LLVM Weekly - #293, August 12th 2019

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The deadline for submissions to the 2019 LLVM Dev Meeting is today, Monday 12th August. Applications for student travel grants close on August 16th.

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LLVM commits

llvm-readelf learned a new --stack-sizes option. r367942.

Initial SVE calling convention support was committed. r367859.

update_test_checks.py can now be run in an --update-only mode where it will skip any tests that weren't automatically generated. This functionality has also been made available to other update_*_checks.py scripts. r367900, r368174.

The new Loop Cache Analysis pass can be used to estimate the number of cache lines required by a loop nest.r368439.

As part of the effort to redesign bugpoint, a new delta IR reduction tool was committed (llvm-reduce). r368358.

x86-experimental-vector-widening-legalization is now enabled by default, which changes the default legalization behaviour for 16/32/64-bit vectors with i8/i16/i32/i64 scalar types from promotion to widening. r367901.

A new KnownBits analysis pass was added for GlobalISel. r368065.

A new llvm.licm.disable metadata was reduced to indicate loop-invariant code motion shouldn't be performed on the indicated loop. r368296.

ABI register names can now be used in assembly constraints for the RISC-V target, meaning frontends no longer need to convert to architectural register names. r368303.

Clang commits

SVE built-in types have been introduced, which are intended to become sizeless types. r368413.

A new -stdlib++-isystem command line option was introduced, allowing explicit control over the C++ standard library search paths. r367982.

ASTImporter now has documentation. r368009.

clang-scan-deps gained a new fast scanning mode, where preprocessing is done on file that are minimised using the dependency directives source minimiser. r368086.

Other project commits