Philip Reames via llvm-dev
2022-Jan-06 16:55 UTC
[llvm-dev] LLVM Weekly - #418, January 3rd 2022
On 1/3/22 5:30 AM, Alex Bradbury via llvm-dev wrote:> LLVM Weekly - #418, January 3rd 2022 > ===================================> > If you prefer, you can read a HTML version of this email at > <http://llvmweekly.org/issue/418>. > > Welcome to the four hundred and eighteenth issue of LLVM Weekly, a weekly > newsletter (published every Monday) covering developments in LLVM, Clang, and > related projects. LLVM Weekly is brought to you by [Alex > Bradbury](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-bradbury/). Subscribe to future > issues at <http://llvmweekly.org> and pass it on to anyone else you think may > be interested. Please send any tips or feedback to <asb at asbradbury.org>, or > @llvmweekly or @asbradbury on Twitter. > > Happy New Year and thank you for reading LLVM Weekly. Amazingly, it's now been > 8 full years of LLVM Weekly issues (without missing a single one yet!).Alex, thank you for doing this. 8 years is an amazing record. Your efforts provide so much benefit to the community, it's really hard to overstate. Thank you!> > > ## News and articles from around the web > > Recordings of more presentations from the 2021 LLVM Developers' Meeting are > [now available > online](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_R5A0lGi1AATJX6-tY7IkYjpRjv30ziN). > > Phoronix has written up [2021 LLVM development > statistics](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-Record-Growth-2021), > noting LLVM had a record number of authors in the last year. > > > ## On the mailing lists > > * Amir Aupov [provided an update on efforts to prepare BOLT for the LLVM > monorepo](https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-December/154504.html). > > * Eugene Zelenko [asked about needed permissions to work with GitHub issue > labels](https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-December/154491.html). > Anton Korobeynikov will [raise this with the Infrastructure Working > Group](https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-December/154499.html). > > > ## LLVM commits > > * Additional InstCombine folds were added for unsigned overflow checks. > [6c716c8](https://reviews.llvm.org/rG6c716c858950). > > * A new pass as added to the Mips backend to avoid a hardware bug with > back-to-back multiplies on the VR4300. > [2edcde0](https://reviews.llvm.org/rG2edcde00cb39). > > * The process for adding new targets was documented. > [c5e8eb9](https://reviews.llvm.org/rGc5e8eb9783a6). > > * LLVM's command line parsing support library learned to expand `<CFGDIR>` to > the current file's directory. > [9d37d0e](https://reviews.llvm.org/rG9d37d0ea3485). > > * The constant pool is now used for large integers on RISC-V. > [41454ab](https://reviews.llvm.org/rG41454ab25645). > > > ## Clang commits > > * Support for noreturn destructor calls was added to Clang's dataflow > analysis. [b5c5d89](https://reviews.llvm.org/rGb5c5d8912e07). > > * New diagnostics were added for use of zero-length arrays in SYCL code. > [52e8f58](https://reviews.llvm.org/rG52e8f58d49e6). > > > ## Other project commits > > * LLDB can now cache DWARF indexing results to disk. > [a2154b1](https://reviews.llvm.org/rGa2154b195153). > > * The peak memory requirement for linking with LTO was reduced by using > `madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)` on some data structures. > [a96fe1b](https://reviews.llvm.org/rGa96fe1bf3b32). > > * libcxx now supports noop_coroutine for GCC. > [6441536](https://reviews.llvm.org/rG6441536c27cf). > > * Various clang-tidy checks were enabled for the MLIR codebase. > [ab6502ea](https://reviews.llvm.org/rGab6502ea6737). > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org > https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev
Renato Golin via llvm-dev
2022-Jan-06 17:03 UTC
[llvm-dev] LLVM Weekly - #418, January 3rd 2022
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 at 16:55, Philip Reames via llvm-dev < llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:> > Happy New Year and thank you for reading LLVM Weekly. Amazingly, it's > now been > > 8 full years of LLVM Weekly issues (without missing a single one yet!). > Alex, thank you for doing this. 8 years is an amazing record. Your > efforts provide so much benefit to the community, it's really hard to > overstate. Thank you!Hear Hear! +10! If it wasn't for your efforts, I would have missed so much of what goes on the list, other projects and interesting things that go on in the project. I don't know how you find the time, but I'm glad you do. :D Thank you! --renato -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20220106/f143b4ed/attachment.html>