LLVM Weekly - #556, August 26th 2024

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News and articles from around the web and events

According to the LLVM calendar in the coming week there will be the following:

• Office hours with the following hosts: Kristof Beyls, Johannes Doerfert, Amara Emerson.
• Online sync-ups on the following topics: Pointer authentication, SPIR-V, new contributors, OpenMP, Flang, RISC-V, LLVM’s libc, MLIR.
• For more details see the LLVM calendar, getting involved documentation on online sync ups and office hours.

On the forums

• LLVM 19.1.0-rc3 was released.

• Andrew Savonichev proposed a new tool similar to llvm-reduce that works on DWARF object files.

• Brandon Wu shared an RFC on a proposed pass to optimise RISC-V vector register spill.

• Hongyu Chen, Daniel Thornburgh, and Prabhu Karthikeyan Rajasekaran proposed improvements to linker script handling in LLD.

• Peter Chou started an RFC thread on adding a templating language to clang-doc.

• Bill Wendling posted an RFC on adding a __builtin_get_counted_by builtin to Clang.

• Michael Kruse proposes to use LLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES for Flang’s runtime.

LLVM commits

• The CPU definition was added for the Hazard3 RISC-V core used in the Raspberry Pi RP2350. 9fa2386.

• A SME peephole optimiser pass was added for AArch64. 6c189ea.

• Errata workaround passes were added to the SPARC backend for the Gaisler GR712RC and UT700 cores. 7faf1a0.

• Vector and vector crypto were added to the RISC-V SiFive P400 scheduler model. 7efa068.

• CycleAnalysis gained methods to verify cycles and their nesting. b432afc.

• The C API was extended with support for creating instructions with custom synchronisation scopes. eb7d535.

• An elect.sync intrinsic was added for NVPTX. d5e9691.

• Some of the complexity-based canonicalisation was removed from InstCombine on the basis that it’s unreliable / difficult to reason about. a105877.

• SPIR-V learned to sort basic blocks as required by the SPIR-V spec. 0c07e7c.

• Lowering of Mul/Div/Shift operations was implemented for the Xtensa backend. fab515c.

• A new RISC-V peephole was added to reduce VLs based on demanded VL. 26a8a85.

Clang commits

• Support for the “RealtimeSanitizer” was added. RTSan can be used to detect real-time violations e.g. calls to methods that aren’t safe for use in functions with deterministic runtime requirements. d010ec6.

• -msmall-data-limit was defaulted to 0. Users of GP relaxation are encouraged to specify the customisation options explicitly. d3864d9.

• -ffp-model=aggressive was introduced and ffp-model=fast was made more limited in effect. 27e5f50.

• Support for -fsanitizer-undefined-ignore-overflow-pattern was added, which disables instrumentation around specific common patterns. 295fe0b.

Other project commits

• LLVM’s libc docs were updated to reflect the new headergen setup. b89fef8.

• Initial locale.h support was added to LLVM’s libc. 78d8ab2.

• Materializations are now optional in MLIR’s dialect conversion. d7073c5.