LLVM Weekly - #326, Mar 30th 2020

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LLVM commits

A new algorithm was added to the LLVM Support library to perform the 'optimal' layout of a struct, and it was put to use for coroutine frames. 49e5a97, 9514c048.

MC layer (assembler/disassembler) support was added for Armv8.6-a BFloat16. 71ae267.

GlobalISel gained new generic opcodes for saturating add/subtract. 0444d16.

The FREEZE node was added to the SelectionDAG. 7802be4.

The use of llvm_unreachable was further clarified in the LLVM coding standards. 4778e40.

Documentation was added on how to deal with issues of slow build time or memory exhaustion when compiling LLVM. 37943e5.

Clang commits

An attribute plugin example was added. 3f03c12.

Support was added for the cmse_nonsecure_call and cmse_nonsecure_entry Arm CMSE (Cortex-M Security Extensions) attributes. 080d046.

All Arm MVE intrinsics are now implemented. f282b6a.

Other project commits