LLVM Weekly - #39, Sep 29th 2014

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News and articles from around the web

An implementation of Common Lisp with an LLVM backend, Clasp, has been announced. There's a lot of work to be done on performance, but development is very active on Github.

A backend for the educational 'y86' instruction set architecture has been started. The source is on Github.

A new binary snopshot of the ELLCC cross compilation toolchain is now available. Pre-compiled binaries are available for ARM, MIPS, PPC, and x86. All tarballs contain header files and runtime libraries for all targets to allow you to build for any supported target.

On the mailing lists

LLVM commits

Segmented stacks support for the x32 ABI has been fixed. r218247.

Robin Morisset's work on optimisation of atomics continues. AtomicExpandPass now inserts fences itself rather than SelectionDAGBuilder. r218329.

LLVM's libSupport gained a type-safe alternative to llvm::format() . r218463.

llvm-vtabledump learned how to dump RTTI structures for the MS ABI. r218498.

Clang commits

The assume_aligned function attribute is now supported. r218500.

The thread safety analysis documentation has seen a hefty update. r218420.

MS compatibility is further improved with support for the __super scope specifier. r218484.

Other project commits