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LLVM Weekly - #67, Apr 13th 2015

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News and articles from around the web

A new post on the LLVM Blog deatils how to use LLVM's libFuzzer for guided fuzzing of libraries.

The Red Hat developer blog has an article about libgccjit, a new feature in GCC5, which may be of interest.

On the mailing lists

LLVM commits

  • The R600 backend gained an experimental integrated assembler. r234381.

  • The libFuzzer documentation has been extended to demonstrate how the Heartbleed vulnerability could have been found using it. r234391.

  • The preserve-use-list-order flags are now on by default. r234510.

  • LLVM gained a pass to estimate when branches in a GPU program can diverge. r234567.

  • The ARM backend learnt to recognise the Cortex-R4 processor. r234486.

Clang commits

  • Lifetime markers for named temporaries are now always inserted. r234581.

  • The quality of error messages for assignments to read-only variables has been enhanced. r234677.

  • clang-format's nested block formatting got a little better. r234304.

Other project commits

  • Support for the 'native' file format was removed from lld. r234641.

  • Remote debugging, the remote test suite, and the process to cross-compile lldb has been documented. r234317, r234395, r234489.

  • LLDB gained initial runtime support for RenderScript. r234503.