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November 20, 2006

LLVM 1.9 Released

Posted: 2006-11-20 23:33:00
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Low Level Virtual Machine 1.9 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 new x86-64 backend, mid-level optimizer improvements, improved inline assembly support, faster debug information generation, support for the Win32 dllimport/dllexport linkage conventions, support for the Win32 stdcall and fastcall calling conventions, build system changes, plus other changes and fixes.