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| Clang 4.0.0 (In-Progress) Release Notes |
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| Written by the `LLVM Team <http://llvm.org/>`_ |
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| These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Clang 4.0.0 release. You may |
| prefer the `Clang 3.9 Release Notes |
| <http://llvm.org/releases/3.9.0/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html>`_. |
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| Introduction |
| ============ |
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| This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C |
| frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 4.0.0. 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 <http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html>`_. All LLVM |
| releases may be downloaded from the `LLVM releases web |
| site <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_. |
| |
| For more information about Clang or LLVM, including information about |
| the latest release, please check out the main please see the `Clang Web |
| Site <http://clang.llvm.org>`_ or the `LLVM Web |
| Site <http://llvm.org>`_. |
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| What's New in Clang 4.0.0? |
| ========================== |
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| Some of the major new features and improvements to Clang are listed |
| here. Generic improvements to Clang as a whole or to its underlying |
| infrastructure are described first, followed by language-specific |
| sections with improvements to Clang's support for those languages. |
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| Major New Features |
| ------------------ |
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| - The ``diagnose_if`` attribute has been added to clang. This attribute allows |
| clang to emit a warning or error if a function call meets one or more |
| user-specified conditions. |
| |
| - Enhanced devirtualization with |
| `-fstrict-vtable-pointers <UsersManual.html#cmdoption-fstrict-vtable-pointers>`_. |
| Clang devirtualizes across different basic blocks, like loops: |
| |
| .. code-block:: c++ |
| |
| struct A { |
| virtual void foo(); |
| }; |
| void indirect(A &a, int n) { |
| for (int i = 0 ; i < n; i++) |
| a.foo(); |
| } |
| void test(int n) { |
| A a; |
| indirect(a, n); |
| } |
| |
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| - ... |
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| Improvements to ThinLTO (-flto=thin) |
| ------------------------------------ |
| - Integration with profile data (PGO). When available, profile data enables |
| more accurate function importing decisions, as well as cross-module indirect |
| call promotion. |
| - Significant build-time and binary-size improvements when compiling with debug |
| info (-g). |
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| Improvements to Clang's diagnostics |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| - ... |
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| New Compiler Flags |
| ------------------ |
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| The option -Og has been added to optimize the debugging experience. |
| For now, this option is exactly the same as -O1. However, in the future, |
| some other optimizations might be enabled or disabled. |
| |
| The option -MJ has been added to simplify adding JSON compilation |
| database output into existing build systems. |
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| The option .... |
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| New Pragmas in Clang |
| ----------------------- |
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| Clang now supports the ... |
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| Attribute Changes in Clang |
| -------------------------- |
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| - ... |
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| Windows Support |
| --------------- |
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| Clang's support for building native Windows programs ... |
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| C Language Changes in Clang |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| - ... |
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| ... |
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| C11 Feature Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| ... |
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| C++ Language Changes in Clang |
| ----------------------------- |
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| ... |
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| C++1z Feature Support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| ... |
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| Objective-C Language Changes in Clang |
| ------------------------------------- |
| |
| ... |
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| OpenCL C Language Changes in Clang |
| ---------------------------------- |
| |
| ... |
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| OpenMP Support in Clang |
| ---------------------------------- |
| |
| ... |
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| Internal API Changes |
| -------------------- |
| |
| These are major API changes that have happened since the 3.9 release of |
| Clang. If upgrading an external codebase that uses Clang as a library, |
| this section should help get you past the largest hurdles of upgrading. |
| |
| - ... |
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| AST Matchers |
| ------------ |
| |
| ... |
| |
| libclang |
| -------- |
| |
| ... |
| |
| With the option --show-description, scan-build's list of defects will also |
| show the description of the defects. |
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| Static Analyzer |
| --------------- |
| |
| ... |
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| Core Analysis Improvements |
| ========================== |
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| - ... |
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| New Issues Found |
| ================ |
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| - ... |
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| Python Binding Changes |
| ---------------------- |
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| The following methods have been added: |
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| - ... |
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| Significant Known Problems |
| ========================== |
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| Additional Information |
| ====================== |
| |
| A wide variety of additional information is available on the `Clang web |
| page <http://clang.llvm.org/>`_. The web page contains versions of the |
| API documentation which are 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 "``clang/docs/``" directory in the Clang |
| tree. |
| |
| If you have any questions or comments about Clang, please feel free to |
| contact us via the `mailing |
| list <http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev>`_. |
