LLVM 13.0.0 Release Notes — LLVM 13 documentation (original) (raw)

Introduction
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 13
Additional Information

Introduction ¶

This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 13.0.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the LLVM releases web site.

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Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release ¶

Windows Control-flow Enforcement Technology: the -ehcontguard option now emits valid unwind entrypoints which are validated when the context is being set during exception handling.
Flang is now included in the binary packages released by LLVM.
The debuginfo-test project has been renamed cross-project-tests and is now intended for testing components from multiple projects, not just debug information. The new “cross-project-tests” name replaces “debuginfo-test” in LLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS, and a new check-cross-project-tests target has been added for running all tests in the project. The pre-existing check-debuginfo- test target remains for running just the debug information tests. (D95339 andD96513)

Changes to the LLVM IR ¶

The inalloca attribute now has a mandatory type field, similar to byval and sret.
The opaque pointer type ptr has been introduced. It is still in the process of being worked on and should not be used yet.
Using the legacy pass manager for the optimization pipeline is deprecated and will be removed after LLVM 14. In the meantime, only minimal effort will be made to maintain the legacy pass manager for the optimization pipeline.

Changes to building LLVM ¶

The build system now supports building multiple distributions, so that you can e.g. have one distribution containing just tools and another for libraries (to enable development). See Multi-distribution configurations for details.

Changes to TableGen ¶

Changes to the AArch64 Backend ¶

Introduced assembly support for Armv9-A’s Realm Management Extension (RME) and Scalable Matrix Extension (SME).
Produce proper cross-section relative relocations on COFF
Fixed the calling convention on Windows for variadic functions involving floats in the fixed arguments

Changes to the ARM Backend ¶

Produce proper cross-section relative relocations on COFF

Changes to the MIPS Target ¶

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Changes to the Hexagon Target ¶

The Hexagon target now supports V68/HVX ISA.

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Changes to the X86 Target ¶

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Changes to the AMDGPU Target ¶

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Changes to the WebAssembly Target ¶

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Changes to the OCaml bindings ¶

Changes to the C API ¶

The C API functions LLVMGetAlignment and LLVMSetAlignment now allow changing alignment on atomicrmw and cmpxchg instructions
A new entry LLVMDIArgListMetadataKind was added to theLLVMMetadataKind enum, representing DIArgLists (D88175)
Type attributes have been added to LLVM-C, introducing LLVMCreateTypeAttribute, LLVMGetTypeAttributeValue and LLVMIsTypeAttribute. (D977763’)
The LTO_API_VERSION was bumped to 28, introducing a new functionlto_set_debug_options for parsing LTO debug options (D92611)
LLVMJITTargetSymbolFlags was renamed to LLVMJITSymbolTargetFlags(rG8d718a0bff73af066675a6258c01307937c33cf9)
The C API received support for creating custom ORCv2 MaterializationUnits and APIs to retrieve an LLJIT instance’s linking layers. An ABI breaking change for LLVMOrcAbsoluteSymbols was introduced to make it consistent withLLVMOrcCreateCustomMaterializationUnit. (rGc8fc5e3ba942057d6c4cdcd1faeae69a28e7b671)
The C API received support for adding ORCv2 object buffers directly to an object layer. (rG7b73cd684a8d5fb44d34064200f10e2723085c33)
A breaking change to LLVMGetInlineAsm was introduced, adding a ninth argument LLVMBool CanThrow (D95745)
The C API received support for calling into the new pass manager. (D102136)
The C API function LLVMIntrinsicCopyOverloadedName has been deprecated. Please migrate to LLVMIntrinsicCopyOverloadedName2 which takes an extra module argument and which also handles unnamed types. (D99173)
The C API received support for dumping objects from ORCv2 (rGcec8e69f01c3374cb38c6683058381b96fab8f89)
A breaking change to LLVMOrcObjectTransformLayerTransformFunction was introduced, changing the order of the function pointer’s arguments. (rG8962c68ad007a525f9daa987c99eda57e0d0069a)
The C API received support for accessing utilities from the LLJITIRTransformLayer and ThreadSafeModule classes. (D103855)
The C API received support for creating lazy-export MaterializationUnits (D104672)
The C API function LLVMPassBuilderOptionsSetCoroutines was removed because couroutine passes have been enabled by default. (D105877)
comdat noduplicates was renamed to comdat nodeduplicate and as a result, LLVMNoDuplicatesComdatSelectionKind was renamed toLLVMNoDeduplicateComdatSelectionKind. (D106319)

Changes to the Go bindings ¶

Changes to the FastISel infrastructure ¶

FastISel no longer tracks killed registers, and instead leaves this to the register allocator. This means that hasTrivialKill() is removed, as well as the OpNIsKill parameters to the fastEmit_*() family of functions.

Changes to the DAG infrastructure ¶

Changes to the Debug Info ¶

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Changes to LLDB ¶

LLDB executable is now included in pre-built LLVM binaries.
LLDB now includes full featured support for AArch64 SVE register access.
LLDB now supports AArch64 Pointer Authentication, allowing stack unwind with signed return address.
LLDB now supports debugging programs on AArch64 Linux that use memory tagging (MTE).
Added memory tag read and memory tag write commands.
The memory region command will note when a region has memory tagging enabled.
Synchronous and asynchronous tag faults are recognised.
Synchronous tag faults have memory tag annotations in addition to the usual fault address.

Changes to Sanitizers ¶

Additional Information ¶

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