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LLVM Weekly - #99, Nov 23rd 2015

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News and articles from around the web

LLVM/Clang 3.7.1-rc2 has been tagged. As always, help testing is appreciated.

Clasp 0.4 has been released. Clasp is a new Common Lisp implementation that uses LLVM as a compiler backend and aims to offer seamless C++ interoperation.

On the mailing lists

LLVM commits

  • Initial support for value profiling landed. r253484.

  • It is now possible to use the -force-attribute command-line option for specifying a function attribute for a particular function (e.g. norecurse, noinline etc). This should be very useful for testing. r253550.

  • The WebAssembly backend gained initial prototype passes for register coloring (on its virtual registers) and register stackifying. r253217, r253465.

  • The built-in assembler now treats fatal errors as non-fatal in order to report all errors in a file rather than just the first one encountered. r253328.

  • As discussed on the mailing list last week, lane masks are now always precise. r253279.

  • Support for prelinking has been dropped. See the commit message for a full rationale. r253280.

  • llvm-lto can now be used to emit assembly rather than object code. r253622, r253624.

Clang commits

  • Clang should now be usable for CUDA compilation out of the box. r253389.

  • When giving the -mcpu/-march options to Clang targeting ARM, you can now specify +feature. r253471.

Other project commits

  • Compiler-rt gained support for value profiling. r253483.

  • The 'new ELF linker' is now the default ELF linker in lld. r253318.

  • The LLVM test suite gained support for running SPEC2000int and SPEC2006int+fp with PGO and reference inputs. r253362.