LLVM Weekly - #129, Jun 20th 2016

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Last week was WWDC, which featured talks on what's new in LLVM (slides) and what's new in Swift (slides). Note that the embedded video player suggests you need Safari or the WWDC app to stream the video, but you can find a downloadable version under the "resources" tab.

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LLVM commits

FileCheck learnt the --check-prefixes option as a shorthand for multiple --check-prefix options. r272670.

A local_unnamed_addr attribute was introduced. This can be used by the code generator and LTO to allow the linker to decide whether the global needs to be in the symbol table. r272709.

The ScalarReplAggregates pass has been removed as it has been superseded by SROA by a long time. r272737.

LLVM's C API gained support for string attributes. r272811.

Assembly parsing and lexing has seem some cleanups. r273007.

Clang commits

A new loop distribution pragma was added. Loop distribution is a transformation which attempts to break a loop in to multiple loops with each taking part of the loop body. r272656.

The nodebug attribute can now be applied to local variables. r272859.

The validity check for MIPS CPU/ABI pairings is now performed at initialisation time and a much clearer message is printed. r272645.

Other project commits