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Written by the `LLVM Team `_
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These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Clang |version| release.
Release notes for previous releases can be found on
`the Releases Page `_.
Introduction
============
This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C
frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release |release|. 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 `_. For the libc++ release notes,
see `this page `_. 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 `_.
Potentially Breaking Changes
============================
C/C++ Language Potentially Breaking Changes
-------------------------------------------
- Clang now makes it ill-formed to try to ``break`` out of or ``continue`` a loop inside its own condition,
increment, or init-statement in all C and C++ language modes. This means that code such as
.. code-block:: c++
while (({ break; })) {}
is now ill-formed. An outer loop can still be broken out of or continued so long as the inner loop is
in the body of the outer loop:
.. code-block:: c++
// Ok, this breaks out of the 'for' loop.
for (;;) {
while (({ break; true; })) {}
}
// Error: can't break out of the 'for' loop from within its own increment.
for (;;({ while (({ break; true; })) {} })) {}
This also resolves a divergence from GCC: in a construct such as
.. code-block:: c++
for (;;) {
while (({ break; true; })) {}
}
Clang would previously ``break`` out of the ``while`` loop, whereas GCC (since version 9) would
``break`` out of the ``for`` loop here. Now, Clang and GCC both break out of the ``for`` loop.
C++ Specific Potentially Breaking Changes
-----------------------------------------
- Clang now more aggressively optimizes away stores to objects after they are
dead. This behavior can be disabled with ``-fno-lifetime-dse``.
- Clang now correctly rejects ``export`` declarations in module implementation
partitions. (#GH107602)
- Template argument deduction now treats the ``N`` in ``_BitInt(N)``
as being of type ``std::size_t`` instead of ``int``,
matching the deduction of array sizes from ``int(&)[N]``.
This is a breaking change for code that depended on the previously deduced type. (#GH195033)
- Clang now rejects nested local classes defined in a different
block scope than their parent class. (#GH193472)
ABI Changes in This Version
---------------------------
- Fixed incorrect struct layout for ``_BitInt`` bitfields wider than 255 bits
on MSVC targets. Internal bitfield tracking fields were changed from
``unsigned char`` to ``uint64_t`` to prevent overflow. This might be an ABI
break for such structs compared to earlier Clang versions.
- Fixed a number of issues with the ``__regcall`` calling convention for passing
structs on non-Windows x86-64 targets, including a crash when handling empty
struct arguments. This changes how structs that contain arrays, floating point
types, or ``_Complex float`` types are passed, and may introduce
incompatibilities with code compiled by earlier versions of Clang that uses
the ``__regcall`` calling convention on these targets. (#GH62999) (#GH98635)
- Fixed Itanium mangling for lambdas in instantiated non-static data member
initializers by preserving the field-name closure-prefix. This changes the
mangled names for affected lambdas. (#GH190555)
- Clang now uses MSVC-compatible manglings for supported AArch64 SVE builtin
types when targeting the Microsoft ABI. This changes symbol names for
affected declarations compared to previous Clang releases. (#GH196170)
- The resume and destroy functions of C++20 coroutines now use the platform C
calling convention instead of LLVM's internal ``fastcc``. This makes the
coroutine ABI stable across LLVM versions and interoperable with other
compilers. On most targets this is not a breaking change because ``fastcc``
and the platform C calling convention agree for ``void(ptr)``. It is an ABI
break on i686, MIPS O32, PowerPC64 ELFv1, and Lanai.
AST Dumping Potentially Breaking Changes
----------------------------------------
- The JSON AST dump now includes all fields from ``AvailabilityAttr``: ``platform``,
``introduced``, ``deprecated``, ``obsoleted``, ``unavailable``, ``message``,
``strict``, ``replacement``, ``priority``, and ``environment``. Previously, these
fields were missing from the JSON output.
- Colons that appear at the end of a ParamCommentCommand name are not serialized
as part of the name.
Clang Frontend Potentially Breaking Changes
-------------------------------------------
- HIPSPV toolchain: `--offload-targets=spirv{32,64}` option is
deprecated and will be removed when the new offload driver becomes
default. The replacement for the option is
`--offload-targets=spirv{32,64}-unknown-chipstar` when using the new
offload driver (`--offload-new-driver`).
Clang Python Bindings Potentially Breaking Changes
--------------------------------------------------
- Remove ``CompletionString.Availability``. No libclang interfaces returned instances of it.
- ``CompletionString.availability`` now returns instances of ``CompletionString.AvailabilityKindCompat``.
Instances of ``AvailabilityKindCompat`` have the same ``__str__`` representation
as the previous ``CompletionChunk.Kind`` and are equality-comparable with
the existing ``AvailabilityKind`` enum. It will be replaced by ``AvailabilityKind``
in a future release. When this happens, the return type of ``CompletionString.availability``
will change to ``AvailabilityKind``, so it is recommended to use ``AvailabilityKind``
to compare with the return values of ``CompletionString.availability``.
- Remove ``availabilityKinds``. In this release, uses of ``availabilityKinds``
need to be replaced by ``CompletionString.AvailabilityKind``.
- ``CompletionChunk.kind`` now returns instances of ``CompletionChunkKind``.
Instances of ``CompletionChunkKind`` have the same ``__str__`` representation
as the previous ``CompletionChunk.Kind`` for compatibility.
These representations will be changed in a future release to match other enums.
- Remove ``completionChunkKindMap``. In this release, uses of ``completionChunkKindMap``
need to be replaced by ``CompletionChunkKind``.
