# Clang 20.1.8 documentation

## Clang 20.1.8 Release Notes

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 20.1.8. 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 20.1.8 because of the opportunity they pose for disruption to existing code bases.

- The `le32` and `le64` targets have been removed.

- `clang -m32` defaults to `-mcpu=v9` on SPARC Linux now. Distros still supporting SPARC V8 CPUs need to specify `-mcpu=v8` with a config file.

- The `clang-rename` tool has been removed.

- Removed support for RenderScript targets. This technology is officially deprecated and users are encouraged to migrate to Vulkan or other options.

- Clang now emits distinct type-based alias analysis tags for incompatible pointers by default, enabling more powerful alias analysis when accessing pointer types. This change may silently change code behavior for code containing strict-aliasing violations. The new default behavior can be disabled using `-fno-pointer-tbaa`.

- Clang will now more aggressively use undefined behavior on pointer addition overflow for optimization purposes. For example, a check like `ptr + unsigned_offset < ptr` will now optimize to `false`, because `ptr + unsigned_offset` will cause undefined behavior if it overflows (or advances past the end of the object).

  Previously, `ptr + unsigned_offset < ptr` was optimized (by both Clang and GCC) to `(ssize_t)unsigned_offset < 0`. This also results in an incorrect overflow check, but in a way that is less apparent when only testing with pointers in the low half of the address space.

  To avoid pointer addition overflow, it is necessary to perform the addition on integers, for example using `(uintptr_t)ptr + unsigned_offset < (uintptr_t)ptr`. Sometimes, it is also possible to rewrite checks by only comparing the offset. For example, `ptr + offset < end_ptr && ptr + offset >= ptr` can be written as `offset < (uintptr_t)(end_ptr - ptr)`.

  Undefined behavior due to pointer addition overflow can be reliably detected using `-fsanitize=pointer-overflow`. It is also possible to use `-fno-strict-overflow` to opt-in to a language dialect where signed integer and pointer overflow are well-defined. Since Clang 20, it is also possible to use `-fwrapv-pointer` to only make pointer overflow well-defined, while not affecting the behavior of signed integer overflow.

- The `-fwrapv` flag now only makes signed integer overflow well-defined, without affecting pointer overflow, which is controlled by a new `-fwrapv-pointer` flag. The `-fno-strict-overflow` flag now implies both `-fwrapv` and `-fwrapv-pointer` and as such retains its old meaning. The new behavior matches GCC.

### C/C++ Language Potentially Breaking Changes

- Clang now rejects `_Complex _BitInt` types.

### C++ Specific Potentially Breaking Changes

- The type trait builtin `__is_nullptr` has been removed, since it has very few users and can be written as `__is_same(__remove_cv(T), decltype(nullptr))`, which GCC supports as well.

- The type trait builtin `__is_referenceable` has been deprecated, since it has very few users and all the type traits that could benefit from it in the standard library already have their own bespoke builtins. It will be removed in Clang 21.

- Clang will now correctly diagnose as ill-formed a constant expression where an enum without a fixed underlying type is set to a value outside the range of the enumeration’s values.

      enum E { Zero, One, Two, Three, Four };
      constexpr E Val1 = (E)3;  // Ok
      constexpr E Val2 = (E)7;  // Ok
      constexpr E Val3 = (E)8;  // Now ill-formed, out of the range [0, 7]
      constexpr E Val4 = (E)-1; // Now ill-formed, out of the range [0, 7]

  Since Clang 16, it has been possible to suppress the diagnostic via -Wno-enum-constexpr-conversion, to allow for a transition period for users. Now, in Clang 20, it is no longer possible to suppress the diagnostic.

- Extraneous template headers are now ill-formed by default. This error can be disable with `-Wno-error=extraneous-template-head`.

      template <> // error: extraneous template head
      template <typename T>
      void f();

- During constant evaluation, comparisons between different evaluations of the same string literal are now correctly treated as non-constant, and comparisons between string literals that cannot possibly overlap in memory are now treated as constant. This updates Clang to match the anticipated direction of open core issue CWG2765 <http://wg21.link/CWG2765>, but is subject to change once that issue is resolved.

      constexpr const char *f() { return "hello"; }
      constexpr const char *g() { return "world"; }
      // Used to evaluate to false, now error: non-constant comparison.
      constexpr bool a = f() == f();
      // Might evaluate to true or false, as before.
      bool at_runtime() { return f() == f(); }
      // Was error, now evaluates to false.
      constexpr bool b = f() == g();

- Clang will now correctly not consider pointers to non classes for covariance and disallow changing return type to a type that doesn’t have the same or less cv-qualifications.

      struct A {
        virtual const int *f() const;
        virtual const std::string *g() const;
      };
      struct B : A {
        // Return type has less cv-qualification but doesn't point to a class.
        // Error will be generated.
        int *f() const override;

        // Return type doesn't have more cv-qualification also not the same or
        // less cv-qualification.
        // Error will be generated.
        volatile std::string *g() const override;
      };

- The warning `-Wdeprecated-literal-operator` is now on by default, as this is something that WG21 has shown interest in removing from the language. The result is that anyone who is compiling with `-Werror` should see this diagnostic. To fix this diagnostic, simply removing the space character from between the `operator""` and the user defined literal name will make the source no longer deprecated. This is consistent with CWG2521 <https://cplusplus.github.io/CWG/issues/2521.html>_.

      // Now diagnoses by default.
      unsigned operator"" _udl_name(unsigned long long);
      // Fixed version:
      unsigned operator""_udl_name(unsigned long long);

- Clang will now produce an error diagnostic when `[[clang::lifetimebound]]` is applied on a parameter or an implicit object parameter of a function that returns void. This was previously ignored and had no effect. (#107556)

      // Now diagnoses with an error.
      void f(int& i [[clang::lifetimebound]]);

- Clang will now produce an error diagnostic when `[[clang::lifetimebound]]` is applied on a type (instead of a function parameter or an implicit object parameter); this includes the case when the attribute is specified for an unnamed function parameter. These were previously ignored and had no effect. (#118281)

      // Now diagnoses with an error.
      int* [[clang::lifetimebound]] x;
      // Now diagnoses with an error.
      void f(int* [[clang::lifetimebound]] i);
      // Now diagnoses with an error.
      void g(int* [[clang::lifetimebound]]);

- Clang now rejects all field accesses on null pointers in constant expressions. The following code used to work but will now be rejected:

      struct S { int a; int b; };
      constexpr const int *p = &((S*)nullptr)->b;

  Previously, this code was erroneously accepted.

- Clang will now consider the implicitly deleted destructor of a union or a non-union class without virtual base class to be `constexpr` in C++20 mode (Clang 19 only did so in C++23 mode but the standard specification for this changed in C++20). (#85550)

      struct NonLiteral {
        NonLiteral() {}
        ~NonLiteral() {}
      };

      template <class T>
      struct Opt {
        union {
          char c;
          T data;
        };
        bool engaged = false;

        constexpr Opt() {}
        constexpr ~Opt() {
          if (engaged)
            data.~T();
        }
      };

      // Previously only accepted in C++23 and later, now also accepted in C++20.
      consteval void foo() { Opt<NonLiteral>{}; }

### ABI Changes in This Version

- Fixed Microsoft name mangling of placeholder, auto and decltype(auto), return types for MSVC 1920+. This change resolves incompatibilities with code compiled by MSVC 1920+ but will introduce incompatibilities with code compiled by earlier versions of Clang unless such code is built with the compiler option -fms-compatibility-version=19.14 to imitate the MSVC 1914 mangling behavior.

- Fixed the Itanium mangling of the construction vtable name. This change will introduce incompatibilities with code compiled by Clang 19 and earlier versions, unless the -fclang-abi-compat=19 option is used. (#108015)

- Mangle member-like friend function templates as members of the enclosing class. This can be disabled using -fclang-abi-compat=19. (#110247, #110503)

### AST Dumping Potentially Breaking Changes

### Clang Frontend Potentially Breaking Changes

### Clang Python Bindings Potentially Breaking Changes

- Parts of the interface returning string results will now return the empty string `""` when no result is available, instead of `None`.

- Calling a property on the `CompletionChunk` or `CompletionString` class statically now leads to an error, instead of returning a `CachedProperty` object that is used internally. Properties are only available on instances.

- For a single-line `SourceRange` and a `SourceLocation` in the same line, but after the end of the `SourceRange`, `SourceRange.__contains__` used to incorrectly return `True`. (#22617), (#52827)

## What’s New in Clang 20.1.8?

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

- Allow single element access of GCC vector/ext_vector_type object to be constant expression. Supports the V.xyzw syntax and other tidbits as seen in OpenCL. Selecting multiple elements is left as a future work.

