LLVM 9.0-RC3 Released With The Official Compiler Release Coming Soon

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM 9.0-RC3 Released With The Official Compiler Release Coming Soon

LLVM 9.0 is past due for release but it looks like this compiler stack along with sub-projects like Clang 9.0 could be released in the coming weeks...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-9.0-RC3-Released

[pyler]

Please use proper -fp-contract this time. GCC With -O3 does some FP optimizations which are not allowed by the standard. (ICC cheats too). Clang follows strict rules.

So either use -Ofast for all, or use -fp-contract=off to make fair comparisons.

[shmerl]

Would be good if Debian built Mesa in experimental against libllvm9 already. Building it against libllvm8 prevents that from being used with Navi.

[shmerl]

Could happen, probably this week as not a problem for experimental

Nice! I've built it manually for now, since I just got Sapphire Pulse RX 5700XT card. But building 32-bit version is a pain, so good to see they are adding it to experimental properly.

[slacka]

Unfortunately, a validated clang still can't be built with gcc-9 or newer. I don't like using a compiler that fails it's own test suite.

[siberzk]

Nice! I've built it manually for now, since I just got Sapphire Pulse RX 5700XT card. But building 32-bit version is a pain, so good to see they are adding it to experimental properly.

shmerl how the hell are you building the 32-bit LLVM? I was using a 32-bit chroot to build the padoka llvm, but one day it just stopped working. I get a cryptic error at 99% compilation