LLVM Weekly - #136, Aug 8th 2016

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News and articles from around the web

The first LLVM Cauldron will be held on September 8th in Hebden Bridge, UK. The GNU Tools Cauldron will take place over the following two days. Today, August 8th is the deadline for submitting your talks. We'd love to have you present your work.

The LLVM and Clang-based ELLCC cross-compilation toolchain has seen a new release, version 0.1.32.

LLVM and Clang 3.9.0-rc1 is ready for testing.

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LLVM commits

WebAssembly gained initial support for SIMD128. r277543.

SimplifyCFG learned a new transformation to range-reduce switches. r277325.

Control flow integrity has been implemented for WebAssembly. r277398.

Clang commits

clang-rename now has basic Emacs integration. r277433

clang-rename is now split into two subcommands: rename-at and rename-all. r277438.

clang-tidy learned to warn about inefficient string concatenation. r277677.

Other project commits