LLVM Weekly - #106, Jan 11th 2016

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Many readers may be interested that last week was the 3rd RISC-V Workshop. You can find slides from the two lowRISC talks here and here. You may also want to read my liveblog of the event.

News and articles from around the web

The BSD Now podcast recently interviewed Alex Rosenberg about his work on LLVM/Clang and FreeBSD.

The folks at QuarksLab have shared a Clang hardening cheat sheet.

LLDB 3.8 will feature initial Go debugging support.

The next Paris LLVM Social will be held on January 27th and includes a talk from John Regehr.

The next Zurich LLVM Social will be taking place on January 14th.

On the mailing lists

LLVM commits

LLVM gained the -print-funcs option which can be used to filter IR printing to only certain functions. r256952.

The LLVM ADT library gained a new sum type abstraction for pointer-like types and an abstraction for embedding an integer within a pointer-like type. r257282, r257284.

LLVM now recognises the Samsung Exynos M1 core. r256828.

InstCombine learned to expose more constants when comparing getelementptrs (GEPs) by detecting when both GEPs could be expressed as GEPs with the same base pointer. r257064.

SelectionDAGBuilder will set NoUnsignedWrap for an inbounds getelementptr and for load/store offsets. r256890.

AArch64 MachineCombine will now allow fadd and fmul instructions to be reassociated. r257024.

Macro emission in DWARFv4 is now supported. r257060.

llvm-symbolizer gained the -print-source-context-lines option to print source code around the line. r257326.

Clang commits

Clang's CMake build system can now perform a multi-stage bootstrap build with profile-guided optimisation. r256873.

Clang's command line frontend learned to handle a whole bunch of -fno-builtin-* arguments. r256937.

The new ELF LLD linker will now be used for th AMDGPU target. r257175.

Other project commits