- Move ``SPELLING_CACHE`` into ``CompletionChunk`` and change it to use
``CompletionChunkKind`` instances as keys, instead of the enum values.
An alias is kept in the form of a ``SPELLING_CACHE`` variable, but it only supports
``__getitem__`` and ``__contains__``. It will be removed in a future release.
Please migrate to using ``CompletionChunk.SPELLING_CACHE`` instead.
- ``SourceLocation`` and ``SourceRange`` now use ``NotImplemented`` to delegate
equality checks (``__eq__``) to the other object they are compared with when
they are of different classes. They previously returned ``False`` when compared
with objects of other classes.
- ``TranslationUnit.get_tokens`` now throws an error if both the ``extent`` and
``locations`` argument are passed. Previousy, ``locations`` took precedence.
- ``_CXUnsavedFile`` will be renamed to ``UnsavedFile`` for consistency.
``UnsavedFile`` is already available to use and existing uses should
be adapted to refer to it instead. ``_CXUnsavedFile`` will be removed in a
future release.
OpenCL Potentially Breaking Changes
-----------------------------------
- Clang now diagnoses zero-length arrays as errors in OpenCL. OpenCL C 3.0
section 6.11.d states that "Variable length arrays and structures with
flexible (or unsized) arrays are not supported."
What's New in Clang |release|?
==============================
C++ Language Changes
--------------------
- ``__is_trivially_equality_comparable`` no longer returns false for all enum types. (#GH132672)
C++2c Feature Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Clang now propagates ``constinit`` and ``constexpr`` in structured bindings with tuple-like initializers.
C++23 Feature Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Partially implement Itanium mangling for pack indexing. Partially substituted packs are not yet supported. (#GH112003)
C++20 Feature Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Clang now supports `P1857R3 `_ Modules Dependency Discovery. (#GH54047)
C++17 Feature Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Resolutions to C++ Defect Reports
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Implemented `CWG1780 Explicit instantiation/specialization of generic lambda
operator() `_
- Clang now allows omitting ``typename`` before a template name in a
conversion operator, implementing `CWG2413 `_.
- Clang now uses non-reference types for structured bindings whose initializer
returns a prvalue. This resolves `CWG3135 `_.
C Language Changes
------------------
C2y Feature Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Implemented the type-specific C2y ```` rotate functions with constexpr
evaluation support:
``stdc_rotate_left_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}`` and
``stdc_rotate_right_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``.
C23 Feature Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Clang now allows C23 ``constexpr`` struct member access through the dot operator in constant expressions. (#GH178349)
Objective-C Language Changes
-----------------------------
- Clang now emits Objective-C number, array, and dictionary literals as
compile-time constant data structures rather than runtime ``objc_msgSend``
calls on targets whose runtime supports constant literal classes. The
feature can be disabled altogether with ``-fno-objc-constant-literals``,
or selectively per literal kind with ``-fno-constant-nsnumber-literals``,
``-fno-constant-nsarray-literals``, and
``-fno-constant-nsdictionary-literals``.
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
-------------------------------------------------
- Added support for floating point and pointer values in most ``__atomic_``
builtins.
- Added ``__builtin_stdc_rotate_left`` and ``__builtin_stdc_rotate_right``
for bit rotation of unsigned integers including ``_BitInt`` types. Rotation
counts are normalized modulo the bit-width and support negative values.
Usable in constant expressions. Implicit conversion is supported for
class/struct types with conversion operators.
- Implemented the following C23 ```` builtins with ``_BitInt``
support and constexpr evaluation:
``__builtin_stdc_leading_zeros``, ``__builtin_stdc_leading_ones``,
``__builtin_stdc_trailing_zeros``, ``__builtin_stdc_trailing_ones``,
``__builtin_stdc_first_leading_zero``, ``__builtin_stdc_first_leading_one``,
``__builtin_stdc_first_trailing_zero``, ``__builtin_stdc_first_trailing_one``,
``__builtin_stdc_count_zeros``, ``__builtin_stdc_count_ones``,
``__builtin_stdc_has_single_bit``, ``__builtin_stdc_bit_width``,
``__builtin_stdc_bit_floor``, and ``__builtin_stdc_bit_ceil``.
- Implemented the type-specific C23 ```` functions with constexpr
evaluation support:
``stdc_leading_zeros_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``,
``stdc_leading_ones_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``,
``stdc_trailing_zeros_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``,
``stdc_trailing_ones_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``,
``stdc_first_leading_zero_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``,
``stdc_first_leading_one_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``,
``stdc_first_trailing_zero_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``,
``stdc_first_trailing_one_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``,
``stdc_count_zeros_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``,
``stdc_count_ones_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``,
``stdc_has_single_bit_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``,
``stdc_bit_width_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``,
``stdc_bit_floor_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``, and
``stdc_bit_ceil_{uc,us,ui,ul,ull}``.
- A new generic bit-reverse builtin function ``__builtin_bitreverseg`` that
extends bit-reversal support to all standard integers type, including
``_BitInt``
- Added ``__builtin_elementwise_clmul`` for carry-less multiplication of
integers including ``_BitInt`` types. This includes constexpr evaluation
support.
- Deprecated float types support from ``__builtin_elementwise_max`` and
``__builtin_elementwise_min``.
