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LLVM Weekly - #583, March 3rd 2025. llvm-exegesis RVV support, MLIR News #74, __attribute__((format_matches)), newly named reduce-clang-crash.py gets cvise support, cir-opt, and more llvmweekly.org/issue/583

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LLVM Weekly - #582, February 24th 2025. EuroLLVM registration open, welcoming the new LLVM Foundation assistant program director, LLVM premerge infra update, minimum commit access requirements updated, pac-ret gadget scanner, and more llvmweekly.org/issue/582

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Linus Torvalds Clearly Lays Out Linux Maintainer Roles - Or Not - Around Rust Code - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-On-Rust-Maintainers

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LLVM Weekly - #581, February 17th 2025. LLVM Area Team Elections results, new pass manager pipeline construction, __builtin_assume_dereferenceable, errno memory location kind, /r/cpp C++ committee trip report, and more llvmweekly.org/issue/581

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Finally the freedom to cosplay old banking systems!

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Clang Thread Safety Checks Begin Uncovering Bugs In The Linux Kernel - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Clang-Thread-Safety

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So long, GNU Gold Linker, and thanks for all the fish. This message was brought to you by the high performance Mold Linker.

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Expanding the GDB developer community and reducing developer friction by joining the GCC, GLIBC and Binutils use of the Developer Certificate of Origin sourceware.org/pipermail/gd...

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Curious. Does the Linux community want a maintainer to derail Rust for Linux? Hector Martin: "Behold, a Linux maintainer openly admitting to attempting to sabotage the entire Rust for Linux project" social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/1139...

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LLVM Weekly - #579, February 3rd 2025. Further EuroLLVM details, LLVM 20.x branch and 20.1.0-rc1, MLIR Tensor Compiler Design Group, KernelPass, -fwrapv changed meaning, no more pointer-tbaa on void*, and more llvmweekly.org/issue/579

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Rust-CUDA Project Restarted For Enabling NVIDIA CUDA Kernels Within Rust Code - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-CUDA-Project-Reboot

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GNU Binutils 2.44 Released With Gas Support For AVX10.2, New Diamond Rapids Instructions - https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Binutils-2.44

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LLVM Weekly - #578, January 27th 2025. Voting in LLVM team area elections now open, LLVM point releases every two weeks, GSoC mentors+ideas sought, LLVM 20.x branching this week, SPIRV graduated from experimental to official target, std::flat_multimap implemented, and more llvmweekly.org/issue/578

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Kids helping their grandfather look cool.

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Git 2.58 released with performance improvements and support for Meson build system. github.blog/open-source/...

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LLVM Weekly - #577, January 20th 2025. 19.1.7 released, MLIR new governance model, LLVM LTS?, new commit access policy proposal, BOLT for AArch64 linux kernel, captures() attribute, [[clang::explicit]], free-threading mode with the MLIR python bindings, and more llvmweekly.org/issue/577

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Linux built with LLVM now provides AutoFDO + Propeller

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GCC Developers Consider Deprecating ARM64 ILP32 Support - https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-May-Deprecate-ARM64-ILP32

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When is LLVM going to provide long-term support releases? RFC for LLVM Long-Term Support Release (LTS) following up on the US LLVM DevMtg presentation and round table discussion. discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-llvm-l...

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LLVM Weekly - #576, January 13th 2025. EuroLLVM 2025 call for proposals, project area team nominations, surveying LLDB's supported platforms, clarifying ptrtoint semantics, SYCL offload, LLDB status line, and more llvmweekly.org/issue/576

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Mold 2.36 Linker Brings More Optimizations & Compatibility Improvements - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-2.36-Released

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Mold 2.36.0 released with many bug fixes and performance improvements. Improved the algorithm for creating range extension thunks generates 4-7% speedup linking clang-19. github.com/rui314/mold/...

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GCC Goes For "libc Diversity" With Picolibc Support - https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-libc-Diversity-picolibc

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LLVM Weekly - #575, January 6th 2025. Eleven years of LLVM Weekly, Nikita's annual This Year in LLVM blog post, first release of the eudsl toolkit for MLIR-targeted DSLs, MLIR pygments lexer, porting x86 builtin definitions to TableGen, and more llvmweekly.org/issue/575

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GCC supports Libc diversity: add PicoLibc configuration. gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gc...

