CANCELLED RISC-V LLVM sync-up call February 26th 2026

CANCELLED RISC-V LLVM sync-up call February 26th 2026

• LLVM Discussion Forums CANCELLED RISC-V LLVM sync-up call February 26th 2026 Code Generation RISCV asb February 25, 2026, 8:39pm 1 We’ll skip tomorrow’s meeting due to lack of ag

Language Internals · February 25, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 231 words
LLVM Clang 22 Compiler Performance Largely Unchanged Over Clang 21 On AMD Zen 5

LLVM Clang 22 Compiler Performance Largely Unchanged Over Clang 21 On AMD Zen 5

• LLVM Clang 22 Compiler Performance Largely Unchanged Over Clang 21 On AMD Zen 5 With yesterday’s stable release of the LLVM Clang 22 compiler it didn’t take long for Phoronix rea

OS & Internals · February 25, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 253 words
Getting started with understanding LLVM internals

Getting started with understanding LLVM internals

• Getting started with understanding LLVM internals Hello everyone, I am currently studying LLVM and would appreciate guidance on how to build a structured understanding of its int

Language Internals · February 24, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 1 min · 112 words
AMD's HIP Moves To Using LLVM's New Offload Driver By Default

AMD's HIP Moves To Using LLVM's New Offload Driver By Default

• AMD’s HIP Moves To Using LLVM’s New Offload Driver By Default A change merged to upstream LLVM Git yesterday for LLVM 23 is moving AMD’s HIP to using the new/modern offload drive

OS & Internals · February 24, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 279 words
Black Formatter Version 23.x Faces CVE-2024-21503

Black Formatter Version 23.x Faces CVE-2024-21503

• LLVM recommends using Black 23.x for Python code formatting. • Black 23.x faces CVE-2024-21503, a regex denial-of-service vulnerability. • The vulnerability could trigger excessi

Language Internals · February 24, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 149 words
LLVM/Clang 22 Compiler Officially Released With Many Improvements

LLVM/Clang 22 Compiler Officially Released With Many Improvements

• LLVM/Clang 22 Compiler Officially Released With Many Improvements LLVM/Clang 22.1 was released overnight as the first stable release of the LLVM 22 series. • This is a nice, feat

OS & Internals · February 24, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 342 words
TVM + LLVM flow for custom NPU: Where should the Conv2d tiling and memory management logic reside?

TVM + LLVM flow for custom NPU: Where should the Conv2d tiling and memory management logic reside?

• Hi everyone, I’m a junior compiler engineer recently working on a backend for a custom NPU. • I’m looking for some architectural advice regarding the split of responsibilities be

Language Internals · February 24, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 329 words
LLVM 22.1.0 Released!

LLVM 22.1.0 Released!

• LLVM 22.1.0 Released! • We are happy to announce that LLVM 22.1.0 is now released! • This includes the main LLVM project, and its subprojects including clang, lld, libc++, and ML

Language Internals · February 24, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 307 words
LLVM Weekly - #634, February 23rd 2026

LLVM Weekly - #634, February 23rd 2026

• LLVM Weekly - #634, February 23rd 2026 LLVM Weekly -#634, February 23rd 2026 If you prefer, you can read the canonical version of this issue athttps://llvmweekly.org/issue/634. •

Language Internals · February 23, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 216 words
LLVM Embedded Toolchains Working Group call this Thursday, Feb 26

LLVM Embedded Toolchains Working Group call this Thursday, Feb 26

• LLVM Embedded Toolchains Working Group call this Thursday, Feb 26 Hello, This is to confirm theLLVM Embedded Toolchains Working Group sync upthis week. • Agenda: Reviews and RFCs

Language Internals · February 23, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 221 words
[RFC] Enforce Rule of Three

[RFC] Enforce Rule of Three

• LLVM has many RAII classes that define destructors but omit copy constructors/assignments. • Implicit copying can cause double deletes, state corruption, and subtle bugs. • The R

Language Internals · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 191 words
[SCEV] question about inferring nsw flags

[SCEV] question about inferring nsw flags

• SCEV struggles to infer nsw flags for AddRec subscripts in conditional stores. • Example loop uses i to index array with conditions. • Current SCEV cannot deduce overflow behavio

Language Internals · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 177 words
Where to start fixing an opt-pass for MIPS1

Where to start fixing an opt-pass for MIPS1

• MIPS1 load delay slots ignored when load occurs in branch delay slot. • Issue originates in CodeGen Prepareopt pass during optimization of MIPS1 code. • Developer seeks to fix ra

Language Internals · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 186 words
Sphinx documentation stopped updating

Sphinx documentation stopped updating

• Sphinx documentation build halted, no updates visible for weeks. • Recent clang‑tidy docs changes (~2 weeks) not reflected in the public repository. • publish‑*-docs CI jobs unre

Language Internals · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 121 words
[Modules] Bi-Weekly Meetup Notes, Feb 17, 2026

[Modules] Bi-Weekly Meetup Notes, Feb 17, 2026

• Michael highlights ongoing cleanup of implicit module mechanism, aiming to remove unnecessary components. • Naveen landed patch untangling dependency scanning; Ben proposes adopt

Language Internals · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 191 words
Side effects and mayLoad/mayStore in MachineIR

Side effects and mayLoad/mayStore in MachineIR

• MachineScheduler blocks reordering of side-effecting instructions with loads/stores via a barrier chain. • MachineSink can still sink a ds_load across a workgroup fence, raising

Language Internals · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 177 words
LLVM Weekly - #633, February 16th 2026

LLVM Weekly - #633, February 16th 2026

• LLVM Weekly - #633, February 16th 2026 LLVM Weekly -#633, February 16th 2026 If you prefer, you can read the canonical version of this issue athttps://llvmweekly.org/issue/633. •

Language Internals · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 206 words
Introducing constant-time support for LLVM to protect cryptographic code

Introducing constant-time support for LLVM to protect cryptographic code

• Introducing constant-time support for LLVM to protect cryptographic code Trail of Bits has developed constant-time coding support for LLVM, providing developers with compiler-lev

Threat Intelligence · December 2, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 221 words