- Added header ``endian.h`` which contains byte order helpers specified in POSIX
- Added #pragma loop licm(disable) for llvm.loop.licm.disable metadata
- Added a new ``ExplicitInstantiationDecl`` AST node to represent explicit
template instantiations (e.g., ``template void foo();`` or
``extern template class S;``). Previously, source location information
for explicit instantiation statements was discarded after parsing. The new
node preserves the full source range including the ``extern`` and ``template``
keywords, qualifiers, template arguments as written, and the declared type,
enabling tools such as language servers and refactoring engines to accurately
map source locations back to explicit instantiation sites.
- ``typeid`` on references and pointers of ``final`` types no longer emits a
vtable lookup at runtime.
- Updated support for Unicode from 15.1 to 18.0.
New Compiler Flags
------------------
- New option ``-fms-anonymous-structs`` / ``-fno-ms-anonymous-structs`` added
to enable or disable Microsoft's anonymous struct/union extension without
enabling other ``-fms-extensions`` features (#GH177607).
- New option ``--precompile-reduced-bmi`` allows build system to generate a
reduced BMI only for a C++20 importable module unit. Previously the users
can only generate the reduced BMI as a by-product, e.g, an object files or
a full BMI.
- New ``-cc1`` option ``-fexperimental-overflow-behavior-types`` added to
enable parsing of the experimental ``overflow_behavior`` type attribute and
type specifiers.
- New ``-cl`` option ``/d2guardnochecks`` added to match MSVC. When Windows
Control Flow Guard (CFG) is enabled by other options, it will instruct Clang
to emit the CFG metadata, but disable adding checks.
- New option ``-fdiagnostics-show-inlining-chain`` added to show inlining chain
notes for ``[[gnu::warning]]`` and ``[[gnu::error]]`` diagnostics. When a
function with these attributes is called from an inlined context, Clang can
now show which functions were inlined to reach the call. When debug info is
available (``-gline-directives-only`` (implicitly enabled at ``-g1``) or
higher), accurate source locations are used; otherwise, a heuristic fallback
is used with a note suggesting how to enable debug info for better accuracy.
- New option ``-fwin-cfg-mechanism=`` added to control the mechanism used by
Control Flow Guard on Windows. Accepted values are ``automatic`` (default),
``dispatch``, and ``check``. The ``dispatch`` mechanism uses the dispatch
function to perform indirect call checks and can improve performance, while
``check`` uses the traditional check mechanism.
- New ``-cl`` option ``/d2guardcfgdispatch`` added to match MSVC. This acts as a
shorthand for ``-fwin-cfg-mechanism=dispatch``.
- New ``-cl`` option ``/d2guardcfgdispatch-`` added to match MSVC. This acts as a
shorthand for ``-fwin-cfg-mechanism=check``.
- New option ``-f[no-]strict-bool`` added to control whether Clang can assume
that ``bool`` values loaded from memory cannot have a bit pattern other
than 0 or 1.
Deprecated Compiler Flags
-------------------------
- ``-parallel-jobs=`` has been deprecated. Use ``--offload-jobs=`` instead, which
controls the number of threads used for device offloading tasks during
compilation.
Modified Compiler Flags
-----------------------
- The `-mno-outline` and `-moutline` compiler flags are now allowed on RISC-V and X86, which both support the machine outliner.
- The `-mno-outline` flag will now add the `nooutline` IR attribute, so that
`-mno-outline` and `-moutline` objects can be mixed correctly during LTO.
- Slightly changed hash id generation to get the unique linkage symbols names
by ``-unique-internal-linkage-names`` option. Now it uses a path that
normalized in favor of the target system (same as the preprocessor does
for the file macros) and allows the reproducable IDs on any build system.
Removed Compiler Flags
----------------------
Attribute Changes in Clang
--------------------------
- Added new attribute ``stack_protector_ignore`` to opt specific local variables out of
the analysis which determines if a function should get a stack protector. A function
will still generate a stack protector if other local variables or command line flags
require it.
- Added a new attribute, ``[[clang::no_outline]]`` to suppress outlining from
annotated functions. This uses the LLVM `nooutline` attribute.
- Introduced a new type attribute ``__attribute__((overflow_behavior))`` which
currently accepts either ``wrap`` or ``trap`` as an argument, enabling
type-level control over overflow behavior. There is also an accompanying type
specifier for each behavior kind via `__ob_wrap` and `__ob_trap`.
- Introduced a new function attribute ``__attribute__((__personality__(...)))``
to explicitly specify the personality routine for exception handling. THis is
meant to be a low level tool for language runtime authors to associate a
foreign language personality with a given function. Note that this does not
perform any ABI validation for the personality routine.
- :doc:`ThreadSafetyAnalysis` attributes now correctly handle implicit member
accesses in C, and parameter attributes in C++. This improves diagnostic
precision and fixes false positives.
- The :doc:`ThreadSafetyAnalysis` attributes ``guarded_by`` and
``pt_guarded_by`` now accept multiple capability arguments with refined
access semantics: *writing* requires all listed capabilities to be held
exclusively, while *reading* requires at least one to be held. This is
sound because any writer must hold all capabilities, so holding any one
prevents concurrent writes.
- :doc:`ThreadSafetyAnalysis` attributes like ``acquire_capability``,
``release_capability``, ``requires_capability``, ``locks_excluded``,
``try_acquire_capability``, and ``assert_capability`` can now be applied to
function pointer variables and fields. The analysis checks calls through
annotated function pointers the same way it checks direct function calls.
Only plain function pointers are supported; pointers-to-member functions,
blocks, or wrappers (e.g. ``std::function``) are not yet supported.
