[llvm-branch-commits] [cfe-branch] r183208 - Update release notes for the 3.3 release.
Bill Wendling
isanbard at gmail.com
Mon Jun 3 23:09:56 PDT 2013
Author: void
Date: Tue Jun 4 01:09:56 2013
New Revision: 183208
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=183208&view=rev
Log:
Update release notes for the 3.3 release.
Modified:
cfe/branches/release_33/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
Modified: cfe/branches/release_33/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/branches/release_33/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?rev=183208&r1=183207&r2=183208&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- cfe/branches/release_33/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst (original)
+++ cfe/branches/release_33/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Tue Jun 4 01:09:56 2013
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-=====================================
-Clang 3.3 (In-Progress) Release Notes
-=====================================
+=======================
+Clang 3.3 Release Notes
+=======================
.. contents::
:local:
@@ -8,41 +8,33 @@ Clang 3.3 (In-Progress) Release Notes
Written by the `LLVM Team <http://llvm.org/>`_
-.. warning::
-
- These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Clang 3.3 release. You may
- prefer the `Clang 3.2 Release Notes
- <http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/docs/ClangReleaseNotes.html>`_.
-
Introduction
============
This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C
frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.3. 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 <http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html>`_. All LLVM
-releases may be downloaded from the `LLVM releases web
-site <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
-
-For more information about Clang or LLVM, including information about
-the latest release, please check out the main please see the `Clang Web
-Site <http://clang.llvm.org>`_ or the `LLVM Web
-Site <http://llvm.org>`_.
-
-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 <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
+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 <http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html>`_. All LLVM
+releases may be downloaded from the `LLVM releases web site
+<http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
+
+For more information about Clang or LLVM, including information about the latest
+release, please check out the main please see the `Clang Web Site
+<http://clang.llvm.org>`_ or the `LLVM Web Site <http://llvm.org>`_.
+
+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 <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
What's New in Clang 3.3?
========================
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.
+infrastructure are described first, followed by language-specific sections with
+improvements to Clang's support for those languages.
Major New Features
------------------
@@ -54,8 +46,6 @@ Clang's diagnostics are constantly being
explain them more clearly, and provide more accurate source information
about them. The improvements since the 3.2 release include:
-- ...
-
Extended Identifiers: Unicode Support and Universal Character Names
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -65,19 +55,9 @@ specified by the active language standar
directly in the source file using the UTF-8 encoding, or referred to using
*universal character names* (``\u00E0``, ``\U000000E0``).
-New Compiler Flags
-------------------
-
-- ...
-
C Language Changes in Clang
---------------------------
-C11 Feature Support
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-...
-
C++ Language Changes in Clang
-----------------------------
@@ -87,16 +67,6 @@ C++ Language Changes in Clang
with the unmangled name is still emitted if it is the only one and has the
``used`` attribute.
-C++11 Feature Support
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-...
-
-Objective-C Language Changes in Clang
--------------------------------------
-
-...
-
Internal API Changes
--------------------
@@ -124,9 +94,16 @@ Storage Class
For each variable and function Clang used to keep the storage class as written
in the source, the linkage and a semantic storage class. This was a bit
redundant and the semantic storage class has been removed. The method
-getStorageClass now returns what is written it the source code for that decl.
+getStorageClass now returns what is written in the source code for that decl.
+
+Wide Character Types
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-...
+The ASTContext class now keeps track of two different types for wide character
+types: WCharTy and WideCharTy. WCharTy represents the built-in wchar_t type
+available in C++. WideCharTy is the type used for wide character literals; in
+C++ it is the same as WCharTy, but in C99, where wchar_t is a typedef, it is an
+integer type.
libclang
--------
@@ -149,36 +126,29 @@ Core Analysis Improvements
==========================
- Support for interprocedural reasoning about constructors and destructors.
-- New false positive suppression mechanisms that reduced the number of false null pointer dereference warnings due to interprocedural analysis.
+- New false positive suppression mechanisms that reduced the number of false
+ null pointer dereference warnings due to interprocedural analysis.
- Major performance enhancements to speed up interprocedural analysis
New Issues Found
================
- New memory error checks such as use-after-free with C++ 'delete'.
-- Detection of mismatched allocators and deallocators (e.g., using 'new' with 'free()', 'malloc()' with 'delete').
+- Detection of mismatched allocators and deallocators (e.g., using 'new' with
+ 'free()', 'malloc()' with 'delete').
- Additional checks for misuses of Apple Foundation framework collection APIs.
-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 <http://clang.llvm.org/>`_. 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 <http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev>`_.
+A wide variety of additional information is available on the `Clang web page
+<http://clang.llvm.org/>`_. 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 <http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev>`_.
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