LLVM 19.0.0git Release Notes¶
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These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 19 release. Release notes for previous releases can be found on the Download Page.
Introduction¶
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 19.0.0git. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the LLVM releases web site.
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Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release¶
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Update on required toolchains to build LLVM¶
Changes to the LLVM IR¶
Changes to LLVM infrastructure¶
Changes to building LLVM¶
Changes to TableGen¶
We can define type aliases via new keyword
deftype
.
Changes to Interprocedural Optimizations¶
Changes to the AArch64 Backend¶
Changes to the AMDGPU Backend¶
Implemented the
llvm.get.fpenv
andllvm.set.fpenv
intrinsics.
Changes to the ARM Backend¶
Changes to the AVR Backend¶
Changes to the DirectX Backend¶
Changes to the Hexagon Backend¶
Changes to the LoongArch Backend¶
Changes to the MIPS Backend¶
Changes to the PowerPC Backend¶
Changes to the RISC-V Backend¶
Added full support for the experimental Zabha (Byte and Halfword Atomic Memory Operations) extension.
Added assembler/disassembler support for the experimenatl Zalasr (Load-Acquire and Store-Release) extension.
The names of the majority of the S-prefixed (supervisor-level) extension names in the RISC-V profiles specification are now recognised.
Codegen support was added for the Zimop (May-Be-Operations) extension.
The experimental Ssnpm, Smnpm, Smmpm, Sspm, and Supm 0.8.1 Pointer Masking extensions are supported.
The experimental Ssqosid extension is supported.
Zacas is no longer experimental.
Changes to the WebAssembly Backend¶
Changes to the Windows Target¶
Changes to the X86 Backend¶
Changes to the OCaml bindings¶
Changes to the Python bindings¶
Changes to the C API¶
Added
LLVMGetBlockAddressFunction
andLLVMGetBlockAddressBasicBlock
functions for accessing the values in a blockaddress constant.Added
LLVMConstStringInContext2
function, which better matches the C++ API by usingsize_t
for string length. DeprecatedLLVMConstStringInContext
.Added the following functions for accessing a function’s prefix data:
LLVMHasPrefixData
LLVMGetPrefixData
LLVMSetPrefixData
Added the following functions for accessing a function’s prologue data:
LLVMHasPrologueData
LLVMGetPrologueData
LLVMSetPrologueData
Changes to the CodeGen infrastructure¶
Changes to the Metadata Info¶
Changes to the Debug Info¶
Changes to the LLVM tools¶
llvm-nm and llvm-objdump can now print symbol information from linked WebAssembly binaries, using information from exports or the “name” section for functions, globals and data segments. Symbol addresses and sizes are printed as offsets in the file, allowing for binary size analysis. Wasm files using reference types and GC are also supported (but also only for functions, globals, and data, and only for listing symbols and names).
llvm-ar now utilizes LLVM_DEFAULT_TARGET_TRIPLE to determine the archive format if it’s not specified with the
--format
argument and cannot be inferred from input files.llvm-ar now allows specifying COFF archive format with
--format
argument and uses it by default for COFF targets.llvm-objcopy now supports
--set-symbol-visibility
and--set-symbols-visibility
options for ELF input to change the visibility of symbols.
Changes to LLDB¶
Changes to Sanitizers¶
Other Changes¶
External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 19¶
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Additional Information¶
A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page, in particular in the documentation section. The web page also contains versions of the
API documentation which is up-to-date with the Git version of the source
code. You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by
going into the llvm/docs/
directory in the LLVM tree.
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