- Implement CWG1815. Support lifetime extension of temporary created by aggregate initialization using a default member initializer.

- Accept C++26 user-defined `static_assert` messages in C++11 as an extension.

- Add `__builtin_elementwise_popcount` builtin for integer types only.

- Add `__builtin_elementwise_fmod` builtin for floating point types only.

- Add `__builtin_elementwise_minimum` and `__builtin_elementwise_maximum` builtin for floating point types only.

- The builtin type alias `__builtin_common_type` has been added to improve the performance of `std::common_type`.

#### C++2c Feature Support

- Add `__builtin_is_virtual_base_of` intrinsic, which supports P2985R0 A type trait for detecting virtual base classes

- Implemented P2893R3 Variadic Friends

- Implemented P2747R2 constexpr placement new.

- Added the `__builtin_is_within_lifetime` builtin, which supports P2641R4 Checking if a union alternative is active

- Implemented P3176R1 The Oxford variadic comma

- The error produced when doing arithmetic operations on enums of different types can be disabled with `-Wno-enum-enum-conversion`. (#92340)

#### C++23 Feature Support

- Removed the restriction to literal types in constexpr functions in C++23 mode.

- Extend lifetime of temporaries in mem-default-init for P2718R0. Clang now fully supports P2718R0 Lifetime extension in range-based for loops.

- `__cpp_explicit_this_parameter` is now defined. (#82780)

- Add `__builtin_is_implicit_lifetime` intrinsic, which supports P2674R1 A trait for implicit lifetime types

- Add support for P2280R4 Using unknown pointers and references in constant expressions. (#63139)

#### C++20 Feature Support

- Implemented module level lookup for C++20 modules. (#90154)

#### C++17 Feature Support

- The implementation of the relaxed template template argument matching rules is more complete and reliable, and should provide more accurate diagnostics. This implements: - P3310R5: Solving issues introduced by relaxed template template parameter matching. - P3579R0: Fix matching of non-type template parameters when matching template template parameters.

#### Resolutions to C++ Defect Reports

- Allow calling initializer list constructors from initializer lists with a single element of the same type instead of always copying. (CWG2137: List-initialization from object of same type <https://cplusplus.github.io/CWG/issues/2137.html>)

- Speculative resolution for CWG2311 implemented so that the implementation of CWG2137 doesn’t remove previous cases where guaranteed copy elision was done. Given a prvalue `e` of class type `T`, `T{e}` will try to resolve an initializer list constructor and will use it if successful. Otherwise, if there is no initializer list constructor, the copy will be elided as if it was `T(e)`. (CWG2311: Missed case for guaranteed copy elision <https://cplusplus.github.io/CWG/issues/2311.html>)

- Casts from a bit-field to an integral type is now not considered narrowing if the width of the bit-field means that all potential values are in the range of the target type, even if the type of the bit-field is larger. (CWG2627: Bit-fields and narrowing conversions)

- `nullptr` is now promoted to `void*` when passed to a C-style variadic function. (CWG722: Can nullptr be passed to an ellipsis?)

- Allow `void{}` as a prvalue of type `void`. (CWG2351: void{}).

- Clang now has improved resolution to CWG2398, allowing class templates to have default arguments deduced when partial ordering, and better backwards compatibility in overload resolution.

- Clang now allows comparing unequal object pointers that have been cast to `void *` in constant expressions. These comparisons always worked in non-constant expressions. (CWG2749: Treatment of “pointer to void” for relational comparisons).

- Reject explicit object parameters with type `void` (`this void`). (CWG2915: Explicit object parameters of type void).

- Clang now allows trailing requires clause on explicit deduction guides. (CWG2707: Deduction guides cannot have a trailing requires-clause).

- Respect constructor constraints during CTAD. (CWG2628: Implicit deduction guides should propagate constraints).

- Clang now diagnoses a space in the first production of a `literal-operator-id` by default. (CWG2521: User-defined literals and reserved identifiers).

- Fix name lookup for a dependent base class that is the current instantiation. (CWG591: When a dependent base class is the current instantiation).

- Clang now allows calling explicit object member functions directly with prvalues instead of always materializing a temporary, meaning by-value explicit object parameters do not need to move from a temporary. (CWG2813: Class member access with prvalues).

### C Language Changes

- Clang now allows an `inline` specifier on a typedef declaration of a function type in Microsoft compatibility mode. #124869

- Extend clang’s `<limits.h>` to define `LONG_LONG_*` macros for Android’s bionic.

- Macro `__STDC_NO_THREADS__` is no longer necessary for MSVC 2022 1939 and later.

- Exposed the the `__nullptr` keyword as an alias for `nullptr` in all C language modes.

#### C2y Feature Support

- Updated conformance for N3298 which adds the `i` and `j` suffixes for the creation of a `_Complex` constant value. Clang has always supported these suffixes as a GNU extension, so `-Wgnu-imaginary-constant` no longer has effect in C modes, as this is now a C2y extension in C. `-Wgnu-imaginary-constant` still applies in C++ modes.

- Clang updated conformance for N3370 case range expressions. This feature was previously supported by Clang as a GNU extension, so `-Wgnu-case-range` no longer has effect in C modes, as this is now a C2y extension in C. `-Wgnu-case-range` still applies in C++ modes.

- Clang implemented support for N3344 which disallows a `void` parameter from having a qualifier or storage class specifier. Note that `register void` was previously accepted in all C language modes but is now rejected (all of the other qualifiers and storage class specifiers were previously rejected).

- Updated conformance for N3364 on floating-point translation-time initialization with signaling NaN. This paper adopts Clang’s existing practice, so there were no changes to compiler behavior.

- Implemented support for N3341 which makes empty structure and union objects implementation-defined in C. `-Wgnu-empty-struct` will be emitted in C23 and earlier modes because the behavior is a conforming GNU extension in those modes, but will no longer have an effect in C2y mode.

- Updated conformance for N3342 which made qualified function types implementation-defined rather than undefined. Clang has always accepted `const` and `volatile` qualified function types by ignoring the qualifiers.

- Updated conformance for N3346 which changes some undefined behavior around initialization to instead be constraint violations. This paper adopts Clang’s existing practice, so there were no changes to compiler behavior.

#### C23 Feature Support

- Clang now supports N3029 Improved Normal Enumerations.

- Clang now officially supports N3030 Enhancements to Enumerations. Clang already supported it as an extension, so there were no changes to compiler behavior.

- Fixed the value of `BOOL_WIDTH` in `<limits.h>` to return `1` explicitly, as mandated by the standard. Fixes #117348

### Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release

- The floating point comparison builtins (`__builtin_isgreater`, `__builtin_isgreaterequal`, `__builtin_isless`, etc.) and `__builtin_signbit` can now be used in constant expressions.

- Plugins can now define custom attributes that apply to statements as well as declarations.

- `__builtin_abs` function can now be used in constant expressions.

- The new builtin `__builtin_counted_by_ref` was added. In contexts where the programmer needs access to the `counted_by` attribute’s field, but it’s not available — e.g. in macros. For instance, it can be used to automatically set the counter during allocation in the Linux kernel:

      /* A simplified version of Linux allocation macros */
      #define alloc(PTR, FAM, COUNT) ({ \
          sizeof_t __ignored_assignment;                             \
          typeof(P) __p;                                             \
          size_t __size = sizeof(*P) + sizeof(*P->FAM) * COUNT;      \
          __p = malloc(__size);                                      \
          *_Generic(                                                 \
            __builtin_counted_by_ref(__p->FAM),                      \
              void *: &__ignored_assignment,                         \
              default: __builtin_counted_by_ref(__p->FAM)) = COUNT;  \
          __p;                                                       \
      })

  The flexible array member (FAM) can now be accessed immediately without causing issues with the sanitizer because the counter is automatically set.

- The following builtins can now be used in constant expressions: `__builtin_reduce_add`, `__builtin_reduce_mul`, `__builtin_reduce_and`, `__builtin_reduce_or`, `__builtin_reduce_xor`, `__builtin_elementwise_popcount`, `__builtin_elementwise_bitreverse`, `__builtin_elementwise_add_sat`, `__builtin_elementwise_sub_sat`, `__builtin_reduce_min` (For integral element type), `__builtin_reduce_max` (For integral element type).

