LLVM Weekly - #361, November 30th 2020
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News and articles from around the web
On the LLVM blog, Vassial Vassilev provides an overview of using Cling for interpreting C++.
On the mailing lists
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LLVM 11.0.1-rc1 has been tagged. 11.0.1 backport requests must be submitted by Dec 8th.
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Andrzej Warzynski proposed a new set of diagnostics classes for the clangDriver library. This is a step towards removing Flang's dependency on Clang.
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Alexandros Lamprineas is seeking input on supporting inline asm for
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Joe Ellis shared an RFC on named shuffle intrinsics.
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Nichols A Romero authored an RFC on adding Fortran tests to the LLVM test suite.
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Raphael Isemann proposed moving away from epydoc for the LLDB SB API documentation, providing examples of documentation generated with pydoctor, sphinx, and pdoc3.
LLVM commits
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PoisonValue was introduced for representing a poison value explicitly in IR. 75f50e1, 2e32c49.
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The IROutliner can now perform basic extraction. bf899e8.
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LLVM's release script now generates reproducible source tarballs. 1a00929.
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llvm-elfabi gained initial code for outputting ELF files. cf43308.
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Support for the GHC calling convention was added to the RISC-V backend. a8dc211.
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The Arm/AArch64 Neoverse N2 CPU was added. 2b66918.
Clang commits
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The baremetal compiler driver now supports riscv64-unknown-elf and riscv32-unknown-elf alongside arm-none-eab. 45ba239.
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clang-tidy's
IgnoredRegexpoption can be used to suppress identifier naming checks for names matching the given regular expression. 9c4df9e.