these more detailed notes from the primary LLVM release notes for Clang.
This gives us a nice place to flesh out in plenty of detail the major
changes that have happened in Clang land since 2.9.
I've outlined a very rough structure based on the LLVM release notes
structure and what seems like useful divisions in the Clang landscape
(e.g., language-specific stuff is relevant to a narrower audience).
I'll be first converting my brain-dump-ish notes from the commit logs,
and then cleaning here. Suggestions on structure welcome. Typo
corrections, spelling fixes (oh how I'll need them), all welcome; just
commit away.
llvm-svn: 145233
- This disables the system include directories, but not the compiler builtin
directories. Useful for projects that want to use things like the intrinsic
headers, but are otherwise freestanding.
- I'm willing to reconsider the option naming, I also considered providing an
explicit -builtinc (which would match -nobuiltininc), but this is more
consistent with existing options.
llvm-svn: 141692
to operate "as if" in a certain working directory.
- For now, we just implement this by changing the actual working directory, but
eventually we would want to handle this transparently. This is useful to
avoid an extra exec() pair in some situations, and will be something we would
want to support for more flexibility in using the Clang libraries.
llvm-svn: 140409
'id' that can be used (only!) via a contextual keyword as the result
type of an Objective-C message send. 'instancetype' then gives the
method a related result type, which we have already been inferring for
a variety of methods (new, alloc, init, self, retain). Addresses
<rdar://problem/9267640>.
llvm-svn: 139275
This patch special cases the parser for thread safety attributes so that all
attribute arguments are put in the argument list (instead of a special
parameter) since arguments may not otherwise resolve correctly without two-token
lookahead.
This patch also adds checks to make sure that attribute arguments are
lockable objects.
llvm-svn: 137130
Introduce and document a new objc_returns_inner_pointer
attribute, and consume it by performing a retain+autorelease
on message receivers when they're not immediately loaded from
an object with precise lifetime.
llvm-svn: 135764
One weird thing is the addition of several <a name=""> tags where
previously there were id attributes on the <h3> tags. This is because
the id attribute must begin with a letter, not an underscore. The name
attribute is not so constrained, so links will continue to work.
llvm-svn: 133677
silently dropped ownership qualifiers that were being applied to
ownership-qualified, substituted type that was *not* a substituted
template type parameter. We now provide a diagnostic in such cases,
and recover by dropping the added qualifiers.
Document this behavior in the ARC specification.
llvm-svn: 133309
ownership-unqualified retainable object type as __strong. This allows
us to write, e.g.,
std::vector<id>
and we'll infer that the vector's element types have __strong
ownership semantics, which is far nicer than requiring:
std::vector<__strong id>
Note that we allow one to override the ownership qualifier of a
substituted template type parameter, e.g., given
template<typename T>
struct X {
typedef __weak T type;
};
X<id> is treated the same as X<__strong id>. At instantiation type,
the __weak in "__weak T" overrides the (inferred or specified)
__strong on the template argument type, so that we can still provide
metaprogramming transformations.
This is part of <rdar://problem/9595486>.
llvm-svn: 133303
Language-design credit goes to a lot of people, but I particularly want
to single out Blaine Garst and Patrick Beard for their contributions.
Compiler implementation credit goes to Argyrios, Doug, Fariborz, and myself,
in no particular order.
llvm-svn: 133103
Related result types apply Cocoa conventions to the type of message
sends and property accesses to Objective-C methods that are known to
always return objects whose type is the same as the type of the
receiving class (or a subclass thereof), such as +alloc and
-init. This tightens up static type safety for Objective-C, so that we
now diagnose mistakes like this:
t.m:4:10: warning: incompatible pointer types initializing 'NSSet *'
with an
expression of type 'NSArray *' [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
NSSet *array = [[NSArray alloc] init];
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Headers/NSObject.h:72:1:
note:
instance method 'init' is assumed to return an instance of its
receiver
type ('NSArray *')
- (id)init;
^
It also means that we get decent type inference when writing code in
Objective-C++0x:
auto array = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"one", @"two",nil];
// ^ now infers NSMutableArray* rather than id
llvm-svn: 132868
Patch by Matthieu Monrocq with tweaks by me to avoid StringRefs in the static
diagnostic data structures, which resulted in a huge global-var-init function.
Depends on llvm commit r132046.
llvm-svn: 132047
minor issues along the way:
- Non-type template parameters of type 'std::nullptr_t' were not
permitted.
- We didn't properly introduce built-in operators for nullptr ==,
!=, <, <=, >=, or > as candidate functions .
To my knowledge, there's only one (minor but annoying) part of nullptr
that hasn't been implemented: catching a thrown 'nullptr' as a pointer
or pointer-to-member, per C++0x [except.handle]p4.
llvm-svn: 131813
prints the file, line, and column of a diagnostic. We currently
support Clang's normal format, MSVC, and Vi formats.