- The ``[[clang::unsafe_buffer_usage]]`` attribute is now supported in API
notes. For example:
.. code-block:: yaml
Functions:
- Name: myUnsafeFunction
UnsafeBufferUsage: true
- When using ``-Wunsafe-buffer-usage`` without
``-fsafe-buffer-usage-suggestions``, warnings are now emitted only
once per source file. Pre-compiled code (such as PCH or module
headers) is no longer repeatedly analyzed, as it is analyzed during
its initial compilation. (Traditionally included headers are still
analyzed within each translation unit that includes them). This
behavior matches most of other ``-W`` diagnostics.
When ``-fsafe-buffer-usage-suggestions`` is enabled, the behavior
remains the same as before: pre-compiled code is deserialized and
analyzed alongside the translation unit that uses it, because fix-it
suggestion analysis requires full visibility of the translation
unit.
- Added support for ``[[msvc::forceinline]]`` for functions and
``[[msvc::forceinline_calls]]`` for statements. Both are aliases to
``[[clang::always_inline]]`` with additional checks to ensure that they
are only accepted in places where MSVC also does.
- The AMDGPU ``amdgpu_num_sgpr`` and ``amdgpu_num_vgpr`` attributes are now
deprecated. Clang emits a ``-Wdeprecated-declarations`` warning when they
are used. Use ``amdgpu_waves_per_eu`` instead to control SGPR and VGPR
usage.
- Clang now allows GNU attributes between a member declarator and bit-field width. (#GH184954)
- The ``[[clang::noescape]]`` attribute now disallows deallocating memory
through the annotated parameter. This information is currently not exposed to
LLVM for optimization purposes, to prevent breaking existing adopters. It may
instead be used by warnings and static analyses to provide more information
about pointer lifetimes. It may be used to power optimizations in the future,
however there are no concrete plans to do so at the moment.
Improvements to Clang's diagnostics
-----------------------------------
- Fixed bug in ``-Wdocumentation`` so that it correctly handles explicit
function template instantiations (#64087).
- Fixed concept template parameters not being recognized in ``-Wdocumentation``
when mentioned in tparam comments. (#GH64087)
- ``-Wunused-but-set-variable`` now diagnoses file-scope variables with
internal linkage (``static`` storage class) that are assigned but never used.
This new coverage is added under the subgroup ``-Wunused-but-set-global``,
allowing it to be disabled independently with ``-Wno-unused-but-set-global``.
(#GH148361)
- Added ``-Wlifetime-safety`` to enable lifetime safety analysis,
a CFG-based intra-procedural analysis that detects use-after-free and related
temporal safety bugs. See the
`RFC `_
for more details. By design, this warning is enabled in ``-Weverything``. To disable
the analysis, use ``-Wno-lifetime-safety`` or ``-fno-lifetime-safety``.
- Added ``-Wlifetime-safety-suggestions`` to enable lifetime annotation suggestions.
This provides suggestions for function parameters that
should be marked ``[[clang::lifetimebound]]`` based on lifetime analysis. For
example, for the following function:
.. code-block:: c++
int* p(int *in) { return in; }
Clang will suggest:
.. code-block:: c++
warning: parameter in intra-TU function should be marked [[clang::lifetimebound]]
int* p(int *in) { return in; }
^~~~~~~
[[clang::lifetimebound]]
note: param returned here
int* p(int *in) { return in; }
^~
- Added ``-Wlifetime-safety-noescape`` to detect misuse of ``[[clang::noescape]]``
annotation where the parameter escapes through return. For example:
.. code-block:: c++
int* p(int *in [[clang::noescape]]) { return in; }
Clang will warn:
.. code-block:: c++
warning: parameter is marked [[clang::noescape]] but escapes
int* p(int *in [[clang::noescape]]) { return in; }
^~~~~~~
note: returned here
int* p(int *in [[clang::noescape]]) { return in; }
^~
- Added ``-Wlifetime-safety-dangling-field`` to detect dangling field references
when stack memory escapes to class fields. This is part of ``-Wlifetime-safety``
and detects cases where local variables or parameters are stored in fields but
outlive their scope. For example:
.. code-block:: c++
struct DanglingView {
std::string_view view;
DanglingView(std::string s) : view(s) {} // warning: address of stack memory escapes to a field
};
- Improved ``-Wassign-enum`` performance by caching enum enumerator values. (#GH176454)
- Fixed a false negative in ``-Warray-bounds`` where the warning was suppressed
when accessing a member function on a past-the-end array element.
(#GH179128)
- Added a missing space to the FixIt for the ``implicit-int`` group of diagnostics and
made sure that only one such diagnostic and FixIt is emitted per declaration group. (#GH179354)
- Fixed the Fix-It insertion point for ``expected ';' after alias declaration``
when parsing alias declarations involving a token-split ``>>`` sequence
(for example, ``using A = X>;``). (#GH184425)
- Fixed incorrect ``implicitly deleted`` diagnostic for explicitly deleted
candidate function. (#GH185693)
- The ``-Wloop-analysis`` warning has been extended to catch more cases of
variable modification inside lambda expressions (#GH132038).
- Clang now emits ``-Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess`` when snprintf/vsnprintf use the sizeof
the destination buffer(dynamically allocated) in the len parameter(#GH162366)
- Added ``-Wmodule-map-path-outside-directory`` (off by default) to warn on
header and umbrella directory paths that use ``..`` to refer outside the module
directory in module maps found via implicit search
(``-fimplicit-module-maps``). This does not affect module maps specified
explicitly via ``-fmodule-map-file=``.