- The builtin macros `__INT8_C`, `__INT16_C`, `__INT32_C`, `__INT64_C`, `__INTMAX_C`, `__UINT8_C`, `__UINT16_C`, `__UINT32_C`, `__UINT64_C` and `__UINTMAX_C` have been introduced to ease the implementaton of section 7.18.4 of ISO/IEC 9899:1999. These macros are also defined by GCC and should be used instead of others that expand and paste the suffixes provided by `__INT8_C_SUFFIX__`, `__INT16_C_SUFFIX__`, `__INT32_C_SUFFIX__`, `__INT64_C_SUFFIX__`, `__INTMAX_C_SUFFIX__`, `__UINT8_C_SUFFIX__`, `__UINT16_C_SUFFIX__`, `__UINT32_C_SUFFIX__`, `__UINT64_C_SUFFIX__` and `__UINTMAX_C_SUFFIX__`. Pasting suffixes after the expansion of their respective macros is unsafe, as users can define the suffixes as macros.

- Clang now rejects `_BitInt` matrix element types if the bit width is less than `CHAR_WIDTH` or not a power of two, matching preexisting behaviour for vector types.

- Matrix types (a Clang extension) can now be used in pseudo-destructor expressions, which allows them to be stored in STL containers.

- In the `-ftime-report` output, the new “Clang time report” group replaces the old “Clang front-end time report” and includes “Front end”, “LLVM IR generation”, “Optimizer”, and “Machine code generation”.

### New Compiler Flags

- The `-fc++-static-destructors={all,thread-local,none}` flag was added to control which C++ variables have static destructors registered: all (the default) does so for all variables, thread-local only for thread-local variables, and none (which corresponds to the existing `-fno-c++-static-destructors` flag) skips all static destructors registration.

- The `-fextend-variable-liveness` flag has been added to allow for improved debugging of optimized code. Using `-fextend-variable-liveness` will cause Clang to generate code that tries to preserve the liveness of source variables through optimizations, meaning that variables will typically be visible in a debugger more often. The flag has two levels: `-fextend-variable-liveness`, or `-fextend-variable-liveness=all`, extends the liveness of all user variables and the `this` pointer. Alternatively `-fextend-variable-liveness=this` has the same behaviour but applies only to the `this` variable in C++ class member functions, meaning its effect is a strict subset of `-fextend-variable-liveness`. Note that this flag modifies the results of optimizations that Clang performs, which will result in reduced performance in generated code; however, this feature will not extend the liveness of some variables in cases where doing so would likely have a severe impact on generated code performance.

- The `-Warray-compare` warning has been added to warn about array comparison on versions older than C++20.

- The `-Warray-compare-cxx26` warning has been added to warn about array comparison starting from C++26, this warning is enabled as an error by default.

- The `-Wnontrivial-memcall` warning has been added to warn about passing non-trivially-copyable destination parameter to `memcpy`, `memset` and similar functions for which it is a documented undefined behavior. It is implied by `-Wnontrivial-memaccess`

- clang-cl and clang-dxc now support `-fdiagnostics-color=[auto|never|always]` in addition to `-f[no-]color-diagnostics`.

- The new `-fwrapv-pointer` flag opts-in to a language dialect where pointer overflow is well-defined. The `-fwrapv` flag previously implied `-fwrapv-pointer` as well, but no longer does. `-fno-strict-overflow` implies `-fwrapv -fwrapv-pointer`. The flags now match GCC.

### Deprecated Compiler Flags

- `-fheinous-gnu-extensions` is deprecated; it is now equivalent to specifying `-Wno-error=invalid-gnu-asm-cast` and may be removed in the future.

### Modified Compiler Flags

- The `-ffp-model` option has been updated to enable a more limited set of optimizations when the `fast` argument is used and to accept a new argument, `aggressive`. The behavior of `-ffp-model=aggressive` is equivalent to the previous behavior of `-ffp-model=fast`. The updated `-ffp-model=fast` behavior no longer assumes finite math only and uses the `promoted` algorithm for complex division when possible rather than the less basic (limited range) algorithm.

- The `-fveclib` option has been updated to enable `-fno-math-errno` for `-fveclib=ArmPL` and `-fveclib=SLEEF`. This gives Clang more opportunities to utilize these vector libraries. The behavior for all other vector function libraries remains unchanged.

- Added `-fmodules-reduced-bmi` flag corresponding to `-fexperimental-modules-reduced-bmi` flag. The `-fmodules-reduced-bmi` flag is intended to be enabled by default in the future.

### Removed Compiler Flags

- The compiler flag -Wenum-constexpr-conversion (and the Wno-, Wno-error- derivatives) is now removed, since it’s no longer possible to suppress the diagnostic (see above). Users can expect an unknown warning diagnostic if it’s still in use.

### Attribute Changes in Clang

- The `swift_attr` can now be applied to types. To make it possible to use imported APIs in Swift safely there has to be a way to annotate individual parameters and result types with relevant attributes that indicate that e.g. a block is called on a particular actor or it accepts a Sendable or global-actor (i.e. `@MainActor`) isolated parameter.

  For example:

      @interface MyService
        -(void) handle: (void (^ __attribute__((swift_attr("@Sendable"))))(id)) handler;
      @end

- Clang now disallows more than one `__attribute__((ownership_returns(class, idx)))` with different class names attached to one function.

- Introduced a new format attribute `__attribute__((format(syslog, 1, 2)))` from OpenBSD.

- The `hybrid_patchable` attribute is now supported on ARM64EC targets. It can be used to specify that a function requires an additional x86-64 thunk, which may be patched at runtime.

- The attribute `[[clang::no_specializations]]` has been added to warn users that a specific template shouldn’t be specialized. This is useful for e.g. standard library type traits, where adding a specialization results in undefined behaviour.

- `[[clang::lifetimebound]]` is now explicitly disallowed on explicit object member functions where they were previously silently ignored.

- Clang now automatically adds `[[clang::lifetimebound]]` to the parameters of `std::span, std::string_view` constructors, this enables Clang to capture more cases where the returned reference outlives the object. (#100567)

- Clang now correctly diagnoses the use of `btf_type_tag` in C++ and ignores it; this attribute is a C-only attribute, and caused crashes with template instantiation by accidentally allowing it in C++ in some circumstances. (#106864)

- Introduced a new attribute `[[clang::coro_await_elidable]]` on coroutine return types to express elideability at call sites where the coroutine is invoked under a safe elide context.

- Introduced a new attribute `[[clang::coro_await_elidable_argument]]` on function parameters to propagate safe elide context to arguments if such function is also under a safe elide context.

- The documentation of the `[[clang::musttail]]` attribute was updated to note that the lifetimes of all local variables end before the call. This does not change the behaviour of the compiler, as this was true for previous versions.

- Fix a bug where clang doesn’t automatically apply the `[[gsl::Owner]]` or `[[gsl::Pointer]]` to STL explicit template specialization decls. (#109442)

- Clang now supports `[[clang::lifetime_capture_by(X)]]`. Similar to lifetimebound, this can be used to specify when a reference to a function parameter is captured by another capturing entity `X`.

- The `target_version` attribute is now only supported for AArch64 and RISC-V architectures.

- When targeting AArch64, a function declaration annotated with `target_version("default")` now generates a mangled default version of the function, whereas before at least one more version other than the default was required to trigger Function Multi Versioning.

- Clang now permits the usage of the placement new operator in `[[msvc::constexpr]]` context outside of the std namespace. (#74924)

- Clang now disallows the use of attributes after the namespace name. (#121407)

### Improvements to Clang’s diagnostics

- Some template related diagnostics have been improved.

      void foo() { template <typename> int i; } // error: templates can only be declared in namespace or class scope

      struct S {
       template <typename> int i; // error: non-static data member 'i' cannot be declared as a template
      };

- Clang now has improved diagnostics for functions with explicit ‘this’ parameters. Fixes #97878

- Clang now diagnoses dangling references to fields of temporary objects. Fixes #81589.

- Clang now diagnoses undefined behavior in constant expressions more consistently. This includes invalid shifts, and signed overflow in arithmetic.

- -Wdangling-assignment-gsl is enabled by default.

- Clang now always preserves the template arguments as written used to specialize template type aliases.

- Clang now diagnoses the use of `main` in an `extern` context as invalid according to [basic.start.main] p3. Fixes #101512.

- Clang now diagnoses when the result of a [[nodiscard]] function is discarded after being cast in C. Fixes #104391.

- Clang now properly explains the reason a template template argument failed to match a template template parameter, in terms of the C++17 relaxed matching rules instead of the old ones.

