LLVM Weekly - #261, December 31st 2018
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It's been a very quiet week in LLVM development, no doubt due to the holidays. Happy New Year!
News and articles from around the web
Jan Hubička has continued his comparison of a GCC vs Clang-compiled Firefox (with LTO+PGO). As with the previous part, it's incredibly thorough and a fascinating read.
The deadline for the CfP for the LLVM Performance Workshop at CGO 2019 has been extended to the 4th Jan, 2019. The workshop will now be taking place on Sunday February 17th.
On the mailing lists
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Danny Hood reports that he has written a tool that converts a JSON LLVM coverage report to a single HTML file for easy review.
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Leonard Chan is seeking advice on porting SafeStack to the new pass manager.
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Oliver Giroux proposes decoupling freestanding
atomic<T>from libatomic.a.
LLVM commits
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The WebAssembly assembler learned to check for proper nesting of control flow. r350078.
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The PowerPC backend's BitPermutationSelector can now handle ISD::Truncate. r350118.
Clang commits
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The clang-tidy readability-uppercase-literal-suffix check gained an IgnoreMacros option, enabled by default. r350056.
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clang-cl will now treat inputs with
/Eas C++ to match MSVC behaviour. r350072.