LLVM Weekly - #555, August 19th 2024

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LLVM Weekly - #555, August 19th 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: Phoebe Wang, Johannes Doerfert.
• Online sync-ups on the following topics: Flang, pointer authentication, SPIR-V, vectoriser improvements, security group, new contributors, LLVM/Offload, Clang C/C++ language working group, loop optimisation, floating point, OpenMP for Flang, MLIR.
• For more details see the LLVM calendar, getting involved documentation on online sync ups and office hours.

On the forums

• Aaron Ballman started an RFC discussion on changes to the community code ownership policy, suggesting changes to the notion of “code ownership” with the aim of realigning it better with community needs and expectations.

• Saleem Abdulrasool started a discussion about dropping support for running LLVM on Windows Vista, 7, and 8.

• Issue #69 of the MLIR Newsletter is out.

• Justin Stitt proposes adding an operator to invert matches in LLVM’s GlobalPattern implementation.

• Louis Dionne explained why a large number of GitHub issues have been created for libc++ recently.

• Vlad Serebrennikov noted that pre-commit CI is very slow for a subset of PRs (typically old ones).

• Min-Yih Hsu updated the RFC thread on llvm.experimental.get.vector.length.

• Michael Clark shared an idea for adding the ability to return alloca memory from a function.

• “ahatanak” proposed adding a __ptrauth qualifier.

LLVM commits

• A git “linkify” script was added. If you do git config core.pager 'llvm/utils/git/linkify | pager' then the script will make text that appears to be a pull request, issue reference, or commit hash into a clickable link. 564efe2.

• llvm.minimumnum and llvm.maximumnum intrinsics were added, with semantics matching the equivalent minimumNumber and maximumNumber IEEE 754-2019 operations. fb9e685.

• SPIR-V virtual register processing was reworked. f9c9806.

• The SLP vectorizer learned to keep original scalars in more cases. b10ecfa.

• A DXILMetadataAnalysis pass was added to collect DXIL module metadata information in a structure. 03e6675.

• Scheduling models were added for the Syntacore SCR4 and SCR5 RISC-V cores. 5ab99bf.

• A DXILResourceAnalysis pass was started. 28d577e, 372ddcd.

• Additional guidance was added for using Graphite for stacked pull requests. 6dcfc84.

• A SelectionDAG::getSignedConstant helper was introduced. 7afb51e.

• The -lsr-term-fold transformation was split into its own pass. 27a62ec.

Clang commits

• A new -foffload-via-llvm flag was introduced allowing CUDA kernels to be lowered to the new LLVM/Offload API. 80525df.

• __builtin_is_implicit_lifetime was implemented. d213981.

Other project commits

• The NumericalStabilitySanitizer now uses its own allocator. 652707a.

• A script was added for synchronising the CSV files used to track standards conformance with GitHub issues. f117f0a.

• LLDB now uses realpath to increase its changes of resolving file/line breakpoints. 47721d4.