LLVM Weekly - #72, May 18th 2015

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Some of you may be interested that over at the lowRISC project, we've announced the full set of summer student projects we're supporting.

News and articles from around the web

The Rust programming language, which of course uses LLVM as its compiler backend, has just released version 1.0.

The next Cambridge LLVM Social will take place on Wednesday 20th May at the Cambridge Beer Festival.

On the mailing lists

LLVM commits

The ARM backend has been updated to use AEABI aligned function variants. r237127.

The heuristic for estimating the effect of complete loop unrolling has been reimplemented. r237156.

Statepoints are now 'patchable'. r237214.

Support for function entry count metadata has been added. r237260.

A new loop distribution pass has been born. It is off by default. r237358.

New SelectionDAG nodes have been added for signed/unsigned min/max. r237423.

A simple speculative execution pass, targeted mainly at GPUs has been added. r237459.

Clang commits

The little endian SPARC target has been added to clang. r237001.

clang-format's formatter has undergone some refactoring, which also led to a few bug fixes.r237104.

Documentation on adding new attributes has seen a significant update. r237268.

Other project commits