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<h1>Clang 3.1 Release Notes</h1>
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<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in Clang 3.1?</a>
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<li><a href="#cchanges">C Language Changes</a></li>
<li><a href="#cxxchanges">C++ Language Changes</a></li>
<li><a href="#objcchanges">Objective-C Language Changes</a></li>
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<h2 id="intro">Introduction</h2>
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<p>This document contains the release notes for the Clang C/C++/Objective-C
frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.1. 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 <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">the LLVM
documentation</a>. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the
<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM releases web site</a>.</p>
<p>For more information about Clang or LLVM, including information about the
latest release, please check out the main please see the
<a href="http://clang.llvm.org">Clang Web Site</a> or the
<a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Web Site</a>.
<p>Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main
Clang web page, this document applies to the <i>next</i> release, not the
current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the
<a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">releases page</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="whatsnew">What's New in Clang 3.1?</h2>
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<p>Some of the major new features and improvements to Clang are listed here.
Generic improvements to Clang as a whole or two its underlying infrastructure
are described first, followed by language-specific sections with improvements to
Clang's support for those languages.</p>
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<h3 id="cchanges">C Language Changes in Clang</h3>
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<h4 id="c11changes">C11 Feature Support</h4>
<p>Clang 3.1 adds support for anonymous structs and anonymous unions, added in
the latest ISO C standard. Use <code>-std=c11</code> or <code>-std=gnu11</code>
to enable support for the new language standard. The new C11 features are
backwards-compatible and are available as an extension in all language
modes.</p>
<p>All warning and language selection flags which previously accepted
<code>c1x</code> have been updated to accept <code>c11</code>. The old
<code>c1x</code> forms have been removed.
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<h3 id="cxxchanges">C++ Language Changes in Clang</h3>
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<h4 id="cxx11changes">C++11 Feature Support</h4>
<p>Clang 3.1 supports
<a href="http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html#cxx11">most of the language
features</a> added in the latest ISO C++ standard,
<a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=50372">C++ 2011</a>.
Use <code>-std=c++11</code> or <code>-std=gnu++11</code> to enable support for
these features. In addition to the features supported by Clang 3.0, the
following are now considered to be of production quality:
<ul>
<li>Generalized constant expressions</li>
<li>Lambda expressions</li>
<li>Generalized initializers</li>
<li>Unrestricted unions</li>
<li>User-defined literals</li>
<li>Forward-declared enumerations</li>
<li>Atomics (both libc++'s and libstdc++4.7's <tt><atomic></tt> are
supported)</li>
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Clang 3.1 introduces several new Objective-C language features and improvements.
<h4 id="literals-subscripting">Objective-C literals and subscripting</h3>
<p>Objective-C now provides additional literal expressions, including numeric, array, and dictionary literals. Additionally, array and dictionary elements can be accesses via the subscripting operator. For more information about the new literals, see the <a href="ObjectiveCLiterals.html">documentation for Objective-C literals and subscripting</a>.
<h4 id="objcwformat">Format string checking for NSString literals</h4>
<code>-Wformat</code> now checks <code>@"NSString literals"</code>.
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The following methods have been added:
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<li>SourceLocation.from_position (static)</li>
<li>SourceLocation.__eq__ and SourceLocation.__ne__</li>
<li>SourceRange.__eq__ and SourceRange.__ne__</li>
<li>Diagnostic.category_number (property)</li>
<li>Diagnostic.category_name (property)</li>
<li>Diagnostic.option (property)</li>
<li>Diagnostic.disable_option (property)</li>
<li>CursorKind.is_translation_unit</li>
<li>CursorKind.is_preprocessing</li>
<li>CursorKind.is_unexposed</li>
<li>Cursor.from_location (static)</li>
<li>Cursor.underlying_typedef_type (property)</li>
<li>Cursor.enum_type (property)</li>
<li>Cursor.objc_type_encoding (property)</li>
<li>Cursor.hash</li>
<li>TypeKind.spelling</li>
<li>Type.argument_types</li>
<li>Type.element_type (property)</li>
<li>Type.element_count (property)</li>
<li>Type.is_function_variadic</li>
<li>Type.is_pod</li>
<li>Type.get_array_element_type</li>
<li>Type.get_array_size</li>
<li>Type.__eq__ and Type.__ne__</li>
<li>File.from_name (static)</li>
<li>File.__str__ and File.__repr__</li>
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<p>A wide variety of additional information is available on the
<a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">Clang web page</a>. 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 "<tt>clang/doc/</tt>" directory in the Clang
tree.</p>
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