LLVM Weekly - #79, Jul 6th 2015

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News and articles from around the web

Stephen Cross has released llvm-abi, a library for generating LLVM IR that complies with platform ABIs.

This is a rather cute implementation of Tetris in C++ header files, compatible with Clang.

On the mailing lists

• Kevin Atkinson asks whether to use MCJIT or ORCJIT. It sounds like ORC is working out well for the LLILC team.

• Chandler Carruth has kicked off a discussion about the AliasAnalysis update interface and what should be done about it.

• In response to a question, Evgeny Astigeevich has given a useful guide to finding the control dependence graph.

• Manuel Klimek is updating the LLVM Phabricator install.

LLVM commits

• The initial skeleton of the WebAssembly backend has been committed. It is not yet functional. r241022.

• DIModule metadata nodes have been introduced. A DIModule is meant to be used to record modules importaed by the current compile unit. r241017.

• New exception handling intrinsics have been added for recovering and restoring parent frames. r241125.

Clang commits

• Clang gained support for the x86 builtin __builtin_cpu_supports. r240994.

• The Clang man pages have been converted to Sphinx (from .pod). r241037.

Other project commits

• libcxx gained shared_mutux. r241067.

• LLD has gained some generally applicable optimisations. e.g. devirtualizing SymbolBody and compacting its in-memory representation. r241001.

• LLD's COFF linker can now link a working 64-bit debug build of Chrome. chrome.dll takes 24 seconds (vs 48 seconds for linking it with MSVC). r241318.

• LLDB grew an example of scripted steps in Python. r241216.