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2014 Oct 27
2
[LLVMdev] LLVM Weekly - #43, Oct 27th 2014
...to clearly explain how the safepoint functionality provided by the [patches currently up for review](http://reviews.llvm.org/D5683) differ to the current gc.root support. The Haskell community have put together a [proposal for an improved LLVM backend to GHC](https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ImprovedLLVMBackend). They intend to ship GHC with its own local LLVM build. CoderGears have published a blog post about [using Clang to get better warnings in Visual C++ projects](http://www.codergears.com/Blog/?p=246). There is going to be a dedicated LLVM devroom at FOSDEM 2015. Here is the [call for speakers and...
2014 Oct 27
2
[LLVMdev] Out-of-tree passes (Was: LLVM Weekly - #43, Oct 27th 2014)
...id Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk > wrote: > On 27 Oct 2014, at 09:33, Alex Bradbury <asb at asbradbury.org> wrote: > > > The Haskell community have put together a [proposal for an improved LLVM > > backend to GHC]( > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ImprovedLLVMBackend). > > They intend to ship GHC with its own local LLVM build. > > This post brings up an interesting point: > > > However, the framework is modular - we can extend LLVM with plugins. For > example, several years ago, Max Bolingbroke ​wrote a plugin for LLVM's > alias a...