Clang 4.0.0 (In-Progress) Release Notes¶

Written by the LLVM Team

Warning

These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Clang 4.0.0 release. You may prefer the Clang 3.9 Release Notes.

Introduction ¶

This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 4.0.0. 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.

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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 4.0.0?¶

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¶

New Compiler Flags ¶

The option -Og has been added to optimize the debugging experience. For now, this option is exactly the same as -O1. However, in the future, some other optimizations might be enabled or disabled.

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New Pragmas in Clang ¶

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Attribute Changes in Clang ¶

Windows Support ¶

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C Language Changes in Clang ¶

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C11 Feature Support¶

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C++ Language Changes in Clang ¶

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C++1z Feature Support¶

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Objective-C Language Changes in Clang ¶

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OpenCL C Language Changes in Clang ¶

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OpenMP Support in Clang ¶

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Internal API Changes ¶

These are major API changes that have happened since the 3.9 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.

AST Matchers ¶

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libclang ¶

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With the option –show-description, scan-build’s list of defects will also show the description of the defects.

Static Analyzer ¶

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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.

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