======================================== Clang 10.0.0 (In-Progress) Release Notes ======================================== .. contents:: :local: :depth: 2 Written by the `LLVM Team `_ .. warning:: These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Clang 10 release. Release notes for previous releases can be found on `the Download Page `_. Introduction ============ This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 10.0.0. Here we describe the status of Clang in some detail, including major improvements from the previous release and new feature work. For the general LLVM release notes, see `the LLVM documentation `_. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the `LLVM releases web site `_. For more information about Clang or LLVM, including information about the latest release, please see the `Clang Web Site `_ or the `LLVM Web Site `_. Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main Clang web page, this document applies to the *next* release, not the current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the `releases page `_. What's New in Clang 10.0.0? =========================== Some of the major new features and improvements to Clang are listed here. Generic improvements to Clang as a whole or to its underlying infrastructure are described first, followed by language-specific sections with improvements to Clang's support for those languages. Major New Features ------------------ - ... Improvements to Clang's diagnostics ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - -Wtautological-overlap-compare will warn on negative numbers and non-int types. - -Wtautological-compare for self comparisons and -Wtautological-overlap-compare will now look through member and array access to determine if two operand expressions are the same. Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release ------------------------------------------------- * In both C and C++ (C17 ``6.5.6p8``, C++ ``[expr.add]``), pointer arithmetic is only permitted within arrays. In particular, the behavior of a program is not defined if it adds a non-zero offset (or in C, any offset) to a null pointer, or if it forms a null pointer by subtracting an integer from a non-null pointer, and the LLVM optimizer now uses those guarantees for transformations. This may lead to unintended behavior in code that performs these operations. The Undefined Behavior Sanitizer ``-fsanitize=pointer-overflow`` check has been extended to detect these cases, so that code relying on them can be detected and fixed. - For X86 target, -march=skylake-avx512, -march=icelake-client, -march=icelake-server, -march=cascadelake, -march=cooperlake will default to not using 512-bit zmm registers in vectorized code unless 512-bit intrinsics are used in the source code. 512-bit operations are known to cause the CPUs to run at a lower frequency which can impact performance. This behavior can be changed by passing -mprefer-vector-width=512 on the command line. New Compiler Flags ------------------ - The -fgnuc-version= flag now controls the value of ``__GNUC__`` and related macros. This flag does not enable or disable any GCC extensions implemented in Clang. Setting the version to zero causes Clang to leave ``__GNUC__`` and other GNU-namespaced macros, such as ``__GXX_WEAK__``, undefined. Deprecated Compiler Flags ------------------------- The following options are deprecated and ignored. They will be removed in future versions of Clang. - -mmpx used to enable the __MPX__ preprocessor define for the Intel MPX instructions. There were no MPX intrinsics. - -mno-mpx used to disable -mmpx and is the default behavior. - ... Modified Compiler Flags ----------------------- - ... New Pragmas in Clang -------------------- - ... Attribute Changes in Clang -------------------------- - ... Windows Support --------------- - Previous Clang versions contained a work-around to avoid an issue with the standard library headers in Visual Studio 2019 versions prior to 16.3. This work-around has now been removed, and users of Visual Studio 2019 are encouraged to upgrade to 16.3 or later, otherwise they may see link errors as below: .. code-block:: console error LNK2005: "bool const std::_Is_integral" (??$_Is_integral@H@std@@3_NB) already defined C Language Changes in Clang --------------------------- - ... C11 Feature Support ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ... C++ Language Changes in Clang ----------------------------- - The behaviour of the `gnu_inline` attribute now matches GCC, for cases where used without the `extern` keyword. As this is a change compared to how it behaved in previous Clang versions, a warning is emitted for this combination. C++1z Feature Support ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ... Objective-C Language Changes in Clang ------------------------------------- - ... OpenCL C Language Changes in Clang ---------------------------------- ... ABI Changes in Clang -------------------- - gcc passes vectors of __int128 