LLVM Weekly - #105, Jan 4th 2016

Welcome to the one hundred and fifth issue of LLVM Weekly, a weekly newsletter (published every Monday) covering developments in LLVM, Clang, and related projects. LLVM Weekly is brought to you by Alex Bradbury. Subscribe to future issues at http://llvmweekly.org and pass it on to anyone else you think may be interested. Please send any tips or feedback to asb@asbradbury.org, or @llvmweekly or @asbradbury on Twitter.

Happy new year! This issue marks the second anniversary of LLVM Weekly. It's rather short as the past week has been very quiet, with most LLVM developers seemingly taking a break over the holidays. My colleague Wei Song and myself will be presenting about lowRISC at the 3rd RISC-V workshop on Wednesday this week. Do say hi if you're going to be there.

News and articles from around the web

Sanjoy Das has written a blog post about issues with LLVM's undef value. Interestingly, he provides an example where undef can actually inhibit optimisations.

On the mailing lists

LLVM commits

The -align-all-loops and -align-all-functions arguments have been introduced to force function or loop alignments for testing purposes. r256571.

The x86 backend has added intrinsics for reading and writing to the flags register. r256685.

Clang commits

Various Clang classes have been converted to use the TrailingObjects helper. r256658, r256659, and more.

__readeflags and __writeeflags intrinsics are exposed in Clang. r256686.

Other project commits