- No longer diagnosing idiomatic function pointer casts on Windows under `-Wcast-function-type-mismatch` (which is enabled by `-Wextra`). Clang would previously warn on this construct, but will no longer do so on Windows:

      typedef void (WINAPI *PGNSI)(LPSYSTEM_INFO);
      HMODULE Lib = LoadLibrary("kernel32");
      PGNSI FnPtr = (PGNSI)GetProcAddress(Lib, "GetNativeSystemInfo");

- Don’t emit duplicated dangling diagnostics. (#93386).

- Improved diagnostic when trying to befriend a concept. (#45182).

- Added the `-Winvalid-gnu-asm-cast` diagnostic group to control warnings about use of “noop” casts for lvalues (a GNU extension). This diagnostic is a warning which defaults to being an error, is enabled by default, and is also controlled by the now-deprecated `-fheinous-gnu-extensions` flag.

- Added the `-Wdecls-in-multiple-modules` option to assist users to identify multiple declarations in different modules, which is the major reason of the slow compilation speed with modules. This warning is disabled by default and it needs to be explicitly enabled or by `-Weverything`.

- Improved diagnostic when trying to overload a function in an `extern "C"` context. (#80235)

- Clang now respects lifetimebound attribute for the assignment operator parameter. (#106372).

- The lifetimebound and GSL analysis in clang are coherent, allowing clang to detect more use-after-free bugs. (#100549).

- Clang now diagnoses dangling cases where a gsl-pointer is constructed from a gsl-owner object inside a container (#100384).

- Clang now warns for u8 character literals used in C23 with `-Wpre-c23-compat` instead of `-Wpre-c++17-compat`.

- Clang now diagnose when importing module implementation partition units in module interface units.

- Don’t emit bogus dangling diagnostics when `[[gsl::Owner]]` and [[clang::lifetimebound]] are used together (#108272).

- Don’t emit bogus dignostic about an undefined behavior on `reinterpret_cast<T>` for non-instantiated template functions without sufficient knowledge whether it can actually lead to undefined behavior for `T` (#109430).

- The `-Wreturn-stack-address` warning now also warns about addresses of local variables passed to function calls using the `[[clang::musttail]]` attribute.

- Clang now diagnoses cases where a dangling `GSLOwner<GSLPointer>` object is constructed, e.g. `std::vector<string_view> v = {std::string()};` (#100526).

- Clang now diagnoses when a `requires` expression has a local parameter of void type, aligning with the function parameter (#109831).

- Clang now emits a diagnostic note at the class declaration when the method definition does not match any declaration (#110638).

- Clang now omits warnings for extra parentheses in fold expressions with single expansion (#101863).

- The warning for an unsupported type for a named register variable is now phrased `unsupported type for named register variable`, instead of `bad type for named register variable`. This makes it clear that the type is not supported at all, rather than being suboptimal in some way the error fails to mention (#111550).

- Clang now emits a `-Wdepredcated-literal-operator` diagnostic, even if the name was a reserved name, which we improperly allowed to suppress the diagnostic.

- Clang now diagnoses `[[deprecated]]` attribute usage on local variables (#90073).

- Fix false positives when [[gsl::Owner/Pointer]] and [[clang::lifetimebound]] are used together.

- Improved diagnostic message for `__builtin_bit_cast` size mismatch (#115870).

- Clang now omits shadow warnings for enum constants in separate class scopes (#62588).

- When diagnosing an unused return value of a type declared `[[nodiscard]]`, the type itself is now included in the diagnostic.

- Clang will now prefer the `[[nodiscard]]` declaration on function declarations over `[[nodiscard]]` declaration on the return type of a function. Previously, when both have a `[[nodiscard]]` declaration attached, the one on the return type would be preferred. This may affect the generated warning message:

      struct [[nodiscard("Reason 1")]] S {};
      [[nodiscard("Reason 2")]] S getS();
      void use()
      {
        getS(); // Now diagnoses "Reason 2", previously diagnoses "Reason 1"
      }

- Clang now diagnoses `= delete("reason")` extension warnings only in pedantic mode rather than on by default. (#109311).

- Clang now diagnoses missing return value in functions containing `if consteval` (#116485).

- Clang now correctly recognises code after a call to a `[[noreturn]]` constructor as unreachable (#63009).

- Clang now omits shadowing warnings for parameter names in explicit object member functions (#95707).

- Improved error recovery for function call arguments with trailing commas (#100921).

- For an rvalue reference bound to a temporary struct with an integer member, Clang will detect constant integer overflow in the initializer for the integer member (#46755).

- Fixed a false negative `-Wunused-private-field` diagnostic when a defaulted comparison operator is defined out of class (#116961).

- Clang now diagnoses dangling references for C++20’s parenthesized aggregate initialization (#101957).

- Fixed a bug where Clang would not emit `-Wunused-private-field` warnings when an unrelated class defined a defaulted comparison operator (#116270).

      class A {
      private:
        int a; // warning: private field 'a' is not used, no diagnostic previously
      };

      class C {
        bool operator==(const C&) = default;
      };

- Clang now emits -Wdangling-capture diangostic when a STL container captures a dangling reference.

      void test() {
        std::vector<std::string_view> views;
        views.push_back(std::string("123")); // warning
      }

- Clang now emits a `-Wtautological-compare` diagnostic when a check for pointer addition overflow is always true or false, because overflow would be undefined behavior.

      bool incorrect_overflow_check(const char *ptr, size_t index) {
        return ptr + index < ptr; // warning
      }

- Clang now emits a `-Wvarargs` diagnostic when the second argument to `va_arg` is of array type, which is an undefined behavior (#119360).

      void test() {
        va_list va;
        va_arg(va, int[10]); // warning
      }

- Fix -Wdangling false positives on conditional operators (#120206).

- Clang now diagnoses unused private fields with the `[[warn_unused]]` attribute (#62472).

- Fixed a bug where Clang hung on an unsupported optional scope specifier `::` when parsing Objective-C. Clang now emits a diagnostic message instead of hanging.

- The Thread Safety Analysis now supports passing scoped capabilities into functions: an attribute on the scoped capability parameter indicates both the expected associated capabilities and, like in the case of attributes on the function declaration itself, their state before and after the call.

      #include "mutex.h"

      Mutex mu1, mu2;
      int a GUARDED_BY(mu1);

      void require(MutexLocker& scope REQUIRES(mu1)) {
        scope.Unlock();
        a = 0; // Warning!  Requires mu1.
        scope.Lock();
      }

      void testParameter() {
        MutexLocker scope(&mu1), scope2(&mu2);
        require(scope2); // Warning! Mutex managed by 'scope2' is 'mu2' instead of 'mu1'
        require(scope); // OK.
        scope.Unlock();
        require(scope); // Warning!  Requires mu1.
      }

- Diagnose invalid declarators in the declaration of constructors and destructors (#121706).

- Fix false positives warning for non-std functions with name infinity (#123231).

- Clang now emits a `-Wignored-qualifiers` diagnostic when a base class includes cv-qualifiers (#55474).

- Clang now diagnoses the use of attribute names reserved by the C++ standard (#92196).

### Improvements to Clang’s time-trace

### Improvements to Coverage Mapping

### Bug Fixes in This Version

- Fixed the definition of `ATOMIC_FLAG_INIT` in `<stdatomic.h>` so it can be used in C++.

- Fixed a failed assertion when checking required literal types in C context. (#101304).

- Fixed a crash when trying to transform a dependent address space type. Fixes #101685.

- Fixed a crash when diagnosing format strings and encountering an empty delimited escape sequence (e.g., `"\o{}"`). #102218

- Fixed a crash using `__array_rank` on 64-bit targets. (#113044).

- The warning emitted for an unsupported register variable type now points to the unsupported type instead of the `register` keyword (#109776).

- Fixed a crash when emit ctor for global variant with flexible array init (#113187).

- Fixed a crash when GNU statement expression contains invalid statement (#113468).

- Fixed a crash when passing the variable length array type to `va_arg` (#119360).

- Fixed a failed assertion when using `__attribute__((noderef))` on an `_Atomic`-qualified type (#116124).

- No longer incorrectly diagnosing use of a deleted destructor when the selected overload of `operator delete` for that type is a destroying delete (#46818).

- No longer return `false` for `noexcept` expressions involving a `delete` which resolves to a destroying delete but the type of the object being deleted has a potentially throwing destructor (#118660).

- Clang now outputs correct values when #embed data contains bytes with negative signed char values (#102798).