Note that we no longer change the diagnostic format based on
-fms-extensions.
Patch by Andrew Fish!
llvm-svn: 131794
__has_extension is a function-like macro which takes the same set
of feature identifiers as __has_feature. It evaluates to 1 if the
feature is supported by Clang in the current language (either as a
language extension or a standard language feature) or 0 if not.
At the same time, add support for the C1X feature identifiers
c_generic_selections (renamed from generic_selections) and
c_static_assert, and document them.
Patch by myself and Jean-Daniel Dupas.
llvm-svn: 131308
Find out that our C++0x status has only one field for noexcept expression and specification together, and that it was accidentally already marked as fully implemented.
This completes noexcept specification work.
llvm-svn: 127701
The previous name was inaccurate as this token in fact appears at
the end of every preprocessing directive, not just macro definitions.
No functionality change, except for a diagnostic tweak.
llvm-svn: 126631
authors to write
class __attribute__((forbid_temporaries)) Name { ... };
when they want to force users to name all variables of the type. This protects
people from doing things like creating a scoped_lock that only lives for a
single statement instead of an entire scope.
The warning produced by this attribute can be disabled by
-Wno-forbid-temporaries.
llvm-svn: 124217
This adds an option to set the _MSC_VER macro without
recompiling. This is very useful when testing compatibility
with the Windows SDK and c++stdlib headers.
-fmsc-version=<version> (defaults to VS2003 (1300))
llvm-svn: 116999
library to use.
- This is currently useful for testing libc++; you can now use 'clang++
-stdlib=libc++ t.cpp' to compile using it if installed.
- In the future could also be used to select other standard library choices if
alternatives become available (for example, to use an alternate C library).
llvm-svn: 113891
a member template, and you try to call the member template with an explicit
template argument. See PR7247
For example, this downgrades the error to a warning in:
template<typename T> struct set{};
struct Value {
template<typename T>
void set(T value) {
}
};
void foo() {
Value v;
v.set<double>(3.2); // Warning here.
}
llvm-svn: 105518
major buckets to catch parser and sema issues, add inline asm
category, and make diag groups take precedence over the
sweeping categories just added.
llvm-svn: 104561
we will print with each error that occurs during template
instantiation. When the backtrace is longer than that, we will print
N/2 of the innermost backtrace entries and N/2 of the outermost
backtrace entries, then skip the middle entries with a note such as:
note: suppressed 2 template instantiation contexts; use
-ftemplate-backtrace-limit=N to change the number of template
instantiation entries shown
This should eliminate some excessively long backtraces that aren't
providing any value.
llvm-svn: 101882
emitting diagnostics after it has produced that many errors. Give this a
default value of 20 which produces plenty of errors for people to fix before
recompiling but not so many that their entire console scrolls away when the
compiler gets confused. The experience looks like this:
$ clang foo.c
<tons of crap>
foo.c:102:3: error: unknown type name 'somethingbad'
somethingbad x;
^
fatal error: too many errors emitted, stopping now
36 warnings and 20 errors generated.
llvm-svn: 100689
disabled with the intent that users can start with them now and not have to change
a thing to have them work when we implement the features.
llvm-svn: 93312
with a particular system root directory and can be used with a different
system root directory when the headers it depends on have been installed.
Relocatable precompiled headers rewrite the file names of the headers used
when generating the PCH file into the corresponding file names of the
headers available when using the PCH file.
Addresses <rdar://problem/7001604>.
llvm-svn: 74885
builtin preprocessor macro. This appears to work with two caveats:
1) builtins are registered in -E mode, and 2) target-specific builtins
are unconditionally registered even if they aren't supported by the
target (e.g. SSE4 builtin when only SSE1 is enabled).
llvm-svn: 73289
- -emit-llvm isn't a stage selection option.
- Document -O4 and -flto.
- -ObjC++ and -ObjC apply to all inputs, not subsequent ones.
- Some versions of pod2man aren't happy about the comment after =over=?
- Some minor grammar fixes.
llvm-svn: 72044
- Mirroring LLVM's docs/CommandGuide, a place to put .pod files which
are used to generate man/html/etc documentation for tools provided
as part of clang.
llvm-svn: 70355
std::vector<int>::allocator_type
When we parse a template-id that names a type, it will become either a
template-id annotation (which is a parsed representation of a
template-id that has not yet been through semantic analysis) or a
typename annotation (where semantic analysis has resolved the
template-id to an actual type), depending on the context. We only
produce a type in contexts where we know that we only need type
information, e.g., in a type specifier. Otherwise, we create a
template-id annotation that can later be "upgraded" by transforming it
into a typename annotation when the parser needs a type. This occurs,
for example, when we've parsed "std::vector<int>" above and then see
the '::' after it. However, it means that when writing something like
this:
template<> class Outer::Inner<int> { ... };
We have two tokens to represent Outer::Inner<int>: one token for the
nested name specifier Outer::, and one template-id annotation token
for Inner<int>, which will be passed to semantic analysis to define
the class template specialization.
