LLVM Weekly - #27, Jul 7th 2014

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News and articles from around the web

An LLVM code generator has been merged into the MLton whole-program optimizing compiler for Standard ML. This was written by Brian Leibig as part of his Master's thesis, which contains more information on its performance and design.

Eli Bendersky has written a tool which converts the output of Clang's -ast-dump to HTML. See here for an example. The code is available on Github.

Clang's Microsoft Visual C++ compatibility page has been updated to reflect the status of the current SVN trunk. As can be seen from the relevant diff, record layout has been marked complete along with RTTI. Lambdas are now marked mostly complete.

On the mailing lists

LLVM commits

The X86 backend now expands atomics in IR instead of as MachineInstrs. Doing the expansions at the IR level results in shorter code and potentially there may be benefit from other IR passes being able to run on the expanded atomics. r212119.

The ARM backend learned the ISB memory barrier intrinsic. r212276.

The X86 backend gained support for __builtin_ia32_rdpmc which is used to read performance monitoring counters. r212049.

The peephole optimizer gained new code (currently disabled) to rewrite copies to avoid copies across register banks. r212100.

Control flow graph building code has been moved from MC to a new MCAnalysis library. r212209.

TableGen gained support for MSBuiltin, which allows for adding intrinsics for Microsoft compatibility. r212350.

Clang commits

MSVC RTTI (run-time type information) implementation has been completed. r212125.

The __builin_arm_ldaex and __builtin_arm_stlex intrinsics were added. r212175.

Nested blocks are now supported in Microsoft inline assembly. r212389.

Other project commits