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| @@ -38,8 +38,7 @@
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| </li>
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| </ul>
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| -</div><section id="source-language-support">
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| -<h2 id="source-language-support">Source language support</h2>
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| +</div><h2 id="source-language-support">Source language support</h2>
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| <p>The currently supported languages are C and C++. The PNaCl toolchain is
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| based on recent Clang, which fully supports C++11 and most of C11. A
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| detailed status of the language support is available <a class="reference external" href="http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html">here</a>.</p>
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| @@ -49,7 +48,6 @@ section on other languages</em></a>.</p>
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| <code>libc++</code>, and the <code>newlib</code> standard C library. <code>libstdc++</code> is also
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| supported but its use is discouraged; see <a class="reference internal" href="/native-client/devguide/devcycle/building.html#building-cpp-libraries"><em>C++ standard libraries</em></a>
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| for more details.</p>
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| -<section id="versions">
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| <h3 id="versions">Versions</h3>
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| <p>Version information can be obtained:</p>
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| <ul class="small-gap">
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| @@ -58,14 +56,11 @@ for more details.</p>
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| <li><code>libc++</code>: use the <code>_LIBCPP_VERSION</code> macro.</li>
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| <li><code>libstdc++</code>: use the <code>_GLIBCXX_VERSION</code> macro.</li>
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| </ul>
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| -</section><section id="preprocessor-definitions">
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| <h3 id="preprocessor-definitions">Preprocessor definitions</h3>
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| <p>When compiling C/C++ code, the PNaCl toolchain defines the <code>__pnacl__</code>
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| macro. In addition, <code>__native_client__</code> is defined for compatibility
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| with other NaCl toolchains.</p>
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| -</section></section><section id="memory-model-and-atomics">
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| -<span id="id1"></span><h2 id="memory-model-and-atomics"><span id="id1"></span>Memory Model and Atomics</h2>
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| -<section id="memory-model-for-concurrent-operations">
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| +<h2 id="memory-model-and-atomics"><span id="id1"></span>Memory Model and Atomics</h2>
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| <h3 id="memory-model-for-concurrent-operations">Memory Model for Concurrent Operations</h3>
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| <p>The memory model offered by PNaCl relies on the same coding guidelines
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| as the C11/C++11 one: concurrent accesses must always occur through
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| @@ -112,7 +107,6 @@ to indirectly access devices.</li>
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| <p>Setting up the above mechanisms requires assistance from the embedding
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| sandbox’s runtime (e.g. NaCl’s Pepper APIs), but using them once setup
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| can be done through regular C/C++ code.</p>
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| -</section><section id="atomic-memory-ordering-constraints">
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| <h3 id="atomic-memory-ordering-constraints">Atomic Memory Ordering Constraints</h3>
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| <p>Atomics follow the same ordering constraints as in regular C11/C++11,
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| but all accesses are promoted to sequential consistency (the strongest
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| @@ -128,7 +122,6 @@ primitives, and these primitives must always be of the same bit size
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| for that location.</li>
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| <li>Not all memory orderings are valid for all atomic operations.</li>
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| </ul>
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| -</section><section id="volatile-memory-accesses">
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| <h3 id="volatile-memory-accesses">Volatile Memory Accesses</h3>
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| <p>The C11/C++11 standards mandate that <code>volatile</code> accesses execute in
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| program order (but are not fences, so other memory operations can
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| @@ -153,18 +146,15 @@ naturally aligned, and tries to guarantee this alignment.</p>
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| code, and combined with builtin fences these programs can do meaningful
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| cross-thread communication without changing code. They also better
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| reflect the original code’s intent and guarantee better portability.</p>
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| -</section></section><section id="threading">
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| -<span id="language-support-threading"></span><h2 id="threading"><span id="language-support-threading"></span>Threading</h2>
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| +<h2 id="threading"><span id="language-support-threading"></span>Threading</h2>
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| <p>Threading is explicitly supported through C11/C++11’s threading
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| libraries as well as POSIX threads.</p>
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| <p>Communication between threads should use atomic primitives as described
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| in <a class="reference internal" href="#id1">Memory Model and Atomics</a>.</p>
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| -</section><section id="setjmp-and-longjmp">
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| <h2 id="setjmp-and-longjmp"><code>setjmp</code> and <code>longjmp</code></h2>
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| <p>PNaCl and NaCl support <code>setjmp</code> and <code>longjmp</code> without any
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| restrictions beyond C’s.</p>
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| -</section><section id="c-exception-handling">
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| -<span id="exception-handling"></span><h2 id="c-exception-handling"><span id="exception-handling"></span>C++ Exception Handling</h2>
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| +<h2 id="c-exception-handling"><span id="exception-handling"></span>C++ Exception Handling</h2>
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| <p>PNaCl currently supports C++ exception handling through <code>setjmp()</code> and
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| <code>longjmp()</code>, which can be enabled with the <code>--pnacl-exceptions=sjlj</code>
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| linker flag. Exceptions are disabled by default so that faster and
