315 lines
		
	
	
		
			8.8 KiB
		
	
	
	
		
			ReStructuredText
		
	
	
	
			
		
		
	
	
			315 lines
		
	
	
		
			8.8 KiB
		
	
	
	
		
			ReStructuredText
		
	
	
	
| ========================================
 | |
| Clang 11.0.0 (In-Progress) Release Notes
 | |
| ========================================
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. contents::
 | |
|    :local:
 | |
|    :depth: 2
 | |
| 
 | |
| Written by the `LLVM Team <https://llvm.org/>`_
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. warning::
 | |
| 
 | |
|    These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Clang 11 release.
 | |
|    Release notes for previous releases can be found on
 | |
|    `the Download Page <https://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Introduction
 | |
| ============
 | |
| 
 | |
| This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C
 | |
| frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 11.0.0. 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 <https://llvm.org/docs/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>`_.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Note that if you are reading this file from a Git checkout or the
 | |
| main Clang web page, this document applies to the *next* release, not
 | |
| the current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please
 | |
| see the `releases page <https://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
 | |
| 
 | |
| What's New in Clang 11.0.0?
 | |
| ===========================
 | |
| 
 | |
| 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.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Major New Features
 | |
| ------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| Improvements to Clang's diagnostics
 | |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 | |
| 
 | |
| - -Wpointer-to-int-cast is a new warning group. This group warns about C-style
 | |
|   casts of pointers to a integer type too small to hold all possible values.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
 | |
| -------------------------------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| New Compiler Flags
 | |
| ------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| - -fstack-clash-protection will provide a protection against the stack clash
 | |
|   attack for x86 architecture through automatic probing of each page of
 | |
|   allocated stack.
 | |
| 
 | |
| - -ffp-exception-behavior={ignore,maytrap,strict} allows the user to specify
 | |
|   the floating-point exception behavior.  The default setting is ``ignore``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| - -ffp-model={precise,strict,fast} provides the user an umbrella option to
 | |
|   simplify access to the many single purpose floating point options. The default
 | |
|   setting is ``precise``.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Deprecated Compiler Flags
 | |
| -------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| The following options are deprecated and ignored. They will be removed in
 | |
| future versions of Clang.
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| Modified Compiler Flags
 | |
| -----------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| - -fno-common has been enabled as the default for all targets.  Therefore, C
 | |
|   code that uses tentative definitions as definitions of a variable in multiple
 | |
|   translation units will trigger multiple-definition linker errors.  Generally,
 | |
|   this occurs when the use of the ``extern`` keyword is neglected in the declaration
 | |
|   of a variable in a header file. In some cases, no specific translation unit
 | |
|   provides a definition of the variable. The previous behavior can be restored by
 | |
|   specifying ``-fcommon``.
 | |
| - -Wasm-ignored-qualifier (ex. `asm const ("")`) has been removed and replaced
 | |
|   with an error (this matches a recent change in GCC-9).
 | |
| - -Wasm-file-asm-volatile (ex. `asm volatile ("")` at global scope) has been
 | |
|   removed and replaced with an error (this matches GCC's behavior).
 | |
| - Duplicate qualifiers on asm statements (ex. `asm volatile volatile ("")`) no
 | |
|   longer produces a warning via -Wduplicate-decl-specifier, but now an error
 | |
|   (this matches GCC's behavior).
 | |
| 
 | |
| New Pragmas in Clang
 | |
| --------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| Attribute Changes in Clang
 | |
| --------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| Windows Support
 | |
| ---------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| C Language Changes in Clang
 | |
| ---------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| - The default C language standard used when `-std=` is not specified has been
 | |
|   upgraded from gnu11 to gnu17.
 | |
| 
 | |
| - Clang now supports the GNU C extension `asm inline`; it won't do anything
 | |
|   *yet*, but it will be parsed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| C++ Language Changes in Clang
 | |
| -----------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| - Clang now implements a restriction on giving non-C-compatible anonymous
 | |
|   structs a typedef name for linkage purposes, as described in C++ committee
 | |
|   paper `P1766R1 <http://wg21.link/p1766r1>`. This paper was adopted by the
 | |
|   C++ committee as a Defect Report resolution, so it is applied retroactively
 | |
|   to all C++ standard versions. This affects code such as:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   .. code-block:: c++
