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April 20, 2006

LLVM 1.7 Released

Posted: 2006-04-20 07:25:00
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Low Level Virtual Machine 1.7 has been released. LLVM is a portable compiler infrastructure, offering a compilation strategy that allows for compile-time, link-time, run-time and offline program optimization.

This release includes: a llvm-gcc frontend based on GCC 4.0.1; inline assembly support; a new SPARC backend; extended support for SIMD vectors in the core instruction set; x86 backend support for SSE1, SSE2, SSE3; PowerPC backend support for Altivec; optimizer improvements; code generator improvements; plus other changes and bugfixes.