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Clang 3.8 (In-Progress) Release Notes
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=====================================
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Written by the `LLVM Team <http://llvm.org/>`_
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.. warning::
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These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Clang 3.8 release. You may
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prefer the `Clang 3.7 Release Notes
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<http://llvm.org/releases/3.7.0/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html>`_.
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Introduction
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============
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This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C
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frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.8. Here we
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describe the status of Clang in some detail, including major
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improvements from the previous release and new feature work. For the
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general LLVM release notes, see `the LLVM
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documentation <http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html>`_. All LLVM
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releases may be downloaded from the `LLVM releases web
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site <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
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For more information about Clang or LLVM, including information about
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the latest release, please check out the main please see the `Clang Web
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Site <http://clang.llvm.org>`_ or the `LLVM Web
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Site <http://llvm.org>`_.
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Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the
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main Clang web page, this document applies to the *next* release, not
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the current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please
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see the `releases page <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
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What's New in Clang 3.8?
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========================
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Some of the major new features and improvements to Clang are listed
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here. Generic improvements to Clang as a whole or to its underlying
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infrastructure are described first, followed by language-specific
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sections with improvements to Clang's support for those languages.
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Major New Features
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- Feature1...
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Improvements to Clang's diagnostics
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Clang's diagnostics are constantly being improved to catch more issues,
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explain them more clearly, and provide more accurate source information
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about them. The improvements since the 3.7 release include:
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- ...
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New Compiler Flags
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The option ....
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New Pragmas in Clang
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Clang now supports the ...
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Windows Support
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Clang's support for building native Windows programs ...
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C Language Changes in Clang
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C11 Feature Support
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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C++ Language Changes in Clang
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- ...
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C++11 Feature Support
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Objective-C Language Changes in Clang
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OpenCL C Language Changes in Clang
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Internal API Changes
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These are major API changes that have happened since the 3.7 release of
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Clang. If upgrading an external codebase that uses Clang as a library,
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this section should help get you past the largest hurdles of upgrading.
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AST Matchers
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The AST matcher functions were renamed to reflect the exact AST node names,
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which is a breaking change to AST matching code. The following matchers were
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affected:
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Previous Matcher Name New Matcher Name
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recordDecl recordDecl and cxxRecordDecl
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ctorInitializer cxxCtorInitializer
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constructorDecl cxxConstructorDecl
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destructorDecl cxxDestructorDecl
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methodDecl cxxMethodDecl
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conversionDecl cxxConversionDecl
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memberCallExpr cxxMemberCallExpr
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constructExpr cxxConstructExpr
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unresolvedConstructExpr cxxUnresolvedConstructExpr
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thisExpr cxxThisExpr
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bindTemporaryExpr cxxBindTemporaryExpr
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newExpr cxxNewExpr
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deleteExpr cxxDeleteExpr
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defaultArgExpr cxxDefaultArgExpr
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operatorCallExpr cxxOperatorCallExpr
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forRangeStmt cxxForRangeStmt
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catchStmt cxxCatchStmt
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tryStmt cxxTryStmt
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throwExpr cxxThrowExpr
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boolLiteral cxxBoolLiteral
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nullPtrLiteralExpr cxxNullPtrLiteralExpr
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reinterpretCastExpr cxxReinterpretCastExpr
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staticCastExpr cxxStaticCastExpr
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dynamicCastExpr cxxDynamicCastExpr
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constCastExpr cxxConstCastExpr
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functionalCastExpr cxxFunctionalCastExpr
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temporaryObjectExpr cxxTemporaryObjectExpr
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CUDAKernalCallExpr cudaKernelCallExpr
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======================= ============================
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recordDecl() previously matched AST nodes of type CXXRecordDecl, but now
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matches AST nodes of type RecordDecl. If a CXXRecordDecl is required, use the
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cxxRecordDecl() matcher instead.
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libclang
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Static Analyzer
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Core Analysis Improvements
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New Issues Found
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Python Binding Changes
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The following methods have been added:
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Significant Known Problems
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==========================
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Additional Information
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======================
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A wide variety of additional information is available on the `Clang web
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page <http://clang.llvm.org/>`_. The web page contains versions of the
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API documentation which are up-to-date with the Subversion version of
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the source code. You can access versions of these documents specific to
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this release by going into the "``clang/docs/``" directory in the Clang
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tree.
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If you have any questions or comments about Clang, please feel free to
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contact us via the `mailing
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list <http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev>`_.
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