LLVM Weekly - #281, May 20th 2019

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News and articles from around the web

LLVM 8.0.1-rc1 has been tagged.

An LLVM meetup will take place in Leuven, Belgium on Wednesday June 19th.

The 6th HelloLLVM/HelloGCC social in Beijing, China will take place on May 25th.

On the mailing lists

LLVM commits

An initial ORC design document was committed. r361089.

Support in ELF for "dependent libraries" was committed, intended to support simple "autolinking" use cases. r360984.

The SystemZ backend was updated to start to model the floating-point control register. r360570.

Basic target feature definitions were added for Arm SVE2 as well as initial MC layer support. r360573, r360682, and more.

Constrained fptrunc and fpext intrinsics were added. r360581.

The in-tree gn build system can now build the Lanai, Sparc, and Hexagon backends. r360644, r360645, r360647.

Guidelines and recommendations for LLVM socials were added to the LLVM docs. r360651.

HWASan and Kernel HWASan were ported to the new pass manager. r360707.

In order to fix a layering problem, backends were modified to have a new TargetInfo header. r360709, and more.

A scheduling model for the Cortex-M4 was added. r360768.

lround/llround intrinsics and SelectionDAG nodes were added. r360889.

Clang commits

Virtual function calls and dynamic_cast can now be used in constant expression evaluation in C++20.r360635, r360806.

The Clang AST can now be dumped to JSON. r360622.

A new language mode was added for C2x, with [[attribute]] support enabled by default. r360667.

A new bugprone-branch-clone check was added to clang-tiy, which detects if/else chains or swtich statements where consecutive branches contain identical code. r360779.

Other project commits