LLVM 16.0.0git Release Notes¶
- Introduction
- Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
- Update on required toolchains to build LLVM
- Changes to the LLVM IR
- Changes to building LLVM
- Changes to TableGen
- Changes to the AArch64 Backend
- Changes to the AMDGPU Backend
- Changes to the ARM Backend
- Changes to the AVR Backend
- Changes to the DirectX Backend
- Changes to the Hexagon Backend
- Changes to the MIPS Backend
- Changes to the PowerPC Backend
- Changes to the RISC-V Backend
- Changes to the WebAssembly Backend
- Changes to the Windows Target
- Changes to the X86 Backend
- Changes to the OCaml bindings
- Changes to the C API
- Changes to the Go bindings
- Changes to the FastISel infrastructure
- Changes to the DAG infrastructure
- Changes to the Metadata Info
- Changes to the Debug Info
- Changes to the LLVM tools
- Changes to LLDB
- Changes to Sanitizers
- Other Changes
- External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 15
- Additional Information
Warning
These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 16 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 16.0.0git. 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¶
LLVM is now built with C++17 by default. This means C++17 can be used in the code base.
The previous “soft” toolchain requirements have now been changed to “hard”. This means that the the following versions are now required to build LLVM and there is no way to suppress this error.
- GCC >= 7.1
- Clang >= 5.0
- Apple Clang >= 9.3
- Visual Studio 2019 >= 16.7
Changes to the Windows Target¶
- For MinGW, generate embedded
-exclude-symbols:
directives for symbols with hidden visibility, omitting them from automatic export of all symbols. This roughly makes hidden visibility work like it does for other object file formats.
Changes to the Metadata Info¶
- Add Module Flags Metadata
stack-protector-guard-symbol
which specify a symbol for addressing the stack-protector guard.
Changes to the Debug Info¶
During this release …
External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 15¶
- A project…
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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