Clang 15 |ReleaseNotesTitle|¶
- Introduction
- Potentially Breaking Changes
- What’s New in Clang 15?
- C++ Language Changes
- C Language Changes
- Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
- New Compiler Flags
- Deprecated Compiler Flags
- Modified Compiler Flags
- Removed Compiler Flags
- Attribute Changes in Clang
- Improvements to Clang’s diagnostics
- Bug Fixes in This Version
- Target Specific Changes
- DWARF Support in Clang
- Floating Point Support in Clang
- AST Matchers
- clang-format
- libclang
- Static Analyzer
- Sanitizers
- Python Binding Changes
- Additional Information
Written by the LLVM Team
Introduction¶
This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 15. 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¶
These changes are ones which we think may surprise users when upgrading to Clang 15 because of the opportunity they pose for disruption to existing code bases.
What’s New in Clang 15?¶
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.
C++ Language Changes¶
C++20 Feature Support¶
C++23 Feature Support¶
C++2c Feature Support¶
Resolutions to C++ Defect Reports¶
C Language Changes¶
C2x Feature Support¶
Bug Fixes in This Version¶
- Fixed an issue where a class template specialization whose declaration is instantiated in one module and whose definition is instantiated in another module may end up with members associated with the wrong declaration of the class, which can result in miscompiles in some cases.
Bug Fixes to Compiler Builtins¶
Bug Fixes to Attribute Support¶
Bug Fixes to C++ Support¶
- Clang limits the size of arrays it will try to evaluate at compile time to avoid memory exhaustion. This limit can be modified by -fconstexpr-steps. (#63562)
- Fix a crash caused by some named unicode escape sequences designating
a Unicode character whose name contains a
-
. (Fixes #64161 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/64161>_) - Fix cases where we ignore ambiguous name lookup when looking up memebers. (#22413 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/22413>_), (#29942 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/29942>_), (#35574 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/35574>_) and (#27224 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/27224>_).
Bug Fixes to AST Handling¶
Miscellaneous Bug Fixes¶
Miscellaneous Clang Crashes Fixed¶
Target Specific Changes¶
AMDGPU Support¶
X86 Support¶
Arm and AArch64 Support¶
Windows Support¶
LoongArch Support¶
- The
-march=native
-mtune=
options and__loongarch_{arch,tune}
macros are now supported.
RISC-V Support¶
CUDA/HIP Language Changes¶
CUDA Support¶
AIX Support¶
WebAssembly Support¶
AVR Support¶
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 Git 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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