| NVPTX Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| X86 Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| Arm and AArch64 Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| Android Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| Windows Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| LoongArch Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| RISC-V Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| CUDA/HIP Language Changes |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| CUDA Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| AIX Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| NetBSD Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| WebAssembly Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| AVR Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| DWARF Support in Clang |
| ---------------------- |
| |
| Floating Point Support in Clang |
| ------------------------------- |
| |
| Fixed Point Support in Clang |
| ---------------------------- |
| |
| AST Matchers |
| ------------ |
| - Ensure ``hasBitWidth`` doesn't crash on bit widths that are dependent on template |
| parameters. |
| |
| clang-format |
| ------------ |
| |
| libclang |
| -------- |
| |
| Code Completion |
| --------------- |
| |
| Static Analyzer |
| --------------- |
| - The Clang Static Analyzer now handles parenthesized initialization. |
| (#GH148875) |
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| New features |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| Crash and bug fixes |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| Improvements |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| Moved checkers |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| .. _release-notes-sanitizers: |
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| Sanitizers |
| ---------- |
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| Python Binding Changes |
| ---------------------- |
| |
| OpenMP Support |
| -------------- |
| - Added parsing and semantic analysis support for the ``need_device_addr`` |
| modifier in the ``adjust_args`` clause. |
| - Allow array length to be omitted in array section subscript expression. |
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| Improvements |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| Additional Information |
| ====================== |
| |
| A wide variety of additional information is available on the `Clang web |
| page <https://clang.llvm.org/>`_. The web page contains versions of the |
| API documentation which are up-to-date with the Git version of |
| the source code. You can access versions of these documents specific to |
| this release by going into the "``clang/docs/``" directory in the Clang |
| tree. |
| |
| If you have any questions or comments about Clang, please feel free to |
| contact us on the `Discourse forums (Clang Frontend category) |
| <https://discourse.llvm.org/c/clang/6>`_. |