Most of the churn in the template tests in this patch come from an
improvement in our error recovery from ill-formed template-ids.
llvm-svn: 65467
any named parameters, e.g., this is accepted in C:
void f(...) __attribute__((overloadable));
although this would be rejected:
void f(...);
To do this, moved the checking of the "ellipsis without any named
arguments" condition from the parser into Sema (where it belongs anyway).
llvm-svn: 64902
- Changes Lookup*Name functions to return NamedDecls, instead of
Decls. Unfortunately my recent statement that it will simplify lot of
code, was not quite right, but it simplifies some...
- Makes MergeLookupResult SmallPtrSet instead of vector, following
Douglas suggestions.
- Adds %qN format for printing qualified names to Diagnostic.
- Avoids searching for using-directives in Scopes, which are not
DeclScope, during unqualified name lookup.
llvm-svn: 63739
that every declaration lives inside a DeclContext.
Moved several things that don't have names but were ScopedDecls (and,
therefore, NamedDecls) to inherit from Decl rather than NamedDecl,
including ObjCImplementationDecl and LinkageSpecDecl. Now, we don't
store empty DeclarationNames for these things, nor do we try to insert
them into DeclContext's lookup structure.
The serialization tests are temporarily disabled. We'll re-enable them
once we've sorted out the remaining ownership/serialiazation issues
between DeclContexts and TranslationUnion, DeclGroups, etc.
llvm-svn: 62562
DeclContexts whose members are visible from enclosing DeclContexts up
to (and including) the innermost enclosing non-transparent
DeclContexts. Transparent DeclContexts unify the mechanism to be used
for various language features, including C enumerations, anonymous
unions, C++0x inline namespaces, and C++ linkage
specifications. Please refer to the documentation in the Clang
internals manual for more information.
Only enumerations and linkage specifications currently use transparent
DeclContexts.
Still to do: use transparent DeclContexts to implement anonymous
unions and GCC's anonymous structs extension, and, later, the C++0x
features. We also need to tighten up the DeclContext/ScopedDecl link
to ensure that every ScopedDecl is in a single DeclContext, which
will ensure that we can then enforce ownership and reduce the memory
footprint of DeclContext.
llvm-svn: 61735
a new NamedDecl::getAsString() method.
Change uses of Selector::getName() to just pass in a Selector
where possible (e.g. to diagnostics) instead of going through
an std::string.
This also adds new formatters for objcinstance and objcclass
as described in the dox.
llvm-svn: 59933
operator+, directly, using the same mechanism as all other special
names.
Removed the "special" identifiers for the overloaded operators from
the identifier table and IdentifierInfo data structure. IdentifierInfo
is back to representing only real identifiers.
Added a new Action, ActOnOperatorFunctionIdExpr, that builds an
expression from an parsed operator-function-id (e.g., "operator
+"). ActOnIdentifierExpr used to do this job, but
operator-function-ids are no longer represented by IdentifierInfo's.
Extended Declarator to store overloaded operator names.
Sema::GetNameForDeclarator now knows how to turn the operator
name into a DeclarationName for the overloaded operator.
Except for (perhaps) consolidating the functionality of
ActOnIdentifier, ActOnOperatorFunctionIdExpr, and
ActOnConversionFunctionExpr into a common routine that builds an
appropriate DeclRefExpr by looking up a DeclarationName, all of the
work on normalizing declaration names should be complete with this
commit.
llvm-svn: 59526
C++ constructors, destructors, and conversion functions now have a
FETokenInfo field that IdentifierResolver can access, so that these
special names are handled just like ordinary identifiers. A few other
Sema routines now use DeclarationNames instead of IdentifierInfo*'s.
To validate this design, this code also implements parsing and
semantic analysis for id-expressions that name conversion functions,
e.g.,
return operator bool();
The new parser action ActOnConversionFunctionExpr takes the result of
parsing "operator type-id" and turning it into an expression, using
the IdentifierResolver with the DeclarationName of the conversion
function. ActOnDeclarator pushes those conversion function names into
scope so that the IdentifierResolver can find them, of course.
llvm-svn: 59462
representing the names of declarations in the C family of
languages. DeclarationName is used in NamedDecl to store the name of
the declaration (naturally), and ObjCMethodDecl is now a NamedDecl.
llvm-svn: 59441
Chandler Carruth