- Honour ``[[maybe_unused]]`` attribute on private fields.
``-Wunused-private-field`` no longer emits a warning for annotated private
fields.
- Improved ``-Wgnu-zero-variadic-macro-arguments`` to suggest using
``__VA_OPT__`` if the current language version supports it(#GH188624)
- Clang now emits an error when implicitly casting a complex type to a built-in vector type. (#GH186805)
- Added ``-Wnonportable-include-path-separator`` (off by default) to catch
#include directives that use backslashes as a path separator. The warning
includes a FixIt to change all the backslashes to forward slashes, so that the
code can automatically be made portable to other host platforms that don't
support backslashes.
- Clang now explains why template deduction fails for explicit template arguments.
- No longer emitting a ``-Wpre-c2y-compat`` or extension diagnostic about use
of octal literals with a ``0o`` prefix, and no longer emitting a
``-Wdeprecated-octal-literals`` diagnostic for use of octal literals without
a ``0o`` prefix, when the literal is expanded from a macro defined in a
system header. (#GH192389)
- Improved error recovery for missing semicolons after class members. Clang now avoids
skipping subsequent valid declarations when their previous decl is missing semicolon.
- Removed the body of lambdas from some diagnostic messages.
- Fixed false positive host-device mismatch errors in discarded `if constexpr` branches for CUDA/HIP;
such calls are now correctly skipped.
- Clang now errors when a function declaration aliases a variable or vice versa. (#GH195550)
- Added ``-Wattribute-alias`` to diagnose type mismatches between an alias and its aliased function. (#GH195550)
- The diagnostics around ``__block`` now explain why a variable cannot be marked ``__block``. (#GH197213)
- Extended ``-Wnonportable-include-path`` to warn about trailing whitespace and dots in ``#include`` paths. (#GH190610)
- Clang now emits error when attribute is missing closing ``]]`` followed by ``;;``. (#GH187223)
- Clang now rejects inline asm constraints and clobbers that contain an
embedded null character, instead of silently truncating them. (#GH173900)
Improvements to Clang's time-trace
----------------------------------
Improvements to Coverage Mapping
--------------------------------
- [MC/DC] Nested expressions are handled as individual MC/DC expressions.
- "Single byte coverage" now supports branch coverage and can be used
together with ``-fcoverage-mcdc``.
- Consteval member functions are no longer emitted in coverage mappings,
matching the existing behavior for free consteval functions. (#GH164448)
Bug Fixes in This Version
-------------------------
- Fixed atomic boolean compound assignment; the conversion back to atomic bool would be miscompiled. (#GH33210)
- Correctly handle default template argument when establishing subsumption. (#GH188640)
- Fixed a failed assertion in the preprocessor when ``__has_embed`` parameters are missing parentheses. (#GH175088)
- Fix lifetime extension of temporaries in for-range-initializers in templates. (#GH165182)
- Fixed a preprocessor crash in ``__has_cpp_attribute`` on incomplete scoped attributes. (#GH178098)
- Fixes an assertion failure when evaluating ``__underlying_type`` on enum redeclarations. (#GH177943)
- Fixed an assertion failure caused by nested macro expansion during header-name lexing (``__has_embed(__has_include)``). (#GH178635)
- Clang now outputs relative paths of embeds for dependency output. (#GH161950)
- Fix the result type of a binary operation where both operands are 'void' l-values. (#GH111300)
- Fixed an assertion failure when evaluating ``_Countof`` on invalid ``void``-typed operands. (#GH180893)
- Fixed an assertion failure in the serialized diagnostic printer when it is destroyed without calling ``finish()``. (#GH140433)
- Fixed an assertion failure caused by error recovery while extending a nested name specifier with results from ordinary lookup. (#GH181470)
- Fixed a crash when parsing ``#pragma clang attribute`` arguments for attributes that forbid arguments. (#GH182122)
- Fixed a bug in how Clang re-transforms expressions produced from substititions
from type aliases and concept specializations. (#GH191738) (#GH196375)
- Fixed a bug with multiple-include optimization (MIOpt) state not being preserved in some cases during lexing, which could suppress header-guard mismatch diagnostics and interfere with include-guard optimization. (#GH180155)
- Fixed a crash when normalizing constraints involving concept template parameters whose index coincided with non-concept template parameters in the same parameter mapping.
- Fixed a crash caused by accessing dependent diagnostics of a non-dependent context.
- Fixed a crash when substituting into a non-type template parameter that has a type containing an undeduced placeholder type.
- Fixed several crashes and improved diagnostics when a multidimensional subscript operator is applied to a built-in type. (#GH187800)
- Correctly diagnosing and no longer crashing when ``export module foo``
(without a semicolon) are the final tokens in a module file. (#GH187771)
- Fixed a crash in duplicate attribute checking caused by comparing constant arguments with different integer signedness. (#GH188259)
- Clang now emits an error when returning an initializer list from a lambda
with an explicit return type of void. The diagnostic now correctly refers
to "lambda" instead of "block". (#GH188661)
- Fixed a crash on _BitInt(N) arrays where 129 ≤ N ≤ 192 due to incorrect array filler lowering. (#GH189643)
- Fixed the behavior in C23 of ``auto``, by emitting an error when an array type is specified for a ``char *``. (#GH162694)
- Fixed an issue where an assert was thrown instead of an error if no vulkan env was specified with ``--triple spirv``. (#GH189964)
- Fixed incorrect rejection of ``auto`` with reordered declaration specifiers in C23. (#GH164121)
- Fixed a bug where Clang fails to find instantiation of Decls in constraint checking. (#GH173086)
- Fixed a crash when assigning to an element of an ``ext_vector_type`` with ``bool`` element type. (#GH189260)
- Fixed a crash caused by declaring multiple ``ownership_returns`` attributes with mismatched or missing arguments. (#GH188733)
- Clang now emits an error for friend declarations of lambda members. (#GH26540)
- Fixed a crash caused by lambda capture handling in delayed default arguments. (#GH176534)
- Fixed a crash when parsing invalid ``static_assert`` declarations with string-literal messages (#GH187690).
