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