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| @@ -173,7 +163,6 @@ calls to <code>abort()</code>. The usual <code>-fno-exceptions</code> flag is al
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| supported. PNaCl will support full zero-cost exception handling in the
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| future.</p>
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| <p>NaCl supports full zero-cost C++ exception handling.</p>
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| -</section><section id="inline-assembly">
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| <h2 id="inline-assembly">Inline Assembly</h2>
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| <p>Inline assembly isn’t supported by PNaCl because it isn’t portable. The
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| one current exception is the common compiler barrier idiom
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| @@ -188,8 +177,7 @@ inline assembly.</p>
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| <p>NaCl supports a fairly wide subset of inline assembly through GCC’s
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| inline assembly syntax, with the restriction that the sandboxing model
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| for the target architecture has to be respected.</p>
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| -</section><section id="portable-simd-vectors">
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| -<span id="id2"></span><h2 id="portable-simd-vectors"><span id="id2"></span>Portable SIMD Vectors</h2>
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| +<h2 id="portable-simd-vectors"><span id="id2"></span>Portable SIMD Vectors</h2>
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| <p>SIMD vectors aren’t part of the C/C++ standards and are traditionally
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| very hardware-specific. Portable Native Client offers a portable version
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| of SIMD vector datatypes and operations which map well to modern
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| @@ -199,7 +187,6 @@ hardware-specific uses.</p>
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| and more features, including performance enhancements, have been added in
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| subsequent releases, see the <a class="reference internal" href="/native-client/sdk/release-notes.html#sdk-release-notes"><em>Release Notes</em></a> for more
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| details.</p>
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| -<section id="hand-coding-vector-extensions">
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| <h3 id="hand-coding-vector-extensions">Hand-Coding Vector Extensions</h3>
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| <p>The initial vector support in Portable Native Client adds <a class="reference external" href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#vectors-and-extended-vectors">LLVM vectors</a>
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| and <a class="reference external" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html">GCC vectors</a> since these
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| @@ -375,15 +362,12 @@ v4s shift_right_by(v4s shift_me, int shift_amount) {
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| return shift_me >> __builtin_shuffle_vector(tmp, tmp, 0, 0, 0, 0);
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| }
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| </pre>
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| -</section><section id="auto-vectorization">
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| <h3 id="auto-vectorization">Auto-Vectorization</h3>
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| <p>Auto-vectorization is currently not enabled for Portable Native Client,
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| but will be in a future release.</p>
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| -</section></section><section id="undefined-behavior">
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| <h2 id="undefined-behavior">Undefined Behavior</h2>
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| <p>The C and C++ languages expose some undefined behavior which is
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| discussed in <a class="reference internal" href="/native-client/reference/pnacl-undefined-behavior.html#undefined-behavior"><em>PNaCl Undefined Behavior</em></a>.</p>
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| -</section><section id="floating-point">
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| <h2 id="floating-point">Floating-Point</h2>
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| <p>PNaCl exposes 32-bit and 64-bit floating point operations which are
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| mostly IEEE-754 compliant. There are a few caveats:</p>
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| @@ -413,7 +397,6 @@ in the <em>pexe</em>.</li>
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| </ul>
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| </li>
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| </ul>
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| -</section><section id="computed-goto">
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| <h2 id="computed-goto">Computed <code>goto</code></h2>
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| <p>PNaCl supports computed <code>goto</code>, a non-standard GCC extension to C used
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| by some interpreters, by lowering them to <code>switch</code> statements. The
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| @@ -423,16 +406,13 @@ compile-time option for using computed <code>goto</code>, it’s possible th
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| program will run faster with the option turned off (e.g., if the program
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| does extra work to take advantage of computed <code>goto</code>).</p>
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| <p>NaCl supports computed <code>goto</code> without any transformation.</p>
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| -</section><section id="future-directions">
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| <h2 id="future-directions">Future Directions</h2>
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| -<section id="inter-process-communication">
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| <h3 id="inter-process-communication">Inter-Process Communication</h3>
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| <p>Inter-process communication through shared memory is currently not
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| supported by PNaCl/NaCl. When implemented, it may be limited to
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| operations which are lock-free on the current platform (<code>is_lock_free</code>
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| methods). It will rely on the address-free properly discussed in <a class="reference internal" href="#memory-model-for-concurrent-operations">Memory
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| Model for Concurrent Operations</a>.</p>
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| -</section><section id="posix-style-signal-handling">
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| <h3 id="posix-style-signal-handling">POSIX-style Signal Handling</h3>
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| <p>POSIX-style signal handling really consists of two different features:</p>
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| <ul class="small-gap">
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| @@ -456,6 +436,6 @@ or suspension of threads.</p>
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| <p>If PNaCl were to support either of these, the interaction of
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| <code>volatile</code> and atomics with same-thread signal handling would need
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| to be carefully detailed.</p>
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| -</section></section></section>
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