[llvm-dev] LLVM Weekly - #277, April 22nd 2019

[Alex Bradbury via llvm-dev]

LLVM Weekly - #277, April 22nd 2019
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Welcome to the two hundred and seventy-seventh issue of LLVM Weekly, a weekly
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## News and articles from around the web

ClangJIT: Enhancing C++ with Just-in-Time Compilation has been [published on
arXiV](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.08555.pdf). "ClangJIT provides a
well-integrated C++ language extension allowing template-based specialization
to occur during program execution."


## On the mailing lists

* Zola Bridges shares [notes from the EuroLLVM Spectre round
table](http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-April/131889.html).

* Simon Tatham
[reports](http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-April/131764.html)
that patches providing initial support for ARM v8.1-M and the MVE vector
architecture have been posted to Phabricator.

* Gábor Márton [provided and
update](http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2019-April/062086.html) on
work to support cross translation unit (CTU) static analyis. It can now be
used to analyse a non-trivial project (tmux) without crashes.

* Tanya Lattner is [looking
for](http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-April/131887.html) mentors
and project ideas for Google Season of Docs. Note that the deadline is 20:00
UTC on April 23rd, so move fast!

* Peter Collingbourne
[shared](http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-April/131811.html) an
initial version of a tool to help track down binary size regressions, while
ignoring changes that occur due to different inlining decisions.

* Alex Denisov is [seeking
input](http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-April/131767.html) from
other LLVM social organisers in order to produce guidelines for thos who want
to set up their own LLVM meetup.


## LLVM commits

* A loop fusion pass was introduced.
[r358607](https://reviews.llvm.org/rL358607).

* Documentation was added on how variable location metadata is transformed
during codegen. [r358385](https://reviews.llvm.org/rL358385).

* Simple common subexpression elimination of constants was enabled in
GlobalISel. [r358369](https://reviews.llvm.org/rL358369).

* Profile guided code size optimisation was added, performing code size
optimisations for cold code. [r358422](https://reviews.llvm.org/rL358422).

* The RISC-V backend learned to custom-lower `{SHL,SRA,SRLA}_PARTS`.
[r358498](https://reviews.llvm.org/rL358498).

* The `llvm::bsearch` helper was added to STLExtras.
[r358450](https://reviews.llvm.org/rL358450).


## Clang commits

* Implementation of C++2a modules continues with the addition of semantic
support for private module fragments.
[r358713](https://reviews.llvm.org/rL358713).

* clang-tidy was extended to support human-readable fix descriptions, allowing
users to know what a fix does without previewing the diff.
[r358576](https://reviews.llvm.org/rL358576).


## Other project commits

* A simple plugin architecture was added to `asan_symbolize.py`, allowing
arbitrarily complex and deployment-specific code to be used to find binaries
with debug symbols. [r358657](https://reviews.llvm.org/rL358657).

* Documentation was added on how to build the LLDB docs.
[r358777](https://reviews.llvm.org/rL358777).