LLVM Weekly - #407, October 18th 2021

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George Mitenkov, Nuno Lopes and Juneyoung Lee have written up a detailed article about their previous proposal to add a byte type This article summarises the previous discussion and tries to clarify raised concerns. Discussion continues on llvm-dev in a companion thread.

Pavel Loktev writes on the LLVM blog about generating relocatable code for embedded Arm processors.

The recording from the September 2021 Women in Compilers and Tools meetup is now available, featuring an interview with Teresa Johnson.

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