- Fix crash due to unknown references and pointer implementation and handling of base classes. (GH139452)

#### Bug Fixes to Compiler Builtins

- Fix crash when atomic builtins are called with pointer to zero-size struct (#90330)

- Clang now allows pointee types of atomic builtin arguments to be complete template types that was not instantiated elsewhere.

- `__noop` can now be used in a constant expression. (#102064)

- Fix `__has_builtin` incorrectly returning `false` for some C++ type traits. (#111477)

- Fix `__builtin_source_location` incorrectly returning wrong column for method chains. (#119129)

- The behvaiour of `__add_pointer` and `__remove_pointer` for Objective-C++’s `id` and interfaces has been fixed.

#### Bug Fixes to Attribute Support

#### Bug Fixes to C++ Support

- Fixed a crash when an expression with a dependent `__typeof__` type is used as the operand of a unary operator. (#97646)

- Fixed incorrect pack expansion of init-capture references in requires expresssions.

- Fixed a failed assertion when checking invalid delete operator declaration. (#96191)

- Fix a crash when checking destructor reference with an invalid initializer. (#97230)

- Clang now correctly parses potentially declarative nested-name-specifiers in pointer-to-member declarators.

- Fix a crash when checking the initializer of an object that was initialized with a string literal. (#82167)

- Fix a crash when matching template template parameters with templates which have parameters of different class type. (#101394)

- Clang now correctly recognizes the correct context for parameter substitutions in concepts, so it doesn’t incorrectly complain of missing module imports in those situations. (#60336)

- Fix init-capture packs having a size of one before being instantiated. (#63677)

- Clang now preserves the unexpanded flag in a lambda transform used for pack expansion. (#56852), (#85667), (#99877), (#122417).

- Fixed a bug when diagnosing ambiguous explicit specializations of constrained member functions.

- Fixed an assertion failure when selecting a function from an overload set that includes a specialization of a conversion function template.

- Correctly diagnose attempts to use a concept name in its own definition; A concept name is introduced to its scope sooner to match the C++ standard. (#55875)

- Properly reject defaulted relational operators with invalid types for explicit object parameters, e.g., `bool operator==(this int, const Foo&)` (#100329), and rvalue reference parameters.

- Properly reject defaulted copy/move assignment operators that have a non-reference explicit object parameter.

- Clang now properly handles the order of attributes in extern blocks. (#101990).

- Fixed an assertion failure by preventing null explicit object arguments from being deduced. (#102025).

- Correctly check constraints of explicit instantiations of member functions. (#46029)

- When performing partial ordering of function templates, clang now checks that the deduction was consistent. Fixes (#18291).

- Fixes to several issues in partial ordering of template template parameters, which were documented in the test suite.

- Fixed an assertion failure about a constraint of a friend function template references to a value with greater template depth than the friend function template. (#98258)

- Clang now rebuilds the template parameters of out-of-line declarations and specializations in the context of the current instantiation in all cases.

- Fix evaluation of the index of dependent pack indexing expressions/types specifiers (#105900)

- Correctly handle subexpressions of an immediate invocation in the presence of implicit casts. (#105558)

- Clang now correctly handles direct-list-initialization of a structured bindings from an array. (#31813)

- Mangle placeholders for deduced types as a template-prefix, such that mangling of template template parameters uses the correct production. (#106182)

- Fixed an assertion failure when converting vectors to int/float with invalid expressions. (#105486)

- Template parameter names are considered in the name lookup of out-of-line class template specialization right before its declaration context. (#64082)

- Fixed a constraint comparison bug for friend declarations. (#78101)

- Fix handling of `_` as the name of a lambda’s init capture variable. (#107024)

- Fix an issue with dependent source location expressions (#106428), (#81155), (#80210), (#85373)

- Fixed a bug in the substitution of empty pack indexing types. (#105903)

- Clang no longer tries to capture non-odr used default arguments of template parameters of generic lambdas (#107048)

- Fixed a bug where defaulted comparison operators would remove `const` from base classes. (#102588)

- Fix a crash when using `source_location` in the trailing return type of a lambda expression. (#67134)

- A follow-up fix was added for (#61460), as the previous fix was not entirely correct. (#86361), (#112352)

- Fixed a crash in the typo correction of an invalid CTAD guide. (#107887)

- Fixed a crash when clang tries to substitute parameter pack while retaining the parameter pack. (#63819), (#107560)

- Fix a crash when a static assert declaration has an invalid close location. (#108687)

- Avoided a redundant friend declaration instantiation under a certain `consteval` context. (#107175)

- Fixed an assertion failure in debug mode, and potential crashes in release mode, when diagnosing a failed cast caused indirectly by a failed implicit conversion to the type of the constructor parameter.

- Fixed an assertion failure by adjusting integral to boolean vector conversions (#108326)

- Fixed a crash when mixture of designated and non-designated initializers in union. (#113855)

- Fixed an issue deducing non-type template arguments of reference type. (#73460)

- Fixed an issue in constraint evaluation, where type constraints on the lambda expression containing outer unexpanded parameters were not correctly expanded. (#101754)

- Fixes crashes with function template member specializations, and increases conformance of explicit instantiation behaviour with MSVC. (#111266)

- Fixed a bug in constraint expression comparison where the `sizeof...` expression was not handled properly in certain friend declarations. (#93099)

- Clang now instantiates the correct lambda call operator when a lambda’s class type is merged across modules. (#110401)

- Fix a crash when parsing a pseudo destructor involving an invalid type. (#111460)

- Fixed an assertion failure when invoking recovery call expressions with explicit attributes and undeclared templates. (#107047), (#49093)

- Clang no longer crashes when a lambda contains an invalid block declaration that contains an unexpanded parameter pack. (#109148)

- Fixed overload handling for object parameters with top-level cv-qualifiers in explicit member functions (#100394)

- Fixed a bug in lambda captures where `constexpr` class-type objects were not properly considered ODR-used in certain situations. (#47400), (#90896)

- Fix erroneous templated array size calculation leading to crashes in generated code. (#41441)

- During the lookup for a base class name, non-type names are ignored. (#16855)

- Fix a crash when recovering an invalid expression involving an explicit object member conversion operator. (#112559)

- Clang incorrectly considered a class with an anonymous union member to not be const-default-constructible even if a union member has a default member initializer. (#95854).

- Fixed an assertion failure when evaluating an invalid expression in an array initializer. (#112140)

- Fixed an assertion failure in range calculations for conditional throw expressions. (#111854)

- Clang now correctly ignores previous partial specializations of member templates explicitly specialized for an implicitly instantiated class template specialization. (#51051)

- Fixed an assertion failure caused by invalid enum forward declarations. (#112208)

- Name independent data members were not correctly initialized from default member initializers. (#114069)

- Fixed expression transformation for `[[assume(...)]]`, allowing using pack indexing expressions within the assumption if they also occur inside of a dependent lambda. (#114787)

- Lambdas now capture function types without considering top-level const qualifiers. (#84961)

- Clang now uses valid deduced type locations when diagnosing functions with trailing return type missing placeholder return type. (#78694)

- Fixed a bug where bounds of partially expanded pack indexing expressions were checked too early. (#116105)

- Fixed an assertion failure caused by using `consteval` in condition in consumed analyses. (#117385)

- Fixed an assertion failure caused by invalid default argument substitutions in non-defining friend declarations. (#113324)

- Fix a crash caused by incorrect argument position in merging deduced template arguments. (#113659)

- Fixed a parser crash when using pack indexing as a nested name specifier. (#119072)

- Fixed a null pointer dereference issue when heuristically computing `sizeof...(pack)` expressions. (#81436)

- Fixed an assertion failure caused by mangled names with invalid identifiers. (#112205)

- Fixed an incorrect lambda scope of generic lambdas that caused Clang to crash when computing potential lambda captures at the end of a full expression. (#115931)

- Clang no longer rejects deleting a pointer of incomplete enumeration type. (#99278)

- Fixed recognition of `std::initializer_list` when it’s surrounded with `extern "C++"` and exported out of a module (which is the case e.g. in MSVC’s implementation of `std` module). (#118218)

- Fixed a pack expansion issue in checking unexpanded parameter sizes. (#17042)

- Fixed a bug where captured structured bindings were modifiable inside non-mutable lambda (#95081)

- Passing incomplete types to `__is_base_of` and other builtin type traits for which the corresponding standard type trait mandates a complete type is now a hard (non-sfinae-friendly) error (LWG3929.) (#121278)

- Clang now identifies unexpanded parameter packs within the type constraint on a non-type template parameter. (#88866)

- Fixed an issue while resolving type of expression indexing into a pack of values of non-dependent type (#121242)

- Fixed a crash when __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ or __FUNCSIG__ (clang-cl) appears in the trailing return type of the lambda (#121274)

- Fixed a crash caused by the incorrect construction of template arguments for CTAD alias guides when type constraints are applied. (#122134)

- Fixed canonicalization of pack indexing types - Clang did not always recognized identical pack indexing. (#123033)

- Fixed a nested lambda substitution issue for constraint evaluation. (#123441)

- Fixed various false diagnostics related to the use of immediate functions. (#123472)

- Fix immediate escalation not propagating through inherited constructors. (#112677)

- Fixed assertions or false compiler diagnostics in the case of C++ modules for lambda functions or inline friend functions defined inside templates (#122493).