- Fixed a potential stack-use-after-return issue in Clang when copy-initializing
an array via an element-at-a-time copy loop (#GH192026)
- Fixed an issue where certain designated initializers would be rejected for constexpr variables. (#GH193373)
- Fixed a crash when ``#embed`` is used with C++ modules (#GH195350)
- Fixed an issue where ``__typeof_unqual`` and ``__typeof_unqual__`` were rejected as a declaration specifier in block scope in C++.
- Fixed crash when checking for overflow for unary operator that can't overflow (#GH170072)
Bug Fixes to Compiler Builtins
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a crash when passing an unresolved overload set to ``__builtin_classify_type``. (#GH175589)
- Fixed a crash when calling `__builtin_allow_sanitize_check` with no arguments. (#GH183927)
- ``__annotation`` is now diagnosed as unsupported on non-Windows/UEFI targets, fixing a
crash when using it with ``-fms-extensions`` on other platforms. (#GH184318)
- Fixed a compiler crash due to an unresolved overloaded function type when
calling ``__builtin_bit_cast``. (#GH200112)
Bug Fixes to Attribute Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a behavioral discrepancy between deleted functions and private members when checking the ``enable_if`` attribute. (#GH175895)
- Fixed ``init_priority`` attribute by delaying type checks until after the type is deduced.
Bug Fixes to C++ Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a preprocessor assertion failure triggered when parsing an invalid template-id starting with ``::template operator``. (#GH186582)
- Fixed a crash when a function template is defined as a non-template friend with a global scope qualifier. (#GH185341)
- Clang now rejects constant template parameters with block pointer types, since these are not implemented anyway and would lead to crashes. (#GH189247)
- Fixed a crash on error recovery when dealing with invalid templates. (#GH183075)
- Fixed a crash when instantiating ``requires`` expressions involving substitution failures in C++ concepts. (#GH176402)
- Concepts appearing in the require-clause of a member function no longer have access to non-public members of that class,
or to a current class object. (#GH115838) (#GH194803) (#GH197067)
- We no longer caches invalid variable specializations. (#GH132592)
- Fixed an incorrect template argument deduction when matching packs of template
template parameters when one of its parameters is also a pack. (#GH181166)
- Clang no longer errors on overloads with different ref-qualifiers and constraints. (#GH120812)
- Fixed a crash when a default argument is passed to an explicit object parameter. (#GH176639)
- Fixed an alias template CTAD crash.
- Correctly diagnose uses of ``co_await`` / ``co_yield`` in the default argument of nested function declarations. (#GH98923)
- Fixed a crash when diagnosing an invalid static member function with an explicit object parameter (#GH177741)
- Clang incorrectly instantiated variable specializations outside of the immediate context. (#GH54439)
- Fixed a crash when pack expansions are used as arguments for non-pack parameters of built-in templates. (#GH180307)
- Fixed crash instantiating class member specializations.
- Fix a problem where a substitution failure when evaluating a type requirement
could directly make the program ill-formed.
- Fix a problem where pack index expressions where incorrectly being regarded as equivalent.
- Fixed a bug where captured variables in non-mutable lambdas were incorrectly treated as mutable
when used inside decltype in the return type. (#GH180460)
- Fixed a crash when evaluating uninitialized GCC vector/ext_vector_type vectors in ``constexpr``. (#GH180044)
- Fixed a crash when `explicit(bool)` is used with an incomplete enumeration. (#GH183887)
- Fixed a crash on ``typeid`` of incomplete local types during template instantiation. (#GH63242), (#GH176397)
- Fixed spurious diagnostics produced when checking if constraints are equivalent for redeclarations,
which could make the program mistakenly ill-formed.
- Fixed a crash when an immediate-invoked ``consteval`` lambda is used as an invalid initializer. (#GH185270)
- Fixed an assertion failure when using a global destructor with a target with a non-default program address space. (#GH186484)
- Fixed a crash when instantiating an invalid out-of-line static data member definition in a local class. (#GH176152)
- Inherited constructors in ``dllexport`` classes are now exported for ABI-compatible cases, matching
MSVC behavior. Constructors with variadic arguments or callee-cleanup parameters are not yet supported
and produce a warning. (#GH162640)
- Correctly diagnose invalid non-dependent calls in dependent contexts. (#GH135694)
- Fix initialization of GRO when GRO-return type mismatches, as part of CWG2563. (#GH98744)
- Fix an error using an initializer list with array new for a type that is not default-constructible. (#GH81157)
- We no longer consider conversion operators when copy-initializing from the same type. This was non
conforming and could lead to recursive constraint satisfaction checking. (#GH149443)
- Fixed a crash in Itanium C++ name mangling for a lambda in a local class field initializer inside a constructor/destructor. (#GH176395)
- Fixed crashes in Itanium C++ name mangling for lambdas with trailing requires-clauses involving requires-expressions. (#GH100774) (#GH123854)
- Fixed an invalid rejection and assertion failure while generating ``operator=`` for fields with the ``__restrict`` qualifier. (#GH37979)
- Fixed a use-after-free bug when parsing default arguments containing lambdas in declarations with template-id declarators. (#GH196725)
- Fixed a crash in constant evaluation using placement new on an array which was later initialized. (#GH196450)
- Fixed an issue where Clang incorrectly accepted invalid unqualified uses of local nested class names outside their declaring scope. (#GH184622)
Bug Fixes to AST Handling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where explicit nullability property attributes were not stored in AST nodes in Objective-C. (#GH179703)
- Fixed a bug where alias CTAD, or an invalid template template parameter, could create a template with an empty template
parameter list. This also adds asserts to prevent this from happening again.
