Beginners

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Beginner Resources + Documentation docs Quicklinks to documentation and other resources for beginners. LLVM (https://llvm.org/docs/index.html) Accessing LLVM sources, building, development policies… Getting Started Guide - Checking out sources, contribution …	11	20979	August 13, 2026
Welcome to the LLVM Discourse! Welcome to the LLVM Discourse! All communication here as well as in the broader LLVM community is subject to the LLVM Community Code of Conduct. If you are new to the LLVM project, feel free to ask questions in the Begi…	0	3725	November 8, 2019
About the Beginners category	0	3090	November 8, 2019
O2 vs O3 used in practice in large code bases	2	157	November 2, 2026
How to create a pass pipeline with the C API?	1	64	November 1, 2026
C/C++ linker error	4	100	October 31, 2026
How to get a llvm::Function from a LLVMValueRef?	1	44	October 30, 2026
C API for LoopAnalysisManager	1	85	October 30, 2026
Is the C API (llvm-c) production ready?	5	204	October 30, 2026
How to get a PassBuilder instance?	1	56	October 29, 2026
How to get LLVMContext from LLVMContextRef?	1	68	October 29, 2026
ClangTool how to avoid explicit -I to clang builtin headers	5	147	October 26, 2026
C API for Builder::CreateCall llvm	1	77	October 22, 2026
New to Open Source — Interested in Contributing to LLVM clang , llvm	2	269	October 12, 2026
Stage-aware structural analysis of Arc simulation workloads:initial results and questions mlir	0	59	September 28, 2026
How do I propose an optimization for x86 SSE2?	4	227	September 25, 2026
Beginner Friendly clang	1	294	September 20, 2026
Is there a graphical IDE that actually supports LLVM	5	494	September 20, 2026
Hello from a new contributor! Interested in AArch64 CodeGen & GSoC 2027 llvm	2	280	September 20, 2026
IR generated at different optimization levels without pass pipeline clang , llvm	2	156	September 20, 2026
Poison use llvm-ir	3	210	September 20, 2026
PDL Pattern not Firing	1	92	September 16, 2026
Number of commits a PR can have	3	236	September 12, 2026
Memory Clobbers, Statements, and The Resulting Binary	0	62	September 9, 2026
Dependence Analysis isConfused() llvm	1	96	September 9, 2026
Adherence to source code representation within the difference phases of the compilation process	5	136	September 9, 2026
Tail-call and member functions of class clang	0	82	September 8, 2026
Creating DebugInfo for (Dynamic) Arrays debuginfo , llvm	6	197	September 7, 2026
Why LLVM IR does not distinguish signed and unsigned multiplication? clang , llvm	3	1513	September 5, 2026
Is new issue creation (for bug reports) in GitHub disabled / restricted? clang	6	211	September 2, 2026

Beginner Resources + Documentation

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Quicklinks to documentation and other resources for beginners. LLVM (https://llvm.org/docs/index.html) Accessing LLVM sources, building, development policies… Getting Started Guide - Checking out sources, contribution …

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Welcome to the LLVM Discourse!

Welcome to the LLVM Discourse! All communication here as well as in the broader LLVM community is subject to the LLVM Community Code of Conduct. If you are new to the LLVM project, feel free to ask questions in the Begi…