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Apple M4 Support Added to the LLVM Compiler, ARMv8.7

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M4-Added-To-LLVM-Clang

by dmmalam • 2 years ago

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3lit3krew• 2 years ago

It's great that Apple has supported this compiler for so long. It's great for the Free Software world to have more than one compiler.

Pulcinella• 2 years ago

Technically apple-m4 is ARMv9.2a, but a quirk of LLVM defines v9.0 as requiring SVE, which is optional according to the Arm ARM and not supported by the core. ARMv8.7a is the next closest choice.

Hmm I wonder how this happened? I assume at least at one point SVE was such headline feature of 9.0 that LLVM assumed any 9.0 chip would have SVE even if it wasn't technically required?

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