- Fixed a crash when parsing Doxygen ``@param`` commands attached to invalid declarations or non-function entities. (#GH182737)
- Fixed the SourceLocation and SourceRange of reversed rewritten CXXOperatorCallExpr. (#GH192467)
- Fixed a assertion when ``__block`` is used on global variables in C mode. (#GH183974)
- Added missing AST nodes representing the ``decltype`` specifiers in destructor call to AST.
Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a crash whith the AST text dumper, when dumping a reference to a
decomposition with no bindinds. (#GH198842)
- Fixed the arguments of the format attribute on ``__builtin_os_log_format``. Previously, they were off by 1.
Miscellaneous Clang Crashes Fixed
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a crash when attempting to jump over initialization of a variable with variably modified type. (#GH175540)
- Fixed a crash when using loop hint with a value dependent argument inside a
generic lambda. (#GH172289)
- Fixed a crash in C++ overload resolution with ``_Atomic``-qualified argument types. (#GH170433)
- Fixed a crash related to missing source locations (#GH186655)
- Fixed a crash when casting a parenthesized unresolved template-id or array section. (#GH183505)
- Fixed a crash when initializing a ``constexpr`` pointer with a floating-point literal in C23. (#GH180313)
- Fixed a lack of diagnostic for substitution failures in base classes when using `std::void_t`-like types.
- Fixed a crash when emitting debug info for base classes with instantiation-dependent-only types (#GH193932)
- Fixed an assertion when diagnosing address-space qualified ``new``/``delete`` in language-defined address spaces such as OpenCL ``__local``. (#GH178319)
- Fixed an assertion failure in ObjC++ ARC when binding a rvalue reference to reference with different lifetimes (#GH178524)
- Fixed a crash when subscripting a vector type with large unsigned integer values. (#GH180563)
- Fixed a crash when attempting to diagnose incompatible conversions involving function types (#GH182534)
- Fixed a crash when evaluating ``__is_bitwise_cloneable`` on invalid record types. (#GH183707)
- Fixed an assertion failure when casting a function pointer with a target with a non-default program address space. (#GH186210)
- Fixed a crash when ``decltype(__builtin_FUNCTION())`` is used as a template type argument. (#GH167433)
- Fixed an assertion failure when parsing an invalid ``decltype`` specifier with missing parentheses or extra semicolons. (#GH188014)
- Fixed a crash when explicitly casting a complex type to or from an atomic complex type. (#GH172208)
- Fixed a crash when explicitly casting a scalar to an atomic complex. (#GH114885)
- Fixed an assertion failure when parsing an invalid out-of-line enum definition with template parameters. (#GH187909)
- Fixed an assertion failure on invalid template template parameter during typo correction. (#GH183983)
- Fixed an assertion failure in ``isAtEndOfMacroExpansion`` on macro expansions crossing the boundary of two fileIDs. (#GH115007), (#GH21755)
- Fixed an assertion failure when ``__builtin_dump_struct`` is used with an
immediate-escalated callable. (#GH192846)
OpenACC Specific Changes
------------------------
Target Specific Changes
-----------------------
AMDGPU Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Bump the default code object version to 6. ROCm 6.3 is required to run any program compiled with COV6.
- Introduced a new target specific builtin ``__builtin_amdgcn_processor_is``,
a late / deferred query for the current target processor
- Introduced a new target specific builtin ``__builtin_amdgcn_is_invocable``,
which enables fine-grained, per-builtin, feature availability
- Initial support for gfx1310
- The ``amdgpu_num_sgpr`` and ``amdgpu_num_vgpr`` function attributes are now
deprecated. Using them produces a ``-Wdeprecated-declarations`` warning. Use
``amdgpu_waves_per_eu`` instead.
NVPTX Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
X86 Support
^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``march=znver6`` is now supported.
Arm and AArch64 Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Android Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Windows Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Clang now defines the ``_MSVC_TRADITIONAL`` macro as ``1`` when emulating MSVC
19.15 (Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8) and later. (#GH47114)
- ``-fmacro-prefix-map=`` (``-ffile-prefix-map=``) now affects an anonymous namespace hash generation
for the MSVC targets and allows deterministic symbol mangling for reproducible builds.
LoongArch Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- DWARF fission is now compatible with linker relaxations, allowing `-gsplit-dwarf` and `-mrelax`
to be used together when building for the LoongArch platform.
RISC-V Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Tenstorrent Ascalon D8 was renamed to Ascalon X. Use `tt-ascalon-x` with `-mcpu` or `-mtune`.
- Intrinsics were added for the 'Zvabd` (RISC-V Integer Vector Absolute Difference) extension.
- Intrinsics were added for the 'Zvzip` (Reordering Structured Data in Vector Registers) extension.
