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These are in-progress notes for the upcoming Clang 3.7 release. You may prefer the Clang 3.5 Release Notes.
This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.7. 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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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.
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Clang's diagnostics are constantly being improved to catch more issues, explain them more clearly, and provide more accurate source information about them. The improvements since the 3.5 release include:
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The sized deallocation feature of C++14 is now controlled by the
-fsized-deallocation flag. This feature relies on library support that
isn't yet widely deployed, so the user must supply an extra flag to get the
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These are major API changes that have happened since the 3.6 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.
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The following methods have been added:
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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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