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Try rewording stuff talking about unwinding. Hopefully it will make llvm sound less bad, and still make John happy. :)
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better interoperability with external source bases, a new example language
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better interoperability with external source bases, a new example language
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front-end, and improvements in a few optimizations.</p>
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front-end, and improvements in a few optimizations.</p>
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<p>At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile the C & C++ SPEC CPU2000
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<p>At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all non-unwinding C
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benchmarks with the C backend (X86 only), the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist
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& C++ SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks, the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist
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benchmarks. It has also been used to compile
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benchmarks. It has also been used to compile <b>many</b> other programs. LLVM
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<b>many</b> other programs. LLVM now also works with a broad variety of
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now also works with a broad variety of C++ programs, though it has still
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C++ programs, though it has still received much less testing than the C
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received much less testing than the C front-end.
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front-end.
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<p>
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Note that the Sparc and X86 backends do not currently support exception throwing
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The LLVM native code generators are very stable, but do not currently support
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or long jumping (including 253.perlbmk in SPEC). For these programs, you must
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unwinding (exception throwing or <tt>longjmp</tt>ing), which prevent them from
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use the C backend. Support for unwinding will be added in a future release.
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working with programs like the <tt>253.perlbmk</tt> in SPEC CPU2000. The C
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backend and the rest of LLVM does support these programs however, so you can
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still use LLVM with them. Support for unwinding will be added in a future
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release.
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