- Fix template argument checking so that converted template arguments are converted again. This fixes some issues with partial ordering involving template template parameters with non-type template parameters.

- Fix nondeduced mismatch with nullptr template arguments.

- Clang now rejects declaring an alias template with the same name as its template parameter. (#123423)

- Fixed the rejection of valid code when referencing an enumerator of an unscoped enum member with a prior declaration. (#124405)

- Fixed immediate escalation of non-dependent expressions. (#123405)

- Fix type of expression when calling a template which returns an `__array_rank` querying a type depending on a template parameter. Now, such expression can be used with `static_assert` and `constexpr`. (#123498)

- Correctly determine the implicit constexprness of lambdas in dependent contexts. (#97958) (#114234)

- Fix that some dependent immediate expressions did not cause immediate escalation (#119046)

- Fixed a substitution bug in transforming CTAD aliases when the type alias contains a non-pack template argument corresponding to a pack parameter (#124715)

- Clang is now better at keeping track of friend function template instance contexts. (#55509)

- Fixes matching of nested template template parameters. (#130362)

- Correctly diagnoses template template paramters which have a pack parameter not in the last position.

- Fixed an integer overflow bug in computing template parameter depths when synthesizing CTAD guides. (#128691)

- Fixed an incorrect pointer access when checking access-control on concepts. (#131530)

- Fixed various alias CTAD bugs involving variadic template arguments. (#123591), (#127539), (#129077), (#129620), and (#129998).

#### Bug Fixes to AST Handling

- Fixed a crash that occurred when dividing by zero in complex integer division. (#55390).

- Fixed a bug in `ASTContext::getRawCommentForAnyRedecl()` where the function could sometimes incorrectly return null even if a comment was present. (#108145)

- Clang now correctly parses the argument of the `relates`, `related`, `relatesalso`, and `relatedalso` comment commands.

- Clang now uses the location of the begin of the member expression for `CallExpr` involving deduced `this`. (#116928)

- Fixed printout of AST that uses pack indexing expression. (#116486)

#### Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

#### Miscellaneous Clang Crashes Fixed

- Fixed a crash in C due to incorrect lookup that members in nested anonymous struct/union can be found as ordinary identifiers in struct/union definition. (#31295)

- Fixed a crash caused by long chains of `sizeof` and other similar operators that can be followed by a non-parenthesized expression. (#45061)

- Fixed an crash when compiling `#pragma STDC FP_CONTRACT DEFAULT` with `-ffp-contract=fast-honor-pragmas`. (#104830)

- Fixed a crash when function has more than 65536 parameters. Now a diagnostic is emitted. (#35741)

- Fixed `-ast-dump` crashes on codes involving `concept` with `-ast-dump-decl-types`. (#94928)

- Fixed internal assertion firing when a declaration in the implicit global module is found through ADL. (GH#109879)

- Fixed a crash when an unscoped enumeration declared by an opaque-enum-declaration within a class template with a dependent underlying type is subject to integral promotion. (#117960)

- Fix code completion crash involving PCH serialzied templates. (#139019)

### OpenACC Specific Changes

### Target Specific Changes

- Clang now implements the Solaris-specific mangling of `std::tm` as `tm`, same for `std::div_t`, `std::ldiv_t`, and `std::lconv`, for Solaris ABI compatibility. (#33114)

#### AMDGPU Support

- Initial support for gfx950

- Added headers `gpuintrin.h` and `amdgpuintrin.h` that contains common definitions for GPU builtin functions. This header can be included for OpenMP, CUDA, HIP, OpenCL, and C/C++.

#### NVPTX Support

- Added headers `gpuintrin.h` and `nvptxintrin.h` that contains common definitions for GPU builtin functions. This header can be included for OpenMP, CUDA, HIP, OpenCL, and C/C++.

#### X86 Support

- The MMX vector intrinsic functions from `*mmintrin.h` which operate on __m64 vectors, such as `_mm_add_pi8`, have been reimplemented to use the SSE2 instruction-set and XMM registers unconditionally. These intrinsics are therefore no longer supported if MMX is enabled without SSE2 – either from targeting CPUs from the Pentium-MMX through the Pentium 3, or explicitly via passing arguments such as `-mmmx -mno-sse2`. MMX assembly code remains supported without requiring SSE2, including inside inline-assembly.

- The compiler builtins such as `__builtin_ia32_paddb` which formerly implemented the above MMX intrinsic functions have been removed. Any uses of these removed functions should migrate to the functions defined by the `*mmintrin.h` headers. A mapping can be found in the file `clang/www/builtins.py`.

- Support ISA of `AVX10.2`. * Supported MINMAX intrinsics of `*_(mask(z)))_minmax(ne)_p[s|d|h|bh]` and `*_(mask(z)))_minmax_s[s|d|h]`.

- Supported intrinsics for `SM4 and AVX10.2`. * Supported SM4 intrinsics of `_mm512_sm4key4_epi32` and `_mm512_sm4rnds4_epi32`.

- All intrinsics in adcintrin.h can now be used in constant expressions.

- All intrinsics in adxintrin.h can now be used in constant expressions.

- All intrinsics in lzcntintrin.h can now be used in constant expressions.

- All intrinsics in bmiintrin.h can now be used in constant expressions.

- All intrinsics in bmi2intrin.h can now be used in constant expressions.

- All intrinsics in tbmintrin.h can now be used in constant expressions.

- Supported intrinsics for `MOVRS AND AVX10.2`. * Supported intrinsics of `_mm(256|512)_(mask(z))_loadrs_epi(8|16|32|64)`.

- Support ISA of `AMX-FP8`.

- Support ISA of `AMX-TRANSPOSE`.

- Support ISA of `AMX-MOVRS`.

- Support ISA of `AMX-AVX512`.

- Support ISA of `AMX-TF32`.

- Support ISA of `MOVRS`.

- Supported `-march/tune=diamondrapids`

- Disable `-m[no-]avx10.1` and switch `-m[no-]avx10.2` to alias of 512 bit options.

- Change `-mno-avx10.1-512` to alias of `-mno-avx10.1-256` to disable both 256 and 512 bit instructions.

#### Arm and AArch64 Support

- Implementation of SVE2.1 and SME2.1 in accordance with the Arm C Language Extensions (ACLE) is now available.

- In the ARM Target, the frame pointer (FP) of a leaf function can be retained by using the `-fno-omit-frame-pointer` option. If you want to eliminate the FP in leaf functions after enabling `-fno-omit-frame-pointer`, you can do so by adding the `-momit-leaf-frame-pointer` option.

- SME keyword attributes which apply to function types are now represented in the mangling of the type. This means that `void foo(void (*f)() __arm_streaming);` now has a different mangling from `void foo(void (*f)());`.

- The `__arm_agnostic` keyword attribute was added to let users describe a function that preserves SME state enabled by PSTATE.ZA without having to share this state with its callers and without making the assumption that this state exists.

- Support has been added for the following processors (-mcpu identifiers in parenthesis):

  For AArch64:

  - FUJITSU-MONAKA (fujitsu-monaka)

- Runtime detection of depended-on Function Multi Versioning features has been added in accordance with the Arm C Language Extensions (ACLE).

- The ARM calling convention for empty structs in C++ mode was changed to pass them as if they have a size of 1 byte, matching the AAPCS32 specification and GCC’s implementation. The previous behaviour of ignoring the argument can be restored using the -fclang-abi-compat=19 (or earlier) option.

#### Android Support

#### Windows Support

- clang-cl now supports `/std:c++23preview` which enables C++23 features.

- Clang no longer allows references inside a union when emulating MSVC 1900+ even if fms-extensions is enabled. Starting with VS2015, MSVC 1900, this Microsoft extension is no longer allowed and always results in an error. Clang now follows the MSVC behavior in this scenario. When -fms-compatibility-version=18.00 or prior is set on the command line this Microsoft extension is still allowed as VS2013 and prior allow it.