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NVIDIA Working On "-flto-partition=locality" GCC Option To Boost Performance For Some CPU Workloads - https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-GCC-flto-locality

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LLVM Weekly - #574, December 30th 2024. LLVM telemetry framework, skipping boring functions in debuggers, Xtensa support in Clang, and (a little) more - it's been a quiet week! llvmweekly.org/issue/574

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A "Safe C++" Being Explored Using The New ClangIR - https://www.phoronix.com/news/RFC-Safe-CXX-Using-ClangIR

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GCC ASCII Art Visualizations, Timely Znver5 & Other Compiler Highlights Of 2024 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Source-Compilers-2024

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LLVM Weekly - #573, December 23rd 2024. EuroLLVM and AsiaLLVM save the date, profile guided static data partitioning, 19.1.6 released, type sanitizer committed, ClangIR upstreaming continues, pybind11 => nanobind for MLIR Python bindings, and more llvmweekly.org/issue/573

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Intel GPU debug support patches for GDB sourceware.org/pipermail/gd...

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Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized by Aymeric Fromherz (INRIA), Jonathan Protzenko (Microsoft Research) arxiv.org/abs/2412.15042

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LLVM Weekly - #572, December 16th 2024. LLVM elections update, SPIR-V as an official target, guide on undefined behaviour in LLVM, Alive2 supports X86 vector intrinsics, LLDB's formatter bytecode interpreter, and more llvmweekly.org/issue/572

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"Rust ❤️ LLVM" keynote at the LLVM developer meeting: Slides: www.npopov.com/pdf/slides_l... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqz-...

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Intel Looking To Raise SPIR-V Backend To Becoming An Official LLVM Target - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LLVM-SPIR-V-Official-Plan

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Patches Posted For Review Adding COBOL Frontend To GCC Compiler - https://www.phoronix.com/news/COBOL-For-GCC-Patches-EOY2024

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How are #GCC and #LLVM so successful yet so different? 🎥 Release Engineering: How LLVM and GCC Navigate Development and Maintenance 🎥 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=HwrQ... Let’s bridge the gap between stability and innovation! #opensource #linux #compilers #ReleaseEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment

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Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined. (Red Hat Nikita Popov) developers.redhat.com/articles/202...

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How AMD Is Taking Standard C/C++ Code To Run Directly On GPUs - https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Standard-C-Code-GPUs

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Common Misconceptions about Compilers sbaziotis.com/compilers/co...

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Greg K-H: "rust misc driver bindings and other rust changes to make misc drivers actually possible. I think this is the tipping point, expect to see way more rust drivers going forward now that these bindings are present." lore.kernel.org/all/Z0lG-CIj...

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Registration for PLISS (Programming Language Implementation Summer School) 2025 is now open! If you're interested in programming languages, this is the place to be -- great speakers and a conducive location! pliss.org/2025/

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The 2024 LLVM Developers’ Meeting Videos Now Online - https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-2024-Meeting-Videos

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LLVM Weekly - #571, December 9th 2024. Dev Meeting videos now live, 19.1.5 released, MLIR survey results, 'Lime1' WebAssembly CPU target, -fpointer-tbaa enabled by default with pleasing stats for SPEC, vim filetype support now has its own repo, and more llvmweekly.org/issue/571

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Glibc 2.41 Adds C23's sinpi / cospi / tanpi Functions - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-2.41-More-C23

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Succinct Processor 1 (SP1): a zero-knowledge virtual machine (#zkVM) that verifies the execution of arbitrary Rust (or any #LLVM-compiled language) programs. #ZKP blog.succinct.xyz/introducing-...

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Ubuntu 25.04 Planning To Use GCC 15 As Well As Exploring Greater LLVM Use - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.04-Foundation-Roadmap

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Videos from the 2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting have been released on the LLVM YouTube Channel. Find the complete program here: llvm.org/devmtg/2024-...

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第16届开源开发工具大会2024议程及观众报名方式公布 Open Source Development Tools Conference, Beijing, China, Saturday, December 7. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Qp578wZ-3L...

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LLVM Weekly - #570, December 2nd 2024. FOSDEM LLVM devroom CfP extended, removing undef from tests, adding floating point information to LLT for GISel (for e.g. half+bf16 support), libc++ coding guidelines, proposed LLD feature to combat benchmarking noise, and more llvmweekly.org/issue/570

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