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<h1>"libc++abi" C++ Standard Library Support</h1>
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<p>libc++abi is a new implementation of low level support for a standard
C++ library.</p>
<p>All of the code in libc++abi is <a
href="http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#license">dual licensed</a>
under the MIT license and the UIUC License (a BSD-like license).</p>
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<h2 id="goals">Features and Goals</h2>
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<li>Correctness as defined by the C++11 standard.</li>
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<li>Provide a portable sublayer to ease the porting of <a href="http://libcxx.llvm.org/">libc++</a></li>
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<li>On Mac OS X, be ABI compatible with the existing low-level support.</li>
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<h2 id="requirements">Platform Support</h2>
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<p>libc++abi is known to work on the following platforms, using clang.</p>
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<li>Darwin</li>
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<h2 id="dir-structure">Current Status</h2>
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<p>libc++abi is complete. <a href="spec.html">Here</a> is a
list of functionality.</p>
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<h2>Get it and get involved!</h2>
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<p>To check out the code, use:</p>
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<li><code>svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/libcxxabi/trunk libcxxabi</code></li>
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<p>To build:</p>
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<li>Check out libcxxabi into <code>llvm/projects</code></li>
<li><code>cd llvm</code></li>
<li><code>mkdir build &amp;&amp; cd build</code></li>
<li><code>cmake .. # on linux you may need to prefix with CC=clang CXX=clang++</code></li>
<li><code>make</code></li>
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<p>To do a standalone build:</p>
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[libcxxabi] Teach CMake better ways to find the libc++ source directory (and misc cleanup). Summary: The main section of this patch teaches CMake a new option `LIBCXXABI_LIBCXX_PATH` that specifies the path to the libcxx source root. This information is passed to lit so that it can better find libc++'s python module. `LIBCXXABI_LIBCXX_PATH` is also used to help find the libc++ headers. The rest of this patch is misc cleanup, mostly to make pep8 and pylint happy. I've also copied libc++'s .gitignore into libc++abi. Reviewers: jroelofs, danalbert Reviewed By: danalbert Subscribers: cfe-commits Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7130 llvm-svn: 226855
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Check out the <a href="http://libcxx.llvm.org">libcxx source</a> tree.
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<li><code>cd libcxxabi</code></li>
<li><code>mkdir build &amp;&amp; cd build</code></li>
[libcxxabi] Teach CMake better ways to find the libc++ source directory (and misc cleanup). Summary: The main section of this patch teaches CMake a new option `LIBCXXABI_LIBCXX_PATH` that specifies the path to the libcxx source root. This information is passed to lit so that it can better find libc++'s python module. `LIBCXXABI_LIBCXX_PATH` is also used to help find the libc++ headers. The rest of this patch is misc cleanup, mostly to make pep8 and pylint happy. I've also copied libc++'s .gitignore into libc++abi. Reviewers: jroelofs, danalbert Reviewed By: danalbert Subscribers: cfe-commits Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7130 llvm-svn: 226855
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<li><code>cmake -DLIBCXXABI_LIBCXX_PATH=path/to/libcxx .. # on
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linux you may need -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++</code></li>
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<li><code>make</code></li>
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[libcxxabi] Document the standalone build's requirements on llvm-config and llvm sources. The current documentation does not explain that the standalone build requires the LLVM sources. This patch updates the documentation to reflect this requirement and explains how to manually specify the location of the required files. llvm-svn: 220049
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<p> By default CMake uses <code>llvm-config</code> to locate the required
LLVM sources. If CMake cannot find <code>llvm-config</code> then you must
configure CMake using either of the following options.
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<li><code>-DLLVM_CONFIG=path/to/llvm-config</code></li>
<li><code>-DLLVM_PATH=path/to/llvm-source-root</code></li>
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Add lit configs for libcxxabi tests. This makes running libcxxabi tests on Linux _much_ easier. Adds a check-libcxxabi target to cmake. Also defaults to building a dynamic libc++abi. This is so that the default options still test the libc++abi that is being built. There are two problems with testing a static libc++abi. In the case of a standalone build, the tests will link the system's libc++, which might not have been built against our libc++abi. In the case of an in tree build, libc++ will prefer a dynamic libc++abi from the system over a static libc++abi from the output directory. llvm-svn: 212672
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<p>To run the tests:</p>
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<li><code>make check-libcxxabi</code></li>
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<p>Note: in a standalone build, the system's libc++ will be used for tests. If
the system's libc++ was statically linked against libc++abi (or linked against
a different ABI library), this may interfere with test results.</p>
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<h2>Frequently asked questions</h2>
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<p>Q: Why are the destructors for the standard exception classes defined in libc++abi?
They're just empty, can't they be defined inline?</p>
<p>A: The destructors for them live in libc++abi because they are "key" functions.
The Itanium ABI describes a "key" function as the first virtual declared.
And wherever the key function is defined, that is where the <code>type_info</code> gets defined.
And in libc++ types are the same type if and only if they have the same <code>type_info</code>
(as in there must be only one type info per type in the entire application).
And on OS X, libstdc++ and libc++ share these exception types.
So to be able to throw in one dylib and catch in another (a <code>std::exception</code> for example),
there must be only one <code>std::exception type_info</code> in the entire app.
That typeinfo gets laid down beside <code>~exception()</code> in libc++abi (for both libstdc++ and libc++).</p>
<p>--Howard Hinnant</p>
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