- Clang now supports the `#pragma clang section` directive for COFF targets.

#### LoongArch Support

- Types of parameters and return value of `__builtin_lsx_vorn_v` and `__builtin_lasx_xvorn_v` are changed from `signed char` to `unsigned char`. (#114514)

- `-mrelax` and `-mno-relax` are supported now on LoongArch that can be used to enable / disable the linker relaxation optimization. (#123587)

- Fine-grained la64v1.1 options are added including `-m{no-,}frecipe`, `-m{no-,}lam-bh`, `-m{no-,}ld-seq-sa`, `-m{no-,}div32`, `-m{no-,}lamcas` and `-m{no-,}scq`.

- Two options `-m{no-,}annotate-tablejump` are added to enable / disable annotating table jump instruction to correlate it with the jump table. (#102411)

- FreeBSD support is added for LoongArch64 and has been tested by building kernel-toolchain. (#119191)

#### RISC-V Support

- The option `-mcmodel=large` for the large code model is supported.

- Bump RVV intrinsic to version 1.0, the spec: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/rvv-intrinsic-doc/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc4

- Zicsr / Zifencei are allowed to be duplicated in the presence of g in -march.

#### CUDA/HIP Language Changes

- Fixed a bug about overriding a constexpr pure-virtual member function with a non-constexpr virtual member function which causes compilation failure when including standard C++ header format.

- Added initial support for version 3 of the compressed offload bundle format, which uses 64-bit fields for Total File Size and Uncompressed Binary Size. This enables support for files larger than 4GB. The support is currently experimental and can be enabled by setting the environment variable COMPRESSED_BUNDLE_FORMAT_VERSION=3.

#### CUDA Support

- Clang now supports CUDA SDK up to 12.6

- Added support for sm_100

- Added support for __grid_constant__ attribute.

- CUDA now uses the new offloading driver by default. The new driver supports device-side LTO, interoperability with OpenMP and other languages, and native `-fgpu-rdc` support with static libraries. The old behavior can be returned using the `--no-offload-new-driver` flag. The binary format is no longer compatible with the NVIDIA compiler’s RDC-mode support. More information can be found at: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/OffloadingDesign.html

#### AIX Support

- Fixed the `-print-runtime-dir` option.

- Enable continuous profile syncing feature on AIX.

#### NetBSD Support

#### WebAssembly Support

The default target CPU, “generic”, now enables the -mnontrapping-fptoint and -mbulk-memory flags, which correspond to the [Bulk Memory Operations] and [Non-trapping float-to-int Conversions] language features, which are [widely implemented in engines].

A new Lime1 target CPU is added, -mcpu=lime1. This CPU follows the definition of the Lime1 CPU [here], and enables -mmultivalue, -mmutable-globals, -mcall-indirect-overlong, -msign-ext, -mbulk-memory-opt, -mnontrapping-fptoint, and -mextended-const.

[Bulk Memory Operations]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/bulk-memory-operations/blob/master/proposals/bulk-memory-operations/Overview.md [Non-trapping float-to-int Conversions]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/master/proposals/nontrapping-float-to-int-conversion/Overview.md [widely implemented in engines]: https://webassembly.org/features/ [here]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/tool-conventions/blob/main/Lime.md#lime1

#### AVR Support

- Reject C/C++ compilation for avr1 devices which have no SRAM.

#### BPF Support

- Make `-mcpu=v3` as the default.

### DWARF Support in Clang

### Floating Point Support in Clang

- Add `__builtin_elementwise_atan2` builtin for floating point types only.

### Fixed Point Support in Clang

### AST Matchers

- Fixed an issue with the hasName and hasAnyName matcher when matching inline namespaces with an enclosing namespace of the same name.

- Fixed an ordering issue with the hasOperands matcher occurring when setting a binding in the first matcher and using it in the second matcher.

- Fixed a crash when traverse lambda expr with invalid captures. (#106444)

- Fixed `isInstantiated` and `isInTemplateInstantiation` to also match for variable templates. (#110666)

- Ensure `hasName` matches template specializations across inline namespaces, making matchesNodeFullSlow and matchesNodeFullFast consistent.

- Improved the performance of the `getExpansionLocOfMacro` by tracking already processed macros during recursion.

- Add `exportDecl` matcher to match export declaration.

- Ensure `hasType` and `hasDeclaration` match Objective-C interface declarations.

- Ensure `pointee` matches Objective-C pointer types.

- Add `dependentScopeDeclRefExpr` matcher to match expressions that refer to dependent scope declarations.

- Add `dependentNameType` matcher to match a dependent name type.

- Add `dependentTemplateSpecializationType` matcher to match a dependent template specialization type.

- Add `hasDependentName` matcher to match the dependent name of a DependentScopeDeclRefExpr or DependentNameType.

### clang-format

- Adds `BreakBinaryOperations` option.

- Adds `TemplateNames` option.

- Adds `AlignFunctionDeclarations` option to `AlignConsecutiveDeclarations`.

- Adds `IndentOnly` suboption to `ReflowComments` to fix the indentation of multi-line comments without touching their contents, renames `false` to `Never`, and `true` to `Always`.

- Adds `RemoveEmptyLinesInUnwrappedLines` option.

- Adds `KeepFormFeed` option and set it to `true` for `GNU` style.

- Adds `AllowShortNamespacesOnASingleLine` option.

- Adds `VariableTemplates` option.

- Adds support for bash globstar in `.clang-format-ignore`.

- Adds `WrapNamespaceBodyWithEmptyLines` option.

- Adds the `IndentExportBlock` option.

- Adds `PenaltyBreakBeforeMemberAccess` option.

- Add the C language instead of treating it like C++.

- Allow specifying the language (C, C++, or Objective-C) for a `.h` file by adding a special comment (e.g. `// clang-format Language: ObjC`) near the top of the file.

### libclang

- Add `clang_isBeforeInTranslationUnit`. Given two source locations, it determines whether the first one comes strictly before the second in the source code.

- Add `clang_getTypePrettyPrinted`. It allows controlling the PrintingPolicy used to pretty-print a type.

- Added `clang_visitCXXBaseClasses`, which allows visiting the base classes of a class.

- Added `clang_getOffsetOfBase`, which allows computing the offset of a base class in a class’s layout.

### Code Completion

- Use `HeuristicResolver` (upstreamed from clangd) to improve code completion results in dependent code

### Static Analyzer

#### New features

- The `__builtin_*_overflow` functions are now properly modeled. (#102602)

- `unix.Malloc` now checks for `ownership_returns(class, idx)` and `ownership_takes(class, idx)` attributes with class names different from “malloc”. It now reports an error if the class of allocation and deallocation function mismatches. Documentation.

- Function effects, e.g. the `nonblocking` and `nonallocating` “performance constraint” attributes, are now verified. For example, for functions declared with the `nonblocking` attribute, the compiler can generate warnings about the use of any language features or calls to other functions, which may block.

- Introduced `-warning-suppression-mappings` flag to control diagnostic suppressions per file. See documentation for details.

- Started to model GCC asm statements in some basic way. (#103714, #109838)

#### Crash and bug fixes

- In loops where the loop condition is opaque (i.e. the analyzer cannot determine whether it’s true or false), the analyzer will no longer assume execution paths that perform more than two iterations. These unjustified assumptions caused false positive reports (e.g. 100+ out-of-bounds reports in the FFMPEG codebase) in loops where the programmer intended only two or three steps but the analyzer wasn’t able to understand that the loop is limited. (#119388)

- In clang-19, the `crosscheck-with-z3-timeout-threshold` was set to 300ms, but it is now reset back to 15000, aka. 15 seconds. This is to reduce the number of flaky diagnostics due to Z3 query timeouts. If you are affected, read the details at #118291 carefully.

- Same as the previous point, but for `crosscheck-with-z3-rlimit-threshold` and `crosscheck-with-z3-eqclass-timeout-threshold`. This option is now set to zero, aka. disabled by default. (#118291)

- Fixed a crash in the `unix.Stream` checker when modeling `fread`. (#108393)

- Fixed a crash in the `core.StackAddressEscape` checker related to `alloca`. Fixes (#107852).

- Fixed a crash when invoking a function pointer cast from some non-function pointer. (#111390)

- Fixed a crash when modeling some `ArrayInitLoopExpr`. Fixes (#112813).

- Fixed a crash in loop unrolling. Fixes (#121201).

