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@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ In this release, the following bugs in the previous release were fixed:<p>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR80">C front-end crash on empty structure</a></li>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR81">CFrontend crashes when compiling C99 compound expressions</a></li>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR83">[X86] Emission of global bool initializers broken</a></li>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR87">llvm-gcc infinite loops on "case MAXINT:"</a></li>
</ol><p>
At this time, LLVM is known to work properly with SPEC CPU 2000, the Olden
@ -150,7 +151,13 @@ sections.
<li>It is not possible to <tt>dlopen</tt> an LLVM bytecode file in the JIT.<p>
<li>Linking in static archive files (.a files) is very slow (there is no symbol
table in the archive).
table in the archive).<p>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR88">Interpreter does not support invoke
or unwind</a>.<p>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR82">LLVM cannot handle structures with
more than 256 elements</a>.<p>
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</ul><h4><a name="c-fe"><hr size=0>Known problems with the C front-end</h4><ul>
@ -356,13 +363,17 @@ problem probably cannot be fixed.<p>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR33">Initializers for global variables</a>
cannot include special floating point numbers like Not-A-Number or Infinity.<p>
<li><a href="http://zion.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR56">Zero arg vararg functions are not
supported</a>. This should not affect LLVM produced by the C or C++
frontends.<p>
<li>The code produces by the C back-end has only been tested with the Sun CC and
GCC compilers. It is possible that it will have to be adjusted to support other
C compilers.<p>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR77">Variables in scope of output setjmp
calls should be volatile</a>. Note that this does not effect correctness on
many platforms.<p>
<li>The code produces by the C back-end has only been tested with the Sun CC,
GCC, and Intel compilers. It is possible that it will have to be adjusted to
support other C compilers.<p>
@ -393,6 +404,6 @@ via the mailing lists.<p>
Maintained By: <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/">The LLVM Team</a><br>
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