CUDA/HIP Language Changes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
CUDA Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where host-device ambiguities in CUDA/HIP when retrieving the
address of specializations of templated functions that have overloads for both
host and device. (#GH199299)
AIX Support
^^^^^^^^^^^
- The driver default for the linker flag `-bcdtors` now defaults to `mbr`
(instead of `all`) which only extracts static init from archive members which
would otherwise be referenced.
(See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2.0?topic=l-ld-command for details).
- The driver now uses ``-lcompiler_rt`` instead of ``-latomic``, and the compiler-rt
archive has been renamed from ``libatomic.a`` to ``libcompiler_rt.a`` to avoid conflicts
between the LLVM libatomic and the GNU libatomic from the AIX toolbox as they share
the same library name.
NetBSD Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
WebAssembly Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a crash when ``__funcref`` is applied to a non-function pointer type.
(#GH118233)
AVR Support
^^^^^^^^^^^
SystemZ Support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add support for `#pragma export` for z/OS. This is a pragma used to export functions and variables
with external linkage from shared libraries. It provides compatibility with the IBM XL C/C++
compiler.
DWARF Support in Clang
----------------------
Floating Point Support in Clang
-------------------------------
Fixed Point Support in Clang
----------------------------
AST Matchers
------------
- Add ``functionTypeLoc`` matcher for matching ``FunctionTypeLoc``.
- Add missing support for ``TraversalKind`` in some ``addMatcher()`` overloads.
clang-format
------------
- Add ``ObjCSpaceAfterMethodDeclarationPrefix`` option to control space between the
'-'/'+' and the return type in Objective-C method declarations
- Deprecate the ``BinPackParameters`` and ``BinPackArguments`` options and replace
them with the ``PackParameters`` and ``PackArguments`` structs (respectively) to
unify packing behavior. Add the ``BreakAfter`` option to the structs, allowing
parameter and argument lists to be formatted with one parameter/argument on each
line if they exceed the specified count.
- Add ``AfterComma`` value to ``BreakConstructorInitializers`` to allow breaking
constructor initializers after commas, keeping the colon on the same line.
- Extend ``BreakBinaryOperations`` to accept a structured configuration with
per-operator break rules and minimum chain length gating via ``PerOperator``.
- Add ``AllowShortRecordOnASingleLine`` option and set it to ``EmptyAndAttached`` for LLVM style.
- Add ``BreakFunctionDeclarationParameters`` option to always break before function
declaration parameters.
- Add ``EnumAssignments`` option to ``AlignConsecutiveAssignments`` for aligning
enum assignments without affecting other assignments.
- Add ``BreakBeforeReturnType`` option to break before the function return
type.
libclang
--------
- Visit constraints of `auto` type to properly visit concept usages (#GH166580)
- Visit switch initializer statements (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415537#c2)
- Fix crash in clang_getBinaryOperatorKindSpelling and clang_getUnaryOperatorKindSpelling
- The clang_Module_getASTFile API is deprecated and now always returns nullptr
- The clang_Cursor_getCommentRange API will now return a comment range for macro definitions that have documentation comments.
Code Completion
---------------
- Fixed a crash in code completion when using a C-Style cast with a parenthesized
operand in Objective-C++ mode. (#GH180125)
Static Analyzer
---------------
Crash and bug fixes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``security.VAList`` checker producing false positives when analyzing
C23 code where ``va_start`` expands to ``__builtin_c23_va_start``.
.. comment:
This is for the Static Analyzer.
Using the caret `^^^` underlining for subsections:
- Crash and bug fixes
- New checkers and features
- Improvements
- Moved checkers
.. _release-notes-sanitizers:
Sanitizers
----------
- UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer now supports ``__ubsan_default_suppressions``.
Python Binding Changes
----------------------
- Add deprecation warnings to ``CompletionChunk.isKind...`` methods.
These will be removed in a future release. Existing uses should be adapted
to directly compare equality of the ``CompletionChunk`` kind with
the corresponding ``CompletionChunkKind`` variant.
Affected methods: ``isKindOptional``, ``isKindTypedText``, ``isKindPlaceHolder``,
``isKindInformative`` and ``isKindResultType``.
- Add a deprecation warning to ``CodeCompletionResults.results``.
This property will become an implementation detail with changed behavior in a
future release and should not be used directly.. Existing uses of
``CodeCompletionResults.results`` should be changed to directly use
``CodeCompletionResults``: it nows supports ``__len__`` and ``__getitem__``,
so it can be used the same as ``CodeCompletionResults.results``.
- Added a new helper method ``get_clang_version`` to the class ``Config`` to
read the version string of the libclang in use.
OpenMP Support
--------------
- Added support for ``transparent`` clause in task and taskloop directives.
- Added support for ``use_device_ptr`` clause to accept an optional
``fallback`` modifier (``fb_nullify`` or ``fb_preserve``) with OpenMP >= 61.
- Added support for ``local`` clause with declare_target directive when
OpenMP >= 60.
SYCL Support
------------
- Clang now assumes default target for SYCL device compilation is 64-bit SPIR-V
and it now diagnoses if a non-supporting target is specified via command line.
(#GH167358)
Improvements
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Improved substitution performance in concept checking. (#GH172266)
- Clang now preserves the left-hand side of a binary expression (such as an
assignment or comparison) in a ``RecoveryExpr`` when the right-hand side fails
to parse. This improves IDE features like go-to-definition in ``clangd``.
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======================
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