LLVM Weekly - #232, June 11th 2018

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News and articles from around the web

The ISO C++ Committee meeting recently took place in Rapperswil, Switzerland. Several committee members have shared a detailed write-up on Reddit.

The next LLVM Social in Shanghai has been announced for July 1st.

Zig is an interesting LLVM-based language which has been mentioned in LLVM Weekly previously, and aims to be a better C. The author is moving to working full-time on Zig and is seeking donations.

On the mailing lists

LLVM commits

An initial set of optimisation remarks has been added to the shrink-wrapping pass. r333972.

The SETCCE SelectionDAG node has been removed in favour of SETCCCARRY. r333939.

The semantics of NAME in TableGen have been streamlined. r333900.

Documentation was added for masked vector expanding load and compressing store intrinsics. r334075.

The 'li' pseudo instruction is now supported by the RISC-V MC assembly parser. r334203.

Clang commits

Implementation of clang-doc continues with the introduction of the 'reducer' portion of the frontend framework. r333932.

Bittest intrinsics have been implemented generically for non-x86 platforms. r334059.

Other project commits