- The iteration orders of some internal representations of symbols were changed to make their internal ordering more stable. This should improve determinism. This also reduces the number of flaky reports exposed by the Z3 query timeouts. (#121749)

- The `unix.BlockInCriticalSection` now recognizes the `lock()` member function as expected, even if it’s inherited from a base class. Fixes (#104241).

- Fixed a crash when C++20 parenthesized initializer lists are used. This issue was causing a crash in clang-tidy. (#136041)

#### Improvements

- Improved the handling of the `ownership_returns` attribute. Now, Clang reports an error if the attribute is attached to a function that returns a non-pointer value. Fixes (#99501)

- Improved the escape heuristics of member variables of non-trivial std types. (#100405) Also when invoking an opaque member function. (#111138)

- Improved the `nullability.NullReturnedFromNonnull` checker by reporting more violations of the `returns_nonnull` attribute. Documentation. (#106048)

- The `unix.Stream` checker now notes the last `fclose` call in the diagnostics. (#109112)

- The `core.StackAddressEscape` checker now detects more leak issues through output parameters and global variables. (#105653, #105648, #107003) Fixes (#106834).

- The `unix.Malloc` checker was made more consistent with the ownership attributes. (#104599, #110115) This also fixed #104229.

- The number of false-positive reports of `alpha.core.FixedAddr` checker was slightly reduced. (#108993, #110458)

- Improved the default (range-based) solver by reasoning about more commutative operations, and better deducing some concrete values from their known ranges. (#112583, #112887, #115579)

- A new option `crosscheck-with-z3-max-attempts-per-query` should help reducing the number of flaky reports if Z3 query timeouts are used. By default, Z3 queries are attempted at most 3 times, giving it more chances, thus reducing number of flaky issues on timeouts. Read the details in this RFC. (#120239)

- The resulting pointer of `fread` is now known to never alias with the pointers of `stdin`, `stdout` or `stderr`. (#100085)

#### Moved checkers

- The checker `alpha.core.IdenticalExpr` was deleted because it was duplicated in the clang-tidy checkers `misc-redundant-expression` and `bugprone-branch-clone`.

- The checker `alpha.security.MallocOverflow` was deleted because it was badly implemented and its aggressive logic produced too many false positives. To detect too large arguments passed to malloc, consider using the checker `alpha.taint.TaintedAlloc`.

- Both `alpha.nondeterministic.PointerSorting` and `alpha.nondeterministic.PointerIteration` were moved to a new bugprone checker named `bugprone-nondeterministic-pointer-iteration-order`. The original checkers were implemented only using AST matching and make more sense as a single clang-tidy check.

- The checker `alpha.unix.Chroot` was modernized, improved, and moved to `unix.Chroot`. Testing was done on open-source projects that use chroot(), and false issues addressed in the improvements based on real use cases. Open-source projects used for testing include `nsjail`, `lxroot`, `dive` and `ruri`. This checker conforms to SEI Cert C recommendation POS05-C. Limit access to files by creating a jail. Fixes (#34697). (#117791) Documentation.

- The checker `alpha.core.PointerSub` was moved to `security.PointerSub` after it was significantly improved in #96501, #102580, #111846.

- The checker `alpha.security.MmapWriteExec` was moved to `security.MmapWriteExec`.

- The checker `alpha.unix.cstring.NotNullTerminated` was moved to `unix.cstring.NotNullTerminated`.

- The division by tainted value diagnostic was split from the checker `core.DivideZero` into a separate checker `optin.taint.TaintedDiv`. (#106389)

- Both `alpha.security.taint.TaintPropagation` and `alpha.security.taint.GenericTaint` were moved to `optin.taint.TaintPropagation` and `optin.taint.GenericTaint` respectively. (#67352)

### Sanitizers

- Introduced Realtime Sanitizer, activated by using the -fsanitize=realtime flag. This sanitizer detects unsafe system library calls, such as memory allocations and mutex locks. If any such function is called during invocation of a function marked with the `[[clang::nonblocking]]` attribute, an error is printed to the console and the process exits non-zero.

- Added the `-fsanitize-undefined-ignore-overflow-pattern` flag which can be used to disable specific overflow-dependent code patterns. The supported patterns are: `add-signed-overflow-test`, `add-unsigned-overflow-test`, `negated-unsigned-const`, and `unsigned-post-decr-while`. The sanitizer instrumentation can be toggled off for all available patterns by specifying `all`. Conversely, you may disable all exclusions with `none` which is the default.

      /// specified with ``-fsanitize-undefined-ignore-overflow-pattern=add-unsigned-overflow-test``
      int common_overflow_check_pattern(unsigned base, unsigned offset) {
        if (base + offset < base) { /* ... */ } // The pattern of `a + b < a`, and other re-orderings, won't be instrumented
      }

      /// specified with ``-fsanitize-undefined-ignore-overflow-pattern=add-signed-overflow-test``
      int common_overflow_check_pattern_signed(signed int base, signed int offset) {
        if (base + offset < base) { /* ... */ } // The pattern of `a + b < a`, and other re-orderings, won't be instrumented
      }

      /// specified with ``-fsanitize-undefined-ignore-overflow-pattern=negated-unsigned-const``
      void negation_overflow() {
        unsigned long foo = -1UL; // No longer causes a negation overflow warning
        unsigned long bar = -2UL; // and so on...
      }

      /// specified with ``-fsanitize-undefined-ignore-overflow-pattern=unsigned-post-decr-while``
      void while_post_decrement() {
        unsigned char count = 16;
        while (count--) { /* ... */ } // No longer causes unsigned-integer-overflow sanitizer to trip
      }

  Many existing projects have a large amount of these code patterns present. This new flag should allow those projects to enable integer sanitizers with less noise.

- `-fsanitize=signed-integer-overflow`, `-fsanitize=unsigned-integer-overflow`, `-fsanitize=implicit-signed-integer-truncation`, `-fsanitize=implicit-unsigned-integer-truncation`, `-fsanitize=enum` now properly support the “type” prefix within Sanitizer Special Case Lists (SSCL). See that link for examples.

- Introduced an experimental Type Sanitizer, activated by using the `-fsanitize=type` flag. This sanitizer detects violations of C/C++ type-based aliasing rules.

- Implemented `-f[no-]sanitize-trap=local-bounds`, and `-f[no-]sanitize-recover=local-bounds`.

- `-fsanitize-merge` (default) and `-fno-sanitize-merge` have been added for fine-grained, unified control of which UBSan checks can potentially be merged by the compiler (for example, `-fno-sanitize-merge=bool,enum,array-bounds,local-bounds`).

- Changed `-fsanitize=pointer-overflow` to no longer report `NULL + 0` as undefined behavior in C, in line with N3322, and matching the previous behavior for C++. `NULL + non_zero` continues to be reported as undefined behavior.

### Python Binding Changes

- Fixed an issue that led to crashes when calling `Type.get_exception_specification_kind`.

- Added `Cursor.pretty_printed`, a binding for `clang_getCursorPrettyPrinted`, and related functions, which allow changing the formatting of pretty-printed code.

- Added `Cursor.is_anonymous_record_decl`, a binding for `clang_Cursor_isAnonymousRecordDecl`, which allows checking if a declaration is an anonymous union or anonymous struct.

- Added `Type.pretty_printed`, a binding for ``clang_getTypePrettyPrinted`, which allows changing the formatting of pretty-printed types.

- Added `Cursor.is_virtual_base`, a binding for `clang_isVirtualBase`, which checks whether a base class is virtual.

- Added `Type.get_bases`, a binding for `clang_visitCXXBaseClasses`, which allows visiting the base classes of a class.

- Added `Cursor.get_base_offsetof`, a binding for `clang_getOffsetOfBase`, which allows computing the offset of a base class in a class’s layout.

### OpenMP Support

- Added support for ‘omp assume’ directive.

- Added support for ‘omp scope’ directive.

- Added support for allocator-modifier in ‘allocate’ clause.

- Changed the OpenMP DeviceRTL to use ‘generic’ IR. The `LIBOMPTARGET_DEVICE_ARCHITECTURES` CMake argument is now unused and will always build support for AMDGPU and NVPTX targets.

- Added support for combined masked constructs ‘omp parallel masked taskloop’, ‘omp parallel masked taskloop simd’,’omp masked taskloop’ and ‘omp masked taskloop simd’ directive.

- Added support for align-modifier in ‘allocate’ clause.

#### Improvements

- Improve the handling of mapping array-section for struct containing nested structs with user defined mappers

- num_teams and thead_limit now accept multiple expressions when it is used along in `target teams ompx_bare` construct. This allows the target region to be launched with multi-dim grid on GPUs.

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