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August 09, 2006

LLVM 1.8 Released

Posted: 2006-08-09 07:48:00
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Low Level Virtual Machine 1.8 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: DWARF debugging support, improved inline assembly support, improvements to the loop optimizer passes, jump table support for switches, an initial ARM backend, initial 64-bit support for the PowerPC backend, the removal of the deprecated SparcV9 backend, plus bugfixes and other changes.