Clang 15 |ReleaseNotesTitle|¶
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.
C/C++ Language Potentially Breaking Changes¶
C++ Specific Potentially Breaking Changes¶
ABI Changes in This Version¶
AST Dumping Potentially Breaking Changes¶
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¶
C23 Feature Support¶
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¶
Improvements to Clang’s time-trace¶
Bug Fixes in This Version¶
Bug Fixes to Compiler Builtins¶
Bug Fixes to Attribute Support¶
Bug Fixes to C++ Support¶
Bug Fixes to AST Handling¶
Miscellaneous Bug Fixes¶
Miscellaneous Clang Crashes Fixed¶
OpenACC Specific Changes¶
Target Specific Changes¶
AMDGPU Support¶
X86 Support¶
Arm and AArch64 Support¶
Android Support¶
Windows Support¶
LoongArch Support¶
RISC-V Support¶
CUDA/HIP Language Changes¶
CUDA Support¶
AIX Support¶
WebAssembly Support¶
AVR Support¶
DWARF Support in Clang¶
Floating Point Support in Clang¶
AST Matchers¶
clang-format¶
libclang¶
Static Analyzer¶
New features¶
Crash and bug fixes¶
Improvements¶
Support importing C++20 modules in clang-repl.
Moved checkers¶
Sanitizers¶
Python Binding Changes¶
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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