LLVM Weekly - #90, Sep 21st 2015

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News and articles from around the web

The ISO C++ committee have started putting together a set of C++ Core Guidelines. The document describes itself as a set of guidelines for using C++ well, with the intention that adherence to the rules could be checked by an analysis tool. Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter are acting as editors for this project.

A reddit user has posted a detailed description of how they use libclang to generate reflection data for C++.

Andrew Chambers has written a blog post about his use of fuzzing to look for ABI bugs.

This short and sweet blog post introduces the clazy static checker, a simple checker for some common suboptimal uses of Qt types. There are plenty of ideas in the comments for further analyses that might be useful.

On the mailing lists

LLVM commits

Assert builds will now produce human-readable numbers to identify dumped SelectionDAG nodes. "0x7fcbd9700160: ch = EntryToken" becomes "t0: ch = EntryToken". r248010.

Basic support for reading GCC AutoFDO profiles has landed. r247874.

The llvm-mc-fuzzer tool has been documented. r247979.

The llvm.invariant.group.barrier intrinsic was born. r247711.

The LLVM default target triple can now be set to the empty string at configure time. r247775.

Clang commits

AST matcher functions have been renamed to match the AST node names directly. This is a breaking change. r247885, r247887.

The static analyzer gained a new Objective-C checker. DynamicTypeChecker will check for cases where the dynamic and static type of an object are unrelated. r248002.

Other project commits