in memory on X86-64. Clang historically broke the vectors into multiple scalars using two 64-bit values for each element. Clang now matches the gcc behavior on Linux and NetBSD. You can switch back to old API behavior with flag: -fclang-abi-compat=9.0. OpenMP Support in Clang ----------------------- - ... CUDA Support in Clang --------------------- - ... Internal API Changes -------------------- These are major API changes that have happened since the 9.0.0 release of Clang. If upgrading an external codebase that uses Clang as a library, this section should help get you past the largest hurdles of upgrading. - libTooling APIs that transfer ownership of `FrontendAction` objects now pass them by `unique_ptr`, making the ownership transfer obvious in the type system. `FrontendActionFactory::create()` now returns a `unique_ptr`. `runToolOnCode`, `runToolOnCodeWithArgs`, `ToolInvocation::ToolInvocation()` now take a `unique_ptr`. Build System Changes -------------------- These are major changes to the build system that have happened since the 9.0.0 release of Clang. Users of the build system should adjust accordingly. - In 8.0.0 and below, the install-clang-headers target would install clang's resource directory headers. This installation is now performed by the install-clang-resource-headers target. Users of the old install-clang-headers target should switch to the new install-clang-resource-headers target. The install-clang-headers target now installs clang's API headers (corresponding to its libraries), which is consistent with the install-llvm-headers target. - In 9.0.0 and later Clang added a new target, clang-cpp, which generates a shared library comprised of all the clang component libraries and exporting the clang C++ APIs. Additionally the build system gained the new "CLANG_LINK_CLANG_DYLIB" option, which defaults Off, and when set to On, will force clang (and clang-based tools) to link the clang-cpp library instead of statically linking clang's components. This option will reduce the size of binary distributions at the expense of compiler performance. - ... AST Matchers ------------ - ... clang-format ------------ - The ``Standard`` style option specifies which version of C++ should be used when parsing and formatting C++ code. The set of allowed values has changed: - ``Latest`` will always enable new C++ language features. - ``c++03``, ``c++11``, ``c++14``, ``c++17``, ``c++20`` will pin to exactly that language version. - ``Auto`` is the default and detects style from the code (this is unchanged). The previous values of ``Cpp03`` and ``Cpp11`` are deprecated. Note that ``Cpp11`` is treated as ``Latest``, as this was always clang-format's behavior. (One motivation for this change is the new name describes the behavior better). libclang -------- - ... Static Analyzer --------------- - The Clang analyzer checker ``DeadStores`` gets a new option called ``WarnForDeadNestedAssignments`` to detect nested dead assignments (enabled by default). - ... .. _release-notes-ubsan: Undefined Behavior Sanitizer (UBSan) ------------------------------------ - * The ``pointer-overflow`` check was extended added to catch the cases where a non-zero offset is applied to a null pointer, or the result of applying the offset is a null pointer. .. code-block:: c++ #include // for intptr_t static char *getelementpointer_inbounds(char *base, unsigned long offset) { // Potentially UB. return base + offset; } char *getelementpointer_unsafe(char *base, unsigned long offset) { // Always apply offset. UB if base is ``nullptr`` and ``offset`` is not // zero, or if ``base`` is non-``nullptr`` and ``offset`` is // ``-reinterpret_cast(base)``. return getelementpointer_inbounds(base, offset); } char *getelementpointer_safe(char *base, unsigned long offset) { // Cast pointer to integer, perform usual arithmetic addition, // and cast to pointer. This is legal. char *computed = reinterpret_cast(reinterpret_cast(base) + offset); // If either the pointer becomes non-``nullptr``, or becomes // ``nullptr``, we must use ``computed`` result. if (((base == nullptr) && (computed != nullptr)) || ((base != nullptr) && (computed == nullptr))) return computed; // Else we can use ``getelementpointer_inbounds()``. return getelementpointer_inbounds(base, offset); } Core Analysis Improvements ========================== - ... New Issues Found ================ - ... Python Binding Changes ---------------------- The following methods have been added: - ... Significant Known Problems ========================== Additional Information ====================== A wide variety of additional information is available on the `Clang web page `_. The web page contains versions of the API documentation which are up-to-date with the Subversion version of the source code. You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into the "``clang/docs/``" directory in the Clang tree. If you have any questions or comments about Clang, please feel free to contact us via the `mailing list `_.