 | |
| 
 | |
|     typedef struct {
 | |
|       int f() { return 0; }
 | |
|     } S;
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Previous versions of Clang rejected some constructs of this form
 | |
|   (specifically, where the linkage of the type happened to be computed
 | |
|   before the parser reached the typedef name); those cases are still rejected
 | |
|   in Clang 11.  In addition, cases that previous versions of Clang did not
 | |
|   reject now produce an extension warning. This warning can be disabled with
 | |
|   the warning flag ``-Wno-non-c-typedef-for-linkage``.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   Affected code should be updated to provide a tag name for the anonymous
 | |
|   struct:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   .. code-block:: c++
 | |
| 
 | |
|     struct S {
 | |
|       int f() { return 0; }
 | |
|     };
 | |
| 
 | |
|   If the code is shared with a C compilation (for example, if the parts that
 | |
|   are not C-compatible are guarded with ``#ifdef __cplusplus``), the typedef
 | |
|   declaration should be retained, but a tag name should still be provided:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   .. code-block:: c++
 | |
| 
 | |
|     typedef struct S {
 | |
|       int f() { return 0; }
 | |
|     } S;
 | |
| 
 | |
| C++1z Feature Support
 | |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 | |
| 
 | |
| ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| Objective-C Language Changes in Clang
 | |
| -------------------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| OpenCL C Language Changes in Clang
 | |
| ----------------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| ABI Changes in Clang
 | |
| --------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| OpenMP Support in Clang
 | |
| -----------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| CUDA Support in Clang
 | |
| ---------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| Internal API Changes
 | |
| --------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| These are major API changes that have happened since the 10.0.0 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.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Build System Changes
 | |
| --------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| These are major changes to the build system that have happened since the 10.0.0
 | |
| release of Clang. Users of the build system should adjust accordingly.
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| AST Matchers
 | |
| ------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| clang-format
 | |
| ------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| - Option ``IndentCaseBlocks`` has been added to support treating the block
 | |
|   following a switch case label as a scope block which gets indented itself.
 | |
|   It helps avoid having the closing bracket align with the switch statement's
 | |
|   closing bracket (when ``IndentCaseLabels`` is ``false``).
 | |
| 
 | |
| - Option ``ObjCBreakBeforeNestedBlockParam`` has been added to optionally apply
 | |
|   linebreaks for function arguments declarations before nested blocks.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   .. code-block:: c++
 | |
| 
 | |
|     switch (fool) {                vs.     switch (fool) {
 | |
|     case 1:                                case 1: {
 | |
|       {                                      bar();
 | |
|          bar();                            } break;
 | |
|       }                                    default: {
 | |
|       break;                                 plop();
 | |
|     default:                               }
 | |
|       {                                    }
 | |
|         plop();
 | |
|       }
 | |
|     }
 | |
| 
 | |
| - Option ``InsertTrailingCommas`` can be set to ``TCS_Wrapped`` to insert
 | |
|   trailing commas in container literals (arrays and objects) that wrap across
 | |
|   multiple lines. It is currently only available for JavaScript and disabled by
 | |
|   default (``TCS_None``).
 | |
| 
 | |
| - Option ``BraceWrapping.BeforeLambdaBody`` has been added to manage lambda
 | |
|   line break inside function parameter call in Allman style.
 | |
| 
 | |
|   .. code-block:: c++
 | |
| 
 | |
|       true:
 | |
|       connect(
 | |
|         []()
 | |
|         {
 | |
|           foo();
 | |
|           bar();
 | |
|         });
 | |
| 
 | |
|       false:
 | |
|       connect([]() {
 | |
|           foo();
 | |
|           bar();
 | |
|         });
 | |
| 
 | |
| libclang
 | |
| --------
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| Static Analyzer
 | |
| ---------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. _release-notes-ubsan:
 | |
| 
 | |
| Undefined Behavior Sanitizer (UBSan)
 | |
| ------------------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Core Analysis Improvements
 | |
| ==========================
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| New Issues Found
 | |
| ================
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| Python Binding Changes
 | |
| ----------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| The following methods have been added:
 | |
| 
 | |
| -  ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| Significant Known Problems
 | |
| ==========================
 | |
| 
 | |
| 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 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 <https://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev>`_.
 |